Mike Kasberg's Blog

The Pine Time is a $27 smart watch that runs open source firmware.

Astropilot VR is a 3D VR game for mobile phones that I vibe coded in a single weekend, as part of Vibe Jam.

I’ve been doing my taxes by hand (on Free File Fillable Forms) for several years now.

Wow, what a wild year it’s been!

I’ve been managing my dotfiles with Chezmoi for nearly five years now, and I love it!

I got pretty excited when Bolt.new announced the World’s Largest Hackathon.

I’ve been noticing for a while that on my personal laptop, new terminal tabs/windows were very slow to start (more than a second).

I’ve been writing about how to dual-boot Ubuntu and Windows with encryption for a long time.

In my previous blog post, I reviewed a Nimo N153 R5 6600H Laptop.

If you’ve read some of my past blog posts (like My $500 Developer Laptop or The Best Computer You can Buy for $100), you might already know I enjoy finding good technology on a budget.

This is a story about how I overpaid my 2021 taxes due to an error in TurboTax and spent nearly three years trying to recover more than $12,000 from the IRS!

I worked on a fun little project recently to recover data from my wife’s 2015 MacBook Air.

Ghostty came out today!

Dual-booting Ubuntu and Windows with encryption for both has been possible for a long time, but has always been difficult.

On any blog, it’s really common to link to related posts near the end of an article.

I’ve been thinking for a while that it would be fun to add some kind of color-changing LED mood lighting to my home office.

The US is one of the only countries in the world where everyone wastes a dozen hours every year doing their taxes.

I’m a big fan of used computers!

Strava challenges offer a fun way for athletes to compete against themselves and others!

When we bought our house several years ago, our home wifi consisted of a cable modem and wireless router on the floor of our living room (where we happened to have a coax outlet).

It’s really common to add Google Analytics to your site to gain valuable insights about who’s visiting.

Last week I went to Strange Loop 2023.

I’m not the first person to write about a $500 developer laptop.

I’m sure everyone’s had a frustrating experience trying to optimize their home wifi network.

Learning to create 3D models with OpenSCAD has opened a world of possibilities for me.

I just added a new wall decoration to my home office, and I think it turned out great!

As I mentioned in my last blog post, I’ve been getting into 3D printing recently.

I got my first 3D printer about three months ago, and now that I’ve had it for a little while I wanted to write about my experience with it so far.

Like in many houses, our cable modem was an eye sore on a shelf in our living room for many years.

Many Ubuntu users have recently become frustrated by the Pending update of "firefox" snap message they sometimes see when using Firefox.

Lunch Money is a great tool for tracking your personal finances.

A couple months ago, I discovered that the classifier-reborn gem (a popular Jekyll plugin to group related posts) was essentially incompatible with Ruby 3.

For years, Mint was the first thing people would recommend to anyone looking for a budgeting or personal finance tool.

It might seem impossible to find a good computer under $100, but you actually have more options than you probably realize.

If you use Firefox on Ubuntu, you might have noticed that Firefox seems less stable in Ubuntu 21.10+ (including Firefox 22.04 LTS!).

Unfortunately, it’s really hard to find good advice about humidifiers on the internet.

Wordle is one of the latest crazes to hit Twitter.

Iteration is an important part of my development workflow, and it’s an important part of the way we work at Strava.

GitHub Codespaces made waves when GitHub introduced the feature several months ago.

Thule makes several popular bike trailers, including the Cadence and Chariot.

I’ve written before about my own search for The Ultimate Developer Laptop back in 2019.

Laptop docks are great!

Can you use a DisplayLink dock with Ubuntu?

I recently spent some time improving my bash prompt.

Sometimes, we work on shiny new features that (we hope) athletes will notice and love.

When you’re a developer (or perhaps even a normal power-user), you seem to acquire a bunch of custom config, scripts, and tools over time.

I’ve already written a review of the Orange Pi Zero.

This year, Computer Science Education Week will be December 7-13, 2020.

In late 2019, Strava’s product development team began forming ideas about a new way to compete on Strava.

The Social Dilemma came out about a month ago and got a lot of people thinking about the influence the internet and social media have on their daily lives.