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Bite-sized reviews and longer takes on the hardware, software, games, and AI worth your time.
The macOS Tools I Love
Five Mac utilities that make my life easier when Apple doesn't: a clipboard manager I pay for, and four tools I wrote because nothing else fit the need.
I'm Disgusted by Sony's Disc Statement, and by the Gamers Defending It
Sony's CFO says it will 'cautiously move forward' on killing discs and sees no impact on the business. The people cheering that on are arguing for a store with one door.
Read byte →The M5 Pro Retired My Gaming PC Without Me Noticing
A few months with a 14-inch M5 Pro: four games benchmarked through GameHub and native Metal, local models up to a 44 GB coder at 128K context, and the heat that comes with it.
Read byte →Sony Handed Xbox a 21-Second Return to Gamers' Living Rooms. Will Asha Sharma Capitalize?
Sony is ending physical disc production in January 2028, the backlash is drowning its own paid promotions, and the video that humiliated Xbox in 2013 is sitting there waiting.
Read byte →I Built a ServiceNow AI Assistant Instead of Licensing One
Enterprise platforms sell you an AI assistant by the seat. I built one that lives inside the platform, runs on token-billed LLM calls, and lets me decide what it can do.
Read byte →The UK Just Voted to Hand a Cabinet Minister the Off Switch
An amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill gives a single minister the power to block sites, ban VPNs, and ID-check the entire UK adult internet. It cannot stand.
Read byte →How Tailscale Helped Me Ditch My iCloud Storage Subscription
A mesh VPN built on WireGuard that takes ten minutes to set up and turns every device you own into one private network. Why I use it for my home lab, and how to get started.
Read byte →A Decent Week at Microsoft Gaming, With Caveats
Xbox Mode shipped, console Copilot got killed, Sharma brought in her bench. The first stretch of Microsoft Gaming news in a long time that did not actively make my Linux post stronger.
Read byte →Getting Started with Local LLMs on a Mac: OpenCode + LM Studio
A practical, opinionated walkthrough for wiring up OpenCode against an LM Studio server on Apple Silicon: installs, model picks for different RAM tiers, and how it actually feels to use day to day.
Read byte →Running LLMs Locally Is Quietly Becoming the Better Option for Home Devs
Coding harnesses like OpenCode and pi.dev, paired with LM Studio and a good open model, now cover most of what home developers actually use cloud AI for, and the cost trajectory of frontier APIs is making that more true every quarter.
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