I learned Apple Maps by broken-screen: a working tour of every icon
I switched to Apple Maps after a rental car came with CarPlay built in and I didn’t want to fiddle with Google Maps over a rental phone. That sounds like a small…
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USB-C charger buying in 2026: PPS is the spec that matters
I bought a third USB-C charger last year because the first two would not fast-charge my phone, and the one that finally worked was the cheapest of the three. None of the…
seventeen PHP frameworks worth knowing, grouped by what they are for
PHP has been powering web sites longer than most web developers have been working, and the framework landscape in 2026 still reflects that history. Some tools are full-stack batteries-included, some are micro-frameworks…
heymaikol/network-doctor turns network debugging into plain English
There is a specific kind of network problem that every sysadmin recognizes: the internet is broken, you do not know whether the fault is local, somewhere on the route, or at the…
how to give a GitHub Actions workflow only the permissions it uses
A workflow that builds, tests, and deploys your code can also push tags, write to package registries, and rewrite release notes, all without anyone noticing. GitHub Actions will happily run a job…
seventeen free PHP web frameworks, ranked by where they fit
PHP has been the scaffolding of the open web for so long that “use a framework” is more or less the default answer when someone asks how to start a new web…
Anthropic’s free Claude for OSS program is an audition
Anthropic quietly started handing out six-month subscriptions to Claude Max 20x (a paid tier of Anthropic’s Claude AI assistant) to qualifying open-source maintainers earlier this year, and most of the developer press…
How to watch Call of Duty NEXT 2026 and what to actually expect
Call of Duty NEXT (Activision’s annual pre-launch showcase for the upcoming premium Call of Duty release) is going live on August 21 at 9 AM Pacific / 12 PM Eastern. If you…
C-Kermit 11 lands after fifteen years of quiet Debian maintenance
C-Kermit is, depending on your age, either a tool you used to move files between very different computers in the early days of the internet, or something you have never heard of.…
UglyToad/PdfPig hands .NET apps access to the PDF internals
PDF work stops being simple the moment an application needs more than a page count or a text dump. Words arrive without reliable reading order. Forms hide values in their own object…