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I Built 65 Free Dev Tools That Run 100% in Your Browser — No Signup, No Server

I Built 65 Free Dev Tools That Run 100% in Your Browser — No Signup, No Server

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How to Handle the Client Message: “Can We Make One Small Change?”

How to Handle the Client Message: “Can We Make One Small Change?”

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Dictation is not long-form transcription — I tried five tools before writing my own

Dictation is not long-form transcription — I tried five tools before writing my own

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Free Coding Models Are Good Enough for Some of Your Tasks — Here's How to Find Which Ones

Free Coding Models Are Good Enough for Some of Your Tasks — Here's How to Find Which Ones

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Let the Test Suite Decide Which Model Answers: A Verification-Gated Model Ladder

Let the Test Suite Decide Which Model Answers: A Verification-Gated Model Ladder

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A Two-Model Bake-Off on Your Own Repo: Isolating Runs With Git Worktrees

A Two-Model Bake-Off on Your Own Repo: Isolating Runs With Git Worktrees

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Reserve the Expensive Model for Thinking: A Free-Tier Pipeline for Git Chores

Reserve the Expensive Model for Thinking: A Free-Tier Pipeline for Git Chores

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Self-Review Your Diff With a Free Coding Model Before You Open the PR

Self-Review Your Diff With a Free Coding Model Before You Open the PR

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26 Ways to Use Coding Agents for Non-Coding Tasks

26 Ways to Use Coding Agents for Non-Coding Tasks

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What I Learned Building an AI Tarot Experience: Structure, Tone, and Guardrails

What I Learned Building an AI Tarot Experience: Structure, Tone, and Guardrails

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AI Memory Is Becoming Portable. Continuity Still Isn't.

AI Memory Is Becoming Portable. Continuity Still Isn't.

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Stop Vibe-Checking Models: A Repeatable Comparison Harness You Can Run on Free Compute

Stop Vibe-Checking Models: A Repeatable Comparison Harness You Can Run on Free Compute

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New and improved Inspector: DevTools for AI Agents, now with Automatic Learning

New and improved Inspector: DevTools for AI Agents, now with Automatic Learning

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My Sales Agent Kept Forgetting Deals, So I Gave It Memory

My Sales Agent Kept Forgetting Deals, So I Gave It Memory

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I built a competitor monitor tool for B2B SaaS founders and PMMs

I built a competitor monitor tool for B2B SaaS founders and PMMs

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