In Firefox 147.0, released for Android on January 13, 2026, Fission-based site isolation was finally enabled. Unfortunately, in the next version, 148.0, the feature was disabled by default and a new…

I crunched the numbers from Tesla's own specs and found that the Roadster's compressed nitrogen thrusters can only manage about six to eight seconds of hover or a single 0–60 burst, so the 'flying…

Just want the download? Grab the ROM and flashing instructions from the XDA Developers post. Previously I wrote about porting Android 16 to my favorite phone of all time, the Palm PVG100 (pepito).…

When people talk about digitalizing a laboratory, the picture in their heads is remarkably consistent: a laptop or a tablet sitting on the bench next to the pipettes, an ELN open in the browser, and…

Teams looks free because it comes in the bundle. The people paying for that choice are the ones stuck using it every day.

Formlabs Form Studio 1 review: print quality, the Flex platform, the $199 Wash+Cure, cheaper Alpha resins and free Open Material Mode on a $699 resin printer.

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I'm so very fucking done with slop, especially in the open source community. (This is a rant, it's not coherent, it's a bit sweary, you probably don't want or need to read it. This post has not been…

Cars: sometimes they wish they were boats. Especially when you accidentally drive them into a river because, “I was just following the GPS.” If I had a new car for every time my…

Ready Time now works with Siri! Ask “When do I leave in Ready Time?” or “What’s my next step in Ready Time?” and Siri will give her (or its?) chirpy answer without you…

First: Marques Brownlee and Luke Miani cover the Apple HomeView and provide complementary angles. Two things are true about the HomeView at the same time: Many people assumed that it would "just" be…

If you don't know my app On This Day Rewind yet, give it a try — it shows you the photos you took on this exact day in past years. 1.6 adds support for the iPhone Duo. While adapting the app to the…

Estia 1.5 - The Dent Estia is quickly becoming one of my favorite writing apps for posting to my Pika blog1. It was released October 4th. It’s a local Mac...

Apple announced, with surprisingly little fanfare, a series of new home products. I would have expected announcements featuring a brand-new product line would have a proper Apple Event introduction,…

Time to drive the new GMC Decapod!

I’m really sorry for yet another Estia post, but I just wanted to post a quick note to let you know that Estia 1.5 is now live in the Mac...

Simple Sheets 2.0 is a fast, lightweight spreadsheet editor for Windows. It opens Excel, OpenDocument and CSV files in a blink, feels like the tools you already know, and saves your files without…

Mobile deposit reveals something uncomfortable about the innovation industry -- it keeps asking us for a blank check. The post Free checking first appeared on What shall we weird?.

Collaborative drawing software.

Casual graphic designers creating simple things like sliders or flyers for social media have long since moved to Figma, Canva, or a gazillion other tools. … The post There is no audience for a free…

The 5C Nano sits flush in the side port of my laptop, which is the reason to buy a Nano in the first place. It also means my palm drags across it a few dozen times a day, and every pass fires…

Today, after restarting Microsoft Edge after an update, I noticed this in the about screen:

Most Android phones’ volume control allows you to change volume in 15 steps. Especially with Bluetooth devices, this experience is often not perfect, with badly spaced volume jumps, and the…

The gedit text editor version 51 has been released! A previous blog post, News, April-May 2026 already covers most of the changes. A reminder that gedit is still alive and is available to install, as…

I try to publish a bi-weekly newsletter on developments in clean energy around the world. It goes up on Substack at https://carboncommentary.substack.com/p/carbon-commentary-newsletter-b4a.Here is…

I have a Braun electric razor and needed a new 70S shaver head. There are plenty on eBay; some are advertised as compatible and sell from around £7.00 up, and some are presented as genuine Braun…

Krabix.cz is a Czech web-based enclosure configurator for 3D printing. It offers templates for Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi, STL and 3MF export, and is free to use without registration.📖 Read…

Coverage of the trail: Day 1: Opening Statements, CEOs take the stand Day 2: ALA Commitments and Bloomberg leak in focus Day 3: Focus on License Rates, Judge’s Questions on Remedy, and XXXXXX

The hardware got faster. We lowered our expectations.

At the same physical location, these were my results: Setup Speed TP-Link TL-MR100 4G router 8 Mbps Phone with an Airtel SIM, in 4G mode 10 Mbps Same phone and Airtel SIM, in 5G mode 100 Mbps That…

What Nucleus actually is, from its CTO: a cheek-swab whole genome test (30x short-read) that reports your risk for 2,000+ diseases and doubles as a carrier screen, plus couple and IVF embryo results.…

Added a marker to the hypnogram in the INSPEC lucid dreaming device’s REM episode player that highlights when the clips with eye movements were captured. INSEPC Details | Lucid Scribe iOS…

I just realized this month was the old end of Windows 10 extended support. But back in June, Microsoft quietly extended the consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program by a full year, to October…

Subscription service Apple TV, the only place where you can stream the classic Peanuts television specials, has announced this year's free streaming weekends for the classic Peanuts holiday specials:…

I was listening to today's Syntax.fm's podcast episode where Wes and Scott were talking about the dawn of vibe coded Adobe clones, more specifically the release of the ArtCraft suite of apps that's…

Apple finally announced a thing: HomeView. Immediately I was surprised at the pricing, given that Apple is now charging the same for a streaming box. I have an old iPad...

Apple introduced their take on a home smart speaker/console thingie called the HomeView yesterday. It looks interesting, though I don’t think I’ll be replacing my Alexas anytime soon. However, the…

Das ist ein wahrlich komischer, wenn nicht sogar gruseliger Titel. Grund dafür ist der Name des Händlers, bei dem ich ein paar Folien für meine Geräte gekauft habe: Marmelade Cat GmbH. Handys,…

Vitals 1.7 shows what is left of every AI plan on your Mac, when each limit resets and whether you will run out first, with an Agents tab for every coding agent running.

During the last few weeks I have been sharing multiple blog posts in which I’ve been reflecting about my own goal for this year to complete the transition away from US Big Tech into whatever…

I’ve been following Swamp closely from the side, so here’s an observer’s note on launch day. They started in late January, raised a seed round in summer, and today they’re…

(brought to you by AI... I mean the constant upgrades... not the article... that was all me... and my spell checker)As IT professional(s), I (we) have been on the constant upgrade cycle. So much so,…

Today on Designed in California, we begin our series focusing on the origins of the iPod — in celebration of its 25th anniversary.The iPod changed the way we listen to music and reshaped Apple…

For managing my security camera feeds, I use Frigate1. It offers a decent web-based UI, but not a stand-alone application. This meant I couldn’t quickly command + tab to it from whatever application…

Formlabs sent me a Form Studio 1 resin 3D printer to test after years of back-and-forth about their Form 4 printer. Like the Form 4, it's an SLA (stereolithography) printer, but unlike the Form 4…

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” Upton Sinclair I don’t have much more than that to say about John Gruber’s post praising…

A near-future prediction: in a few years there will be no apps, games, movies, podcasts or TV. There will be a stream — a hyperpersonalized reality, generated in real time for you (or you and your…

Apple finally announced their smart home control hub (dubbed HomeView ) yesterday. It's a whopping $299 and an amalgamation of their technologies in an attempt to reinvigorate their home strategy.…

Petty is making a return to Android! Petty is my fuel price finder app, helping you find stations nearby and check the price before you decide to fill up. It works in most states across Australia and…

I drew a chart to illustrate how much personal software is being created