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…
Thirteen graphical BitTorrent clients, and the one I’d pick
I needed a new BitTorrent client this month, and the choice was harder than I expected. There are at least 13 actively maintained graphical clients in the open-source world, and they make…
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…
OnlyOffice 9.3 finally treats PDF editing as a first-class job
I have been editing PDFs on Linux for about twelve years. Most of those years were bad. The good tools were paid, the free tools were limited, and the workarounds involved piping…
Rclone UI: a real graphical face for the command-line workhorse
I have been using rclone from the command line for about three years. It runs my offsite backups, syncs files between the two cloud providers I keep subscriptions with, and handles the…
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.”…
Business email in 2026: four providers, twelve years of opinions
I have run a small consulting business on four different email providers over the last 12 years. Gmail, Outlook, Zoho Mail, and Tuta Mail (formerly Tutanota). Each one looked good at the…
Google’s AI Search redesign eats more of the open web
At the I/O conference on May 19th, Google announced the biggest change to Search in over 25 years, and almost nobody outside the SEO industry noticed. The “Intelligent Search Box” pushes AI…