https://thomashunter.name/posts/2026-01-12-repairing-bose-sounddock-ipod-speaker

A photo zine that I made is on display at three San Francisco coffee shops.

@threeforks it might just be a KDE or Wayland compat issue

I really wish Mozilla would stop wasting time shoving AI into their browser and fix the basics. No Firefox user wants AI. Firefox users only use Firefox to get away from the garbage in mainline browsers. It's currently not technically superior in any way.

4. Lots of webpages, especially Google Mail, display blinking cursors on arbitrary non-input elements. The cursor disappears on an input element until I change focus away from and back to the webpage.

The Zen browser, a fork of Firefox, doesn't seem to exhibit these issues.

#Firefox on #Linux has been incredibly buggy lately.
1. Upon returning from a lock screen the browser sometimes won't update the chrome or rendered page. One needs to switch focus away and back for it to work.
2. Drag and drop file uploads don't work 90% of the time. Certain keyboard events trigger a file drag event and some pages get stuck in a file upload mode and can't be interacted with.
3. Eventually the chrome locks up, tabs can't be reordered, refresh button doesn't work but F5 does.

https://rfchub.com/rfchub/rfc1-org-batch-markdown-exporter-job

Pour one out for the engineer at Valve who did a Christmas Eve deployment.

@Simx72 @cartero @bart that's a good point. Plus if I run Cartero on KDE I think it's pulling in gnome/gtk libs. We're gonna need some complex memory measurement tools! ;)

@cartero @bart if we're measuring GUI apps then it may be appropriate to add the terminal emulator's footprint for curl ;)

How UI degrades over time.

Top (Windows 95): great contrast, obvious shapes. Instantly readable.

Middle (Windows 11): shapes are still self-explanatory, but contrast is gone.

Bottom (Windows 11 Insiders): what am I even looking at? The only shape I can understand here is the Run button. Barely visible, though.

Then, on the left, there’s another something that says Run and has an icon. What is it? A window title? Another button? Why does it have to say Run twice?
... 1/3

@jimw The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward /s

@somafm "It's Toasted"

I've been working on a project to keep track of internal company technical proposals (#RFC, #ADR, #TDD, etc). It formalizes the review and acceptance process to make proposals more like a pull request and less like adding dropdowns in a text document.

Give RFC Hub a try:
https://rfchub.app/

@timbray I used to make a case sensitive partition on my MacBooks when I used OS X for server development to avoid a swath of prod issues

This MacOS (APFS?) quirk was mentioned at the pub last night, and I still cannot believe this actually works when I tried it myself

I built a webpage that you can use on your mobile phone to turn the screen into an accent light. Click the fullscreen button then drag your finger around to change the color. I use it with my old spare Android phones where I can't install new apps.
https://thomashunter.name/light

Huge shoutout to the team for shipping five major releases in one week. The pace, the polish, and the ambition are unreal. Customers can feel the momentum and we’re just getting started.

@Meyerweb a gearbox where two gears have a 2:1 size ratio?