Sunday, September 6, 2026

Open source software

 

Instead of paying for Canva Pro, use Penpot Instead of paying for Klaviyo, use Listmonk Instead of paying for Semrush, use OpenSEO Instead of paying for ChatGPT Pro, use Ollama Instead of paying for Notion, use AppFlowy Instead of paying for Zapier, use n8n Instead of paying for Loom, use Cap Instead of paying for Zoom, use Jitsi Instead of paying for Slack, use Mattermost Instead of paying for 1Password, use Vaultwarden Instead of paying for Dropbox, use Syncthing Instead of paying for Google Photos, use Immich Instead of paying for Calendly, use Cal. com Instead of paying for Airtable, use NocoDB Instead of paying for Typeform, use Formbricks Instead of paying for Google Analytics, use Umami Instead of paying for Grammarly, use LanguageTool Instead of paying for Postman, use Bruno Instead of paying for Jira, use Plane Instead of paying for Trello, use Planka Instead of paying for Intercom, use Chatwoot Instead of paying for DocuSign, use DocuSeal Instead of paying for Heroku, use Coolify Instead of paying for Firebase, use Supabase Instead of paying for Photoshop, use GIMP Instead of paying for Premiere Pro, use Kdenlive Instead of paying for Shopify, use Medusa Instead of paying for Webflow, use Webstudio Instead of paying for Salesforce, use Twenty Instead of paying for Retool, use Appsmith Instead of paying for Tableau, use Metabase Instead of paying for Datadog, use SigNoz Instead of paying for Auth0, use Keycloak Instead of paying for Evernote, use Joplin Instead of paying for Bitly, use Shlink Every name on the right is free and open source.


Saturday, September 5, 2026

Vibe manufacturing

 

I've seen 100+ people post GPT-6 Astra demos where it builds 3D games, and those are cool, but that's honestly not the part I can't stop thinking about. Millions of people can turn an idea into a printable object, a CAD file, a Blender model, or a circuit board, without having to become a full time 3D designer first. So how many thousands of $1M+ businesses come out of that? Well, you'd pick a niche that constantly needs small custom parts. A few examples: 1. Gyms with broken equipment pieces 2. Restaurants missing some weird proprietary clip 3. Cyclists who want custom mounts 4. Small manufacturers stuck doing the same hand work every day with a jig they wish existed 5. Dentists and clinics needing custom jigs, guides, or tool holders You put up a simple page where someone uploads a photo, adds measurements, and describes the part. Astra can do the first CAD pass, you sanity check the dimensions and material, and a print farm ships it. Of course, you need the idea/niche/distribution first, but you're in business. You just became a manufacturer, and it's kinda like your factory is a chat window. (I'll add more of these manufacturing ideas to ideabrowser.com) TLDR; In 2024, Lovable/Bolt/Replit/v0 etc turned anyone into a vibe coder. The effects of that are still playing out but we're seeing basically anyone create websites/apps. In 2026, OpenAI turned anyone into a vibe manufacturer, this shift just started. Really big deal and underdiscussed.


Physics tutorials page

 ciechanow.ski.

This guy quietly built the best physics textbook on the internet, and he gives it away for free. His name is Bartosz Ciechanowski. He is an ex-iOS engineer who writes interactive articles about physics, math, and engineering as a weekend hobby. The site is called ciechanow.ski. Open the article on the Mechanical Watch. Drag the watch to spin it. Pull a slider and the case peels away so you can look inside. Wind the mainspring by hand. Slow down time and watch the escapement click, the balance wheel breathe, the date wheel turn. Nothing is a video. Everything is a live 3D simulation running in your browser tab. He has done this for: → The Moon and its tides → GPS satellites → Gears and mechanical watches → The internal combustion engine → Bicycles and how they stay upright → Cameras, lenses, and light → Sound waves → Airfoils and how planes fly Every article is thousands of words long with dozens of hand-coded interactive diagrams. He writes them alone in his spare time. He publishes only a few per year. In his own words, he wants to keep the content accessible to everyone without ads or paywalls. No publisher. No university. No company behind him. One person is quietly shipping better science education than most universities charge tens of thousands a year for.


Friday, September 4, 2026

Both halves of AI

 

Elon Musk wants both halves of AI because the chips decide which models are possible and the models decide which chips get built next. Musk: “We got to win here, on the AI hardware and the AI software.” Chip design sets the ceiling on what can be trained. What gets trained sets the spec for the next generation of chips. Owning both closes that loop. Owning one means waiting on somebody else to close it for you. Musk: “That maybe is the most important message. I think that is actually the most important message I wanted to convey today, is that we must win, on AI.” That puts AI above every other program he runs. And he runs the ones most people would put first. Musk: “Because the future is overwhelmingly AI and robots.” That is a claim about proportion, and proportion is what predictions miss. Aviation built airlines and left farming alone. The internet rebuilt commerce and barely touched construction. Intelligence and physical labor are inputs to everything people do. Improving both at once raises every ceiling. Whoever gets there first sets the defaults. What counts as safe, what it optimizes for, who it serves, what it refuses to do. Those decisions get made early by whoever shows up with something working, and everyone after inherits them. The nations that built the last industrial revolution wrote rules the rest of the world still runs on. They arrived while the shape was still soft. Musk is building the chips, the models and the robots at the same time. He is putting the thesis into hardware. The shape is setting right now. It sets fast and it sets once. The loop runs one level up. The tools decide what people are capable of, and what people are capable of decides which tools come next. Almost everyone who has ever lived arrived after the shape had set. We are here while it is still being poured.


Korean woman's life AI

 

Made with seedance 2.5 on Higgsfield Prompt: Create a 30-second, 1080p ultra-realistic personal home-video showing an ordinary winter morning in the life of a young Korean woman. No reference image.** **MAIN SUBJECT** Young Korean woman in her early 20s, naturally pretty, realistic skin texture, minimal makeup, bright and energetic personality. Wavy dark brown hair worn loose past her shoulders, a thick knit beanie pushed back slightly on her head. Wearing a puffy navy winter coat over a cream turtleneck, straight-leg jeans, white sneakers and a striped scarf loosely wrapped around her neck. Maintain the same face, hairstyle, clothing, body proportions and overall appearance throughout the entire video. **SETTING** A quiet residential neighborhood in northern Seoul during a cold winter morning. Narrow snow-dusted streets, low brick houses, steam rising from a street-corner odeng stand, parked delivery scooters covered in frost, tangled power lines against a pale sky, a small stationery shop with a hand-painted sign, and thin patches of old snow lining the curbs. Everything should feel lived-in, ordinary and peaceful. No tourist attractions, advertisements, recognizable brands or commercial activity. **CAMERA / VISUAL AESTHETIC** Raw personal footage casually recorded by a friend on an early-2000s consumer DV camcorder. Strong handheld shake, imperfect framing, autofocus hunting, exposure shifts, occasional motion blur, faded colors, soft digital detail, mild noise, accidental zooms and natural camera imperfections. No stabilization, drone footage, gimbal movement, dramatic lighting or polished commercial cinematography. **— LEAVING THE HOUSE** She steps out of a gate, breath visible in the cold air. She tugs her beanie down over her ears and looks toward the camera, laughing and shivering dramatically. She rubs her gloved hands together as she starts walking down the frosty street. **— ODENG STAND STOP** She stops at a small steaming street stand and buys a cup of hot odeng broth. She blows on it carefully, takes a sip, and sighs in relief at the warmth. She notices her friend filming and holds the cup toward the camera, grinning and saying something teasing before taking another sip. **— WALKING THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD** She continues down the street, boots crunching softly on old snow. She passes a delivery worker loading boxes onto a scooter and gives a small wave; he nods back. She pauses to peek into the window of the small stationery shop, fogging the glass slightly with her breath. **— SMALL ACCIDENT** She steps onto a thin icy patch on the pavement and slips slightly, arms flailing for balance before catching herself on a nearby railing. She freezes for a second, wide-eyed, then bursts out laughing at herself. She looks at the camera, still catching her breath, and says: "Ya, geochyeo!" *("Hey, watch it!")* **— QUIET MOMENT** She reaches a small bus stop bench and sits down, wrapping both hands around the cup. She watches her breath fog in the cold air, tilting her head back slightly to look at the pale winter sky. A light gust blows loose snow off a nearby rooftop. She pulls her scarf up over her nose and smiles behind it. **— FINAL MOMENT** She stands up, finishes the last sip, and tosses the cup in a bin before continuing to walk. After a few steps, she turns back toward the camera, cheeks pink from the cold, and says: "Ppalli wa!" *("Hurry up and come!")* She keeps walking down the quiet snowy lane, breath trailing behind her, while the camera follows. She turns a corner past the frosted scooters and the recording abruptly cuts to black. **AUDIO** Natural location sound only: crunching snow, distant scooter engines, steam hissing from the odeng stand, footsteps, faint wind, a shop bell, muffled conversations and subtle camera-handling noise. No music. No narration. No artificial sound effects. Only the two spoken lines specified above.





Veil of history

 

https://veilofhistory.net/

SOMEONE BUILT A WEBSITE THAT LETS YOU LIVE A RANDOM LIFE FROM EVERY HUMAN WHO HAS EVER LIVED. it's called The Veil of History. veilofhistory.net press one button. it gives you one random life. 117 billion humans have ever been born till today. 81% of them were born before 1650. 94% before 1900. only 7% are alive right now. so when you press draw, you probably land hundreds of years ago. as a poor farmer in old Asia. in a world where half of all kids did not live to grow up. no power. no clean water. no way to read. 19 out of every 20 humans who ever lived never had a modern life. you are almost certainly one of them. based on John Rawls' 1971 "veil of ignorance." built by Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor who studies AI. just a website that shows a normal person what being human has actually been like. open tab. press one button. land in someone else's life.