Notes from the counter.

Our biggest update yet: interactive practice interleaved into lessons (try it live in the post), build-this capstones on every path, a streak and XP system, a learning path builder that composes real vetted pages, and two new guides. All free, no account, in your browser.

When Claude has an outage, dozens of AI tools degrade at once while their own status pages stay green. What an upstream provider outage looks like, why it's so confusing to debug, and how to tell in seconds whether it's you, your tool, or the model underneath.

Three new ways to make AI knowledge stick: spaced-repetition flashcards built from the dictionary, a Today I Learned stream of bite-size snippets, and free downloadable templates with no email wall. All client-side, no account.

New: a Coding with AI track with an interactive prompt builder and a spot-the-hallucination exercise, an MCP servers lesson with a match-the-server quiz, and a CSS starter with a live editor. Built to be used, not just read.

A resizable second window that docks on the right so you can keep the knowledge map, a reference, or a tool open beside whatever you are reading. How it works, how to open it, and when it earns its keep.

A complete, no-jargon guide to AI for people with zero background, plus an easy way to share it with anyone who wants to learn the simplest way possible.

A postmortem: an AI coding agent null-wrote 26 of my source files. Why git only saved half, how I rebuilt the rest from build output and verified every byte, and the rule I locked in.

We turned six focused prompt tools into one flagship, without deleting any of them. The real product decision behind composing tools into a mega-tool.

We've opened a new section, AI Business, to cover the half of the journey nobody teaches honestly: getting traffic and making money. Plus our first case study is live.

Before KB Cafe was an AI knowledge base, this domain ran one of the early web's RSS blogs. The story of iBLOGthere4iM, and where it lives on.

kbcafe.com was a go-to developer resource in the early 2000s. Here's what it is now, and why we brought it back.

Everyone declared RSS dead a decade ago. It's quietly running newsletters, podcasts, and the fediverse the whole time.

LLMs are starving for clean, structured, permissioned content. A 25-year-old format turns out to be a good answer.