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Practical technology. No theatre.
You have a technology problem, question or decision. This desk helps you understand or solve it — with guides checked against the real products and real deploys, dated honestly, and evergreen on purpose.
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- Where to Host a Website for Free — And What Free Actually MeansYou can put a real site online without paying rent. Free is not unlimited, not a shop, and not the same produc…
- Bitwarden’s Free Plan: Unlimited Devices, OfficiallyBitwarden’s pricing page still offers a free account: unlimited devices and unlimited passwords. Premium is $1…
- The Website Worked. The Deployment Didn't.Four things that went wrong deploying my own projects to Render — including the ENOENT package.json error on t…
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The QuantLab project: a one-person research lab in Python, and what ~140 documented experiments taught — failures included. Educat…
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The toolbox.
Eight small tools that run entirely in your browser — nothing you type or paste is sent anywhere: JSON formatter · Base64 encoder · URL encoder · UUID generator · timestamp converter · word counter · case converter · HTTP status lookup. Each has a companion guide explaining the underlying format.
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- What ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini Actually Do With Your ConversationsAll three let you stop your chats training their models. All three keep a route around that setting …
- Free and Cheap ChatGPT Alternatives We Actually CheckedChatGPT Plus is $20 a month. Claude Pro is $20 a month, or $17 if you pay a year up front. I opened …
- Arena.ai vs ChatGPT: A Free Arena, Not a Plus PlanArena.ai is a real product. It is not ChatGPT with a different logo. Official pages: multi-model cha…
- Gemini vs ChatGPT: The $4.99 StepGoogle’s official Gemini page still has a $0 plan. The first paid step is Google AI Plus at $4.99 a …
- DeepSeek vs ChatGPT: Free Chat, Paid APIDeepSeek’s homepage still offers free access to the chat. The API is a separate, priced product. Cha…
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What "no theatre" means here.
No AI-tool hype cycles, no top-ten lists assembled from other top-ten lists, no benchmarks without the machine in front of us. If a piece says first-hand, someone on this desk did the thing and wrote down what happened — including what went wrong. Time-sensitive facts carry their verification dates and named sources.