Testing experimental software is a hassle right now. You either wait for a stable release, or you dive into the pit of nightly builds hoping the whole thing doesn’t fall on your head. That gets worse on image-based systems like GNOME OS,
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I started using Trello around 2013-14 to work on a team project. Trello was new and rising at the time for its simplicity of providing a collaborative Kanban board. After its acquisition and recent AI surge, Trello has changed a lot. But
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Slack is the solution most teams think of first when they are in the market for a chat application. It is known for being feature-packed, fast, and consistently updated, making it a go-to for millions of teams across the world. But no
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Back in 2020, I wrote about Open Book: a DIY, open source e-reader project from developer Joey Castillo that you could solder together yourself… at least in theory. It had a 4.2 inch e-paper screen, seven physical buttons for navigation, and the
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As consumers, we are used to correlating handhelds with the big names like Valve’s Steam Deck, Lenovo’s Legion Go, and ASUS’ ROG Ally. But these machines are geared towards gaming and are priced like it too. Lately, a different segment has been
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I have been gaming on Linux more than usual lately; that’s part due to my main gaming rig being out of reach and part me wanting to play more on this platform than Windoze. I played a few indie games to pass
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Most microcontroller boards on the market today rely on Python, usually in the form of MicroPython or CircuitPython. If you’ve ever wanted something leaner without giving up that no-compile, REPL-driven workflow, Lua is the option worth considering. But then most microcontroller boards
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Among the mainstream Linux distros, Linux Mint has been an outlier, spending many years easing Cinnamon and its users, into Wayland one careful step at a time while other distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora made it the default experience. Now, that patience
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There is no shortage of personal knowledge management (PKM) applications available today if you use Markdown notes. Be it Obsidian or Logseq or Tolaria, there is a pain point associated with almost all of them. They add a layer on top of
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Recently, Microsoft reluctantly agrred that a bug was eating up uo to 500 GB of disk space in Windows 11. They knew about the bug for months, no fix came. Germany may not have kicked right in the Paraguay match, but it
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