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The Dillo Appreciation Post

An appreciation post regarding the Dillo Browser and how I use it to browse the web, including YouTube, Wallabag, and others

The Dillo Appreciation Post

An appreciation post regarding the Dillo Browser and how I use it to browse the web, including YouTube, Wallabag, and others

Überwachungsinfrastruktur

Trumps Regime demonstriert, warum wir keine Überwachungsinfrastruktur aufbauen dürfen und warum die guten Datenschutz brauchen.

02-2026 Reading Update

Reading updates for 02-2026.

Daily News Stuff 5 February 2026

November In June Edition Top Story Can Chinese memory save us from the RAM crisis? (WCCFTech) The article points out limitations of current Chinese DRAM production: It's slower than the best chips ...

FOSS Weekly #26.06: Bash Manual in Epstein Files, Linux after Linus, Nano like Editors, France Takes on Big Tech and More

Your weekly assortment of FOSS news, Linux tips and open source tools.

Who is going to train the juniors?

Junior engineers can get instant answers and working code, but risk skipping the hard-earned understanding that comes from struggle. AI is a powerful multiplier for experienced engineers, but witho...

Games, Rules, Laws

Yesterday I wrote ~2,500 words, so today will be a little shorter. A couple weeks ago I started working on a now ~5k word essay that has unfortunately become three essays in one. Out of laziness, I...

Glue Work in Software Product Design and Development

You know how things work, understand customers better than most people on the team, see where the product is headed, and you are called in to calm the never-ending designer-developer feud over how ...

Podcast episode No. 0036: Anecdote of Carlina

0036: Anecdote of Carlina0:00/265.813333333333331×Episode details: A reading of two short passages, one from The Art of Public Speaking, by John Rippingham (1814), and the other from Ralph Waldo Em...

Daily News Stuff 4 February 2026

Wheat Have Edition Top Story How it started: Europe shrugs off tariffs and plans to end its complete reliance on America for all its technology. (The Register) Except for ASML, anyway.Forrester fra...

Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces

Taking dictation, revising manuscripts, typing copies, literary amanuenses often labour for little compensation and even less recognition. Christine Jacobson explores the neglected efforts of women...

From Pixel Capture to Metadata: Reimagining Screen Recording Architecture on macOS

Independent developer Sintone shares a deep dive into building a macOS screen recorder. Learn practical solutions for ScreenCaptureKit errors (-3821), high-performance video composition with Metal,...

Do clinicians make money off of vaccines?

Your top questions answered

Microsoft's VS Code in Ubuntu's Snap Format Eats Up Disk Space Like Bloatware Even After Removal

The bug itself was reported all the way back in November 2024, and the issue is still present for current Snap versions of VS Code and even VSCodium.

Launching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative

It's been a year since I invited Americans to join us in a pledge to Share the American Dream:1. Support organizations you feel are effectively helping those most in need across America right now.2...

HTTP/1.1 From Scratch

When the web became whole.

Building An Astro Blog

My developer experience trying out the Astro framework and ditching my old site.

On craft and AI

In 2016, I stumbled across otoro.net, which is still the gem now that it was then. The website is full of funky little neural networks doing all sorts of amazing stuff. And I love it. I started pro...