My laptop died on a Tuesday night, which I remember specifically because I had a client deadline the next morning and about four hours of edited video sitting on that drive that had never once made it to a backup. I know, I know, everyone reading this is already shaking their head at me, and […]

I got into this whole local AI rabbit hole for a pretty dumb reason, honestly. I was paying for three different AI subscriptions at once, doing the math one night, and just felt embarrassed. So I told myself, fine, I’ll run something on my own machine, how hard can it be. That question aged badly,

I’ll be honest, the first time someone told me to “just open it in Kasm” I had no idea what they meant. This was maybe two years back, I was helping a small marketing team clean up after a phishing email had gone around the office, and one of the IT guys a friend of

So I finally caved and tried Meta Muse Image last week, mostly because my Instagram feed wouldn’t stop showing me those glossy AI generated posts and I got curious, and honestly a little jealous, about how people were making them so fast. I’d heard the name floating around for a bit Muse Image, Meta’s first

I signed up for Runway Agent 2.0 the same week it landed, mostly because a client had just asked me for a week’s worth of social content across three platforms and I genuinely didn’t have the bandwidth to shoot and edit all of it manually on the timeline they wanted. I’d used Runway before, casually,

I decided to make a short promotional video for this very blog a few months back, something simple to post on social media, figuring it’d take maybe an hour of my evening. It ended up eating an entire weekend, mostly because I jumped between three different free video editors trying to find one that actually

I had a client presentation due in about forty minutes and absolutely nothing prepared beyond a messy Google Doc full of half finished bullet points, which is genuinely the panicked situation that introduced me to Gamma in the first place. A friend mentioned it in passing during a call, said “just try it, seriously,” and

I found out my own blog was loading painfully slowly, and I mean painfully, close to eight seconds on a decent connection, purely because I’d been uploading photos straight from my phone’s camera without a second thought, each one sitting at four or five megabytes, completely uncompressed, for a website that genuinely only needed images

I missed an entire online lecture once because of a power outage that hit right in the middle of it, back during the stretch when most of my university classes were still fully online, and the professor, understandably, wasn’t running a second session just for me. I spent that whole week piecing together what I’d

I accidentally formatted an SD card full of photos from a friend’s wedding before I’d backed any of them up anywhere, which is genuinely one of the more sickening feelings I’ve experienced with technology, that specific stomach drop when you realize what you just did cannot be undone with a simple undo button the way