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- Does ChatGPT Watermark Text? Now in the EU, Like Claude
ChatGPT is adding watermarks to text for EU users, and it's opt-in in the API. Who gets it, what it can and can't show, and how Claude and Gemini compare.
Oct 6, 2026 - How to Move a Custom GPT to Claude: Skill or Project?
Custom GPTs stop working on December 11, 2026. Whether your GPT becomes a Claude Skill or a Claude Project, and how to move its instructions and files over.
Oct 6, 2026 - The Best Way to Share Markdown Files with Your Team and Claude
Google Docs now edits .md files without converting them. Sync Claude's folder with Google Drive, and your team edits the same files Claude reads.
Oct 6, 2026 - Why Does My Writing Get Flagged as AI When I Wrote It Myself?
AI detectors guess from how predictable your text is, so plain, formal or heavily polished writing gets flagged. Why it happens on Turnitin and GPTZero, who gets flagged more, and what to do if you're accused.
Oct 5, 2026 - ASD-STE100 in Claude: CLAUDE.md, Output Style or Skill?
Karpathy's ASD-STE100 tip, set up in Claude Code: one rule in CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md that uses STE for explanations and your own voice for drafts, an output style if you want it on for every reply, a skill for rewriting one text. Why 80% is safer, test results, and where STE helps and hurts.
Oct 4, 2026 - How to Export All Your ChatGPT Conversations to Claude
Claude can import your ChatGPT memory but not your chat history. Export the ChatGPT ZIP, then upload a few chats to a Claude Project or turn the whole history into a local folder Claude can read and search.
Oct 4, 2026 - Best Claude Code Mods to Try First (October 2026)
Claude Code mods add panes, prompt rewrites and safety checks. Fifteen worth a look, grouped by what they help with, plus how to install one, check it before it runs, and ask Claude to write your own.
Oct 3, 2026 - Can Gemini Access Local Files? It Depends Which Gemini
The Gemini web and mobile apps only read files you upload. The Mac app can open and edit real folders through Gemini Spark, and Antigravity CLI works on files in a folder you choose. What each one can do, the limits, and how to set it up.
Oct 3, 2026 - What Is a Claude Code Mod? How Is It Different from Skills, MCP and Plugins?
A skill changes what Claude knows, an MCP server changes what it can reach, and a mod changes Claude Code itself. What each one is, one example run through all of them, and which ones also work in Codex.
Oct 3, 2026 - Gemini Gems Are Becoming Skills: What's the Claude Equivalent?
Gemini Gems become Skills on November 17, 2026. Why the Claude equivalent is now a Claude Skill, when a Claude Project still fits better, and how to move a Gem over.
Oct 2, 2026 - ChatGPT Space for Writing: Do You Need It?
ChatGPT Space turns chats into shared Pages with comments and paragraph-level edits. Which writing problems in ChatGPT and Codex it fixes, when you don't need it, and what to use if you want Claude and Codex on the same draft.
Oct 1, 2026 - How to Write a LinkedIn Post About a Feature You Shipped
Say what shipped and who it helps in the first line, then tell the one thing you learned building it. A four-line template, a real example, and what to cut.
Sep 26, 2026 - Why Do AI LinkedIn Posts All Sound the Same? And How to Fix Yours
AI LinkedIn posts sound alike because they start from a topic, not from something that happened to you. Give the model your specifics, pick a voice on purpose, and edit out the formula.
Sep 26, 2026 - Can Meta Muse Negotiate Your Bills? What Worked, Where It Was Stopped, and What to Do Next
People are letting Meta's Muse call the cable company and cut their bills. What it does, the cases people posted, where it gets blocked, and how to write the message yourself when it does.
Sep 22, 2026
Knowledge collections
Repositories where the knowledge lives inside the repo: books, courses, guides and notes worth keeping locally.
- 34 GitHub Knowledge Bases Worth Cloning
Measured, categorized repositories where the knowledge lives inside the repo — books, courses, guides, references, and notes worth keeping locally.
Curated collection
Learning AI
Learning paths, reading lists, and what is worth watching in research.
- What Can You Build with TypeSafe's Jev? 18 Ideas from Its First Week
Jev can't write a sentence, so what is it for? Eighteen projects from its first week, each explained by the idea behind it, with the repository when there is one.
Sep 20, 2026 - How to Learn LLMs From Scratch in 2026: A Free Path That Fits in One Folder
Five stages in order, each with a repository you can clone and keep. Every number measured the day we checked, including which resources have stopped being maintained.
Sep 17, 2026 - ECCV 2026 Trends: 7 Match the Industry, 1 Doesn't
What's worth watching at ECCV 2026? Mostly trends the AI industry already runs — frozen backbones, context engineering, latency, evals. The largest cluster is the exception: optics is back inside the algorithm.
Sep 7, 2026
Writing with AI
Getting your own thinking into an AI draft: where to keep the material, what to ask for, and how to edit until it sounds like you.
- Claude Opus 5.5 Writing: Less AI-Sounding, but It Still Needs a Prompt
Claude Opus 5.5 writes shorter, clearer prose than Opus 5 and follows style rules better. Some AI tells remain. Here's what changed, plus prompts to copy.
Sep 23, 2026 - AI Humanizer or a Better Model: Do You Still Need One?
A humanizer edits the AI sound out of a finished draft. A model trained to write like a person starts closer. What each one fixes, from our tests, and when to use both.
Sep 22, 2026 - The Best Open-Weight Models for Writing in 2026, and How to Run Each
The top of the writing leaderboards is open models too big for any desk. Eleven open-weight models sorted by what they are built for, what is independently measured, and what fits on one GPU or a Mac.
Sep 22, 2026 - Draft with Claude, Finish with Hemmingway: A Two-Agent Writing Workflow
Claude is good at sources, structure and long drafts. Hemmingway-1 is trained to sound like a person. How to split one article between them without losing your facts.
Sep 22, 2026 - How to Use the Humanizer Claude Skill and Keep Your Own Voice
Install blader/humanizer, paste a draft, and add a few paragraphs of your own writing. Then compare before and after to check your facts and opinions survived.
Sep 19, 2026 - Which Model Is Best at Creative Writing? The Worse One
For fiction, poetry and roleplay, base models write livelier prose than the chat models built on them. Here is why, and the few places that still host one in 2026.
Sep 18, 2026 - How to Write with an LLM: Ptacek's Rules and What Hacker News Added
Thomas Ptacek's two rules for writing with an LLM, plus what only appears in the Hacker News thread: his copyediting system prompt, how many suggestions he takes, the strongest objection, and when the rules apply.
Sep 18, 2026 - Founder-Led SEO: Should You Write Your Own Content?
Founder-led SEO means writing your product's content yourself, with AI helping with research and drafting. Choose a reader's question, check the answer, and keep your sources for the next article.
Sep 17, 2026 - How to Write with AI Without Losing Your Voice
AI drafts read as empty because none of your thinking is in them. Interview yourself through the agent, edit out the AI habits, then turn your own edits into writing preferences you can reuse.
Sep 16, 2026
Agent skills and local AI tools
What trending skills repos and local AI apps actually ship, cloned and counted.
- What Is Hemmingway-1? The Open 27B Writing Model, Its Benchmarks, and Where to Use It
Hemmingway-1 is a small open model that only writes. What its makers' benchmark claims rest on, where it loses, what it costs, and six places to use it.
Sep 22, 2026 - Humanizer, Tested: What the Claude Skill Flags and Rewrites
We fed the 43k-star skill a paragraph built to trip its own pattern list. It flagged 7 of its 35 patterns, cut 67 words to 45, and kept every fact.
Sep 6, 2026 - VoiceStudio, Explained: What the 18k-Star Local Voice App Ships
The renamed OmniVoice-Studio, measured from its repo: 16 TTS and 11 ASR engines, what the 646-language number really means, and the CC-BY-NC catch in the default model.
Sep 6, 2026 - 33k Stars. Four Files. Inside the Agent-Skills Boom
I cloned the agent-skills repos that kept appearing on GitHub Trending. One had 33k stars and four files. Another was 98% machine translation.
Aug 30, 2026
Comparisons
Which tool fits: fact tables from both products’ own docs, with the date they were checked.
- Hemmingway-1 vs Claude vs ChatGPT for Writing: What the Tests Show, and Five Prompts to Check Them
Is Hemmingway-1 better than Claude or ChatGPT at writing? The makers' test scores, what they leave out, and five prompts to run on all three yourself.
Sep 22, 2026 - AI-Native Notion Alternatives for Claude Code and Codex Users
Notion has agents now, on its Business plan and its own credits. If you want to write with the Claude Code or Codex plan you already pay for, compare Palette, StashBase and Obsidian.
Sep 18, 2026 - Notion vs. Markdown Files for Claude Code: Which Should You Write In?
Claude Code can write in Notion through MCP, but it edits a Markdown copy of the page. When to keep Notion, when to draft in files, and how to use both.
Sep 18, 2026 - Looking for an AI-Native Obsidian? Here Are Your Options
Can you use Claude Code or Codex? Sync between computers and phones? Compare five Obsidian AI options by agent support, devices, sync, and cost.
Sep 17, 2026 - Humanizer vs. Stop Slop: Which Claude Writing Skill Is Better?
Compare Humanizer and Stop Slop for English AI writing, with the same draft, a no-skill control, and a writing-sample test. See what actually changed.
Sep 10, 2026 - Humanizer and Similar Claude Skills to Remove AI Writing Traces
Understand AI writing traces, preserve your voice, and compare Humanizer with similar open-source skills for editing blogs, newsletters and product announcements.
Sep 10, 2026 - VoiceStudio vs ElevenLabs: Is It a Real Alternative?
Yes for cloning, dubbing, transcription, and audiobooks on your own GPU; no for real-time agents, fine-tuned clones, and the voice library. A fact table from both products' own docs, checked September 8, 2026, plus the license catch that decides commercial use.
Sep 8, 2026 - AnythingLLM vs NotebookLM: Same Upload, Different Owner
Both make you upload documents into their own store — the real choice is whose machine and whose model. A fact-checked comparison as of September 2026, and what neither one does.
Sep 6, 2026 - Local NotebookLM Alternatives in 2026: Five Alive, Four Dead
Every open-source, self-hosted, or offline NotebookLM (now Gemini Notebook) alternative still worth running in September 2026 — checked repo by repo — plus the graveyard nobody mentions.
Aug 24, 2026
Guides
One task each: agent access, PDFs, recordings, search, and building a Wiki with the agent you already use.
Browse guides by task in Docs →- Can You Run Hemmingway-1 Locally? Setup Guide (2026)
Yes. Download a 17 GB Q4_K_M file and run it with llama.cpp or LM Studio, or use an MLX build on a Mac. Setup steps, memory needs, settings and fixes.
Sep 22, 2026 - Use Hemmingway-1 in Obsidian, VS Code, or Cursor Through Its API
Hemmingway-1 has an OpenAI-compatible API, so it should work wherever you can paste a base URL. It works in Obsidian and VS Code. Cursor is shaky, and Codex and Claude Code can't use it.
Sep 22, 2026 - How to Generate Images in Claude Code with Qwen-Image-2.1
Claude can't generate images, but Claude Code can call a model that does. One command and a free Hugging Face account connect it to Qwen-Image-2.1. No GPU needed.
Sep 21, 2026 - How to Run Qwen-Image-2.1 Locally (the "Uncensored" Version Is the Same Model)
A post on X says Qwen-Image-2.1 was uncensored overnight. The files it points to are the original weights, unmodified. What the facts are, and two ways to run the model on your own computer.
Sep 21, 2026 - Does Claude Code Read AGENTS.md? Yes, Since 2.1.277. Do You Still Need CLAUDE.md?
Claude Code 2.1.277 reads AGENTS.md when a project has no CLAUDE.md. What to do with your CLAUDE.md, symlink or import, what happens when both files exist, why AGENTS.md may still not load, and how Codex reads the same file differently.
Sep 19, 2026 - How to Connect Claude Code to Notion (and What It Can't Do There)
One command and a Notion sign-in connect Claude Code to your workspace through MCP. What it can do there, where it falls short, and why long pages use so many tokens.
Sep 18, 2026 - Did Claude Actually Read My PDF?
Claude described my 943-page PDF after reading just 4 pages. Ask what it read, check its tool calls, and prepare the full document for repeated use.
Sep 9, 2026 - How Can I Upload a Folder to Claude?
Upload a few files or connect a folder through Cowork. Understand the search gaps, then use StashBase to prepare documents, scans and recordings as context for Claude.
Sep 8, 2026 - How to Build an LLM Wiki from Your Files with Claude Code
Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern on your own folder: one prompt builds an index and topic pages that link back to your files. A second brain in plain Markdown, with or without Obsidian.
Sep 6, 2026 - A Second Brain with Codex: One Folder, One AGENTS.md
The agent-maintained second brain, Codex edition — point OpenAI's coding agent at the folder where your notes already live, give it a wiki contract in AGENTS.md, and know where grep runs out.
Sep 6, 2026 - Build a Local AI Knowledge Base: Three Decisions Before Any Tool
A local AI knowledge base is files on your machine plus an index an AI can search. The three architecture decisions that matter more than the tool list — and which tool fits each answer. Checked September 2026.
Sep 6, 2026 - How to Use Archify with Codex on a Real Codebase
Ask Codex for the diagram in one prompt. It installs Archify if needed, inspects a real repository, and returns a validated interactive architecture map.
Aug 31, 2026 - Chat With Your Local PDF Files — Whole Folders, No Uploads
You don't need to upload PDFs one at a time to a chat site. Index the folder they already live in — scans included — and ask questions across all of them from Claude, Codex, or any MCP client.
Aug 24, 2026 - Can Claude Desktop Access Local Files? Yes — Here's How
Claude Desktop reads and edits folders on your computer through Cowork, included in every paid plan. How to connect a folder, what the permission modes mean, and what to add when plain folder access stops being enough.
Aug 20, 2026 - How to Give Cursor Access to Files Outside Your Project
Cursor's agent reads only what's inside your open workspace. Three real fixes: add a folder to your workspace (multi-root, saved as a .code-workspace file), open a parent folder, or connect an MCP server that searches the folder for you.
Aug 20, 2026 - How to Give Codex Access to Your Local Files
Codex reads and writes inside the workspace you launch it in; permission profiles widen or tighten that boundary. How the sandbox works, how to grant more directories, and when an MCP search index beats widening the sandbox.
Aug 20, 2026 - Build a Searchable System Design Prep Library — Local and Free
Your prep material is scattered: a 300k-star repo, your own notes, hours of mock interview recordings. How to make all of it one searchable local library — including transcribing your mocks to find your weak spots.
Aug 20, 2026 - Chat With Your Research Papers Locally — a Folder, Not an Upload Queue
Upload-a-PDF tools break down at forty papers. Keep the library as a local folder instead: extracted text, hybrid search, an agent that cites which paper a claim comes from.
Jul 29, 2026 - How to Give Claude Access to a Folder on Your Computer: 5 Methods Compared
How to give Claude access to a folder with Cowork — plus Projects uploads, Claude Code --add-dir, filesystem MCP servers, and an indexed library. What each method actually does, and when each is the right choice.
Jul 29, 2026 - Semantic Search Across Your Local Files
Find files by what they mean, not what they're named: how semantic search over a local folder works, what stays on your machine, and where keyword search still wins.
Jul 29, 2026 - Transcribe Lecture Recordings — and Search the Whole Semester
Transcription apps give you one transcript at a time. The real mid-semester need is retrieval: on-device transcription of a whole folder of recordings, timestamped and searchable, no per-minute fees.
Jul 29, 2026