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I got a Kobo in 2016 after borrowing my mom's old one for a year before that. It probably is responsible for getting me reading again after high school. I used to be an avid reader, the sort of kid who would have to be told to put down the book and go to sleep, and who would then creep slowly to the bookshelf to pick…
A checklist for configuring Mozilla Firefox for a more private browsing experience.
When designing software systems, do the simplest thing that could possibly work. It’s surprising how far you can take this piece of advice. I genuinely think…
A deep dive into the convoluted and fascinating story of one of the most important keys on the keyboard
We’ve had decades of thought leadership around testing, especially coming from holistic development philosophies like Agile, TDD, and BDD. After all that time and several supposedly superseding movements, the developers I talk to seem to have developed a folk wisdom around tests. That consensus seems to boil down to…
We're piloting Claude in Chrome to test browser-based AI capabilities while addressing prompt injection risks and building the safety measures needed before wider release.
For the last ten years or so of working on Bundler, I’ve had a wish rattling around: I want a better dependency manager. It doesn’t just manage your gems, it manages your ruby versions, too. It doesn’t just manage your ruby versions, it installs pre-compiled rubies so you don’t have to wait for ruby to compile from…
A CLI tool is not an app, and none of you are reading the docs as carefully as you think you are
Modifying the MX Ergo trackball mouse to fix its micro-USB charging, loud switches, and bloated software issues.
At the time of writing, the most recent Adobe Reader 25.x.y.z 64-bit installer for Windows 11 weights 687,230,424 bytes . After installation, the program includes 'AI' (of course), an auto-updater, sprinkled ads for Acrobat online services everywhere, and 2 GUIs: 'new' and 'old'.
Why buy a bespoke camera when you can do something much harder instead?
My life is not a math Olympiad
I use my line scan camera to take cool pictures of trains and other stuff.
Automatically filter sensitive information before sending it to external services or APIs, such as chatbots and LLMs.
uv 0.8.13 adds experimental uv format command that runs Ruff's formatter, similar to how cargo fmt wraps rustfmt.
I have a slight problem wherein every time I start up a game of NetHack, I completely lose touch with my surroundings for hours on end. Thankfully The DevTeam Thinks Of Everything and there’s a solution that allows communication with the outside world without breaking immersion: the mail daemon!
Hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library, this Burner Phone 101 workshop introduced participants to phone-related risk modeling, privacy-protective smartphone practices, the full spectrum of burner phone options, and when to leave phones behind entirely.
Why we dropped Playwright and switched to raw CDP for faster, more capable browser automation.
After 15 years on macOS, I made the leap to Arch Linux using Omarchy. Here's what I discovered about the trade-offs, workflow changes, and why shorter battery life and fan noise haven't sent me back to my MacBook.
In the latest release of D2 (0.7.1), we introduce ASCII outputs.
Marcin ‘mbork’ Borkowski has a nice post showing us how he trims video clips from our beloved editor. Trimming clips is something I do from time to ti...
We are excited to introduce Positron , a free, next-generation Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for data science by Posit PBC. Positron brings the spectrum of exploration and production work together in one environment so you can move from ideation to insight to application without switching context…
After Arc's pivot to AI left power users behind, I found the browser I actually wanted.
How I went from buying a €200 tracker to building a custom telescope mount with harmonic drives, ESP32, and way more engineering than necessary
sugar, spice, and everything not nice
I will never stop dying on this hill
The new Processor Trace instrument has flown under the radar with this years WWDC announcements but many developers will find it truly indispensable.
Valve and Itch have been in the spotlight for being more or less forced by "Payment processors" to pull certain adult content off their storefronts. The short story of it is Valve pulled a couple of games down while Itch pulled down everything marked mature/adult temporarily and had to sort through their entire…
