3 open source creative apps that convinced me to ditch Photoshop
…years of work, with several features rewritten from the ground up. It’s genuinely one of the most polished open-source creative tools out there, and it shows. The brush engine is…
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6 Docker containers I always use on any new home lab workstation
…Pi-hole is lightweight and features a brilliant web UI that provides real-time statistics on my network traffic. BentoPDF Private, local PDF editor Whether I need to merge two documents, split…
I tried Cursor 3.0 and I’m not going back to VS Code or Claude Code anytime soon
…waiting for my final review and approval. Visual validation The integrated browser Now, when a cloud agent finishes building a frontend feature or fixing a UI bug, it doesn’t just show…
I used Claude to code an entire website, and it worked better than I expected
…Most of the time went into polishing the UI, taking feedback, and making small adjustments. I’ve hosted it on Vercel for now, mostly for convenience. It’s still a very lightweight…
I used Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT to create my personal website, and there was a clear winner
…The About and Contact sections were polished and production-ready, and it even included a professional footer for my X and LinkedIn profiles. I had one minor gripe, though. The space management…
The only reason I still recommend Synology is DSM, but even that's falling behind
…It delivers excellent performance, runs DSM 7.2 with a polished and feature rich interface, offers great mobile app support, and works well as a media server. However, it is limited by…
I tested Claude Code, Codex, Lovable, and Replit side by side, and only one felt ready for real work
…Replit just had the edge in UI polish! Claude Code and Codex both produced impressive apps. I want to be clear about that. The reason they fell behind in my testing was…
Microsoft's best workflow tools are free, but you won't find all of them installed on Windows
…Microsoft has a catalog of polished software that simply doesn't make it into Windows 11 for one reason or another, and some of them are great workflow tools. Once you've…
I picked Proxmox over TrueNAS Scale for my home lab, and I'd make the same choice today
…The storage management UI is more polished, the snapshot and replication tooling is more mature, and the SMB and NFS integration is way tighter. Proxmox can do all of this, but it…
I asked Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini to build a packing app, and saw who actually understood me
…Related I use OpenCode over Claude Code, and it's every bit as good Beat-for-beat, feature-for-feature. Gemini completely lost the plot No polish, and hard to look at…