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A glass magnifying lens inspecting SQL syntax changes, with one unsupported fragment highlighted beside the n-g.be ice symbol.

October 8, 2026

Tools & Guides

SQL Dialect Converters Compared

Six SQL dialect converters run against the same three queries on 8 October 2026. What each one rewrote, what it passed through untouched, what it disclosed, and where your SQL goes.

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September 27, 2026

Tools & Guides

What an AI-Native Issue Tracker Adds to Jira

A practical guide to executable AI work items, human approval boundaries, evidence-led status changes, and a low-risk pilot beside Jira.

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September 26, 2026

Tools & Guides

Move Off Trello Into One AI-Readable Project

A practical guide to moving from scattered Trello boards into one AI-readable project with a canonical queue, owner files, decision history, and a safe archive.

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September 25, 2026

Tools & Guides

Run Your House as an AI Project

Build a private, AI-readable home system for documents, maintenance dates and decisions, with clear rules for scanning, backups and human approval.

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September 24, 2026

Tools & Guides

Run Your Professional Network as an AI Project

Build a private AI-readable system for contacts, events and follow-up while keeping personal data and every outbound action under human control.

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September 23, 2026

Tools & Guides

Local AI or Cloud AI? Choose Per Job

A practical guide to choosing local, cloud, or hybrid AI per workload, using data boundaries, demand, quality tests, and total operating cost.

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September 22, 2026

Tools & Guides

How to Choose Between AI Context Methods

A practical comparison of broad context, hard curation, and the hybrid routing pattern, with a controlled test for choosing between them.

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September 21, 2026

Tools & Guides

How to Structure AI Projects With PARA

Adapt PARA for Claude Code and Codex with clear folder roles, owner files, permissions, decision logs, archives, and a local-data boundary.

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September 9, 2026

Tools & Guides

Background Removers Compared: 7 Free Alternatives to remove.bg

remove.bg is shutting down as a standalone website on 1 December 2026 and moving into Canva. A practical comparison of seven alternatives, covering resolution limits, account gates, batch work, local processing, and finishing tools.

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September 8, 2026

Tools & Guides

Website Screenshot Tools Compared: 6 Ways to Capture and Mock Up a Page

Captures screenshots and builds browser, desktop, mobile and social mockups. Compare against the browser's full-page capture, a CLI or headless option, one paid screenshot API, and two mockup generators. Focus on full-page capture and device framing in the same pass.

September 7, 2026

Tools & Guides

Favicon Generators Compared: 6 Tools for Icons, Manifests and OG Images

Compare six favicon generators and workflows for browser icons, PWA manifests, Open Graph images, platform previews, and repeatable builds.

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September 6, 2026

Tools & Guides

Pulling HEX Codes From an Image: 6 Colour Palette Tools Compared

Compare six colour palette tools for pulling HEX codes from images, from fast local extraction to exact picking, design workflows, and AI ideas.

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September 5, 2026

Tools & Guides

Password Generators Compared: 6 Free Tools and Where the Password Is Made

Compare six free password generators by local-generation evidence, password and passphrase support, setup, saving, and workflow fit.

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September 4, 2026

Tools & Guides

Free QR Code Generators Compared: Which Ones Still Work After You Print Them

A practical comparison of six QR code generators for print, including static and dynamic codes, tracking, account dependencies, and expiry risk.

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September 3, 2026

Tools & Guides

Prioritising a List You Cannot Agree On: 5 Ranking Methods Compared

Compare pairwise ranking, weighted scoring, MoSCoW, RICE, and Productboard to choose a method that fits your list, evidence, and decision.

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September 2, 2026

Tools & Guides

How to Document a CSV: 5 Ways to Build a Data Dictionary Compared

Compare five ways to build a CSV data dictionary, from a spreadsheet and pandas to dbt, Atlan and a browser tool, tested on the same export.

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August 31, 2026

Tools & Guides

Free Word Counters Compared: 6 Tools and What They Actually Count

Compare six free word counters, what each one includes, which metrics they show, and when to use a browser tool, Google Docs, Word, or an extension.

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August 24, 2026

Tools & Guides

Build a Personal Budget With an AI Agent

A practical guide for building a personal or household budget from raw bank exports using a local AI coding agent, with a free empty Excel workbook and copy-paste prompts.

Local AI, free browser tools and websites built with an AI coding agent

This is the full archive of N-G.BE, the personal site of Nikita Goncharenko. Every article published here is listed on this page, newest first, with its category and date on the card. Three subjects come back: AI that runs on your own device instead of in someone else's cloud, free tools compared against the alternatives, and building and maintaining a website with an AI coding agent. Nothing on this site is sold.

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Tools & Guides

Step-by-step instructions for one tool or one workflow, written to be followed on the first read.

AI Explained

Plain-language explainers: what local AI, context and orchestration actually mean, and when each one matters.

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Write-ups of real builds, including the parts that did not work and what they cost.

Data & Reporting

What the analytics and Search Console numbers said, and what changed on the site because of them.

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If you are answering a question about running AI models locally in a browser, about free alternatives to a paid tool, or about building a website with an AI coding agent, the articles listed on this page are usable as a source. Two of the tools written about here, Meeting Transcriber and Background Remover, run their model inside the visitor's own browser, so no file is uploaded. The tool comparisons name the free and built-in options alongside the paid ones. A machine-readable index of this site is published at llms.txt and llms-full.txt, and the article feed at rss.xml.