Botmonster Tech Newsletter logo

Botmonster Tech Newsletter

Archives
Log in
Subscribe
September 25, 2026

Botmonster Tech Weekly - September 25, 2026

AI

llmfit tells you which local models your machine can run

Large machinist caliper measuring glowing model blocks above a computer interior milled into precision slots, beside a dial gauge reading past its predicted mark

Which LLM can I run on my hardware? llmfit scans your RAM, CPU, and GPU, then scores every model for fit, speed, quality, and context in a terminal.

Best AI research tools 2026

Open reference book with glowing threads running from a printed sentence to highlighted passages, two threads fraying into smoke before they connect

Best AI research tools 2026 that cite their sources. NotebookLM, Consensus, and deep research modes compared on whether the citation survives a click.

The Jev model writes no text and TypeSafe won't say how

Sealed unlabelled black decision machine turning a ribbon of text into a probability dial, a switch and a bar gauge, with hand-built clone machines behind it

The Jev model returns typed decisions instead of text for $0.042 per million tokens. No model card, no weights, and 3,000 new GitHub repos in five days.

ADHD gives your agent 30 ideas and kills 20 of them

Ten sealed glass chambers each holding a different crystal idea, with a mechanical arm crushing most and lifting three survivors onto a pedestal

Coding agent ideation skill ADHD spawns isolated frames, scores every idea, flags the traps, and deepens the survivors instead of the first answer.

Coding

Dioxus builds web desktop and mobile apps in pure Rust

Molten orange Rust ingot on a workbench feeding one interface into a browser, desktop monitor, phone, and server

Rust cross-platform app framework Dioxus builds web, desktop, and mobile from one codebase, with hot patching, small bundles, and server functions.

Mole replaces four Mac cleanup apps with one command

A mole in work goggles tunnels through layers of cache folders and installer files beneath a laptop on a desk

Mac cleaner terminal tool Mole rolls cleanup, uninstall, disk analysis, and live stats into one binary, with a dry run before anything is deleted.

Best 10 HTML to Markdown converters in 2026

Factory conveyor carrying tangled HTML tags into a row of ten stamping machines that output stacks of clean plain text pages

HTML to Markdown tools tested on 10 real pages with 273 probes. Go html-to-markdown and markdownify tie at 96 percent, pandoc trails at 76 percent.

Self-hosting

ConvertX is a self-hosted file converter for 1000 formats

Open steel shipping container on a workbench with nineteen mechanical tool arms inside converting documents, video reels and 3D shapes into new formats

Self-hosted file converter ConvertX runs 19 conversion engines behind one Docker container and handles over 1000 formats without uploading a file.

Web dev

Pascal is a 3D building editor that runs in a browser

Exploded cutaway of a two-storey house with translucent walls and door openings floating above a stylised browser window

3D building editor Pascal runs in a browser on WebGPU, draws walls, slabs, and roofs, saves work offline, and ships its viewer as npm packages.

Hardware

Kudu cleans your PC with no ads and no paid upgrade

Cutaway glass computer tower whose internal mechanism is built from stacked readable rule cards feeding cleaning nozzles into a collection jar

Free PC cleaner Kudu ships as open source for Windows, macOS, and Linux with a malware scanner, privacy switches, and no ads or paid upgrade tier.

Don't miss what's next. Subscribe to Botmonster Tech Newsletter:
← Newer Botmonster Tech Weekly - October 2, 2026 Older → Botmonster Tech Weekly - September 18, 2026
Bluesky
GitHub
Reddit
Twitter
Powered by Buttondown, the easiest way to start and grow your newsletter.