Recently I had heard of the Zed editor- an editor based on Rust, that is, not bloated Chrome+Javascript based code, that can give VS Code some competition for development environment.
Continue reading “Can Zed compete with VS Code as the AI enabled editor of choice?”New, Simple tool for Android app version backup: APKSafePassage
How often has this happened to you – when you update some app, the app breaks or doesn’t work in the way it did before? 🙁 There is now a super simple script to pull backups of your favorite apps to your computer:
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It’s finally October and as you may know that means Hacktoberfest! This year the theme is open-source and AI. If you want to share Ham Radio / AI tools check out the event next week at the Medford library:
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Why is the latest Ubuntu the Resolute Trash-panda? I don’t know… but it’s just a name I guess? After updating I had to kill the process for the upgrade process then “apt upgrade” to make sure it finished… Other than that it seems a good release:
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If you’ve used Matomo (formerly Piwik) for user tracking you may know that it’s quite easy to add in the Matomo tracking code to pages or base blade.php templates… but the new AI Insights tab is empty?? And furthermore there is no instruction on how to add it to a Laravel based site which you think would be fairly common:
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This week the previous Outlook Lite was discontinued, as you may have seen with the warnings in app for weeks now. The preferred Outlook app they send you to not only has 6 different tracking/advert libraries in it, the download is over 100MB! There are operating systems that are smaller than that. No thanks….
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If you’ve been programming, or learning programming over the past year or so, you should have seen many of the coding assistants… MS Copilot, Claude, Chatgpt and similar. While these have been very handy in looking up how to build a thing – and even building the thing (sometimes successfully!) There are a lot of reasons why you should do the real coding for your project… Or at least read and add your changes and files manually, from a browser vs built in IDE features.
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If you’re like me you may have preferred the old open-source Silence app, over the default Android’s text messages for many years… It had an optional encrypt option that sometimes worked, it had its own backup/restore to restore to a new phone, but unfortunately that is incompatible with others and now has an incompatibility warning with Android 15…
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Remember the previous social media channel Twitter that was redefined by a well known billionaire? I had heard that it is not in use as much anymore, but after hearing from multiple channels about entrepreneurs promoting their stuff quite successfully, I decided to try it out…
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For those with a non-“smart” alarm or watch, this Sunday (November 2nd, 2025) may be the time to fall back an hour. It’s also a time developers watch for odd errors…
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