What Breaks in AI-Written Blog Posts
I spent a weekend auditing eight articles a generator had written for this site, expecting to find clumsy prose. The prose was the part that held up. What had f…
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Your View Counter Is Lying to Google
If your blog counts page views in the same table row as the post, and your structured data publishes a `dateModified`, there is a good chance those two features…
Lessons From Building Digital Creations
Across this site there are [301 tools](/tools/), [90 games](/games/), [35 labs](/labs/), [21 apps](/apps/), 13 simulators and a handful of code libraries. Somew…
Creating 300+ Free Browser Tools: My Journey
There are 301 tools on this site at the time of writing, across 18 categories — 65 design tools, 36 for developers, 27 mathematical, and a long tail of things l…
Thriving in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Almost all advice about surviving AI reduces to "keep learning", which is both true and impossible to act on. Learn *what*? Prompt engineering courses are mostl…
Gemini vs ChatGPT: A Detailed Comparison
Every comparison of these two is out of date within about six weeks. Both vendors ship faster than anyone can write about them, and a post declaring a winner on…
Quick Guide to Installing Linux as an Alternative to Windows
Installing Ubuntu alongside Windows takes about forty minutes, and roughly thirty-five of those are waiting. The risky part is the five minutes before you start…
A Practical Guide to Using ChatGPT and Gemini for Everyday Tasks
Most advice about using AI assistants stops at "you can use it to draft emails", which is true and useless. The gap between a mediocre result and a good one is …
Building Your First Python Project in VS Code: A Beginner's Guide
There is a real difference between writing a Python *file* and building a Python *project*, and it is the step most tutorials skip. A file is one `.py` you run.…
How to Use Visual Studio Code for Beginners
Most VS Code tutorials teach you where the menus are. You will find the menus. What actually separates someone who is productive in VS Code from someone fightin…