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A clear sky with the Windows logo partially covered by a warning sign labeled “Penguins!”

A quick look into LxRun.exe: Windows 10’s new Linux-installer

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

A smartwatch strapped to a wrist. The smartwatch’s screen shows a train symbol next to the text “31 minutes to Work”.

Looking back on a year with Android Wear

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

The Xbox One Sensor.

I’ve given up on the Xbox One Kinect

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

Use an asterism for section breaks

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

The GNOME Calendar and To-Do app icons side by side.

Synchronize GNOME and all its apps with a CalDAV server

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

A closeup on the keyboard of a Lenovo laptop with a dark screen.

Lock screens should have keyboard input protection

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.

A stack of open magazines.

Web browsers bring personalized news to their New Tab pages

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

The Sleipnir app icon partially overlaid by the RSS feed icon with a grid of news stories in the background.

Sleipnir browser focuses on news with Site Updates on New Tab page

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

The silhouette of a man photographing a sunset.

Experiences with monetizing on Google Play Store

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

A lightning bolt strikes the ground in the distance during a rainy thunderstorm.

Popular free weather API from Yr.no deprecates URLs and adds HTTPS

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

A penguin looking away from the Debian logo and towards the Fedora logo.

Migrated from Debian to Fedora

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

The ligth from cities on Earth seen from space.

DNS SRV records usage for email and calendar service discovery

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

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