Remote desktop capabilities still missing in Fedora 29 Workstation
The release of Fedora 29 marks the second anniversary of the introduction of Wayland as the default display manager for Fedora Workstation. It’s also the forth…
How to use Xiaomi Mi Band 3 as a continuous heart rate monitor for Google Fit
The is a cheap health monitoring fitness tracker with a photoplethysmograpmic (PPG) heart rate sensor, step counter, and basic sleep monitoring. It syncs to your phone…
How I blocked myself from obtaining a Let’s Encrypt TLS certificates
I had setup a new domain name for use as a simple peer-to-peer video streaming service (more on that in a future update) but repeatedly ran…
I’d prefer paying a monthly subscription for updates to Cities: Skylines
City Skylines: Industries is the seventh large expansion pack to the 2015 city builder game. This latest pack now makes Cities Skylines the the single most…
Changes to how Mozilla Readability extracts article metadata in Firefox 63
Why I prefer using Instapaper on the web over their Android app
I’m not a fan of Instapaper’s web browser extensions or their Android app, but I am a fan of their core read-later service.
Scaleway seems too good to be true
The French virtual private (VPS) hosting provider Scaleway looks damned impressive offering four dedicated ARM processor cores and 2 GB of RAM for 3 Euro per…
DNSLink and IPNS availability survey
I’ve examined the top one million websites (according to Alexa Internet) to find out how many of them announce availability on the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)…
Contour Diabetes app, Bluetooth, and why diabetics can’t have nice things
I thought my new Contour Next One glucose meter with a companion phone app would work like a modern connected fitness tracker and give me convenient…
Why we need the distributed web
The distributed web seeks to make peer-to-peer content distribution the new default. This should help make the web topology more democratic and resilient to nature and…
