Guide Oct 22, 2026
Affordable tech gifts worth gifting
A researched roundup of low-price tech gifts from current Amazon listings — what's worth gifting and what to skip, with honest notes on each.
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Guide Oct 22, 2026
Best tech gifts: premium picks
A researched roundup of premium tech gifts — flagship headphones, top-tier noise-cancellers and a flagship phone — and when spending more is worth it.
Guide Oct 21, 2026
Astro build fails on Cloudflare Pages: fixes
Astro builds failing on Cloudflare Pages? The usual causes — Node version too old, wrong output dir, install timeouts — and the fixes that worked.
Guide Oct 21, 2026
Cloudflare Email Routing: setup and catches
Free custom-domain email forwarding on Cloudflare — setup, the destination-address trap, catch-all, and why it receives but can't send.
Guide Oct 21, 2026
Cloudflare Pages redirects: the 301 playbook
How to redirect on Cloudflare Pages without 404s — the _redirects file, Astro redirects, Bulk Redirects, 301 vs 302, and the bare git mv trap.
Guide Oct 21, 2026
Cloudflare Pages www down: fix Error 1016
Disabled workers.dev and www went down with Error 1016? Here is the exact cause — a CNAME still pointing at the subdomain you killed — and the two fixes.
Guide Oct 21, 2026
How to deploy Astro on Cloudflare Pages
Deploy Astro 5 to Cloudflare Pages from scratch — connect GitHub, set the build, pick a Node version, add a custom domain, and what breaks next.
Guide Oct 14, 2026
External monitor for a MacBook Air: ppi, not size
A 27-inch 4K panel is the most popular external monitor and the worst fit for macOS. The ppi arithmetic Apple builds its own screens around, and what to look for instead.
Comparison Oct 14, 2026
Do you need a keyboard for your MacBook Air?
A MacBook Air already has a keyboard attached. How to tell whether you need a second one, what breaks on third-party keyboards, and what each price step buys.
Hardware Oct 11, 2026
Is 256GB enough for a MacBook Air?
19 months on, my 256GB MacBook Air has 18.2 GB free — and my own files account for 12 MB of it. Where every gigabyte actually went.
Guide Oct 11, 2026
Two external displays on an M4 MacBook Air
The M4 Air drives two 6K externals alongside the built-in screen with the lid open — closing it adds nothing. Here is the spec page, the M3 rule that keeps getting copied, and the hub trap that makes two monitors mirror.
Hardware Oct 9, 2026
MacBook Air M4 long-term review: 19 months later
Nineteen months with the MacBook Air M4: where it still holds up, the one macOS bug that outlived the honeymoon, and what I would buy if it died tomorrow.
Hands-on Oct 9, 2026
Redesigning an Astro blog with an AI agent
Three rendered directions built from my real posts, one argument I overruled, and two environment bugs the agent caught that had nothing to do with design.
Hands-on Oct 8, 2026
Why every coding agent ships an importer for its rivals
Coding agents ship importers that name their rivals in a flag; a Google product routes to Anthropic. If the model were the moat, none of this makes sense.
Hands-on Oct 8, 2026
What the changelog says about retiring Gemini CLI
Launch posts describe intent; changelogs describe what shipped. What agy changelog revealed about retiring Gemini CLI, and why bug fixes say more.
Comparison Oct 8, 2026
Sessions in Claude Code, Muse Code and Antigravity
One treats a session as a place to return to, with seven doors back. One as a record you can audit and redact. One as the last conversation.
Guide Oct 7, 2026
Installing Gemini CLI, Codex CLI, Muse Code and Antigravity
Four installs, each under a minute. Then: Gemini CLI could not sign in, Codex CLI wanted a phone number, two binaries are not named after their packages.
Hands-on Oct 7, 2026
Muse Code bundles 20 skills, and 4 move you off Claude Code
Meta ships twenty skills with its terminal coding agent. Four exist only to migrate you off Claude Code or Codex. I pointed the importer at my own setup.
Guide Oct 7, 2026
Why an agent skill can validate and still never run
Missing frontmatter is a warning. Missing description is a warning. Only broken YAML fails. A clean validation says little about whether your skill fires.
Comparison Oct 7, 2026
Claude Code vs Muse Code vs Antigravity, compared
Bundled skills: twenty, zero, and none but a marketplace. Permissions, MCP and sandboxing read straight off each CLI — and what it does not tell you.
Comparison Oct 7, 2026
Where Claude Code, Muse Code and Antigravity keep config
One layers user, project and local settings on disk. One prints a sha256 of your policy state. One only sets your PATH. Three config models, side by side.
Comparison Oct 7, 2026
How Claude Code, Muse Code and Antigravity handle plugins
Claude Code runs plugins against a no-plugin baseline and reports the delta. Muse Code approves them capability by capability. Two questions, three designs.
Hands-on Oct 1, 2026
An SEO audit that checks Google's rules, not folklore
Four evidence tiers, one exists to say: Google never said that. Plus the two policies affiliate sites fail by accident: thin affiliation and scaled content abuse.
Hands-on Sep 30, 2026
Four places secrets leak before you publish
Git history is permanent and public. Commit authorship is readable. Screenshot pixels carry text and image metadata carries more. A scanner misses all four.
Guide Sep 27, 2026
Cloudflare Pages: 8 things that broke my site
Eight Cloudflare Pages failures no tutorial mentions: workers.dev killing www, Error 1016 from "good" advice, Email Routing gaps.