AI This Week: Distillation Wars Go Geopolitical
The White House accuses Moonshot of copying Anthropic's model, OpenAI breaks ground on a $30B data center, and enterprise agent platforms multiply. A week where AI became statecraft.
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Games, 3D art, desktop tools, and local AI stacks — one hobbyist, one AI pair programmer, and the gotchas that made each project actually ship. Browse the full project list or start with the latest posts.
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AI This Week: Compute Becomes the Bottleneck
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 and Meta's Muse Spark slash inference prices, Google rations Meta's compute, Anthropic preps an October IPO, and a pan-cancer AI lands in Nature Medicine.
Thirty-Two Projects, One AI Pair Programmer
What I learned building 32 projects with Claude — games, Blender scenes, local AI stacks, a search engine — and the method that made it all work.
ClawMonitor: A Neon Synthwave System Bar That Watches My Dev Stack
How I built ClawMonitor — an always-on-top synthwave system bar for Windows that shows CPU/RAM/GPU plus the up/down health of my whole dev stack.
Symbolic: I Built a Search Engine (and Named This Blog After It)
How I built Symbolic: a working search engine on Next.js 16 — Brave-powered results, an advertiser portal, an admin review queue, and a companion browser app.
Building Aseprite From Source: A Paid Pixel-Art Editor, Free If You Compile It
Aseprite is a paid pixel-art editor whose source is public. I compiled it from source on Windows — and the CMake version trap that almost stopped me cold.