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302 guides published 17 topic areas Latest guide Sep 2026

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Developer Tools 7 min

What Happens When You Click Install in ComfyUI

ComfyUI Manager offers to install the missing nodes, you click, and a log scrolls past too fast to read. What runs in th...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 20 Aug

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Developer Tools 6 min

What Is ComfyUI, and How Is It Different From Ollama?

Both run AI models on your own machine, and that is where the similarity ends. One is a visual workbench for image, vide...

Maya Lin

Pub. 20 Aug

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AI & ML 7 min

Making MiniMax H3 Videos Longer Than 15 Seconds

MiniMax H3 generates video with the sound already in it, and stops at fifteen seconds. Five ComfyUI nodes now exist to g...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 20 Aug

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AI & ML 8 min

How to Run MiniMax Music 3 in ComfyUI

MiniMax Music 3 writes complete five-minute songs with sung vocals, and the weights are public. Here is what hardware yo...

Maya Lin

Pub. 20 Aug

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Developer Tools 6 min

How Old Is the Code You Installed?

The median package in this site's tree was published 286 days ago — but one in five has seen no release in two years, an...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 20 Aug

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Developer Tools 6 min

Seventeen Licences You Did Not Choose

This site installs 302 packages under 17 distinct licences. 23 carry copyleft obligations, effectively all from one imag...

Maya Lin

Pub. 20 Aug

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AI & ML 6 min

How Big a "Small" Model Really Is

A parameter count is not a size. Mistral 7B is 14.5 GB of weights before the KV cache exists, and most model repositorie...

Maya Lin

Pub. 20 Aug

A close-up of a heaped pile of dozens of keys on a wooden surface, many still attached to brightly coloured plastic fobs and split rings, with a car remote at the edge and no way to tell which key opens what.

AI & ML 6 min

What Installing an Agent Toolkit Actually Grants

Giving an agent tools is one line of configuration, and that line does not say what any of them can do. We read all 77 t...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 20 Aug

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Cybersecurity 5 min

Three DNS Records Almost Nobody Publishes

DNSSEC, CAA and MTA-STS each protect people who will never know they exist. Across 18 major ASEAN banks, government port...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cyber Threat Intel 6 min

Can You Prove an Attack Was Prevented?

Early warning is what threat intelligence is sold on, and prevention is the least verifiable claim in security — the evi...

Priya Nair

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cyber Threat Intel 5 min

Who Sells Threat Intelligence

Four quite different businesses use the same phrase, which is most of why the market is confusing. A map of the categori...

Priya Nair

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cybersecurity 6 min

What Your Own Domain Tells a Stranger

OSINT needs no budget and no access. We ran it against our own domain and found 26 robots.txt rules naming /admin/ and /...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 19 Aug

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