All About Photo Metadata
Someone posts a photo of a couch they are selling. They only capture the couch and a neutral background. There is nothing identifying in the frame. What they do...
AI, Tech + CS Education
AI & Tech Blog.
Fresh posts from TheMarketshop on AI tools, coding workflows, and tech ed.
Claude Now Watermarks Its Text.
Here's everything you need to know about Claude's watermarking feature... When it landed Anthropic confirmed on August 11, 2026 that Claude models launched on...
The Realities of Using AI for Research
When you hand a research task to an AI, it helps to know what that AI can actually reach. The web an AI sees is not the same web you see, and the gap between th...
Best Free Web Hosting Options in 2026
There are a lot of free web hosting options available now, and some of them are surprisingly good. If you are building a personal website, portfolio, small busi...
Turn Any Spreadsheet Into a Dashboard in 60 Seconds
Recently, I went into YouTube Studio and downloaded my analytics as a CSV. When you open it you just get rows and rows of video titles and view counts. To make...
Learn Password Security by Building It: A JavaScript Generator and a Python Vault.
Passwords are something we use every day, which makes them a great subject for a practical coding project. In this tutorial, we will build the project in three...
Getting Started with APIs
From Your First Free API Call to Advacned Options & Keys Safety. If you've spent any time building websites, you've probably heard the term "API" thrown aro...
Understanding How AI Works
We spend a lot of time talking about what AI can do. We don't spend nearly enough time talking about how it actually works, when to use it, and whether we shoul...
How to Use Location in SwiftUI
Location is one of those features that feels complicated until you actually do it then you realize SwiftUI and CoreLocation make it surprisingly easy. In this...
The Best Tech Gifts for Graduates in 2026
And How to Not Overspend on Them Graduation season is here, and if you're trying to find a meaningful tech gift for someone heading to college or into the work...
Best AI Image Generators in 2026
AI image generation has quietly become one of the most competitive corners of the AI market. In the span of about two years, the tools available to anyone with...
Most Useful Keyboard Shortcuts
Cheat Sheet Details Open a new browser tab Let’s start with one of the most useful shortcuts: opening a new tab.On Windows or Chromebook, press Ctrl...
The Hidden Cost of AI in the Classroom
There's a scenario playing out in classrooms right now that's worth paying close attention to. A student hits a hard problem... maybe a math proof, a tricky ess...
How I Built a Simple Local AI Agent with Tools and Memory
Setup and Code Here are the setup commands and the full code. python -m venv .venv source .venv/bin/activate # macOS pip install ollama export BRAVE_API_...
Code & Commands for running OpenClaw on a Raspberry Pi
The Hardware and the Operating System I used a Raspberry Pi 400 (which contains a Raspberry Pi 4). The current generation is the Raspberry Pi 5, but the 400 is...
Choosing the Right AI Model for Your Project
If you’ve been building with AI, you’ve probably noticed that the question isn’t “what’s the best model?” anymore. It’s “what’s the right model for this job?” T...
What I Learned Building an AI Powered Deal Finder Web App
Recenlty, I built this web application (Deal Finder Pro). When I started building the goal was simple: let someone type in a product and quickly see the best pr...
Google AI Studio: Is It The Best Free Coding Tool?
If you read our last post on vibe coding and you're ready to actually try it, here's where to start: Google AI Studio. I've played with a lot of these tools, an...
Vibe Coding Overview
Vibe coding is the practice of building applications by describing what you want in plain English (or whatever language you speak), rather than writing code lin...
The Skills That Matter in the Age of AI
Understand how to work with AI tools Over the past couple of years, AI tools have improved quickly and become widely accessible. Many of the major models now p...
From Novelty to Necessity: Navigating AI in the Computer Science Classroom
Over the past couple of years, AI has shifted from an "interesting experiment" to an everyday reality in our classrooms. It is no longer a novelty; it is a perm...
My Experience Installing & Running Openclaw on a Raspberry Pi
What is OpenClaw? OpenClaw (formerly ClawdBot/Moltbot) was released in late January as an open-source, self-hosted autonomous AI agent. In simple terms, it’s a...
Computer Science Education Needs to Evolve
Computer science education needs to evolve. Traditional programming still matters—but it can’t be the whole story anymore. AI literacy, robotics, and IoT projec...
Replit.com Coding Agent Review
Replit.com Coding Agent I signed up for the Core plan at $240 per year. The interface is clean and easy to use, and you can build something pretty impressive...