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.

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.

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.

TypeSafe AI's Jev decides instead of writing: a typed answer with a probability in about 150ms, where an LLM takes seconds.

A Claude Code skill for premium launch-style business videos: motion rules from 28 SaaS launch films, a quality bar, audio rules, Three.js patterns and an independent-critic review loop.

Fermion Research's open English speech-to-text model: Parakeet-level accuracy in a 164 MB file, 174 times realtime on a MacBook Air, CC-BY-4.0.

A running collection of AI-generated videos worth keeping: parodies, short films and experiments, each hosted here with its credit and a line on why it's in the list.

Dutch cloud service for full Linux VMs that boot in milliseconds, fork while running and sleep when idle: persistent computers for developers and AI coding agents.

Italian-made minimalist white leather sneaker, the smarter-money answer to Common Projects at around $265.

A free, open-source Mac app that records CPU, memory, GPU, disk, network and battery history, so you can go back to the moment a slowdown started and see which process caused it.

How qBittorrent's built-in search works, what the 100+ community plugins on its wiki are, and how to install, audit or write one in Python.

Japanese nail clippers from Green Bell, hand-sharpened in Seki, the old sword-making town: which model to buy, what makes them better than drugstore clippers, and where to get them in Germany.