Posts tagged "tech"

Sandboxels on Neal.fun - A New Home

We’re excited to share some surprising news — Sandboxels is joining Neal.fun, the home of popular online games such as Infinite Craft, The Password Game, and I’m Not A Robot.

Trying out Thunderbird Appointment While I Patiently Wait For An Invite

OK, I'm actually a little impatient to use the new open source schedule booking tool by the Thunderbird team that will be a part of Thunderbird Pro.

Xcode Enters the Agent Era - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #122

The arrival of Xcode 26.3, with almost no advance notice, responded to these doubts with concrete action. By integrating Claude Code/Codex, Apple's answer was direct: with the right strategy, Xcode...

Ghostty vs Kitty: Which Modern Terminal is the Best for Linux Users?

Two of the most popular modern terminal emulators for pro Linux users. But which one is the better of the two?

IRC Log: Standup

This Lesser-Known Nextcloud Alternative's Latest Release Makes it More Suitable for Small Businesses

The open source groupware platform partners with Collabora to provide a paid feature for free. There is also a Kanban module along with a time approval feature.

Linux Kernel 6.19 Arrives! You Get Intel, AMD Improvements, and ASUS Armoury Support

Hardware support gets major buffs across multiple architectures.

Motorola T82 Extreme is my PMR446 Walkie-Talkie

As a kid, I always wanted a set of Walkie Talkies to chat with friends. We got cell phones as adults, but that desire remained. A few years back, I took the HAM exam, but then COVID hit us, and I d...

Eversource EV Rebate Program Exposed Massachusetts Customer Data

I recently claimed a rebate for installing an electric vehicle (EV) charger, only to discover that Eversource, my power supplier, was publicly exposing personal information of customers who applied...

The Conductor’s Model for Enterprise Go-To-Market

Go-to-Market (GTM) mishaps are often coordination failures rather than execution failures. Every smart person in the team works at their best; marketing is busy, sales are active, product is shippi...

Weekly Robotics #347

Hopefully, this will be the last issue in the coming months to arrive later than usual. On the other hand, it brings some very fresh news about Ouster and Stereolabs. Let's look into some robots! T...

Weekend flights along the pareto frontier

I was curious to see whether I could find cheap cross-country flights for this upcoming long weekend. Spoiler: guess. The problem with sites like Google Flights (gflights) is that the interface onl...

Offpunk 3.0 "A Community is Born" Release

Offpunk 3.0 "A Community is Born" Release For the last four years, I’ve been developing Offpunk, a command-line Web, Gemini, and Gopher browser that allows you to work offline. And I’ve just releas...

Step Aside, Phone!

I read this post on Manu's blog and it immediately resonated. I've been spending more time than I'd like to admit staring at my phone recently, and most of that consists of a stupid game, or YouTub...

Daily News Stuff 8 February 2026

Simon And Simony Edition Top Story The robot revolution will not be televised in 8K. (MSN) The recent fuss over AI-only social network Moltbook is deflating somewhat as it becomes clear that the fi...

I've Moved to Pure Blog!

In my last post I introduced Pure Blog and ended the post by saying: I'm going to take a little break from coding for a few days, then come back and start migrating this site over to Pure Blog. Dog...

2026W05

My AI Adoption Journey — The most practical thing here is the “reproduce your own work” phase: doing tasks manually and then redoing them with agents. Painful, but it forces you to learn where agen...

In the Age of AI Writing Tools, I Picked Emacs for My Sci-Fi Novel

The venerable text editor feels timeless and timely in the age of AI and enshittification. A novelist argues that it is perhaps because Emacs is the embodiment of FOSS ideals

Cold reboot

Today is Sunday! What a great day. Today was absolutely freezing, and I just about froze my ears off while walking around. Luckily my friend Nathan saw me and spared me a beanie. This week was good...

Daily News Stuff 7 February 2026

Bedraggled Edition Top Story A trillion here, a trillion there. Sooner or later, you're talking about fake money. The global semiconductor industry is on track to hit $1 trillion in sales for 2026....