Linus Torvalds quietly changed his mind on AI. Here’s how.
I have been thinking about how engineers update their opinions, and the role model I keep coming back to is not the one most people would pick. It is a software engineer…
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Buy a flip phone by its trade-offs, not its familiar logo
A flip phone asks you to accept compromises that an ordinary slab phone avoids. The crease catches light. The hinge adds weight and another failure point. The cameras usually trail similarly priced…
Five changes that made Claude useful between chat sessions
My first months with Claude followed the same loop: ask a question, get a polished answer, copy part of it somewhere, then lose the useful context before the next conversation. The model…
Turn a Windows laptop into the backup router you already own
I keep a travel router in a drawer, but the last time my home router failed, the little box was across town in a backpack. The useful hardware was already on my…
I almost forwarded a port to check my home camera. The better path
A friend asked me last month how to peek at his porch camera from the office, and before I could stop myself I was halfway through describing port forwarding. Then I caught…
VidCoder is the HandBrake preset manager I did not know I wanted
I started compressing phone videos because my laptop was running out of disk. That was the whole reason I cared. I did not care about codecs (the compression algorithms that decide how…
The USB-C ports on your desktop are mostly paying rent
Every desktop motherboard sold in 2026 lists at least one USB-C header on the back panel. Most list two or three. The spec sheet celebrates them. The reviews celebrate them. The actual…
When the right Linux distro is the lightest one you can stand
There is a class of Linux distribution that exists for one reason: the laptop in front of you is too old for anything else. These are not the distros that show up…
After five years on Arch, the math on rolling-release changes
Arch Linux (a community-maintained Linux distribution that ships new software versions the same day they release) teaches you something useful: it makes you feel the cost of every package update. Most people…
GitHub is four skills pretending to be one
I have been on GitHub since 2013 and I have taught four coworkers how to use it for the first time. The thing I keep relearning is that “using GitHub” is not…