CryptoReflexions#23 - Trésorerie crypto en société belge opportunité ou risque ?
Bonjour à tous, Un rapport publié en mars 2026 par Keyrock, Safe et DLResearch analyse la gestion de trésorerie de 25 grands protocoles crypto. Le constat est saisissant : 93 % de leurs actifs sont…
1 Year with the Pixel 9 Pro
How I feel about my Google Pixel 9 Pro, after 1 year of use.
Ten Years of Frinkiac
Ten Years of Frinkiac: A Few Months of Modernization with AI It’s been just over ten years (February 2, 2016) since we launched Frinkiac to the public. In those first few months after release we…
NAB 2026: Las Vegas
Video and writeup on lessons learned at the National Association of Broadcasters convention, with everyone from creators and producers to manufacturers and providers like Cloudflare talking about a…
Weekly Robotics #359
Today issue turned into a bit of a YouTube party as I'm traveling and I don't have as much time as I would like to do some proper research for the newsletter. Still, these are some solid engineering…
Teaser - Battlestations old hardware and unfinished projects
Episode coming soon! Dust off your old hardware or pull it back out of the recycling bin. News of the death of your old hardware was greatly exaggerated! Associated show notes and articles will be…
The App Store Subscription Promise
I’m a big fan of the convenience and flexibility Apple’s App Store offers when it comes to subscriptions. Over the years, I believe those qualities have earned a sense of ease and trust from users…
Losing Skills
For the last year, I've been driving a 2025 Toyota Sienna, a boat of a minivan. It's got all sorts of fancy features that I won't get into right now, but the big one that bothers me the most is a…
WhatCable, Framework, and USB-C
USB-C is excellent, provided you don’t look too closely. I’ve been seeing a drum beat of interest in the internals of USB-C. Darryl Morley’s macOS WhatCable, Chromebooks exposing…
Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (18/2026): Shift to Convergence
This past week: Convergence with Shift6mq finally possible, improvements to Millipixels and thus photography on Librem 5, a Ubuntu Touch Q&A, a collection of Sailfish Community News, Phosh…
Manuel was annoyed
Setting aside the fact that I needed to sign up for an account before I was even able to enable Bluetooth on my new Denon speaker, this screen in its app was funny: The Update Later button remained…
The state of ARM64 on Windows in 2026
Where are we at? Where are we going to?
Computers and upgrades
My first computer was a Desktop with AMD Sempron processor which used to run at 1.6GHz. It was blazing fast! (Atleast until my neighbour got a better one.). It came with Windows XP and 512GB HDD. I…
KDE email, part 3: don’t filter your email
This is part 3 in my series about email management, with the prior one being about using email client apps. This one is about trying to use email filtering to handle email overload. You’re…
Blockheaded
Complaints about Apple’s design choices usually involve transparency, color, and other legibility concerns. These criticisms are legitimate, but the poor design choices that usually set me off are…
Why the Compact is the Best Swiss Army Knife for EDC
If you haven’t found Jon Gadget on Youtube, you need to go subscribe now. Jon is probably the best exemplar of what I like to think of as “European EDC.” The heavy restrictions on knives and the easy…
nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: The fact the I plugged in a physical cable in my physical computer physically is a pretty good indicator that I kinda want to, no? Also that I’ve been using this device for about ten…
Apple Home Office & Desk Setup for 2023
Check out my updated office and desk setup for 2023. This week I had the opportunity to write about my desk setup on Club MacStories weekly newsletter so I'm also sharing it here in case you are…
3 May 2026: smart heating, Apple’s new CEO, handheld C64 and ZX Spectrum, Drop7 and Bacon in Zane
I want more control over my smart heating. Which might sound odd when you learn I’ve got a Tado system, which provides granular control of each individual room. But you only get one schedule. And…
26W18. The surprising Shokz OpenDots One
A few months into my new role, the biggest change has nothing to do with the job itself. It’s that i can’t listen to music while working. Even though most of my team works remotely, i work a few days…
The Devil You Know - Firefox 150
Mozilla has recently dropped Firefox 150.0 , marking the first time I've been impressed with a browser update since Netscape 8.0. It’s actually pretty great. And I don’t say that often, because…
List of Companies Killed By Regulators
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot A list of companies that were killed by regulatory action in the US. Also see [[wikipedia:Category:Internet services shut down by a legal…
KDE Plasma Tips and Tricks
KDE Plasma is very popular right now1 and many new Linux users are using it by default. This is wonderful news, but KDE is very customizable, powerful, and has many small features that are…
Distributed Acoustic Field Toolkit
Distributed Acoustic Field Toolkit
Nigeria’s Data Model Is Failing the Modern User and We Have Seen This Before
There is a growing frustration across Nigeria today, and it becomes very clear when you listen closely to how people describe their experiences in practical, everyday terms, because users are buying…
Tech Power Law: Speed
Above a quality threshold, the only thing that matters is speed. Why the technocracy never slows down, and how to use AI to stay sane while it accelerates.
Migrating from Ubuntu to Debian
On the 27th December 2015 I ditched Windows for Linux - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (“Trusty Tahr”). I acted on impulse. I wrote a short post at the time to mark the occasion - Smashing Windows. The…
iPad as a "Laptop" with Logitech K480
Using the bulky Logitech K480 as a surprisingly effective lap setup to turn an iPad into a casual, sofa-friendly “laptop.”
We Stopped Ranking for ShipClip
Our homepage was ranking around position 3 for our own brand name. Last week it dropped to 113. Google's ShipClip entity got assigned to our Instagram profile. Fixing it required structured data…
📺 Don’t Subscribe; Buy a Pass
We don’t have recurring subscriptions to streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, etc. If there’s a show on a streaming service that we want to watch – like the final season of Stranger…
Only the Obsessed Should Ship
JA Westenberg: What I want from the people who run companies is much smaller than passion: I want the habit of using the product on weekends. If you run a publisher you should be reading novels…
Apple Lisa Vision Pro MessagePad 2000
D. Griffin Jones on the reports that Apple may have “given up” on the Vision Pro: After two years to see how things have shaken out, maybe the more apt comparison is to the Apple Newton.…
FabFilter Pro-Q4 Equalizer
When it comes to high-quality digital plugins, FabFilter is high up on every mixer’s list of favorites. Earlier this year I reviewed their new Pro-C3 compressor plugin. At that time I…
Apple Lisa Vision Pro MessagePad 2000
Reports say that Apple has stopped developing a new Vision Pro; those engineers appear to be solely focused on smart glasses. While visionOS will keep getting software updates (for now…) and more…
Zen Browser - Is it new browser for me?
A deep dive into Zen Browser, its Firefox‑based architecture, privacy‑focused design, and whether it can replace your current browser in a Chromium‑dominated world.
Creator Weekly: YouTube Comment Search, Instagram Original Content, Google Search Preferred Sources
Here we are in May already. I hope spring has sprung where you are reading this from! This week there are a bunch of YouTube updates, plus news for web publishers, Instagram, Firefly and more. New…
The 4 Most Boring Tech Takes on the Internet (and counting)
These takes are everywhere and good grief are they boring 🥱 When you see one, you can be certain of a few things: the most interesting, nuanced aspects of the topic won't be covered the author is…
This month in KDE Linux: April 2026
Welcome to another edition of “This month in KDE Linux”! Infrastructure remained a major focus this month, with multiple outages and bugs in Arch’s package archive leading to Harald…
Xteink X4: um mini e-reader estranho que eu já tô gostando
Eu não estava planejando escrever sobre isso tão cedo, mas… chegou hoje (30/04) meu Xteink X4 e eu já tô completamente encantada. Ele é minúsculo. Sério. E é bem básico também. Como pontos negativos,…
Cardinal sin in product development teams
Mocking users, or believing that users are dumb. You should instead improve the usability of what you’ve built so that things are more clear to whoever uses your product. Otherwise,…
Switching to an iPhone after 15 years of Android
My first smartphone was an iPhone 4 — a well-crafted, great device, but one where software and customisation were limited. Jailbreaking iOS 4 was pretty much the only way I could make my phone…
The Unit Economics of Boredom
Streaming P&Ls optimize for minutes produced, which is cheap. The scarce variable is minutes earned — attention that is genuinely arousal-weighted. The winning services of the next decade will learn…
Weeknotes #78 (May 02, 2026)
Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week. Things I consumed The 2026 Steam Controller is on sale this coming Monday, May 4th. It takes a lot of the controls from the Steam Deck and…
Framework 13 is the perfect (Linux) laptop
I haven’t used Mac for 5 years now (except my last job for 6 months because they only support mac developer environment). For my 8 years at Reddit, my first work laptop was a Macbook Pro, but…
Flat Pro is now in TestFlight
After weeks of thinking through how to monetize Flat, I’ve decided on a pricing model that is now included in TestFlight for the first time. The goal was to choose a model that feels fair on both…
Martine Rothblatt
Martine is a pioneer in the satellite industry, launching companies including Geostar, PanAmSat, and Sirius Satellite Radio. She also founded United Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company focused on…
How Google Went From AI Joke to OpenAI’s Biggest Problem
Everyone Laughed at Gemini. Now It’s Everywhere.
Linux 27 Released
HELSINKI - The highly anticipated Linux 27 kernel dropped early Tuesday morning, sending ripples of ecstatic validation throughout the developer community. Boasting an incredibly lean codebase,…
Design fads
Not surprisingly, Apple is pulling the plug on their silly VR goggles or whatever they’re called. At least they didn’t rename the company after the goggles. But, Apple did sacrifice the usability of…