Ctrl blog archive, page 11

WSL’s new LxRun management program lets you download and install Linux on Windows 10.

I’ve worn a Moto 360 for one year and I’ve got a lot to say about the experience.

There weren’t really any games released for the Xbox One Kinect, and Microsoft is slowly killing it off.

Create section breaks with a <hr> element styled as an asterism (⁂) instead of a horizontal rule.

How to set up sync of your CalDAV and CardDAV accounts with GNOME apps like Evolution, Calendar, Contacts, dash-search, and more.

The screen is off. You type your password out of habit and hit Enter. You may now accidentally have sent it somewhere it doesn’t belong.

New tabs in web browsers used to be just blank. Now there’s a rush to bring you news on the new tab.

Sleipnir auto-discovers RSS feeds from your most visited websites and curates a personal news feed on its New Tab page.

I made a quick niche app and published it on Google Play Store. Here are my experiences trying to monetize it.

MET Norway’s weather service Yr has deprecated its old APIs. New API protects users’ location-data with HTTPS-encryption.

I left Deb-packages and all of Debian Linux behind in favor of Fedora and RPMs. Here is why I made that decision.

A quick survey of the use of DNS SRV records for auto-configuration by email and calendar hosting service providers.