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Practical writing on software engineering, AI, careers, SaaS, and building a better life through technology.
Sakura: An Anime AI Companion Made for Conversation
I love anime, so I made Sakura: an animated AI companion for conversation, with distinct characters and a virtual relationship that develops through chat.
AstroPandit: Explore Your Vedic Birth Chart Without False Promises
I made AstroPandit so people could explore astrology freely: birth-chart details and AI conversations, without charging per minute or promising a guaranteed future.
Sergeant: A Habit Tracker With Daily Motivation and Accountability
I needed a strict habit manager that also encouraged me. Sergeant brings daily missions, motivational quotes, streaks, and adjustable intensity to habits and workouts.
DayOne Sober: A Daily Counter for Moving Away From Smoking and Drinking
My father’s struggles with smoking and drinking motivated me to create DayOne Sober: a daily counter with pledges, milestones, and reasons to keep going.
MileLedger: Track Your Mileage and Driving Expenses
I made MileLedger to help drivers keep track of travel and costs, with automatic trip recording, business/personal classification, expenses, and exportable logs.
FlareLog: A Symptom Tracker for People Living With Chronic Conditions
I made FlareLog to help people with chronic conditions record symptoms, suspected triggers, and daily patterns, with a history they can bring to an appointment.
How I Use Agents and Mermaid to Create Accurate, Cheaper Internal Diagrams
My workflow for turning source context into editable Mermaid diagrams: ask an agent for text, preview it, verify every relationship, and keep the source with the docs.
motion-framer: A Claude Skill for Better React Animations
Use freshtechbro’s motion-framer skill to guide React animation work, from clear hover feedback to transitions that respect reduced-motion preferences.
Claude SEO: Audit Your Website With Claude Code
A practical guide to AgriciDaniel’s Claude SEO plugin: install it, choose an audit, inspect the evidence, and turn findings into verifiable website improvements.
Top 10 Claude Skills You Should Actually Be Using
Ten free, open-source Claude Code skills — from grill-me to code-review to wayfinder — each one built to fix a specific, recurring failure mode. Full install steps included.
On-Device AI: Why Running Models Locally Is Becoming a Selling Point
On-device models used to mean a worse experience by default. As the gap closed, running locally flipped from compromise to advertised feature.
Open Source vs. Closed AI Models: What the Divide Actually Means for Builders
Not an ideological debate — a practical trade-off between control and customization on one side, and convenience and raw capability on the other.
AI Note-Taking and Meeting Assistants: What's Worth Paying For
Transcription accuracy is table stakes now. The actual competition — and the thing worth paying for — is what happens to a transcript after it is captured.
AI Browser Extensions: The Quiet Category Nobody's Talking About
No launch buzz, no demo video — just a small icon that summarizes, drafts, and extracts information directly on the page you are already looking at.
Vertical AI SaaS: Why Narrow Beats General in 2026
A general assistant has to be good at everything. A vertical tool built for one industry can bake in every domain-specific rule a general tool would never prioritize.
What Is an AI Agent, Really? Cutting Through the Marketing
A working definition specific enough to exclude a relabeled chatbot: it has to act, observe the result, and decide the next step in a loop, without approval at every step.
AI Writing Assistants Beyond ChatGPT: What People Are Actually Switching To
The quiet trend is away from one general chat window and toward narrower tools built for a specific kind of writing, embedded directly where the writing already happens.
AI Video Generation Tools Compared: Where the Technology Actually Stands
Short clips with simple motion are genuinely strong today. Longer sequences, consistency, and precise camera control are where every current tool still breaks down.
The AI Image Generator Landscape: Who's Winning and Why
Output quality got good enough across the board that control — consistent characters, precise edits, exact composition — became the actual thing people search for.
AI Coding Assistants in 2026: What's Actually Different Between Them
Autocomplete, chat, and agentic tools all get called "AI coding assistants" and compete on entirely different axes. The comparison worth making is which job you are hiring for.