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GitHub TechAI & Tools

VHS Hands-On: Turn Terminal Recordings into Replayable Code

Charmbracelet VHS uses .tape scripts to control terminal input, pauses, themes, dimensions, and output formats. I used a 662-byte Tape to generate a 16.92-second bilingual demo and extracted a PNG screenshot from the MP4.

5 min readEasy
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GPU: None
GitHub TechAI & Tools

TRex Review: Copy Screen Text on macOS with OCR, QR Codes, Raycast, and Automation

My hands-on review of TRex, an open-source macOS OCR tool that puts selected screen text straight into the clipboard. It also reads QR codes, supports Raycast, global shortcuts, CLI, Shortcuts, and Watch Mode.

9 min readEasy
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macOS
GPU: None
AI WorkflowAI & Tools

HeyClicky Hands-on: A Screen-Aware AI That Goes Beyond Dictation

HeyClicky is an AI assistant that lives beside your macOS cursor. It combines screen context with voice commands; here are my quick test results, free-tier limit, and multi-monitor issue.

4 min readEasy
ONLINE
macOS
GPU: None
GitHub TechAI & Tools

Kando Hands-On: My Favorite Cross-Platform Open Source Pie Menu Lately

Kando is a free, open source Pie Menu tool for macOS/Windows/Linux. You can bring up a radial menu with Ctrl + Space, then use mouse gestures to quickly open apps, websites, files, hotkeys, and macros. This post shares my actual experience using it and how I set it up.

5 min readEasy
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GPU: None
AI WorkflowAI & Tools

Testing Horizon: Letting Codex Automatically Organize Daily AI News

I wired Horizon into my blog news workflow so it handles collecting sources, then hands them to Codex to write a daily AI news summary. This article records the installation method, basic usage flow, and what I thought after actually testing it.

5 min readMedium
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GPU: None
AI WorkflowAI & Tools

Codex Record & Replay Hands-On: Demo It Once, Teach AI Your Local Workflow

OpenAI Codex recently added Record & Replay. I tested how, in a local environment, you can demo a workflow once and have Codex record and automatically run script-based workflows like video compression.

4 min readEasy
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macOSWindows
GPU: None
GitHub TechAI & Tools

optimizerDuck Hands-on: An Open-source Windows Performance and Privacy Optimization Tool That Blocks Unneeded Background Telemetry

optimizerDuck is an open-source Windows system optimization tool built with .NET 10 and WPF. This article tests its performance tuning, privacy telemetry blocking, GPU power optimization, and other features, and also provides steps for resolving Windows SmartScreen blocking warnings plus a Traditional Chinese language setup guide.

5 min readEasy
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Windows
GPU: None
AI AgentSecurity

Shannon AI Pentest Agent Installation and Hands-on Testing Guide (macOS/Linux)

I used 10 AI agents to attack my own website. Two hours later, they handed me a full security report. Shannon was more mature than I expected.

8 min readHard
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macOSLinux
GPU: 8GB+ VRAM
GitHub TechTools

Installing Arnis, a Geographic GIS Data Conversion Tool, and Hands-on Minecraft 3D Real-World Map Generation

If you have ever wanted to generate your hometown, city, or even an entire landscape directly inside Minecraft, Arnis is pretty wild.

6 min readMedium
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WindowsLinuxmacOS
GPU: None
AI AgentAI & Tools

Hermes Agent x HyperFrames Hands-On: A Guide to Automatically Generating an AI Assistant Self-Intro Video

I asked Hermes to make its own self-introduction video. From copywriting and HTML animation to rendering an MP4, the whole process was automated. What is HyperFrames? Why is it a better fit for AI Agents than Remotion?

10 min readMedium
ONLINE
Web
GPU: None
AI AgentAI & Tools

DeepSeek V4 Pro x Hermes Agent: Self-Written Intro Review and Deployment Guide

I asked Hermes to write this itself. 1M context, $0.87 per million tokens, cross-platform deployment, autonomous screenshots, writing, and git push. This article was handled by AI from research to publishing.

12 min readMedium
ONLINE
WebAPI
GPU: None
Local AIAI & Tools

Installing Voicebox: A Local AI Voice Studio Guide

A developer-oriented guide to Voicebox — from macOS/Windows installation to voice cloning, and how to make your AI agent speak via MCP.

8 min readMedium
LOCAL
WindowsLinux
GPU: 6GB+ VRAM