Linux text one-liners that still hold up in 2026, mostly
I have a confession. The first time I ran a word-frequency pipeline against a man page, I shipped numbers that were off by a factor of three. The output looked plausible. The…
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Seven free Linux tools that automate the desktop without scripting
If you run a Linux desktop for actual work, you have probably hit the wall where a task you do every day is too small to script but too annoying to keep…
How to expose a Linux service through whichever firewall is running
If a service works on the box you started it on but cannot be reached from another machine, the host firewall is one of the first places to look. Opening a port…
Chrome privacy settings cut what your VPN cannot hide
I kept my VPN on for most of a year because I thought it was doing the work of about five different privacy tools at once. It is not. A VPN (virtual…
Go 1.27 is the boring release that actually moves the language forward
Version bumps in Go are usually dull affairs. The compatibility promise holds, the garbage collector gets a small tune-up, the standard library picks up a new helper, and most working developers go…
Rust 1.98 lets the compiler take algebraic liberties with floats
If you have ever wanted more performance from a numerical hot path without rewriting your arithmetic by hand, Rust 1.98 is the release to read carefully. The headline is a small family…
Picking the right Bluetooth manager for your Linux desktop
Linux Bluetooth support is rarely the thing that breaks. BlueZ has shipped in the kernel for years, and most modern distributions will pair a phone or headset the moment you click the…
Sovereign documents in 2026 mean more than picking a different vendor
Most conversations about “digital sovereignty” treat it as a procurement decision. Pick a different vendor, sign a new contract, declare the dependency over. The architecture underneath the choice does not get the…
Modular’s Mojo programming language ships open source at 1.0
Three years after promising an open source release, Modular finally shipped one. The Mojo compiler and toolchain are now Apache 2 licensed, and the 1.0 release is the version they are attaching…
When F5 does nothing in Visual Studio: four config checks
Press F5, expect a debugger, get a dialog that says “Unable to start debugging” instead. It is a bad error message because it tells you nothing about which layer failed, and the…