So you just built a site with Astro, and now you need to lock it down. Maybe it is a work-in-progress for a client, or an internal tool you do not want indexed by search engines. You could set up a VPN, configure nginx auth, or install an n…
July has been a busy month for new tools. This batch runs from AI agent evaluations and what AI agent skills actually do to self-hosted SSO, a PHP compiler that outputs native assembly, and a terminal app that speaks SCP, SFTP, S3, and half…
AI coding agents can write functional code. But getting them to produce something that also looks good is hard. The default output tends toward purple gradients, rounded corners, and Inter font everywhere, and layouts that check boxes witho…
Most people use 1Password for the obvious job: save the login, fill the login, forget the password exists. That alone is useful. But if 1Password is only your password drawer, you are leaving a lot of its best security and convenience featu…
React Aria Components gives you a library of accessible, headless UI components that work across mouse, touch, and keyboard. But being headless means they ship with zero styles and zero animations by default. Your popovers just appear. Your…
June is as good a time as any to highlight new tools and resources for our fellow web developers. This month’s batch covers everything from GPU-accelerated terminal emulators to AI-powered code audit agents, from declarative document typese…
Most people switch to DuckDuckGo for privacy. That is a good reason, but it is not the only reason to use it. If you are still weighing search options, this older look at why people use DuckDuckGo is a useful companion. DuckDuckGo also has
Chrome can use more than memory, battery, CPU, and tab space. Its on-device AI features can also store several gigabytes of model files on your computer. If you like keeping Chrome lean, these quick Chrome tips are still useful, but this st…
Google has been talking about multimodal AI for years. Text, images, audio, video, code, search, agents: all slowly being pulled into the same Gemini orbit. Gemini Omni feels like the next obvious step, but also a weirdly ambitious one. Ann…
Hermes Agent can use Grok through an existing SuperGrok subscription, or through an X Premium+ subscription linked to the X account you sign in with. That means you do not need to create an XAI_API_KEY just to try xAI models inside Hermes.
File compression apps tend to fall into two camps: image-only tools that barely touch videos or PDFs, and bloated converters that feel like overkill for quick jobs. Dinky is a free Mac app that compresses images, videos, audio files, and PD…
Codex now has desktop pets. Yes, really. They are optional animated companions for the Codex app: small floating overlays that sit on your screen while Codex works. The silly part is obvious. The useful part takes about five minutes to noti…