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Giscus is an easy way to add commenting ability to posts of a blog.

The TP-Link UB500 is a Bluetooth 5.4 adapter available as a USB-A dongle.

The Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard is a dome-shaped split-key 75% wireless keyboard.

Paul's Online Notes Fully online math textbook with notes and problem sets for Algebra, Calculus, Differential Equations.

The Raspberry Pi Imager is a Linux tool that makes it easy to flash SD and micro-SD cards with OS images.

PressReader is an online service and smartphone apps that can be used to borrow and read magazines digitally from your local library.

How Claude Watermarks AI-Generated Text Sebastian Raschka explains how Claude does watermarking for its generated text and how watermarked text is detected.

The Panasonic DMP-BD84P-K is a Blu-Ray player for the TV, that can also handle DVD and CD.

The Philips AJT3300 is a Bluetooth clock radio that can also charge a smartphone.

Freeform is the default whiteboarding application that works all of Apple's devices: MacOS, iPad and iPhone.

GNOME Decoder is a Linux tool that can be used to decode QR codes.

Search in Popup is a Firefox extension that opens a popup of a search page using the currently selected text.

Selection Search is a popular extension for Firefox (and Chrome) to search for the selected text on search engines or any websites that have search functionality (like IMDB or libraries).

There’s still no point in gigabit broadband – Terence Eden’s Blog Online video calling isn't that intensive.

Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars - YouTube Great explainer on how hybrid cars work.

On MacOS, the cmd tab keyboard shortcut only switches between apps, not the individual windows.

The Brother HL-L3290CDW is a color laser printer and scanner with wireless capability.

Apple Shortcuts is an app that can be used to create a shortcut associated with a sequence of tasks.

llama.cpp is a LLM inference framework written in C++ and primarily meant for edge computers like laptops.

Insights from NVIDIA Research | NVIDIA GTC - YouTube Talk by Bill Dally at GTC 2026.

Image Capture is the built-in app on MacOS that can be used to scan photos or pages from a scanner.

GoAccess is an open-source log analyzer and interactive viewer for the terminal or the browser.

Nginx is a popular web server for Linux.

uv is a package and project manager for Python projects.

human.json is a simple decentralized mechanism created by Beto Dealmeida to discover human-authored websites and for owners of such sites to declare authorship.

Claude Code is the CLI agentic AI tool by Anthropic designed to aid in software development.

One of the best features of Firefox is the availability of a large number of addons.

I have been using trackballs instead of mice for almost 18 years now.

Macbook Neo is an entry-level laptop from Apple that was launched in 2026.

The iPhone 17e The $599 iPhone 17e, with the A19, benchmarks faster in single-core CPU performance than the $599 MacBook Neo, with the year-old A18 Pro.

iTerm2 is an open-source alternative to the Terminal app that ships with MacOS.

9V Battery Smoke alarms: These alarms can be in places that are difficult to reach, so it is best to choose a battery that lasts the longest.

PageFind can be used to add search capability to any static website.