Claude Code has quickly become one of my favorite AI coding tools, but there's one thing that can be frustrating: watching my usage disappear much faster than expected. It doesn't always feel like I'm doing enough work to justify how quickly the limit arrives. The more I used Claude Code, the more I realized that getting more value from it isn't just about having a better model or writing better prompts. Small changes to how I use the tool can make a surprising difference. After experimenting with my workflow, I found a few less obvious ways to make my Claude Code usage last longer without making coding feel slower or more complicated.

Middle schoolers, likely blocked from other apps and social networks, apparently turned the Spotify comment section under an episode of NPR's Wild Card into an impromptu group chat. In a new episode of This American Life, host Ira Glass digs into how the kids landed there and why. But it mostly boils down to kids getting creative to work around the restrictions placed on them.When Glass asked one of the kids why they picked this particular podcast, they said, "We just, like, looked for podcasts that didn't have many comments." Which, obviously, hurt Glass's feelings a bit. Initially, showrunner Dave Blanchard thought the comments were a …Read the full story at The Verge.

For most power users, there's a universal workflow bottleneck. Let's say you're organizing server backups, moving media files, or staging code directories. It's easy for your screen to become a chaotic mess of overlapping Windows Explorer or Finder windows, but I realized there are so many ways to make file navigation easier. You can dive past the default single-pane view and unlock advanced dual-pane navigation, integrated tabs, and built-in operation queues features that are mastered by tools like Total Commander, Directory Opus, or modern power user replacements.

Haptics tech company Taction sued Apple in 2021, alleging it infringed two of its patents. Now a federal jury in San Diego has awarded Taction over $5.7 billion in damages. According to CNBC, "The lawsuit centered around U.S. Patent Nos. 10,659,885 and 10,820,117, which both involve vibration-based, tactile transducer technology that helps users feel a device responding to their input."Taction argued that Apple's Taptic Engine in its Apple Watches and iPhones used technology that it had developed without a proper license, and the jury agreed. It found that Apple had infringed on two claims in one patent and one in the other. However, the j …Read the full story at The Verge.

Not all SSDs are created equal, and no spec embodies that more than the NAND type. With regard to NAS storage, most will tell you to always use TLC, and to avoid QLC NAND like the plague. TrueNAS just published a detailed case that the rule is wrong for a lot of people. In a post on how OpenZFS handles both NAND types, the company argues that QLC performs better than its spec sheet suggests, and that OpenZFS's write path is part of why. For the pool that holds your media, photos, and backups, I think TrueNAS makes a great case.

VS Code is great, and every now and then I come across a feature I had no idea existed. I recently found Remote Tunnel Access tucked away in the Accounts menu. Once you turn it on, you can code on your desktop from a browser, even when you’re using another computer. You can open the files that are already there and run the project without copying it to the device in front of you. That device only needs a browser and the link VS Code gives you. Your files and development tools stay on the desktop, which has to remain on for the tunnel to work. The remote machine doesn’t have to be your desktop, either — a VM or a cloud instance works too.

I personally don't mind if the networking stuffed in my closet is a bit of a mess, but when running cable throughout my home, I do want it to look somewhat neat. Flat Ethernet cables are perfect for tucking under carpets or running neatly against baseboards, but after setting up my network with them, I began experiencing intermittent issues that were very difficult to nail down. The culprit ended up being those flat Ethernet cables that were the backbone of the uplinks for some of my key devices, and the failure was invisible to the naked eye.

Drums on film. | Image: Decap I don't think I'm going to hurt anyone's feelings by pointing out that Decap doesn't have the name recognition of Kendrick Lamar, Olivia Rodrigo, or Charli XCX. But his fingerprints are all over tracks from them, as well as many other artists, including Freddie Gibbs, Bad Bunny, Mac Miller, BTS, and even Ludwig Göransson's score for Oppenheimer. Nicholas Piantedosi, better known as Decap, is a record producer, but perhaps more importantly, he's the man behind Drums That Knock, a series of sample packs that have found their way onto countless records across genres. The line is so successful that, after debuting in 2016, it's now on its 11th …Read the full story at The Verge.

After spending a full two weeks injecting DLSS 5's Neural Rendering into every game on my PC and even into my PS2 titles, I know exactly what Nvidia's latest tech can do, and just how ridiculous it can get.

Setting up a NAS can come with a few challenges, and one of the earliest ones is how to make my files accessible to my other devices. Using dedicated apps or a web UI isn't always ideal, so I had to find ways to make things accessible on any device without too much setup.

I’ve tried enough productivity apps to know that having more tools doesn’t always make me more organized. My notes, to-do lists, and schedule often ended up scattered across different apps, which meant more switching and more places to check. As a freelance tech blogger, I deal with article ideas, research, deadlines, and daily tasks all the time, so this started becoming annoying. I wanted something that could bring my workflow closer together without feeling complicated. That’s what made me try Amplenote. After using it for a while, I realized it was changing how I handle my everyday work in a way I wasn’t expecting.

In my ongoing quest to try out every single note-taking application on the planet, I decided to give Trilium a whirl. Its interface resembles OneNote in a lot of ways, especially the triple-pane layout and hierarchical folders, but with some of Obsidian's interconnected-note features. Trilium boasts surprising depth to its features beyond what it looks like on the surface, with support for mind maps, Mermaid diagrams, an Obsidian Canvas-like feature, and much more.