Where the $400 Pixel 11 premium actually goes on a spec sheet
Android Authority published a case for spending $400 more on a Pixel 11 instead of settling for the Pixel 10a, written by Dhruv Bhutani, who says A-series phones have been his default…
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SlopScan puts a letter grade on every github repo you visit
The first time I noticed the pattern was a colleague’s side project. A repo with a tidy README, a clean commit history, and an oddly empty src/ directory. The code looked fine,…
How to actually do GDPR compliance without losing a week
GDPR compliance is the kind of topic where a lot of guides oversell the difficulty. The real work is not glamorous. Most of it is sitting down with a list and confirming…
Five practical moves for setting up a custom email address
A custom email address is one of the cheapest credibility upgrades you can buy for a small business or solo operation. The catch is that most guides treat it like a five-minute…
python mixin classes explained without the textbook fog
A Python mixin is a class that exists only to be inherited from. It does not stand on its own. The mixin contributes a behavior or two, and a separate class on…
One author’s side project turned 434,201 sudokus into nine games
Most of the source material I have read on constraint programming stops at the paper. It scores which propagation scheme clears a board without branching, sorts difficulty bands, and is done. The…
helldivers 2 lands on ps plus with a warhammer 40k twist
Helldivers 2, the Arrowhead Game Studios cooperative shooter that started in 2024 on PS5 and has since made its way to Xbox Series X|S and PC, just became part of the PlayStation…
Eight free Linux duplicate finders ranked by real cost
LinuxLinks published an updated round-up this month of the eight free GUI tools that handle the most common chore most Linux users do not realize they have: cleaning up the duplicate files…
Self-hosted Datasette: a 0.5a0 release that fits CI
If you self-host Datasette (a Python tool that publishes SQLite databases as a queryable web service) and you have ever wanted to push a freshly built database to a production instance without…
Why every AI rewrite of your docs loses something you meant to keep
Simon Willison linked this week to a short post by Sophie Alpert on what she calls her internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers. The post makes one claim,…