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Can I build an iOS app on Linux? I tried xtool, and here is where it stops

10/10/2026

I had a Linux laptop, a spare iPhone, and no Mac in the house. Xcode is Apple’s program for building iPhone apps, and it does not run on…

AI News
ChatGPT can build a tiny app inside the answer. Here is the kit, and the switches that turn it off.

Short answer: As of 9 October 2026, ChatGPT can answer with buttons, charts, forms, and small tools inside the chat. You do…

09/10/2026
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AI News
PC shipments just fell 20%. Waiting may not bring last year’s price.

Short answer: The world shipped 20.1% fewer PCs last quarter because AI data centers took the memory chips, and the leftovers got…

09/10/2026
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Claude Code
How Do I Show Context Usage in the Claude Code Status Line?

See your context, cost and limits at a glance, without asking Claude. Short answer: Add a statusLine entry to ~/.claude/settings.json that points…

09/10/2026
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AI News
GPT-6 Intelligent UI, explained from first principles

If you only remember one thing: on 7 October 2026, ChatGPT’s Chat tab started answering with buttons, forms, and charts, not only…

08/10/2026
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Open Source
Is there a free Photoshop alternative that can open PSD files?

Short answer: yes. PhotoCraft is a free, open source image editor that opens layered PSD files on Mac, Windows, Linux and in…

07/10/2026
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Developer Tools
rea vs Ghidra: Use rea on JavaScript, Keep Ghidra for Binaries

I had a tiny notes script split across two files, and I did not want to scroll it just to see how…

07/10/2026
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AI News
Change one word in ten, and OpenAI’s text watermark falls from 92% to 66%

On 5 October 2026 OpenAI turned on a text watermark (a hidden pattern that lets a matching detector guess the text came…

07/10/2026
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Claude Code
Can Claude Code Make CAD Models for 3D Printing?

Short answer: Yes. With the free, open source text-to-cad plugin, Claude Code writes Python that builds a real solid with exact millimetre…

06/10/2026
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AI News
Mistral Large 4, explained from zero: the trillion-parameter preview that is not open yet

On 6 October 2026, the French lab Mistral put a preview of Mistral Large 4 on its own website. The nickname is…

06/10/2026
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AI Agents
MCP protocol pivoting: the tool argument was never checked

You already know MCP (Model Context Protocol, the open standard a chat app uses to call a tool outside the chat) as…

06/10/2026
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