Windows Settings opens to a blank pane. Here’s the actual fix.
I clicked the Start button, opened Settings, and saw nothing. The window was open, the title bar said “Settings,” the sidebar had the section names, but the right pane was empty. No…
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Six R linters worth installing before you ship another script
I keep a small R project that runs nightly, processes about 40,000 rows of CSV data, and ships the cleaned output to a Postgres database (an open-source relational database management system). Last…
Brave charges $60 for Origin. Linux users get it for nothing.
Brave launched a stripped-down browser called Origin this month. It is the same Chromium engine, the same shield blocking system, and the same update cadence as the flagship Brave Browser, but it…
iodé figured out how to make de-Googled Android actually usable
A few weeks back I read a conversation between the team at It’s FOSS and Brian from iodé, a de-Googled Android project that has been getting more attention lately. The interview covered…
Ubuntu’s AI bet is staying out of your face, and that’s the point
I read Jon Seager’s post on the Ubuntu Discourse about where AI is going in Ubuntu, and the part that stuck with me was the sentence: “Ubuntu won’t become an AI product.”…
Eight AI dev tools later, three earned a spot on my dock
Eight AI developer tools arrived in my evaluation queue in the last quarter. I installed all of them, used each one for at least a week on a real project, and three…
Xubuntu 26.04 LTS, reviewed by someone who keeps it installed
Xubuntu 26.04 LTS: Best New Features Xubuntu 26.04 LTS (codenamed “Resolute Raccoon,” a long-term-support release of the lightweight Ubuntu flavor that uses the Xfce desktop environment instead of GNOME) shipped on April…
The 5-Minute Kubernetes Cluster Health Check
The 5-Minute Kubernetes Cluster Health Check Kubernetes (the open-source container orchestrator that runs and schedules your applications across a fleet of machines) is great until it is not. One bad node, a…
Suffering from BUGS: How I Almost Deleted My Entire Project
Suffering from BUGS: How I Almost Deleted My Entire Project I almost wiped a year of work because I trusted a flaky test suite and skipped the obvious step. The story has…