Practical tests of AI tools, coding agents, language models, and creative automation. Articles focus on real workflows, measurable results, costs, limitations, and what actually works in production or hobby projects.
I’ve been using my own dictation setup for more than a month. I’ve also built a screenshot editor in Rust and created CutEase to plan cuts for sheet materials. These projects have changed how I look for software: I now …
A New Trend: When I Need an App, I Build My Own with AI Read more »
My Samsung Galaxy S25 FE refused to pair with a tiny no-name Bluetooth speaker from AliExpress that worked fine with my laptop and my old Xiaomi. I spent two evenings on it with two AI coding agents: Codex with Sol …
On September 10, I published the 220-line local server I had written to connect GigaAM to Vocalinux. The next morning I stumbled across audio.cpp, an all-in-one C++ runtime with the same /v1/audio/transcriptions endpoint and a server already built in. For …
I Built a 220-Line Vocalinux Bridge. A Day Later, I Found audio.cpp Read more »
This case study connects Vocalinux, transcribe.cpp and the 261 MB GigaAM v3 E2E-RNNT model on one Linux laptop. The result is an offline Russian dictation backend exposed through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, accelerated by Vulkan on Intel Iris Xe graphics and …
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The AI music generation space has been dominated by cloud-based services — Suno, Udio, Mureka — each requiring a subscription and offering limited control over the underlying models. ACE-Step 1.5, released in 2026 by ACE Studio and StepFun, shifts this …
ACE-Step 1.5: Open-Source Music AI That Runs Locally and Matches Suno v5 in Benchmarks Read more »
NeuralWatt is a small startup that sells access to AI models — Qwen, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, Mistral — but bills in kilowatt-hours instead of tokens. A basic subscription costs $20/month for 6 kWh of compute energy, with a flat rate …
NeuralWatt: AI Inference Priced in Kilowatt-Hours — How It Works and What It Costs Read more »
On June 1, 2026, GitHub Copilot Pro switched to token-based billing. The subscription price stayed the same — $10/month. What changed is what that $10 buys. Under the old model: a fixed pool of premium requests, predictable, no surprises. Under …
GitHub Copilot and OpenCode Go Both Cost $10/Month — The Difference Is What You Get Read more »
What Makes Real-Time Operating Systems Different Real-time operating systems (RTOS) power the invisible infrastructure of modern life — from airbag controllers that deploy in 3 milliseconds to cardiac pacemakers that must fire within 1-millisecond windows. Unlike Windows or Linux, which …
RTOS Explained: Why Predictability Matters More Than Speed in Critical Systems Read more »
Microsoft has released Coreutils for Windows, a preview package that brings familiar Unix-style command-line tools to native Windows. After installation, commands such as cat, grep, find, xargs, ls, cp, mv, and rm are available directly from Windows shells. The package …
Microsoft Coreutils for Windows: Unix commands without WSL Read more »
Ubuntu Workshop: The Right Sandbox for Running AI Agents Canonical released Workshop in May 2026 — a tool for launching isolated development environments using LXD system containers with a single command. Its timing reflects a real problem: coding agents, local …
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