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🛠️Tools & Tech

As a technology and productivity enthusiast, I love exploring new tools that can make life easier. Here's my ever-growing list of favourites that I'll keep updated for you!

Here, you'll find all my articles about tech and how I use different devices and tools. Rest assured, I only recommend products and tools that I personally use and believe in, so you can count on my suggestions being tried and true!

Tools and Tech Desk

PHP2Shell: How an AI-Assisted Discovery Pulled Governments Offline, and What It Means for Law and Global Security

Two critical flaws in the engine behind roughly three-quarters of identifiable websites forced governments, hospitals and some financial services offline....

🌐International Relations (IR)

Abliteration.ai and the End of the Guardrail Assumption: What It Means for International Security

Abliteration.ai sells AI models with safety guardrails removed. An international security analysis of what it means for AI governance, law...

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🛠️ Tools & Tech

Schema Sovereignty & AI Citations: Death of Blue Links

Page-one ranking is no longer about the top ten blue links—it is about winning generative AI citations. As search engines...

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🛠️ Tools & Tech

Parallelism Over Pixels: Why the Encoder-Free 12B and DiffusionGemma are Rebuilding the Developer Stack

Is your local hardware sitting underutilised? Sequential text generation is hit by a fundamental memory-bandwidth bottleneck. With the advent of...

🛠️ Tools & Tech

Surviving the Antigravity 2.0 Update: How Google Broke My Workflow (And How to Fix It)

I was right in the middle of a serious coding session when, without warning, my entire development environment was hijacked....

My Experience with JSTOR’s New AI Research Tool: A Cambridge Student’s Review

Discover a Cambridge student's hands-on review of JSTOR's AI research tool beta. Learn how this innovative tool transforms academic research...

AI Regulatory Compliance Tools | Avi Perera

Best AI Regulatory Compliance Tools for Businesses (2026)

A rewritten 2026 guide to AI governance and compliance tools, with the updated EU and US rules and an honest...

🛠️ Tools & Tech

Unlock Your Email Marketing Potential with Kit (formerly ConvertKit: A User-Friendly Guide

Take your email marketing game to the next level with Kit (formerly ConvertKit) - the email marketing platform that's been...

🛠️ Tools & Tech

How to Optimize a Website by Eliminating Render-Blocking Resources

I recently embarked on a quest to optimise my website’s performance. Let me walk you through the techniques I employed...

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🛠️ Tools & Tech

The Secretary Problem: Optimal Stopping in Decision Making

In the realm of probability theory and decision making, few problems have captivated mathematicians, economists, and computer scientists quite like...

🛠️ Tools & Tech

How to Start a Thriving Online Business with Shopify in 2024: A Step-by-Step Guide

Discover how to launch your dream online business with Shopify in 2024. Our comprehensive guide covers everything from setup to...

🚀 Productivity

Notion AI: A Student’s Take on the Future of Productivity in 2024

Hey there! If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably spent countless hours trying to juggle assignments, research papers, and group...