3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (644+ words) Every little thing in a graphical user interface that we take for granted today, no matter how small, was thought up by someone, at some point. Case in point: the little red squiggly lines underneath misspelled words. In one form…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (537+ words) I've had my share of issues with network shares on any operating system, but since I mostly use KDE these days I found this deep dive into how, exactly, network shares work in KDE quite interesting. It turns out that…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (310+ words) The developer working on Xfwl4, the Wayland compositor for Xfce, has published the new compositor's very first alpha release. Considering it's only been six months or so of work, it's impressive to see the effort reach this state already. The end…...

5+ day, 38+ min ago  (678+ words) In mac OS, you can apparently create files and directories in the Finder with names that include slashes. If you then go into the terminal and take a look with ls, you'll see that the slashes are actually colons. I…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (336+ words) Apple's Swift has become the de-facto language for Apple's own developers for a while now, and it seems that with the new operating system releases from the company unveiled during WWDC, Switch is now also being used in the kernel....

5+ day, 3+ hour ago  (135+ words) Every website has a favicon. It's that little icon in your browser tab. Usually you upload it once and then never think about it again. But. A favicon is just an image. An image is just pixels. And pixels are…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (344+ words) I mean, this is preaching to the choir, but let's go anyway. I liked the UIs of the entire era from 3. 0 to 2000, really. I'm mostly using Windows 2000 as an example here because it runs so well in QEMU/KVM and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (590+ words) Five years after releasing the Amiga 1000, Commodore was about to launch the Amiga 3000, their first real high-end Amiga. With a 68030 processor, on-board SCSI and a slightly updated graphics chipset, all in a sleek desktop case, the Amiga was truly ready…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (514+ words) Oracle is sticking to its promise of more regular Solaris updates with the release of Oracle Solaris 11. 4 SRU93. This release, like other SRU releases, is for paying Solaris customers, as the CBE releases for enthusiasts are on a different cadence. With…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (652+ words) Yesterday, Google released Android 17 to Pixel devices, so late last night I updated my Pixel 10 Pro with the intent to write a news item about the release today. The reality is that that I totally forgot I even upgraded last…...