How I built the writing app I needed in 2 hours for free – with Ollama and VS Code

I'm not a developer, but I was able to use locally-installed AI to create a writing app suited to my needs. Here's how.

How to use Templater in Obsidian: 3 scenarios where standard templates fall short, and 4 steps to try on the day you install it

Have you ever had trouble with Obsidian's standard templates?For a while, I didn't. Inserting today's date and having a list ...

When AI says 'It's not written on that page,' it might just have failed to read it. Instructions to have it report results in three categories [For copy-paste]

I have the AI in my lab read the view counts from my note dashboard every morning. What I learned on the first day was that ...

Dewatermark Launched Its Watermark Remover API Suite: One API Key for Images, Video and PDFs Watermark Removal

Dewatermark, the AI watermark removal platform developed by X Team, today announced the launch of its watermark remover ...
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Pi 1.0 Released: How the AI Agent Harness Works and How to Get Started

Pi 1.0 is now officially available. This guide explains how the harness connects AI models to tools, then walks through ...
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Writing bad code made me twice as productive—but it came with a catch

"If it works, don't touch it" is a well-known meme in the programming community. I'm glad that it's just that. A meme. Bad code didn't make me a worse developer. It made me faster, because I learned ...
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I set up Claude Code the way Spotify does to save tokens, and it cost me more

This wasn't the expected result, but perhaps something changed in Claude's models since Spotify wrote up its findings ...
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8 super-popular VS Code extensions you don't actually need anymore

You don’t need it anymore because VS Code added native bracket pair colorization in version 1.60 and turned it on by default ...
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An open-source Ray-Ban Meta glasses app kept eight API keys in plain text until October 4

An open-source iPhone app that puts a choice of AI models on Ray-Ban Meta glasses kept eight API keys and tokens unencrypted ...
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Different Ways to Use ChatGPT For Free Without Paying A Subscription

Discover how to access ChatGPT for free, use its features for work and study, explore free Plus trials, compare plans, and ...
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I turned Obsidian into a personal command center with these 6 free plugins

Obsidian can be much more than a second brain, and these plugins prove it.
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DeepSeek’s AI agent now installs like a normal app on Mac and Windows

DeepSeek Harness, DeepSeek's AI agent, installs on Mac and Windows without a terminal. A small task costs tens of shillings.