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.

I stopped Claude Code's Python overwrites with a hook. I determined the scope using 30,000 logs.

Recently, I've noticed Python code appearing on my Claude Code screen more often. Even for a single-line file fix, it writes ...
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Open-source tool designs LEGO builds with more than 2,000 real pieces

Carlos Antelo's open-source ldraw-nova lets GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 design LEGO models as LDraw CAD files.

Consulting with Gemini: Writing Python code to extract broken links from a web link collection and categorize active links

The mission is to extract currently broken links from a collection of web article links and categorize the active links.I ...
HackerNoon

I Turned a Three-Hour Network Maintenance Check Into Three Minutes With Python

How a Python and Netmiko utility turned repetitive health checks across 200 network devices into a parallel, logged, ...
How-To Geek

5 essential Linux terminal upgrades that make command-line work actually enjoyable

Ctrl + T drops a file path into your command. Alt + C jumps into any folder below you. Better yet, you can just type zi, and ...
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Python Turtle Lesson

Looking for a fun, engaging lesson using the Python turtle? The totally FREE lesson teaches your students about using the turtle in Python to draw shapes. Students will learn how to create shapes and ...
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Hugging Face Flaw Lets Malicious AI Models Plant Python Code on User Systems

A newly disclosed vulnerability in Hugging Face Transformers could allow malicious AI model repositories to place attacker-controlled Python files on a user’s system before the user approves remote ...
The Hacker News

New ENCFORGE Ransomware Targets AI Model Files in Langflow RCE Attack

Researchers at Sysdig have linked a second attack on the same Langflow server to JADEPUFFER, the AI-agent-driven operator it first documented earlier this month. The same operator has now been spotted ...
KDnuggets

How to Clean Messy CSV Files with Python: A Beginner’s Guide

When you are just starting out with data analysis, one of the first things you learn is how to clean a dataset. It sounds basic, but it is one of the most important skills you will use again and again ...
ZDNet

I’ve reviewed every PDF editor out there – then I had ChatGPT build me a better one

Recently, my wife, Denise, started singing with her church’s choir. She has a lovely singing voice. She needed to practice all the new songs. The songs came in booklets, about the size of a trade ...
XDA Developers

4 Python scripts that supercharged my NotebookLM workflow

Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA, SlashGear, MakeUseOf, Laptop Mag, and Android Police. She's been writing professionally since she was ...