What Chrome’s new auto-clicking actually does to your workflow
For thirty years, the web ran on a single assumption: a person is doing the clicking. Every form, every checkout button, every “are you sure?” prompt was built for human hands and…
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KOReader plus an LLM turned my old Kindle into my favorite reader
I have a Kindle 4 that was obsolete when the Obama administration was still young. The battery is shot, the bezels are thick, and it does not have a touchscreen. I have…
I stopped losing newsletters to my inbox. One Zap fixed it.
I subscribe to maybe thirty newsletters. I read maybe five of them properly. The other twenty-five just pile up in my Gmail until I open one with a subject line I half-remember…
Mozilla is rebuilding its fellowship program in public
Mozilla (the nonprofit behind Firefox) is rethinking the program that has trained a decade of public-interest technologists, and the rewrite is happening in the open. The fellowship itself, with its 200-plus alumni…
Age verification laws are breaking online anonymity for everyone
Age checks are spreading faster than the technology to verify age safely, and the current laws are turning the open web into a worse place for everyone. Not just kids. I have…
Claude Code took my messy NotebookLM research and actually organized it
I have been using NotebookLM for research for about a year, and it does one thing better than any other AI tool I have tried: it actually sticks to the sources I…
Chrome hid a multi-GB AI model on your disk without telling you
I opened Activity Monitor on my MacBook last Tuesday and noticed Chrome was using 8 GB of disk space for something I had not downloaded on purpose. The file was sitting in…
Claude Design, but the free tier you can actually run
Up until a few months ago, my biggest complaint with AI tools was that the free tiers simply did not cut it anymore. I have since accepted that there is no escaping…