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There is nothing more frustrating than buying hardware and having that limited in its functionality behind a subscription. I got tired of iFit on my NordicTrack and so using Claude Code to help me, we jailbroke and then wrote our own control software.

A friend messaged me this morning asking how to build their first agent, and whether to start with Claude Cowork, OpenClaw or Hermes. Here's my thinking on this topic.

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.

Minecraft is a world of cubes, so a smooth circle is impossible, but a convincing one is easy once you know the trick. Use the live generator below to pick a radius and read the exact block pattern, then follow the steps to build circles, cylinders and spheres block by block.

Claude Code bills by tokens, and most of the waste comes from one place: a bloated context window. Here are eight practical habits that cut token usage and cost without slowing you down, and how to watch the numbers as you work.

Claude Code's subscription plans meter usage in rolling windows, and nothing derails a deep session like hitting a limit you didn't see coming. Here's every way to keep your usage visible, from the built-in command to a glance at your menu bar, and when each one is the right tool.

Air quality data lands in Home Assistant as a pile of raw numbers. These five HACS cards turn it into something you'll actually read, each with a different idea of what 'at a glance' means.

Whether you own an air quality monitor or not, you can have live PM2.5 and CO₂ on a Home Assistant dashboard in about fifteen minutes. Here's the whole path: getting the data in, picking a card, reading the numbers, and automating on them.

Every browser claims to be the best; almost none say who they are not for. This is an honest look at the macOS browsers worth your time in 2026: what each is genuinely good at, and the trade-off you make by choosing it.

Open Activity Monitor on almost any Mac and the browser is at the top, holding gigabytes hostage for tabs you haven't looked at in days. Here's why that happens, what the built-in memory savers actually do, and the structural fix, hibernation, that frees the memory without losing your place.

Every browser calls itself private now, and the word has been stretched to mean anything from 'blocks some trackers' to 'has a dark window mode.' Here are four questions that separate marketing from architecture, and an honest look at how the browsers you'd actually consider on a Mac answer them.

Word count, character count and reading time each answer a different question, and picking the wrong one costs you a truncated headline or a rejected essay. Here is when each matters, the limits worth memorising, and how reading time is really worked out.

A colour is just three numbers, but the formats (hex, RGB, HSL) send people in circles. Here is what each one means, how to lift the exact colour from any image or screen, and how to turn one colour into a palette that holds together.

Percentages trip people up because the word hides three or four different questions. Here is each one, with a formula you can remember and a worked example, plus a free calculator when you would rather just type the numbers.