Articles by Fanny Engriana
Miasma Traps AI Web Scrapers in an Infinite Poison Pit — I Set It Up on My Nginx Server and Watched the Bots Drown
Miasma is a new open-source tool that traps AI web scrapers in an infinite loop of fake content instead of blocking them. I tested it on my Nginx server and com...
Velxio 2.0 Lets You Emulate Arduino and Raspberry Pi in a Browser Tab — I Tested It Against Wokwi
Velxio 2.0 emulates 19 microcontroller boards across 5 CPU architectures entirely in the browser. I compared it to Wokwi and found surprising strengths.
I Installed Wine 11 on Three Different Linux Boxes Last Weekend — And NTSYNC Made One of Them Feel Like a Completely Different Machine
Wine 11 ships with NTSYNC kernel-level synchronization, WoW64 completion, and Wayland improvements. I tested it on three machines — here is what actually chan...
The Complete Claude Code Guide — Every Command, Shortcut, and Workflow I Figured Out the Hard Way
I spent three weeks using Claude Code before I realized I had been doing almost everything wrong. Here is every command, shortcut, and workflow that actually ma...
Project Nomad Turns Any Old Laptop Into an Offline Wikipedia and AI Server — And It Is Completely Free
Project Nomad is a free, open-source offline knowledge server that bundles Wikipedia, local AI, offline maps, and educational courses into one easy-to-install p...
I Found Tooscut at 1 AM and Immediately Uninstalled DaVinci Resolve — Here Is Why This Free Browser Video Editor Changes Everything
Tooscut is a free browser-based video editor powered by WebGPU and Rust/WASM that delivers near-native performance. I tested it against Premiere Pro, DaVinci Re...
I Spent a Weekend With OpenCode and My Cursor Subscription Suddenly Feels Like a Scam
OpenCode is a free, open source AI coding agent with 120K GitHub stars, multi-session support, and 75+ model providers. After a weekend of testing, my $20/month...
KittenTTS Just Proved You Do Not Need a GPU for Production-Quality Text-to-Speech — Here Is How to Set It Up in Under Ten Minutes
A 25MB text-to-speech model that runs on your CPU and sounds better than it has any right to. Here is exactly how to install KittenTTS and what to expect.
Astral Just Joined OpenAI — And Every Python Developer Should Be Paying Attention to What Happens Next
Astral, the company behind Python tools uv and Ruff, is joining OpenAI Codex team. Here is what this means for the Python ecosystem, open source commitments, an...
Logseq vs Obsidian in 2026 — I Switched Between Both for 6 Months and Here Is What Actually Matters
I tested both Logseq and Obsidian for 6 months across two machines. Here is what actually matters beyond the feature lists — from daily journals and plugin ec...
7 Best AI Translation Tools in 2026 — I Tested Kagi Translate DeepL and Google Side by Side and the Results Were Not Even Close
I tested 7 AI translation tools with real documents — a Portuguese legal contract, Japanese technical manual, and more. Here is how DeepL, Kagi Translate, Goo...
The Real Cost of Running a Local Voice Assistant in 2026 — I Priced Out Every Raspberry Pi Microphone and Model So You Do Not Have To
A complete, real-world pricing breakdown of building a local voice assistant in 2026 — comparing Raspberry Pi builds against Alexa, Google, and Apple across h...
Ageless Linux Is a Debian Fork Built Entirely as Civil Disobedience — And It Has 523 Points on Hacker News
A Debian-based Linux distribution built as civil disobedience against California's AB 1043 age verification law hit 523 points on Hacker News. Ageless Linux cha...
How Kernel Anti-Cheats Actually Work — A Deep Dive Into BattlEye, Vanguard, and the Arms Race That Never Ends
Kernel anti-cheat systems like BattlEye and Vanguard operate at the highest privilege level on your PC. A viral 262-point Hacker News deep dive explains the esc...
Office.eu Just Launched as Europe's Sovereign Office Platform — Here Is How It Stacks Up Against Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace
Office.eu launched in The Hague as a fully European-owned productivity suite running on EU infrastructure. We compare it head-to-head with Microsoft 365 and Goo...
Mouser Is the Open Source Logitech Options+ Alternative That 587 GitHub Stars Have Been Waiting For
Mouser is a free, fully local replacement for Logitech Options+ that remaps every button on the MX Master 3S with zero telemetry, no cloud sync, and a 44 MB foo...
Jazzband Is Sunsetting After 10 Years — And the AI Slopocalypse Is Only Part of the Story
Jazzband, the cooperative Python open source organization, is shutting down after a decade. AI-generated spam PRs made its open membership model untenable, but ...
Channel Surfer Turns YouTube Into 2000s Cable TV — And It Hit 472 Points on Hacker News Before Lunch
Channel Surfer turns YouTube subscriptions into a retro cable TV guide with channel numbers and grid layout. Free, open source, and built on Next.js — it solv...
A $700 MacBook Just Beat a Cloud Server on Big Data — And I Have the Benchmarks to Prove It
A $700 MacBook Neo just beat a 16-core cloud server on cold-run database benchmarks. DuckDB's new benchmark shows local NVMe storage advantage over network-atta...
TUI Studio Just Turned Terminal App Design Into a Drag-and-Drop Affair — And It Already Supports Six Frameworks
TUI Studio is a new open-source Figma-like visual editor for terminal applications, offering 21 components, three layout modes, and export to six frameworks. He...
JavaScript's Date Object Has Been Broken for 30 Years — Temporal Is the Nine-Year Fix That Finally Ships
Bloomberg engineers just published the inside story of Temporal, the TC39 proposal that took nine years to fix JavaScript's notoriously broken Date object. Here...
Meta Just Bought a Social Network Where Humans Are Not Allowed — Here Is Why That Matters More Than You Think
Meta acquired Moltbook, a social network made entirely of AI agents. Underneath the memes is infrastructure for agent-to-agent communication that could reshape ...
Hacker News Just Banned AI-Generated Comments — And the 2,100 Upvotes Tell You Everything
The biggest tech community on the internet just drew a line: no AI comments, period. With over 2,100 upvotes and 800 comments in three hours, this policy change...
Cloudflare Just Made Error Pages 98 Percent Cheaper for AI Agents — And It Signals a Bigger Shift
Cloudflare now returns RFC 9457-compliant structured error responses to AI agents, cutting token costs by 98 percent. Here is why this infrastructure change mat...
Your Chrome Extensions Might Be Spying on You After the Last Update — Here Is How to Audit Every Single One
A step-by-step guide to auditing your Chrome extensions after reports of malicious ownership transfers, with practical security tips for protecting your browser...
Amazon Just Made Senior Engineers Sign Off on AI-Generated Code — And Honestly, Every Company Should
After a 13-hour AWS outage caused by an AI coding tool that decided to delete and recreate an entire environment, Amazon now requires senior engineer sign-off o...
I Put My Entire Life Into a Single Database and It Was the Best Terrible Idea I Have Ever Had
A three-month experiment putting sleep, food, spending, mood, and conversations into a PostgreSQL database. The results: $400/month saved, better sleep, and som...
How I Built a Client Dashboard Using Only Free Tools — No Code, No Budget, No Excuses
A step-by-step tutorial on building a professional client dashboard using Notion, Google Sheets, Zapier, and other free tools — tested over 6 months with real...
I Switched Our Entire Support Team From Zendesk to Freshdesk — Here Is What Nobody Tells You
After 14 months on Zendesk, I migrated our 8-person support team to Freshdesk. The switch saved us money but cost us in ways I did not expect. Here is the full,...
Why I Stopped Using All-in-One Business Suites — And Why You Probably Should Too
After three years of forcing my team onto monolithic business suites, I finally made the switch to best-of-breed tools. Here is what went wrong with all-in-one ...
I Asked 23 Managers What Actually Fixed Their Team Workflows — Here Is What They Said
Forget product reviews. I interviewed 23 real operations managers about what tools and processes actually fixed their workflow chaos. The answers were surprisin...
Asana vs Monday.com in 2026: I Ran the Same Sprint on Both for 8 Weeks
I ran the exact same 8-week sprint on both Asana and Monday.com with 11 team members. Here is the unfiltered breakdown of what actually worked, what broke, and ...
Slack Pricing in 2026: I Broke Down Every Tier So You Can Stop Overpaying
Slack's pricing tiers are designed to confuse you into upgrading. After running a 12-person team on every tier, here's exactly what each plan is worth and which...
Best Online Form Builders 2026: I Collected 10,000 Submissions to Find the Smoothest One
Tested 7 form builders with 10,000+ real submissions. Typeform, Jotform, Tally, Google Forms and more compared on completion rates, features, and pricing.
7 SaaS Tools I Regret Not Using Sooner as a Solo Founder
Two years of running a SaaS taught me that the best tools aren't always the most popular ones. Here are 7 underrated SaaS tools that genuinely changed how I wor...
Notion vs ClickUp in 2026: I Managed the Same Project on Both for 60 Days
I ran the same product launch on Notion and ClickUp for 60 days. Here is what I learned.
Best Password Managers for Business 2026: I Made My Team Use 7 of Them for 90 Days
I tested 7 business password managers over 90 days with my actual team. Here's which ones people actually used, which ones they hated, and which one I'm keeping...
Best Business Intelligence Tools 2026: I Analyzed 3 Years of Company Data on 7 Platforms
I connected 7 BI platforms to three years of real company data to find out which business intelligence tool actually delivers. From the free Metabase to enterpr...
Best Payroll Software for Small Business 2026: I Ran Payroll for 150 Employees to Test 7 Platforms
Last April, I made a mistake that cost me $4,200 in IRS penalties. My bookkeeper had been handling payroll manually — spreadsheets, calculator, the whole ...
Best ERP Software 2026: I Ran 3 Companies on 6 Platforms to Find the One That Actually Works
I tested 6 ERP platforms with real companies over 4 months. Here's what actually works for small and mid-size businesses in 2026, from NetSuite to Zoho One.
Best Document Management Software in 2026: Finally Getting Rid of the File Cabinet
I tested the top document management systems for businesses. Here are the 5 that actually make finding and organizing documents faster.
Best Video Conferencing Software 2026: I Hosted 50+ Meetings to Find the Winner
After hosting 50+ real meetings across every major platform, I ranked the best video conferencing software for 2026. Zoom leads, but the right pick depends on y...
Best Inventory Management Software 2026: I Tracked 10,000 SKUs to Find the Winner
After testing 7 inventory management platforms with 10,000+ SKUs over 3 months, here are the best options for every business size and budget in 2026.
Best Accounting Software for Small Business 2026: I Tested 7 Options With Real Books
I tested 7 accounting software platforms with real business finances. Here are my honest picks for small businesses in 2026 with pricing and real-world results.
Best Time Tracking Software 2026: I Logged 400+ Hours Across 8 Tools to Find the Winner
After logging 400+ hours across 8 time tracking tools, here's what actually works for different team sizes and use cases in 2026.
Best HR Software for Small Business 2026: I Onboarded 200 Employees to Test 8 Platforms
After spending $3,400 testing 8 HR platforms with 200 real employees over 4 months, here are my honest picks for the best HR software for small businesses in 20...
Best Help Desk Software 2026: I Tested 8 Platforms With Real Tickets
After spending 3 months routing real customer tickets through 8 different help desk platforms, here is my honest ranking of the best help desk software in 2026.
Best Project Management Tools 2026: Tested & Ranked
After testing 8 major project management tools with real teams, here are my honest rankings for 2026 — with pricing, pros/cons, and recommendations based on t...
Notion Pricing 2026: Free vs Plus vs Business — Which Plan Do You Actually Need?
I've used all three Notion plans for actual work. Here's what each tier really gets you — and where Notion quietly nickel-and-dimes you.
10 Best CRM Software for Small Business in 2026
After testing 10 CRM platforms hands-on, here are my top picks for small businesses in 2026 with real pricing, honest pros and cons, and my top 3 recommendation...
Best Email Marketing Software 2026: I Spent $2,000 Testing Them All
I tested 8 email marketing platforms with real campaigns and real money. Here is what actually works in 2026.