Reverse Engineer Everything: the free alternatives the AI clone wave has produced so far
"Reverse Engineer Everything" is all over X. Here's what's real, what's hype, and which open-source Photoshop, Office, CAD and PDF alternatives are actually worth downloading.
Agent-notify: Let Your AI Agents Email You When It Matters
Too many agents, too many notifications. agent-notify is a one-click Cloudflare Worker that lets Claude, ChatGPT, Grok Bot or any MCP agent email you, privately and for free, only when something actually needs you.
How to connect the Hermes Desktop App to a Remote Hermes Backend (the clean way)
Run the Hermes agent on an always-on machine and drive it from the native desktop app. No tunnels, no proxy. The exact flags, the token to persist, and secure Tailscale access.
Block Clankers: A GitHub Action That Auto-Blocks Bot PR Spam
A small GitHub Action that auto-syncs your block list against a community-maintained registry of spam bot accounts. Fork it, drop in a token, and never deal with a "fix typo" PR from a brand-new account again.
The best coding LLM setup I've discovered (so far)
My current LLM coding setup and how to replicate it. After testing various tools and workflows, I've landed on Claude Code with MCP tools like Serena for intelligent code navigation and Context7 for live documentation lookups. I cover why context management matters, how custom skills improve output quality, and the most important habit most developers miss — telling the AI when it's wrong.
Generating dynamic images on the fly for Email Marketing
I was recently tasked to find a lightweight method to generate dynamic images on the fly for Email Campaigns. Sure we could use third-party solutions to do just that but for a fee. These are great services but being a developer I wanted to see if I could build my own that fits my needs.