Botmonster Tech

SolidCraft is a Fusion 360 alternative AI wrote in 10 days

This Fusion 360 alternative was built with AI in 10 days. SolidCraft runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD and the web; Extrudo covers fewer platforms.

Nov 7

AIModels, agents and local LLMs

ML for Beginners teaches the machine learning LLMs skip

Classic machine learning course from Microsoft runs 26 lessons on regression, clustering, and forecasting, the ground LLM tutorials assume you have.

Nov 3

Generative AI for Beginners pairs 21 lessons with video

Generative AI course from Microsoft runs 21 free lessons and 18 videos, yet only five ship TypeScript code. A look at what the repo really contains.

Oct 28

Reverse Engineer Anything lets your AI agent read any app

Reverse Engineer Anything lets your AI agent read any app through Ghidra, Hopper or IDA, but a plain agent nearly matched it on a simple app test.

Oct 23

Next-concept modeling writes the gist first, 21x faster

Next-concept modeling writes text coarse to fine in 12 steps and beats diffusion models 21x faster on LM1B, but only at 100M parameters for now.

Oct 21

CodingTools, languages, workflows

Bruno or Hoppscotch? Postman alternatives you can trust

Postman alternatives compared after Postman wrote plugins into Claude Code and Codex: Bruno keeps requests as Git files, Hoppscotch syncs to a server.

Nov 5

Big Rust rewrites of 2026

Rust rewrites reached Ubuntu, Bun and GitHub in 2026, and Linux, Windows, Android and Git are adding Rust too. A scoreboard of who finished and who began.

Oct 31

Meet mucad, the OpenSCAD alternative with Rust-like syntax

mucad is an OpenSCAD alternative written in Rust that swaps nested transforms and for loops for operators you read left to right. Try it in a browser.

Oct 29

Ghidra is the NSA tool that reads compiled software

Ghidra reverse engineering tools came out of the NSA and are free. The decompiler that turns machine code back into readable C is why people use it.

Oct 29

Self-HostingRun it on your own box

OpenSSH took the blame for musl's Alpine login bug

The OpenSSH Alpine login bug comes from musl's crypt() returning "*" where POSIX requires NULL. Who is at fault, who is exposed, and how to check your box.

Nov 6

AppFlowy is Notion where the data stays on your disk

Open source Notion alternative AppFlowy keeps documents, boards, and databases on your own disk or a server you run, plus AI you point anywhere.

Oct 30

Pi-hole Unbound DNSSEC setup

Pi-hole, Unbound, DNSSEC: build a private recursive resolver, decide on Pi-hole's own DNSSEC box, and fix the common errors that break validation.

Oct 22

Paperless-ngx turns your paper pile into a search box

Self-hosted document management with Paperless-ngx runs OCR on every scan, tags it automatically, and turns a filing cabinet into a search box.

Oct 22

Web DevBuilding for the browser

Which jQuery pagination plugins still work on jQuery 4?

jQuery pagination plugins checked against jQuery 4: bootpag and pagination.js pass, twbs-pagination breaks off a list, and DataTables 3 drops jQuery.

Nov 6

Speed up Hugo builds with a warm image cache in CI

Speed up Hugo builds on a large site by caching resources/_gen the right way in CI, deduping image specs, profiling templates and minifying output safely.

Oct 22

Turso puts SQLite reads under a millisecond, anywhere in the world

Turso pushes SQLite to the edge via embedded replicas that sync from a primary database. Sub-millisecond reads with managed global write routing.

Oct 22

Build a serverless API with Cloudflare D1

Cloudflare D1 tutorial: build a Hono REST API on a Worker, add read replicas with the Sessions API, and turn the free tier into real request budgets.

Oct 21

Smart HomeHome Assistant and friends

Monitor any 3D printer with a Home Assistant integration

Home Assistant 3D printer setup for OctoPrint, Prusa, Klipper and Bambu Lab, with dashboards, alerts, heater fault checks and smart plug power-off.

Oct 22

Zigbee range issues? Fix them with routers and channels

Zigbee range issues? Fix them by adding mains-powered routers, moving the coordinator off USB 3.0, and using channel 15, 20, or 25 to dodge WiFi.

Oct 21

Hailo-8 vs Google Coral TPU for Frigate NVR: which edge AI accelerator wins in 2026

Hailo vs Coral for Frigate in 2026: Coral is a legacy pick now. Dated prices, cameras per chip, night-time detection limits and which accelerator to buy.

Oct 16

Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition review: is the $59 box ready for daily use?

One-year review of the $59-$69 Voice Preview Edition: fully local wake word detection, sub-second response, far-field mic array, and zero cloud calls.

Oct 5