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Posts and how-tos on the things these projects touch — Home Assistant air quality, calmer and more private browsing on your Mac, keeping an eye on your AI usage, and the odd interactive toy.
How to make a sphere or dome in Minecraft
A sphere is just a stack of circles that grow to the middle and shrink again. This free generator shows you the exact circle to build at every layer — slide through them, read the pattern, and stack your way to a clean sphere or dome.
Read the post →How to make a sphere or dome in Minecraft
Build a perfect sphere or dome in Minecraft with a free layer-by-layer generator. Pick a radius, slide through every horizontal layer, read the block pattern, and stack — solid or hollow.
How to make a circle in Minecraft
Make a perfect circle in Minecraft with a free, live block-circle generator. Pick a radius, read the block pattern, and build circles, cylinders, domes and spheres — plus the rounding trick that makes it work.
How to reduce your Claude Code token usage (and your bill)
Eight practical ways to cut Claude Code token usage and cost — manage context with /compact and /clear, scope your requests, use CLAUDE.md, pick the right model, and track it all in real time.
How to track your Claude Code usage in real time
Every way to watch your Claude Code usage and limits — the built-in /usage command, the ccusage CLI, and menu bar apps like Claude Pulse — compared honestly, with setup steps for each.
The 5 best Home Assistant air quality cards
An honest comparison of the best HACS air quality cards for Home Assistant dashboards — glanceable animated scenes, multi-pollutant panels, colour-coded bars, AQI cards and trend graphs, with install notes for each.
How to add air quality to your Home Assistant dashboard
Get PM2.5 and CO₂ readings into Home Assistant — with or without buying a sensor — and put them on a dashboard card you'll actually read. Entities, cards, EPA thresholds and automations, step by step.
The best browsers for Mac in 2026
An honest, no-hype roundup of the best macOS browsers in 2026 — Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave, Firefox, DuckDuckGo, Zen and Sill — with who each one is genuinely for, and the trade-offs.
How to stop browser tabs eating your Mac's memory
Why browsers dominate Activity Monitor, and every real fix for macOS — built-in memory savers, tab suspender extensions, and workspace hibernation — compared honestly.
How to choose a truly private browser for your Mac
What 'private browser' actually means — four questions that separate marketing from architecture, applied honestly to Safari, Firefox, Brave, Chrome and Sill.
Word count, character count and reading time — a writer's cheat sheet
When word count matters versus character count, how reading time is actually calculated, and the limits worth knowing for SEO titles, tweets, essays and ads — plus a free word-counting tool.
Colour codes explained — hex, RGB, and building a palette that works
Understand hex, RGB and HSL colour codes, grab the exact colour from any image, and build a palette that actually works — complementary, analogous and accessible — with a free colour picker.
How to calculate percentages (the plain-English way)
Work out any percentage without the panic — percentage of a number, percentage increase and decrease, percentage difference and reverse percentages, each with a simple formula and a worked example.
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