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Hands-on Claude Cowork, GPT-5.6, I review the Kobra X, and I say no to Fable 5
Plus, a great way to lube your 3D printers, a wind-up go-cart, Marques Brownlee on Apple's AI race, and Mary Poppins meets Google Translate.
1 hr ago
My plastic R2-D2, how to tame your OpenAI budget, I fought the spammers and my code won
Plus, a truly nasty (but wonderfully powerful) adhesive, Linux problems, gross drain clogs, 3D printing tips, Lincoln's undercroft, and why desert trees…
Jul 6
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June 2026
Gmail giveth and taketh away, Claude Tag, and another preview of my app
Plus, a screw counting machine, Windows 10 isn't dead yet, OpenAI gives a plant brains, and astronaut out-of-body experiences.
Jun 29
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My app sneak preview, more on Fable, and an AI search engine
Plus, a goat-powered AI in Age of Empires, how to know if you're being monitored, my wire shelf drawer project continues, and Siri AI might not suck.
Jun 22
Inside the wacky Claude Fable saga, ChatGPT's problematic memory, and my food planner
Plus, the cloud vs clouded leopard, a COBOL FPS, spy turtles, dark Gilligan, and I get a rivet gun.
Jun 15
I test Claude's honesty, using AI to hack PDF pages, Microsoft's Work IQ
Plus, Stargate dead again, a giant insect, re-engineering logs, a giant robot-controlled ware house, and Ed Bott is not impressed
Jun 8
I turned to AI to fix my glasses prescription, Claude gets more honest, and a new video
Plus, stopping bugs before they ship, why car windows have dots on them, inside the old Longaberger building, DNS sinkholes, and a right-angle chisel.
Jun 1
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May 2026
Google’s creepy video clones, OpenAI’s un-strippable watermarks, and why traditional app security is dead.
Plus, a very cool lift device, a waterlogged Egyptian tomb, how Cuban mechanics keep those 1950s cars going, and what email felt like in the 1980s.
May 26
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Stop signing unfair contracts, AI analyzes video, free Anthropic training courses
Plus, badass Swedish King Gustav, how we spend our free time, switching to plug-in solar power, and written English made it to Europe centuries earlier…
May 18
How we test AI, protect yourself from the Canvas breach, and agentic coding myths
Plus, how Matchbox cars are made, when woodworking became a hobby, building an agentic AI strategy, and an over-the-top power strip.
May 11
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Photoshop's AI rotate tool, ChatGPT's Images 2.0 slams Nano Banana and redesigns my UI
Plus, a new Pixel pic, a questionable power drill add-on, more Christopher Walken, a giant robot warehouse, DOS goes open source, and Claude adds a new…
May 4
April 2026
I test ChatGPT Images 2.0 and GPT-5.5, Google goes to cyberwar, and more AI releases
Plus, a new David video, Adrian drives a bulldozer for ZDNET, an Iron Age trumpet, and the Soviets take over Apple TV+
Apr 27
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