How I Built My Personal Dashboard (and How to Tweak It)
After giving away the dashboard template on the Free Apps page, someone asked how it actually works. Instead of giving you a dry manual, I thought I’d just let you…
Guides
Practical, ‘look over my shoulder’ walkthroughs of my technical experiments. From airgapping your LAN to deploying local AI agents, these guides document my process, my mistakes, and the solutions I found along the way. Built for those who prefer learning by doing.
Beyond the Benchmarks: Why Gemma 4 is My New Local LLM Choice
For the last few years, the AI world has been obsessed with “Benchmarks.” We see endless tables, percentages, and MMLU scores. But for those of us actually building things, those…
Why I Airgapped My Home Lab (And Why You Should Too)
Airgapping (n.): The practice of ensuring a computer network is physically isolated from all other networks, most notably the public internet. An airgapped system has no physical or wireless connection to…
Learn How The Celebrations App Actually Works
In this guide, I’ll break down the three main parts of the free Celebrations app. Think of this as a map of the software. For many of you, the code…
⚠️ CRITICAL: The Golden Rule of Free Code
As you dive into free apps page and explore the wider world of open source, you’re going to discover something incredible: there are thousands of developers giving away high-quality code…
The Secret Weapon: Transforming VSCodium with the Continue Extension
You’ve got your workstation ready and your Ollama server humming in the background. But let’s be honest: copying and pasting code between a terminal and a text editor is a…
Run Your Own AI: Why I Chose Ollama for Local Intelligence
Right now, the AI world is split into two camps: those who pay a monthly subscription to a cloud provider, and those who run their own AI locally on their…
Is a Mac the Right Move for Your Creative Journey?
In my previous post, I talked about the “Great Migration”—that moment when a creator realizes their current OS is no longer serving their needs. For some of us, that migration…
Deploying Hermes Agent for System Admin and Web Scraping
Right now, “Agents” are the biggest buzzword in the AI gold rush. The promise is seductive: a tool that doesn’t just suggest code in a chat window, but actually acts on your…