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I was digging through a drawer and remembered I had this guy from college, the BlackBerry Dev Alpha C! It's a cool little device that was handed out to developers during the early days of BlackBerry 10. If you created a certain amount of BlackBerry apps, you'd be eligible for a device (and some cash)! I also got a...

If you're running a blog that is built on PHP (for example, Pure Blog), you need to update your PHP installation right now. Critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP, putting any PHP application at risk. So SSH into your server, run sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo reboot now and then run php...

I recently learned of Ubuntu Workshops. In short, Workshops allow you to create an isolated development environment to safely work with AI agents. You get a configured (via YAML) sandbox where you can safely run an agent without the need for permission checks and guardrails. Workshops allow you to expose or block...

The job search process can be chaotic, stressful and scary. It's easy to lose track of the progress you've made in a sea of rejection emails. As you progress through the stages, it becomes important to keep track of everyone you talked to and what you discussed. When you have multiple applications going at once, it...

A new, experimental feature in Ubuntu is Myna, a local speech-to-text engine. After giving it a shot, I can say it works really well, and feels native to the system. I've tried a few alternatives on Linux, and none of them have been as smooth or responsive as Myna. Everything from the on screen display as it...

…are a soldering iron and a hot glue gun. Seriously, nothing beats the feeling of handing your kid a previously broken toy that you fixed yourself. Tonight’s surgery involved a light up fan thing that had fallen, breaking the plastic shaft and pulling the wires out. Came out good as new after some glue and solder!

I got bit by the self-hosting bug this weekend, and boy it's been fun! You see, I've had a Synology DS923+ and HP Victus 15L that have been sitting around gathering dust in the basement. In a desire to stop spending subscription fees to Apple and Google for photo storage, I decided to move the machines to my...

One day when we were in China we had to spend a few hours in an appliance store with the kids. Asking my 4-year old to sit still and learn the ins and outs of ductless AC units obviously wasn't going to happen. He quickly took to running around the store, whizzing in and out of washers, refrigerators and automatic...

Nothing beats breakfast outside on a crisp, 54F morning with a warm cup of coffee!

The past two weeks I've developed a problem. Almost every other day I've been switching between two tech extremes, my MacBook + iPad Pro + iPhone + Apple Watch setup and my Ubuntu ThinkPad + GrapheneOS Pixel + Supernote Nomad + Fitbit/Pixel Watch setup. It's gotten to the point that I imagine someone at Google Fi...

Yesterday was Labor Day in the United States. Traditionally I’ve attended a cycling event called the “Ox Roast Ride” out of a small town called West Jefferson. It’s a great event that ends in a festival featuring pit-cooked ox roast sandwiches and live music. This event was where I did my first century (100-mile...