Frustrated by bloated, ad-filled kids’ language apps, I built a clean native Android app that loads curated foreign-language rhymes and stories through a WebView.
Turning a cheap, low-spec server into a dedicated S3-compatible object store for images, audio, and video, instead of hosting another website on it.
A drag-and-drop OCR-plus-LLM tool got me thinking about where a workflow ends and an agent begins — with a simple three-question test.
A router that stubbornly stayed in AP mode after being moved, and the DHCP debugging it took to switch it back.
A painfully slow GL.iNet Opal, rescued from a drawer with a two-step official firmware upgrade instead of a U-Boot flash.
A telecom customer-service example — using Tools for live data lookups and a knowledge base for static rules, with an LLM deciding which to call.
A cover-image extractor that grabbed the first tag without checking it was actually an image — and broke the homepage whenever a post embedded video.
Eight-second clips, decent visual richness, and Chinese text prompts that either get dropped or come out garbled.
A quick look at why the AI coding editor everyone’s been talking about is worth the free trial.
Google I/O 2025 rebuilt every product around AI — enough to pull a committed OpenAI user over to a Pro subscription.
Comparing Gemini’s and OpenAI’s image generation on the same blurry wall painting, then pushing the same subject into a 3D clay-render style.
Perplexity has joined the AI subsidy wars — a full year of Pro for free with a discount code, plus the usual advice to turn off auto-renewal.
