Find your way around

A short tour of the blog and this portal — where to start, what unlocks with a free account, and the features most readers miss on their first visit.

1. Find your track on the blog

The blog groups its tags into three reader tracks. Pick one on any blog index page and the pill filters the list to just that track — no account needed.

Reader-track filter pills on the blog: All readers, Coders / AI Builders, ML & Python Learners, AI News & Industry Watchers

Coders / AI Builders

AI coding tools, git, Docker, automation, CLI workflows.

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ML & Python Learners

Machine learning, TensorFlow, and Python tutorials.

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AI News & Industry Watchers

Weekly AI signals, model releases, safety, and industry context.

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Prefer to browse by topic instead? Every post also carries tags, and the tag cloud and search on the blog work independently of the track pills — use whichever gets you to the right post faster.

2. Read the deep-dive sections for free

Longer technical tutorials open with a free introduction. Past that, some sections are locked behind a 🔒 "Subscribe to keep reading" prompt — this is not a paywall for money, it unlocks the moment you create a free account or tick the newsletter box on your profile.

A gated tutorial section showing the lock icon and 'Subscribe to keep reading' prompt

Already logged in and still seeing the lock on a post you expect to read? Log in with the same email you subscribed with — a mismatched account is the most common cause, and Support can fix it fast.

3. Save your place mid-article

While reading, click any paragraph or heading to drop a bookmark right there — one per post, and clicking a different block just moves it. Every bookmark you've placed, across every post, shows up on your Dashboard.

The Dashboard's Blog Bookmarks list, showing a saved bookmark with its excerpt and a Remove button

4. Claim your subscriber gifts

Free with a subscribed account: a set of printable cheat sheets and checklists, grouped by the same reader tracks as the blog — so it's easy to grab the ones actually relevant to what you build.

The Gifts page, showing printable cheat sheets grouped into AI Watchers, Coders and AI Builders, and Python Learners

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5. Browse the AI tools directory

A curated, filterable directory of the AI apps and services Elena actually uses or recommends — coding assistants, agents, image and audio generators, and more — searchable by category rather than a wall of undifferentiated links.

The AI Tools directory, showing category filters and app cards such as Aider, Antigravity, and Amazon Q Developer

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6. Search, ask, and discuss

One search box covers books, blog posts, and forum threads at once — useful when you remember a topic but not which track it lives under. If you'd rather ask a question directly, the forum is free with any account, and Support is the fastest way to reach Elena about an account or access issue.

Search results for 'docker' spanning blog posts, with matched terms highlighted

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Free account, no card required — unlocks gated tutorials, bookmarking, gifts, and comments.