NotepadQQ in 2026: skip the Ubuntu PPA, use a sandboxed install
I tried installing NotepadQQ on Ubuntu 24.04 the same way I installed it in 2020. Old Launchpad PPA, add the signing key, run apt update, watch the dependency tree fight itself for…
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Illinois OS age verification bill leaves the open source exemption gap
A new Illinois law treats a Linux distribution and a closed-source mobile OS as legally equivalent actors in the age-signal chain. That is the headline. The details are duller and more interesting.…
AI evals need a failure map before they need more metrics
A language model can look dependable in a demo and still fail the first question a real user asks. The problem is not a shortage of dashboards. It is that teams often…
SparkleShare’s funding surprise: a 12-year-old foundation answered
A maintainer announces funding, and the open source world exhales. The pattern has become familiar: a small but useful project hits the wall, a quiet fundraising push, a “we are saved” post,…
F-Droid shipped 37 new apps and a 2.0 beta in one week
A roundup post usually loses me by the third bullet. F-Droid’s weekly TWIF (This Week in F-Droid) post is the one exception, because the list is the news and the news is…
Linux networking interview prep for people who have shipped systems
Most Linux networking interview prep focuses on definitions. What is DNS? What is a subnet mask? What is the OSI model? Those answers are worth about ten seconds of an interviewer’s time.…
How a Sudoku research corpus became nine playable puzzle packs
A Sudoku corpus built for a research paper ended up turning into nine playable puzzle games on the side. The path between those two facts is the kind of side project that…
The five MySQL questions that actually trip people up
I keep a folder of MySQL interview prep that grows about as fast as the engine itself. Every time someone asks me what to study for a database interview, the honest answer…
Windows Ready Print quietly removes third party drivers
Windows printing has historically been one of the worst parts of the operating system. Printers stop working after a Windows update, manufacturer drivers go stale, and you end up reading forum posts…
When the Task View button stops responding on Windows 11
Task View is the feature that shows every open window across every virtual desktop, and the reason it can stop working in Windows 11 is that the feature itself is rarely the…