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A wall of wooden card-catalogue drawers, every one wearing a small printed label that names what is filed inside

Developer Tools 6 min

Where a ComfyUI Node Keeps Its Licence

The registry names a licence for only 15.5% of nodes and puts a bare filename in the field for 59.1% more. We opened 60...

Maya Lin

Pub. 20 Aug

A finger poised to push the first tile in a standing line of dominoes, the rest waiting to fall in sequence

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

A vintage telephone switchboard with rows of routing switches, a rotary dial and a single handset resting beside it

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

A straight dirt road running away from the camera between two bamboo fences, toward a large forested hill on the horizon. A few tin-roofed houses sit at the far end, and limestone peaks fade into haze behind.

Developer Tools 6 min

Your AI API Call Leaves the Country

From a server in Singapore, OpenAI's API accepts a connection in 6.2ms and takes 237ms to say anything. Anthropic's: 2.3...

Maya Lin

Pub. 19 Aug

A product photography studio: a camera on an overhead boom pointing down at a small table, lit by a large softbox, in front of a plain green backdrop wall.

Developer Tools 10 min

How to Remove the Background from an Image

There are two methods and almost every article pretends there is one. A flood fill removes what matches the background a...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 9 Aug

Code on a dark screen — OpenCode is a coding agent that lives in your terminal

Developer Tools 9 min

How to Set Up OpenCode on a Mac (2026)

Executed walkthrough of OpenCode v1.18.1 on macOS: Homebrew install, provider auth, free local Ollama option, first run...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 15 Jul