Author: Ben Williams

Claude Code 2.0 Update: Loops, Scheduled Tasks, Skills 2.0 And New Features Explained

Claude Code 2.0 Update: Loops, Scheduled Tasks, Skills 2.0 And New Features Explained

Ben Williams 9 min read
Claude Code just moved from a reactive helper to a proactive workspace, and that shift matters right now because it changes what you can safely leave running, and what you must keep a close eye on. The real significance here is not only that the app can run recurring requests, but that it now off ...
Project Hail Mary: How The Film Built A Real Working Spaceship

Project Hail Mary: How The Film Built A Real Working Spaceship

Ben Williams 13 min read
Project Hail Mary lands in theaters as a space movie with an unusual boast: most of what you see was built to be touched, moved, and filmed in camera. From the cramped cockpit the size of a telephone booth to a medical bay that flips orientation during flight, production designer Charlie Wood and hi ...
Project Vend: Proof You Should Never Leave Your Autonomous Business AI Agent Unattended

Project Vend: Proof You Should Never Leave Your Autonomous Business AI Agent Unattended

Ben Williams 11 min read
Project Vend began as a laboratory thought experiment and turned into something more immediate and oddly familiar. Anthropic put Claude in charge of a tiny retail operation in an office, named the shopkeeper Claudius, and then watched how the machine handled sourcing, pricing, ordering, and customer ...
How To Setup And Start Using Claude Cowork

How To Setup And Start Using Claude Cowork

Ben Williams 10 min read
Claude Cowork feels like a small revolution: it gives an LLM the hands to actually do work on your computer instead of just telling you what to do. That changes the relationship from adviser to assistant. If used right the right way, it can be an incredibly powerful tool. The real significance he ...
Mastering Claude Cowork: Make Your Agents Better Than 99% Of Users

Mastering Claude Cowork: Make Your Agents Better Than 99% Of Users

Ben Williams 13 min read
There is a simple, seductive myth about powerful AI tools: type one clever prompt and the rest takes care of itself. Claude Cowork is set up to make that myth feel true at first glance, but the real value lives on the other side of deliberate setup. But, for someone who is just a beginner and trying ...
How To Build Your Own AI Workforce: Turning AI Into A Coordinated Team With Claude Code Opus 4.6

How To Build Your Own AI Workforce: Turning AI Into A Coordinated Team With Claude Code Opus 4.6

Ben Williams 8 min read
Agent Teams are the kind of feature that forces a rethink about how people assign work to machines. Instead of trying to make one model do everything, Claude Opus 4.6 allows you to hand a complex brief to a lead agent and watch an organized staff of specialist agents spawn, coordinate, and deliver t ...
Clockwork uConsole: The Pocket Computer That Turns Into A Field Hacking Lab

Clockwork uConsole: The Pocket Computer That Turns Into A Field Hacking Lab

Ben Williams 11 min read
The headline here is intentionally provocative: this is not just another handheld that can run Doom. The uConsole by Clockwork already does the obvious tricks. What actually changes the game is the combination of the Raspberry Pi CM5 compute module and the Hacker Gadgets Multiboard, which turn a com ...
MacBook Neo: How A $599 MacBook Rewrites Apple’s Rules For Entry Level Laptops

MacBook Neo: How A $599 MacBook Rewrites Apple’s Rules For Entry Level Laptops

Ben Williams 10 min read
Apple's March 2026 announcement of the MacBook Neo is not just about a lower price tag. The first two sentences of the launch make the relevance obvious: at $599, this is the most affordable MacBook in Apple history, and it is explicitly aimed at students, first-time Mac users, and buyers who histor ...
Cancel Everything: Build Your Own Cloud And Keep Control

Cancel Everything: Build Your Own Cloud And Keep Control

Ben Williams 8 min read
The bold claim at the top of the original demo was simple and provocative: you can replace iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, Netflix, Spotify and a handful of other subscription services by running your own cloud. The real significance here is not that every subscription vanishes overnight. The impo ...
The Weirdest ThinkPad In The World: A Strange Piece Of Laptop History

The Weirdest ThinkPad In The World: A Strange Piece Of Laptop History

Ben Williams 12 min read
The most revealing part of this ThinkPad T470P project is not the paint job or the laser etching. The real significance here is how a mainstream business laptop can be repurposed into a compact, modular workhorse that borrows the aesthetics and practical priorities of true rugged machines. That r ...
OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 Just Leaked And It’s Way More Powerful Than Expected

OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 Just Leaked And It’s Way More Powerful Than Expected

Ben Williams 10 min read
Something unusual is happening in AI right now. Leaks and launches point in three sharply different directions at once: colossal context windows and pixel-accurate vision on one end, microscopic agents that run in a single megabyte on the other, and full personal AI workstations in the middle that s ...
OpenClaw: Complete Beginner’s Guide To Mastering OpenClaw

OpenClaw: Complete Beginner’s Guide To Mastering OpenClaw

Ben Williams 10 min read
OpenClaw has the kind of promise that reads like a developer dream and an operational headache at the same time. Backed as an open source project with official support from OpenAI, it is designed to run continuously on a personal computer or VPS, manage memory and identity, connect to messaging chan ...
Twopan T01 Magnetic 2TB SSD For iPhone: The Pocket SSD That Lets iPhones Record ProRes On The Fly

Twopan T01 Magnetic 2TB SSD For iPhone: The Pocket SSD That Lets iPhones Record ProRes On The Fly

Ben Williams 10 min read
The real significance of Twopan T01 is not simply that it advertises roughly 1 gigabyte per second speeds. The part that changes how the device should be understood is that it combines sustained throughput, MagSafe-style mounting, and pass-through charging into a pocket-sized package designed specif ...
Aulumu G09: Why This Futuristic iPhone Kickstand Changes Magnetic Stands Forever

Aulumu G09: Why This Futuristic iPhone Kickstand Changes Magnetic Stands Forever

Ben Williams 7 min read
The moment the Aulumu G09 appears on the back of a phone it forces a small rethinking of what a kickstand can do. This is not a simple loop to hold a device upright. It is a cluster of precision-machined joints and two sets of magnets that together create a portable mounting system rather than a sin ...
Wondermac: Turning A Mac Clock Into A Working Mini Macintosh

Wondermac: Turning A Mac Clock Into A Working Mini Macintosh

Ben Williams 9 min read
Something about the original Macintosh keeps pulling people back. The silhouette, the proportions, the way the screen sits in a thick bezel, all of it reads as iconic design that invites tinkering. The Wondermac project answers that invitation by doing something very simple and very specific. It ...
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