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…
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Samsung One UI 9 brings network kill switches and a unified dialer
I have owned a Samsung phone for the better part of a decade, and I have learned to ignore the Samsung blog posts that list every new feature with breathless enthusiasm. One…
Tune AirPods sound on iOS 27 without chasing presets
Apple’s new equalizer is useful precisely because it is modest. It does not turn an iPhone into a recording console, and it does not offer a library of elaborate profiles. It gives…
I dropped most desktop apps for browser tools, and I regret waiting
I used to install an app for every new task. My PC got crowded with software I barely opened, and I never questioned it. Then a few browser-based tools got good enough…
An ESP32 retro pixel clock that earns its parts list
The makerspace corner of the internet has not gotten tired of putting clock faces on things that do not need them, and that is mostly fine. Some of those projects are honest…
Seven free climate and weather data tools I have used
Climate science runs on data. A single weather station records temperature, pressure, humidity, and wind speed every minute. A satellite records dozens of channels across the electromagnetic spectrum, every few seconds, for…
Sixteen free Linux screenshot tools I keep coming back to
The first thing I install on a fresh Linux box is something to take screenshots with. Not because I write about software for a living, although that is part of it, but…
A 27B model just matched GPT-5.6 on a hard LLM benchmark
A 27 billion parameter open-weight model scoring 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index would have been a curiosity twelve months ago. In August 2026, the Qwen 3.8 27B release lands in…
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…
microlighter does syntax highlighting with pure css and no parser
A web component that leans on the platform instead of shipping a parser Most syntax highlighters in 2026 still work the same way they did in 2014. Ship a JavaScript library, let…