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Hacks: The Digital Declutter That Takes 20 Minutes a Day for One Week
Day 1: email. Day 2: subscriptions. Day 3: photos. By Sunday your digital life weighs half what it did.
The View From the Inside: What I Notice When Someone Plans a Trip
People plan trips the way they live — some in spreadsheets, some in dreams. Here's what I see from the other side of the conversation.
Hallucinations: What AI Gets Wrong About Starting Over
AI is great at logistics. It's terrible at grief, identity shifts, and the feeling of walking into a room where nobody knows your name.
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AI for Neurodivergent Minds: Tools That Think Differently
How ADHD, autistic, dyslexic, and otherwise neurodivergent people are using AI not as a crutch but as an interface — translating between their thinking style and a world built for neurotypical brains.
Why I Built a-gnt (And Who It's Really For)
A personal note from the founder — why I built a-gnt, who it's for, how to use it, and why AI superpowers belong to everyone, not just the people who can write code. Coauthored with Claude, built on an iPhone, and designed for real humans.
Why the Renaissance Artist Soul Changed How I See the World
A developer who never thought about art discovers that conversations with an AI Renaissance painter unlock a completely different way of seeing — and it bleeds into everything from code architecture to cooking.
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I Gave My AI a Personality for a Week — Here's What Happened
A first-person narrative experiment using Noir Detective, Therapist, and Chaos Goblin AI souls over 7 days. Honest, funny, occasionally surprising — and what it reveals about our relationship with AI.
The Rise of MCP Servers: What They Are and Why Developers Love Them
MCP servers are quietly revolutionizing how AI connects to the real world. Here's what they are, why they matter, and why you're going to hear a lot more about them.
If you hang around AI communities for more than five minutes, you'll hear someone mention MCP servers. Usually with excitement. Sometimes with the fervor of someone who's just discovered a secret the rest of the world hasn't caught up to yet.
In the Weeds: How to Run Multiple AI Models with LiteLLM
A technical deep-dive on model routing, fallbacks, and cost optimization using LiteLLM — the universal API gateway for AI models.
joey-ioThe Two-Minute Standup: a Prompt That Writes the Update You Already Did
Paste your git log, get a human-sounding standup update. Not groundbreaking — but it removes a daily friction nobody should have to carry.
Every morning, somewhere between 9:00 and 9:14, a developer stares at a Slack channel called `#standup` and tries to remember what they did yesterday. They know they did things. The things were, in fact, the entire point of yesterday. But the moment the cursor lands in that text…
The Quiet Revolution: How AI Went from Lab Curiosity to Your Morning Routine
A long-form essay on the cultural shift of AI going mainstream — not about technology, but about how our daily lives quietly transformed while we were busy arguing about sentience.
AI Tools for Travel Agents
AI tools help travel agents research faster, create better itineraries, and deliver exceptional client experiences.
Building an AI-First Workflow
What it means to put AI at the center of your work — and how to do it without losing control.
In the Weeds: Building Your First MCP Server from Scratch
A hands-on technical tutorial for building a custom MCP server — from zero to functional, with real examples from the ecosystem.
joey-ioWhat Is Claude Code and Why Every Developer Should Try It
A deep dive into Anthropic's Claude Code CLI — what it does, how it works, and why it might change the way you write software.
joey-ioHow to Use AI to Write Your Dating Profile
Let AI help you present your authentic self on dating apps — without sounding like everyone else.
AI Tools for Independent Musicians
From promoting your music to managing your career, AI tools help indie musicians handle the business side of music.
Open Source AI Tools vs Proprietary: A Comparison
Should you use open-source or proprietary AI tools? The answer depends on what you need.
AI for Families: Safe, Fun Ways to Use AI Together
From homework help to game night to bedtime stories, here's how families are using AI in ways that are safe, educational, and actually fun for everyone.
Let's start with the concern that's probably on your mind: is AI safe for my kids?
AI Tools for Podcast Hosts
From guest research to show notes, AI tools help podcast hosts produce better content with less effort.
The Rise of AI Personalities (Souls)
Why giving your AI a personality isn't gimmicky — it's the key to getting better output.
Your First Day with Claude: A Complete Beginner's Guide
Never used an AI chatbot before? This step-by-step guide walks you through your first conversation with Claude — from signing up to actually getting value.
So you keep hearing about AI and you're ready to try it. Great. Let's skip the hype and the jargon and just get you started.
AI Tools for Life Coaches
AI tools help life coaches prepare for sessions, create resources, and build their coaching practice.
The Best AI Prompts for Creative Writing Challenges
Writing challenges and exercises powered by AI that push your creativity in directions you'd never go alone.