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One Monitor to Rule Them All

I've been a big fan of the Dell UltraSharp 40 Curved Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (U4025QW) – what a name. The key features are the 21:9 aspect ratio, and the 5k2k resolution. If you're a programmer, it doesn't get any better than this. As I&

A Science Project with the Kids: Learn, Design, Construct & Test an Antenna

I am in need of an antenna. I could probably buy a purpose-built one and be done with it. I could definitely make one myself. With a little bit of patience, I could also turn this into an interesting learning experience for a couple of my kids, and let them

Meta Quest 3

My employer surprised everyone with a gift store – each employee could pick one gift that would be shipped out to you for Christmas. There were numerous coffee-making devices, of course, some knife sets, golf clubs and various gadgets. Nothing really stood out to me as a Must Have, so I

Microwave to Nowhere

I went on a hike to the top of Mt. Oglethorpe. Overall, it is an underwhelming mountain-top experience, but it is very convenient for me, and that counts for a lot. In case you're wondering, basically, there are too many trees. They have four or five observation decks,

Progress Manifests as Boringness

What was once spectacular is now mundane. What was once inventive is now rote. Reusable rocket launches are officially boring. Just a few years ago rocket launches were perhaps just as exciting (if not more exciting) than they have been for the past fifty or more years. Then the excitement

Siri & Google Gemini

This has to be such a slap in the face to the half dozen AI engineers still at Apple. "After careful evaluation, we determined that Google's technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and we're excited about the innovative new experiences it

Product Review: TP-Link TL-SX1008 (10Gbps, 8-port network switch)

First, about price. I had been watching this product on Amazon and B&H for some time (months, actually). At $280, I didn't quite feel I could justify it. I was right on the verge though when suddenly the price jumped to like $350 and just stayed

One Pixel Black Line on macOS

I just burned a star (using AI) trying to figure out what the one-pixel-tall black line was that appeared between the top-bar and the view below it. ChatGPT gave me a solution that completely hid the titlebar, which did solve the black line problem, but I actually wanted the titlebar

WTF is a Thunderbolt?

WTF is a Thunderbolt, and why is everyone pretending that’s a perfectly acceptable word and product name. What does it even mean? Thunder is a sound. It is not a bolt. Lighting comes in bolts. How is everyone okay with this?

PayPal Fail

In the grand scheme of things, it isn't the biggest possible corporate failure imaginable. It seems like PayPal took a list of states, sorted them alphabetically, and then converted them to 2-character abbreviations – which are then not sorted alphabetically. So, yeah, state names and state abbreviations don'

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