Claude Sonnet 5 developer decision guide. Sections: What changed from Sonnet 4.6 (agentic capabilities, tool use, longer output stability), Sonnet 5 vs Opus 4.8 vs DeepSeek V4 for coding tasks (decision matrix, not benchmark table), accessing Sonnet 5 via API (model ID: claude-sonnet-5, available on Claude API, Bedrock, Vertex AI), […]
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Open source Claude Code fork + local DeepSeek V4 setup guide. Sections: What is OpenClaude (fork vs native, MIT license), why DeepSeek V4 (Anthropic-compatible, MIT license, 1M context), hardware requirements and real performance (M-series MacBook Pro, RTX 4090, laptop – honest speed tests), step-by-step install (Ollama, DeepSeek V4 model pull, […]
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For some reason, on my (fully-updated) Windows 10 machine, a lot of app icons in the start-menu search experience have changed to all be the same, as shown here: The icon in question is of an app that I did have installed when they changed, but they remain this way […]
My laptop broke after coming in contact with salty liquid from a broken food packet. I’m now attempting to recover data. I have removed the M.2 NVMe/PCIe SSD. But I’m a little nervous to power it on, in case any salt or food residue increases the conductance and leads to […]
I have a microphone I want to keep enabled but I only want one single app allowed to even access it (unselectable / can’t even see a selection for the mic in all programs besides the one I select) I’ve searched everywhere and all people say is “disable the microphone” […]
This command in a script which runs repeatedly in both test and a production environment and has been running for years now sometimes fails to create a name for the file. Just leaving it .xml fextension=xml bigFname=`date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S"`"."${fExtension} So when I test it in a small script I get for […]
So, first off, there already exists this post: Constructing a readonly Windows system partition? And I would like to ask for a bit of flexibility, while technically, this is essentially a duplicate, I think that I can make this slightly more specific in scope (windows 11) and also practically restart […]
I used to have a keyboard shortcut in Windows 10 that opened a recent files list or menu, possibly connected to Virtual Desktops or Task View. It would pop up a cool overlay menu (sometimes from the taskbar area) showing recent files or activity. Does anyone remember what that shortcut […]