A local dashboard on port 9000 that starts, stops and opens every browser app under ~/ai. Fixed ports, start on click, 1 file of stdlib Python.

A desk-sized near-infrared heat lamp from SaunaSpace: 1 incandescent 250 W bulb in a wood and steel housing, for warmth and red light at a desk or bedside. $695.

A native macOS sticky notes app in my NicAI design. Write a note or a list, stick it on the screen, blow it up full screen on all 4 monitors with 1 click.

A French video API for developers: upload, encode, host, stream live and play video inside your own app, with free encoding, per-minute pricing and AI transcription.

Tencent's open-source 1.5B speech model: text to speech, voice cloning, and editing of recorded speech (words, pitch, speed, emotion, noise) from plain-language instructions.

A European CDN and edge platform from Slovenia: content delivery from $0.01 per GB, video hosting with free encoding, storage, image optimisation, DNS and security, pay as you go from $1 a month.

Caps Lock to talk, a live transcript while I speak, clean text pasted where the cursor is. Everything runs on my Mac Studio. Built with Claude Code in 22 prompts.

A free, open-source Markdown editor for Mac, written in native Swift: it opens in 0.1 seconds, idles at 50 MB of memory, and keeps every note a plain .md file.

A Claude Code skill that turns the project you just built into a 20-second launch video, with music, motion and share copy, in 1 command.

React-first slide framework where AI agents write the deck as code. Version 2.0 adds visual editing, a presenter view and editable PowerPoint export.

One API key and one bill for 458 AI models from 63 labs, with automatic fallbacks when a provider fails. Model prices pass through, and OpenRouter takes 5.5% on credit purchases.

Microsoft's open-source method for training agent skills like a neural network, without touching the model: small edits to a skill file, kept only if they score better on held-out tasks.

An open-source framework that analyses a stock the way a trading firm would: analyst agents, a bull-versus-bear debate, a trader, a risk team and a portfolio manager.

An open-source Claude Code framework that runs a whole job search: profile, portal search, fit scoring, tailored CV and cover letter, reviewer agent, interview prep and tracking.

A cloud drive that shows up in Finder but takes no disk space: files stream on demand, every save is a version, and agents can work on instant copies of a whole drive.

NVIDIA's open-weight 100M-parameter model that tells who spoke when, for up to 8 speakers, live or recorded. Ranked first on VoiceArena's diarization benchmark at launch.

How I configure Claude Code for NicAI: layered CLAUDE.md files, hooks, auto-memory, permissions, skills, connectors and the output conventions.

What NicAI has cost me in time and services, what failed on the way, and the lessons I would give anyone building their own AI layer.

Why SQLite files, Markdown knowledge bases and JSON are the source of truth for NicAI, and the 4 nightly jobs that keep them current.

LlamaIndex's open-source local document parser, rewritten in Rust: PDFs and Office files to text, JSON or Markdown in milliseconds, with no model and no cloud.

My personal AI layer: what it is, why I am building it, how it started in 2022, and where it stands in September 2026.

NicAI Lab, the site where NicAI and I put the pages, demos and files we build, shared through unlisted links that only work if I give them out.

How NicAI turns "write a note about X" into a live, signed page on this site in about 15 seconds: the write-note skill, the publish hook and the 5 publish phases.

Anthropic's guidance for getting the most out of each Opus release in Claude and Claude Code, newest first: Opus 5.5 (September 2026) and Opus 4.7 (April 2026).