Mixin classes are the kind of Python feature that experienced developers use without thinking, then stumble on when they have to explain them. The pattern is small, but the pitfalls hit hard:…
Rust static site generators have split into recognizable jobs. One wants to build a conventional website from a single binary. Another turns Markdown into a book. A third treats connected notes as…
I have removed more paid “PC cleanup” suites from family computers than I have installed. The pattern is familiar: a yearly subscription, a red warning badge, and a dashboard that claims the…
I paid for Plex Pass for about six years before the math stopped working. Hardware transcoding (using your server’s graphics card to convert video formats on the fly) was the feature that…
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…
Larry Sanger co-founded Wikipedia in January 2001. In June 2026, twenty-five years later, he was “blocked indefinitely” by the site he helped create. The reason, as reported by Sanger himself and by…
Bryan Lunduke keeps a public list at github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify. The repository tracks, by operating system, whether the OS has implemented age verification in the user account creation flow, the app store rating system,…
Incognito windows are a false sense of security. Your ISP can still see what you am doing, and the websites you visit still fingerprint your browser. Incognito clears your local history. That…
I was running ImageOptim for images, HandBrake for video, and a paid PDF tool for shrinking documents. That is three apps to install, three menus in my dock, and three different mental…
I still own an HP ProBook 640 G1 from 2014. It is not a museum piece. It runs Windows 11, it has been opened more times than my two newer laptops combined,…
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