What your ISP can actually see about your browsing in 2026
The honest answer to whether your ISP can see what you do online is yes, more than most people expect, and the gap between what HTTPS protects and what the ISP still…
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Hard drive errors: how to triage before you lose the data
A failing drive rarely announces itself with a single dramatic crash. More often it whispers for weeks: a file that will not open, a save that takes five seconds longer than it…
15 terminal calendars worth installing on Linux in 2026
I keep a paper notebook for sketching and a digital calendar for everything else. The digital side lived in a browser tab for years until I wanted a calendar I could open…
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…
Pairing the Apple Pencil Pro on iPad Air: the steps Apple skips
I bought an Apple Pencil Pro for my iPad Air M2 last month and spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out why it would not pair. The setup…
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…
Word still won’t duplicate a page, so here’s what actually works
Word does not have a “Duplicate Page” button. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. The closest thing is a series of workarounds that range from “select and copy” (the obvious…