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Short, practical guides built from the tools on the shelves: what to use for a job, and why.
29 October 2026, 6 minute readLeaving Adobe: free apps for every jobWhat to check before you cancel Creative Cloud, and the open source apps that take over each job, from the steady old hands to this month’s vibe-coded rewrites.
29 October 2026, 5 minute readSomeone vibe-coded Adobe’s apps, and gave them awayArtCraft rebuilt Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Lightroom and ten more with an AI coding agent and open sourced all of them.
28 October 2026, 4 minute readDesign skills that stop AI pages looking AI-madeImpeccable, Taste Skill and Hallmark teach Claude Code, Codex and Cursor to skip the purple gradients and generic cards.
27 October 2026, 6 minute readClean up your smart TV with an AI agentPeople are pointing Claude Code at their TVs to switch off ads, tracking and preinstalled apps. The tools, which TVs they work on, and what to watch for.
24 October 2026, 5 minute readSmall Mac apps that make a big differenceA launcher, a window manager, a better screenshot and a quieter menu bar: the little apps you stop noticing because they just work.
21 October 2026, 5 minute readFree photos, footage and music for client workWhere to find stock media you can actually use in paid projects, and the one habit that keeps you out of trouble.
17 October 2026, 6 minute readA week of small privacy upgradesOne change a day, none of them hard: a browser, a search engine, mail and storage, then a check on what’s already out there.
13 October 2026, 5 minute readShip a website this weekendSaturday to build it, Sunday to put it online and check it. The tools for each step, whether you write code or not.
9 October 2026, 4 minute readFind a colour palette that worksGenerators for ideas, real layouts to test them on, and scales that hold up in dark mode and for people with low vision.