Brian Christner

Brian Christner

Chief Online Gaming 🎰 jackpots.ch, founder of TheByte.io, & pro mountain bike crasher.

🔥 The Only Rule You Need: Hell Yeah or No

Sep 5, 2025

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6 min read

🔥 The Only Rule You Need: Hell Yeah or No

From Siri’s stalled glow-up to the UK Gov’s underwhelming AI trial — plus Derek Sivers drops the only rule you’ll ever need: Hell Yeah or No.

Brian Christner

Business

Aug 29, 2025

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7 min read

🌮 From Tacos to 9GHz: This Week's Byte.

This week: CPUs hit 9GHz, Taco Bell’s AI drive-thru gets trolled, Google drops a new image editor, and one developer codes his way from prison to innovation.

Brian Christner

Productivity

🪑 The IKEA Effect: Why We Love What We Build

Aug 22, 2025

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7 min read

🪑 The IKEA Effect: Why We Love What We Build

OneUptime ditches AWS for big savings, N100 Mini PCs prove the cloud isn’t always king, AGENTS.md sets a new AI standard, the IKEA Effect shows why we overvalue what we build, and yes—someone is making a Lego-powered submarine.

Brian Christner

🚀 AI Showdowns: Apple Rallies, OpenAI Retreats, and DeepSeek Stumbles

Aug 15, 2025

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8 min read

🚀 AI Showdowns: Apple Rallies, OpenAI Retreats, and DeepSeek Stumbles

Apple calls AI bigger than the internet, OpenAI backtracks after GPT-4o backlash, and DeepSeek’s chip gamble stalls...this week, the AI world was anything but quiet.

Brian Christner

⚡ AI That Gets Sh*t Done — From Zapier’s Playbook to LLM Cage Fights

Aug 8, 2025

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7 min read

⚡ AI That Gets Sh*t Done — From Zapier’s Playbook to LLM Cage Fights

AI battles, a Trello backlash, coders turning into AI maestros, Zapier’s secret AI playbook, and engineers hitting the racetrack this week’s Byte is all gas, no brake!.

Brian Christner

📺 Netflix Stats, AI Agents, and Shopping in ChatGPT

Jul 18, 2025

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5 min read

📺 Netflix Stats, AI Agents, and Shopping in ChatGPT

From shopping inside ChatGPT to Netflix’s latest streaming stats and the rise of smarter AI agents, this edition is packed with the future of tech. Don’t miss the tools, trends, and jaw-dropping headlines shaping what we watch, buy, and build next.

Brian Christner

🦟 Lasers, LLMs & Local AI: Your Byte-Sized Tech Brief

Jul 11, 2025

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7 min read

🦟 Lasers, LLMs & Local AI: Your Byte-Sized Tech Brief

Brian Christner

Tech Throws Shade: Xiaomi vs Tesla, Cloudflare's AI Block & Cloud Reality Check🖕🚗🤖☁️

Jul 4, 2025

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7 min read

Tech Throws Shade: Xiaomi vs Tesla, Cloudflare's AI Block & Cloud Reality Check🖕🚗🤖☁️

This week: Cloudflare launches edge containers and blocks AI bots, CIOs rethink cloud strategies, Docker shares pro tips, and Xiaomi’s new EV takes a swing at Tesla. Stay updated on the shifts shaking up cloud, AI, and electric cars!

Brian Christner

Open Source

⚔️ AI Power Struggles, Hashtag Bans, and the New Black Screen of Death

Jun 27, 2025

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7 min read

⚔️ AI Power Struggles, Hashtag Bans, and the New Black Screen of Death

Microsoft & OpenAI’s AI rivalry heats up, GitHub’s CEO says junior engineers are here to stay, Elon Musk bans hashtags on X ads, unlock a free 5-hour n8n automation course, and Microsoft ditches the classic Blue Screen of Death for black. Stay ahead with this week’s top stories!

Brian Christner

💥 8.9M Players, One Teen, Three Days: The Roblox Farming Boom

Jun 20, 2025

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7 min read

💥 8.9M Players, One Teen, Three Days: The Roblox Farming Boom

From a teen’s viral Roblox farming sensation to marketing automations replacing entire teams, this week’s tech world is all about big wins from unexpected places. GitHub Copilot’s new agent goes from assistant to digital teammate, and marketers are letting n8n bots take the wheel.

Brian Christner

🤯 AI or Just People? Bots, Scams & Apple’s Secret Container OS

Jun 13, 2025

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7 min read

🤯 AI or Just People? Bots, Scams & Apple’s Secret Container OS

Apple joins the container space, n8n manages finances, AI startup turned out to be humans?!?!

Brian Christner

AI Gone Wild: From Lattes to Line Edits☕💻🧠

Jun 6, 2025

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5 min read

AI Gone Wild: From Lattes to Line Edits☕💻🧠

AI this week — Starbucks AI, Google CEO vibe coding with Replit, and some great finds on Github.

Brian Christner

🤯 AI Agents, UI Magic & Copy-Paste Fails

May 30, 2025

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6 min read

🤯 AI Agents, UI Magic & Copy-Paste Fails

AI is everywhere this month — plastic AI videos, Google Stitch from prompt to UX, and MCP vulnerabilities.

Brian Christner

🤖 AI Goes Rogue: Fake Presidents, Smart Containers & Jony Ive’s Big Bet

May 23, 2025

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9 min read

🤖 AI Goes Rogue: Fake Presidents, Smart Containers & Jony Ive’s Big Bet

AI is everywhere this month — writing your code, impersonating U.S. officials, running your Docker containers, and now, possibly living in your pocket. May has been wild, and here’s what you need to know.

Brian Christner

Tools