AI

EpicInfographics skill for Claude dodges the AI look

EpicInfographics skill for Claude draws your data inside a scene instead of a card grid, with nine design languages and animated MP4 and GIF output.

EU AI Act rules and deadlines for developers in 2026

EU AI Act compliance deadlines moved in July 2026. High-risk rules now start December 2027, but bans, GPAI duties and AI labeling already apply.

OfficeCLI turns 50 lines of Python into a single command

OfficeCLI lets AI agents edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files from one binary, and renders them to HTML or PNG so the agent can check its own work.

Dive into LLMs has 11 free chapters and no open license

The Dive into LLMs course ships 11 hands-on chapters with slides and notebooks, all in Chinese, with no license file and no update since October 2025.

DeepSeek V4-Pro runs 39x cheaper than Claude Opus 5

DeepSeek V4-Pro pricing runs about 39x cheaper per task than Claude Opus 5 for a 10-point intelligence gap, and it ships open weights under MIT.

Qwen3.8-Max matches Claude Opus 4.8 and might go open

Qwen3.8-Max pricing lands at $2/$6 per million tokens, matches Claude Opus 4.8 on intelligence, and promises open weights for a Max-class model.

Ask for a flange and CAD Skills hands you a STEP file

Text to CAD agent skills turn a plain sentence into a STEP file, with 11 skills covering CAD, DXF, URDF, slicing, and local Bambu Lab print jobs.

Grok 4.6 undercuts Claude and GPT and still keeps pace

Grok 4.6 pricing lands at $2/$6 per million tokens and ties GPT-5.6 Sol on intelligence while undercutting Claude Opus 5 by about 2.4x per task.

Can Kronos really forecast the next 24 hours of Bitcoin?

The Kronos financial forecasting model predicts candlesticks from 45 exchanges, but its largest 499M variant stays closed and the repo has gone quiet.

Coding

Wand Enhancer refuses to ship a file scammers can fake

There is no Wand Enhancer download. Releases carry notes only, and you build from your own fork, because YouTube fakes hide password stealers.

Best AI coding tools 2026

Best AI coding tools 2026 compared on free tiers: autocomplete, agentic editors, and notebooks. Which ones finish a real task before credits run out.

jcode's tiny memory number comes with a feature turned off

jcode RAM usage is quoted at 27.8 MB, but that figure needs local embedding switched off. With defaults on, jcode uses 167 MB, more than Codex CLI.

Self-hosting

Gitea vs Forgejo, which self-hosted Git server to pick

Gitea vs Forgejo in 2026 compared on governance, license, and features, plus why the drop-in upgrade between the two Git servers no longer works.

croc has shipped for eight years with an empty bug list

croc file transfer moves files between any two computers with end to end encryption, and after eight years its issue queue holds only five open items.

Replace Microsoft's Secure Boot keys with your own

Enroll your own Secure Boot keys with sbctl and mokutil, then sign kernels, bootloaders, and DKMS modules. Full control of your Linux boot chain.

Smart home

Keep your Reolink cameras off the cloud with go2rtc

Fully local Reolink surveillance in Home Assistant using go2rtc, Frigate, and firewalled VLANs. Includes model recommendations and firewall rules.

Web dev

CSS @scope retires BEM, CSS Modules, and CSS-in-JS

CSS @scope scopes selectors to DOM subtrees, retiring BEM naming conventions and CSS Modules build tooling with pure native CSS scoping.

Lazy loading cuts your initial JavaScript weight by 60%

Lazy load images with loading=lazy, components with dynamic import(), and routes with code splitting to shed 60% of initial JS weight and fix LCP.

Create "what is my IP" site on Cloudflare in 2 minutes

Build a what is my IP page on a Cloudflare Worker. Read CF-Connecting-IP, add geo and ASN data, serve plain text to curl and HTML to browsers.

Hardware

The Hailo-10H beats the Coral TPU on speed and watts

Hands-on review of Hailo-10H M.2 for Frigate, Home Assistant, and on-device LLMs. HailoRT, YOLO throughput on Pi 5, token rates, and Coral TPU.