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Developer tools, extensions, Mac apps and utilities we use, and what each one is good for.
Eight open-source AI tools from this month's GitHub trends, checked against their own docs: what each does, what it costs, how to install it, and the catch.
Soumen Samanta
Agent skills and MCP servers run with your permissions. Real incidents, what to check before you install one, and how to limit what it can reach.
Souvik Samanta
PhotoCraft, FilmCraft and ten sister apps are free, open-source look-alikes of Photoshop, Premiere and more. What they are, how ready, and who should try them.
Soumen Samanta
Whistle is 17 MB and Phonon-2 is 164 MB, and both transcribe speech offline without a GPU. Sizes, languages, accuracy, speed and how they compare with Whisper.
Souvik Samanta