For years, I've been following disparate things: smart glasses, artificial intelligence, the metaverse. And yet, the world today looks strikingly similar to the world of yesterday.

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Alchemy 1.41.0 adds shape drawing, area templates, and a token tray to Tactical Mode, a Select tool with undo, and automatic armor math for Daggerheart sheets.

the mic button on my mi tv remote only talks to google. with claude code i made it open my own voice search instead. no root, and android tried hard to stop me.

OpenAI brings custom voices to GPT-Live, Anthropic ships fast-mode GA and OpenTelemetry tracing, and Intercom adds workforce management and skill routing.

CUKTECH PB150S Specifications Introduction Powerbank in use Cable Size and comparison Compatibility User interface Tests Thermal Images Conclusion Price Product page Specifications Brand/model…

Apple celebrates some of the Mac's most useful utilities. Trying to build the next one can lead to an unexpected problem.

I've been running into all manner of problems connecting a USB4/TB4 docking station (Satechi) to my ThinkPad P16V gen 1 laptop. I would get intermittent connections, oscillating connections…

The iPhone mini had the right idea and the wrong pitch. The iPhone Duo might be getting the pitch right.

A select bunch of Facebook and Instagram users around the world are opening the app and finding themselves dunked straight into an autoplaying video - no news feed, no new message notifications…

Today I share my thoughts and FEARS of the social media landscape. I think this post is important for any content creator wanting to last.

Recently, while troubleshooting a PATH issue, I noticed an entry for /pkg/env/global/bin. At first, I worried that something had gone horribly wrong. Turns out, this is part of macOS 27.0… though no…

Plasma 6.8 is out, the dawndrums Divine D has reached MVP running Plasma Mobile, Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.1 adds Volla Tablet support, and more! Collected on Sunday, October 18th 2026, 16:31 UTC and…

When I started studying machine learning, before the advent of Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) , recommender systems were pretty terrible. More than a decade later, you’d think that the…

My wife related to me that she was glad we use Qobuz for our music streaming service, since she had read it was one of the more ethical services in...

Here are a bunch of random w3m notes that don’t need their own post. Some of these comments are old and may not be applicable. I don’t like wasting drafts.

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The NextGen Acela entered service on August 28, 2025. How is the NextGen Acela is performing?

Sunday Asides #117 So, the Apple Homeview looks cute, and I want one for my desk to replace my 10-year-old Google Home, but what do you m

Just stumpled upon the existence of this, and immediately ordered!! By 14.4mm It is a standard smart-watch thickness, but far thicker than I prefer, but the repairability and GPS might well outweigh…

You deserve the speed you’re paying for—and OpenSpeedTest will help make sure you’re actually getting it in a way most standard speed tests can’t manage. If you suspect something’s amiss with your…

How I organize macOS workspaces by task, using AltTab and Control + number shortcuts to keep context switching intentional.

I juggle a Mac Studio, a MacBook Air, and a T9 SSD by giving each type of file a single source of truth instead of trusting sync to do everything.

I was recently going through IEEE 802.11bf, the Wi-Fi sensing standard published last year. It kind of formalised procedures for Wi-Fi sensing. I think it’s worth diving into how it works. So a…

How often has this happened to you – when you update some app, the app breaks or doesn’t work in the way it did before? 🙁 There is now a super simple script to pull backups of your…

Ancestry just did its yearly update to how it categorizes your biological ancestry by adding over 150 new regions. Many areas like Ireland, Scotland, Central Europe, indigenous America, Asia, and…

Scrobbling Apple Music from iPhone has been wonky for a while. Apple Music doesn't have a built-in integration, and the app Finale doesn't seem to work on my ancient phone anymore. QuietScrob does…

Mayabe we shouldn't keep reinventing window management?

DEAREST INTERNET! PLEASE ACCEPT MY MOST HUMBLE OF APOLOGIES FOR ONCE AGAIN FORGETTING TO WRITE MY FYIF POST ON FRIDAY! Look, it was a nutty week. Things happened. Things were forgotten. I think it's…

On November 17, Chrome 158 stops running XSLT for everyone except sites on an origin trial and enterprises with a policy exemption. Chrome’s own deprecation notice puts the feature at about…

A rant from an e-bike holdout

I haven't been cataloging shit this last however long because, well, I just wasn't doing it, okay?? Hoping to resume back to a better cadence with this because writing my thoughts down on stuff is…

my mi tv came with tracking, ads, and a laggy home screen. i removed 29 apps over wifi in about ten minutes. no root needed.

BlackBear has a sweet interface and an unequalled import choice Markdown editors for those occasions when you don’t have access to your laptop or desktop. On holiday with access to a hotel computer,…

When the Apple Watch came out in 2014, it did a whole bunch of stuff. You could send your heartbeat to somebody. Weird. Later, they figured out that it was a health tracking device. That was its…

Over at Talk Python, we just launched Talk Python Membership. This is a community of Python developers, data scientists, and AI enthusiasts. It’s built around 4 pillars: monthly live tech…

I think it’s yet another Ponzi scheme aimed at inflating the stock price of X. The demo is impressive, I must admit. Beyond that: a toy by the rich, for the rich at the expense of the rest of…

For the last two weeks I’ve been barraged by people asking me to comment on the appearance of the ArtCraft clones of Adobe and Microsoft products. Whatever I have to say about them, though, will pale…

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds : Many new printing options The Advanced print dialog has new options, each with a matching -print-settings value: Print each page at its document page size (…

With the London Show now just a week away – technically less given that it’s now the evening of the 17th – the announcements have started to appear, and RISCOSitory has had to…

TIL about JPEG XL aka JXL. Guess it's been around for awhile but it is now getting wider adoption. Looks interesting. https://jpeg.org/jpegxl/index.html #JPEGXL #ImageCompression #DigitalImaging…

Android is still better for dual-screen multitasking right now, but things will only get better.

1. ASMR is that full-body tingling some people get when listening to sounds like gentle tapping or whispering. It is detectable in the brain using EEG spectral analysis: ASMR amplifies low frequency…

Microsoft has released the October 2026 Patch Tuesday security update, KB5127648, for Windows 11 versions 24H2, 25H2, and 26H2. The update...

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, and I’ll gladly say it until I’m in the grave: Windows XP is still my favorite Windows of all time, period. It’s not even close.…

TabShop, the Android-based point-of-sale (POS) app, is used by thousands of businesses worldwide to manage their daily operations. From the beginning, TabShop has focused on providing a reliable,…

1996 “Claudia, my car is worn out; I need to buy a new one.” “I can help you; I’m going to the library this afternoon anyway.” (the next morning) “Look at this: I’ve made a spreadsheet of the…

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds : JPEG XL images SumatraPDF opens JPEG XL ( .jxl ) images using the official libjxl decoder ( #1943 ). Password on the command line Use the -pwd command-line…

Hello readers! This week there are bonuses for short videos on YouTube and X, custom algorithms on Facebook and Substack, new creator tools on LinkedIn, more prominent links in Google’s AI Search and…