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Remove-AI-Watermarks

A tool for detecting and removing watermarks added by AI image generators (like DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion) to images.

Claudian plugin for Obsidian

Claudian embeds AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Opencode, and others) directly into Obsidian. The vault becomes the agent's working directory — file read/write, search, bash, and multi-step workflows all work out of the box.

Cursor's Last Six Months - From Editor to Agent Workspace

Six months ago Cursor was an AI code editor. Today it is closer to an agent control room that happens to contain an editor. That shift did not arrive in one release. It came across four of them, and the direction is consistent enough to be worth writing down.

2026-05-20 Google I/O 2026 - Gemini 3.5, Antigravity, and the Agent Bet

Google I/O 2026 happened yesterday, and Google shipped a lot. New models, a reworked developer platform, agents everywhere. Most of a keynote like this is noise unless you actually build with the stuff. So here's the short version: what changed, what matters for knowledge work, and the one date you

2026-05-20 New filtered RSS feeds on dsebastien.net

For a long time my site effectively had a single RSS feed: the one at /rss/. It worked, but it forced an all-or-nothing choice: subscribe to everything I publish, or nothing.

Creating custom filtered RSS feeds in Ghost

A Ghost site looks like it has a single RSS feed (the one at `/rss/`), but it actually exposes many, and you can add your own filtered feeds on top. This note captures the process so I can explain it to others.

Artificial Analysis

Artificial Analysis is an independent benchmarking and comparison platform for AI models and inference providers. It tracks frontier models across providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google (Gemini), Meta, DeepSeek, Mistral, and xAI; scoring each on quality, speed (tokens/sec), latency (time-to-first-

Google Antigravity

Google Antigravity is Google's agentic development platform, given its first major platform release at Google I/O 2026 (19 May 2026). It is built around a single agent harness exposed through four surfaces:

2026-05-19 New AI Skills - Country, City, and Landmark Image Generators

A school teacher needed hero images for a school fair: countries, cities, landmarks, the kind of thing you actually want to print and pin on a wall. I spent an afternoon turning the prompts I converged on into two reusable AI skills and pushed them to GitHub so anyone can grab them.

Ghost Publish plugin for Obsidian

A plugin that publishes notes from an Obsidian vault to a Ghost blog, with reusable presets for tags, newsletters, and frontmatter conventions.

Fireworks AI Fire Pass

Fire Pass is a $49/month early-access subscription from Fireworks AI that gives unlimited access to Kimi K2.6 Turbo through a dedicated API key. No per-token billing on that model; full 256k context window; standard per-token pricing still applies to every other Fireworks model.

Obsidian Starter Kit v4 Improvements since 4.0.0

Since shipping v4.0.0 two days ago, I've pushed three patch releases in quick succession: v4.0.1, v4.0.2, and v4.0.3. Here's the short version of what each one brought to the table.