Corridor Digital's free neural green screen keyer: it unmixes the green from hair, motion blur and glass, and outputs a straight-colour foreground plus a linear alpha.

My daughter got her own iPhone app from a voice note. The software industry isn't dying, but the build-or-buy question is moving.

I managed and led people for years. After a year of working with AI agents, I probably don't want to anymore.

Music, notes, files, demo videos: I now speak the apps I use into existence, and refine them while I use them.

Unofficial open-source Microsoft Teams desktop app for Linux: an Electron wrapper around Teams on the web, with tray, notifications, profiles, Intune SSO and MQTT.

Composio connects AI agents to 1,000+ apps with managed OAuth, per-user sessions, triggers and a sandbox, through an SDK, a CLI or MCP.

Open-source, self-hosted control plane that runs a team of AI coding and work agents like a company: org chart, tickets, budgets and approvals.

Voice recorders I bought and voice recorders on my radar, all-in-one or recorder + lavalier, with sizes and key specs.

A "memory computer" for the home: your photos, files and messages on a swappable Memchip, with a local 27B model working on them 24/7. $1,799 at launch, no subscription.

An AI browser built on Chromium that does the work, not just the chat: research, prospecting and ops tasks that run for minutes or hours, logged in as you. Free to start, $20 a month.

TablePlus's new virtual machine app for Apple Silicon: macOS, Windows and Linux guests with GPU acceleration, snapshots, and a built-in MCP server so AI agents get their own machine. $69 once.

A $3,499 box that runs open models at home 24/7, connects to your apps, files and devices, and acts without being asked. No subscription, nothing leaves the house.

HeyGen's open-source framework that renders HTML, CSS and JS compositions to video, built for agents. Since October 2026 also HyperFrames Studio, a desktop video editor driven by an agent.

Aleph Alpha's open-weight reasoning model, built and trained in Europe: 78B mixture-of-experts with 3.5B active, German and English, up to 1M tokens of context, Apache 2.0.

The native database client I've used every day since 2020 for my SQLite databases: fast, clean, safe edits with code review, and it speaks 15 database engines.

A mesh VPN built on WireGuard: every device you own joins 1 private network and reaches the others directly, with no ports to open and no VPN server to run. Free for personal use.

An official LinkedIn API that gives EU members their own data on demand, thanks to the Digital Markets Act.

Sinn's 41 mm titanium dive watch: 500 m, a captive Tegiment bezel you press before you turn, Ar-Dehumidifying, 53 g without the strap. From €2,990.

An agent skill that turns a technical book, a docs folder or a stack of papers into a structured skill: core models, one file per chapter, glossary and cheatsheet, loaded only when needed.

How I make Claude's replies to me easy to read: ASD-STE100 softened to 80%, Google's developer style, Zinsser, and a precedence order.

An open-source testing framework for web and mobile apps: an AI agent drives the app from plain-English steps, then replays the recorded actions with no model calls until the app changes.

Google's open-source toolkit of agent skills that find, reproduce and patch security vulnerabilities in a codebase, from threat model to verified fix and report.

Frankfurt tool-watch maker since 1961: pilot chronographs, submarine-steel divers and mission timers, built around its own hardening, anti-fog and anti-magnetic technologies.

An agent skill that replaces ASCII diagrams and terminal tables with styled HTML pages and slide decks: architecture diagrams, diff reviews, plan audits and project recaps.

The web data API I've used since February 2026: scrape, crawl, map and search the web as clean Markdown, and now enrich LinkedIn URLs with people and company data through Alexandria.