Vibe coders have long suspected that the models and reasoning effort they pay for have been quietly downgraded since release. For instance, on October 23, a user filed an issue on GitHub saying they had requested Sol 6.1 at xhigh in Codex but the account UI showed Luna. Either the model selection or the UI is wrong. Opus 5.5, which scores higher than Fable 5.1 in Anthropic’s benchmarks yet costs less, is on everyone’s radar as a potential next victim. In this context, when Opus is accused of being “nerfed”, users are asking for consistency, not a one-time peak score.
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App to Compare Domain Prices
Cyber Monday is still at least a good month away, and even then, the deals are limited to new domains or transfers. With so many registrars, and renewal prices often different from the first year’s, I wanted a comprehensive list.
App to Uninstall Apps on CLI
My previous app remover was a one-time purchase app that went into maintenance mode with no major improvements since its release. It also lacks one feature I’d consider fundamental, one I would find useful for AI-assisted environments — exporting the list of files it found. Search for an app, and it gives back a listing in its GUI. For a human end user, that may be enough. Put AI into the mix, though, and a text list not only makes it easier to keep track of what was removed but also lets the AI vet the files before they are…
App to Remove Apple Intelligence on macOS
The key feature delivered with macOS 27 Golden Gate is Siri AI, part of Apple Intelligence. And unlike the previous macOS, Golden Gate lacks the simple on-and-off switch to disable the AI. Not to mention the models, reportedly around 12GB, stay on the drive.
App to Preview Markdown in Quick Look
Markdown is not a hard format to edit. Any native text editor, paid editor, or even personal knowledge manager can handle Markdown files to some degree. But that is not particularly helpful when the goal is to open a README file in a newly discovered open-source project. Quick Look on macOS, while it displays the file as-is, does not render Markdown properly.
App to Print iPhone Duo Dummy
Before iPhone Duo, most iPhone form factors had not changed so drastically. They grew either taller or wider, which is not quite the case with the foldable. I wanted to get an idea of how big, and how small, iPhone Duo will be before pre-orders.
App to Track Claude Code Limit Resets
Anthropic replaced its temporary 50 percent boost to Claude Code weekly limits with a permanent 25 percent one, leaving subscribers with 17 percent less in total. Everybody wants a reset, now more than ever.
App to Track Codex Limit Resets
It is a story as old as time. I am waiting for a Codex reset. My usage is drained to 0% and stays there until next week, unless the customer representative on my case resolves the issue first. I will probably do a more in-depth write-up once I hear back.
App to Organize Coding Agent Output
As much as I rely on Claude Code while managing home lab and writing code for DIY projects, coding agents never meet the media’s perception of AI: “slaves to logic” as I, Robot has put it. Agents hallucinate, make mistakes and take them back, and more often than not, their output is a wall of text that is completely out of order. For Claude, the recent models print more than their predecessors.
App to Customize Time Machine Schedule
Of many things I have adopted over the course of years, Time Machine is one element that is both most helpful if hell breaks loose and least updated since. I have discussed the shortcomings of Time Machine and shared some of the possible remedies before. Apple’s own iOS backup system supersedes macOS Time Machine. It is remote, and nothing equivalent is offered on the Mac yet. But one feature was added rather recently: rudimentary scheduling.
App to Self-Host Location History Tracker
My last camera for the sake of pure photography, I believe I bought it around early 2010s. It was a click-and-shoot with GPS tagging. Smartphone cameras were still playing catch up, and while the GPS chip gave it more metadata, hardly any software could make use of it. The geolocation data lived by itself, not matched to a place. And it was not easy to export elsewhere, either. Scroll forward to 2026, I wish I hadn’t bought the camera at all. Smartphones genuinely provide impressive quality for a portable device, with much needed metadata (including accurate date and time), face…
App to Identify wp2shell Vulnerability on WordPress
If your WordPress has automatically installed an update, this is the retroactive PSA on why WordPress has urgently issued one. If it hasn’t, consider it an urgent PSA. There is a vulnerability in WordPress Core, disclosed July 17, affecting 6.9.0–6.9.4 and 7.0.0–7.0.1. The attack surface is Core itself: no compromised plugins, themes, or custom code. As far as I could find, with an estimated 500 million+ websites running the platform, WordPress has decided to push the update rather aggressively.
App to Test USB-C Cables on macOS
I did float the idea of buying a USB-C tester only to be thoroughly defeated. USB-C, as it stands, is more about the physical shape of the plug and port, not what is traveling on the cable itself. However, USB-C simply isn’t “one cable to rule them all”. Type C is more a nutrition label or laundry tag — universal in format, but nothing in the rules says a cable has to support all of it.
App to Block YouTube Ads from DuckDuckGo
YouTube has been aggressively pushing for more ads on its platform. And their antics circumvent their own supposedly ad-free subscription. YouTube Premium, at a fixed price, is supposed to deliver the unaltered experience and more, like added functionality. But as I have covered before on the topic, YouTube is bad at keeping up with their own platform as-is: subtitles, PIP, multi-language support. The list goes on.
App to Convert Email Notifications to App-based
Legacy projects often support legacy methods of alerting users that their home labs are in jeopardy — in email. Only that this method no longer flies. Not only do the notifications often get stopped by the automated spam filter, but these emails are also sent out by an anonymous SMTP server, not a certified known server. If you want an instant push-based notification, there is a tool for that.