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Back in stock alerts: store button, tracker site or your own watcher

Back in stock alerts come from three places: the store's own notify-me button, a tracker site that follows popular products for you, or a watcher you point at any product page yourself. For most people the best setup is the third, using AyeWatch on the exact listing, with the store's button…

Codex credits explained: token rates, expiry and when you need them

Codex credits are ChatGPT's pay-as-you-go top-up: when your plan's included Codex usage runs out, credits let you keep working instead of waiting for the reset. Plus and Pro users buy them inside ChatGPT or the Codex app, each model spends them at its own rate per million tokens, and they expire a…

What's trending on X: six places to check, including a satirical paper

What's trending on X right now sits in the Explore tab of the app and in the Trends box on x.com, tailored to you unless you choose a place. For anything that list leaves out, such as last night's peaks, another country, or tech Twitter's day told with jokes, these six places cover it.

OSINT Framework tools to open first, picked branch by branch

The OSINT Framework tools worth opening first are the free, browser-based ones in its busiest branches: WhatsMyName Web for usernames, crt.sh for domains, the Wayback Machine for old pages, TinEye for images and OpenCorporates for companies. Put AyeWatch on top of them for anything you need to…

Walmart price drop after purchase: what you can still do

If you see a Walmart price drop after purchase, Walmart will not refund the difference on a Walmart.com order. Its policy says so in plain terms, which leaves you two real choices: use the normal return rules, or set up an alert so the next drop reaches you before you pay. A watch from AyeWatch on…

OpenCode pricing: free app, pay-per-token models and Go plans from $10

OpenCode pricing starts at zero: the coding agent itself is free and open source, and you pay only for the AI models it calls. As of November 2026 there are five ways to cover those models, from free trial models to OpenCode Go at $10 a month, and the cheapest one depends on what you already pay…

Best Buy Drops: how the app-only deals work, and how to watch the rest

Best Buy Drops are limited-quantity deals sold only inside the Best Buy app, listed ahead of time, with an optional alert shortly before each one goes live. They only help when the item you want is in one, though. For the TV, laptop or console you are already eyeing on bestbuy.com, a watch on the…

How to benchmark AI models on your own work, in six steps

Here is how to benchmark AI models for your own use: collect a few dozen real tasks with known good answers, run each model on them with identical settings, grade every output by the same rule, and log cost and time. Public leaderboards tell you which models deserve a test; your own set tells you…

GEO SEO: what carries over from classic SEO, and what is new

GEO SEO is search optimization aimed at AI-written answers: the same crawlable, indexed, useful pages as classic SEO, plus a few checks on whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI Overviews can read you, quote you and name you. Our pick for running both sets of checks in one place is…

Steam price history: how to check what a game used to cost

The fastest way to check a Steam price history is to look the game up on SteamDB, where each paid game has a price table and a price graph on its page. IsThereAnyDeal and its Augmented Steam add-on keep a similar record, and once you know the low point, AyeWatch can watch the store page and tell…

Flesch-Kincaid grade level, explained in one short read

The Flesch-Kincaid grade level turns a passage of English into a US school grade: 8.0 means a typical eighth grader can follow it. It is worked out from two averages, words per sentence and syllables per word, and for most documents Microsoft recommends landing around grade 7 to 8.

Connections unlimited: where to keep playing after one board

Connections unlimited, for most players, just means more than one board a day. The easiest free way to get that is TechTwitter IO's Morgue, where every back issue of the paper keeps its sixteen-tile grid playable. After that come endless-board sites, user-made grids, NYT's own archive and, if you…