The State of Linux Gaming in 2026
For about twenty years, the joke about Linux gaming was that it was always "the year of the Linux desktop" and it never quite arrived.
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Why Custom Mechanical Keyboards Took Over the Enthusiast Scene
Five years ago, if you wanted a custom mechanical keyboard, you were either ordering a kit from a Korean group buy that took eighteen months to ship, or you were lurking on r/MechanicalKeyboards trying to learn what a "stab" was.
RSS Isn't Dead, It's Just Sleeping (And You Should Use It)
RSS is the technology that everybody declared dead in 2013, used every day without realizing it, and then quietly forgot about.
Self-Hosted Bitwarden vs Trusting the Cloud: A Six-Month Report
Six months ago I moved off Bitwarden's cloud and onto a self-hosted instance running on a small VPS. The trigger was nothing dramatic.
Your Home Wi-Fi Is Probably Configured Wrong
The router your ISP gave you is fine. It is not great.
The Floppy Disk Refuses to Die, and Some Governments Are Just Now Catching Up
If I asked you to name a piece of consumer technology from 1971 that is still being actively used to control critical infrastructure in 2026, you would probably guess something like the original IBM mainframe or maybe the C programming language.
How TLS 1.3 Actually Works: The Handshake in Plain English
Every HTTPS connection you make starts with a handshake. The little lock icon in your browser only shows up once it is done.
The Steam Deck, Three Years In: What Valve Got Right
When Valve announced the Steam Deck in 2021, the prevailing reaction was skepticism.
Browser Fingerprinting: How Sites Track You Without Cookies
Block all cookies. Use private browsing. Install three different ad blockers. Switch to Brave. None of that stops the tracking.
Trying Zen Browser After a Decade on Firefox
I've been using Firefox since 2014. Every browser I've tried since (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Arc) got installed, used for a week, then quietly removed because nothing felt like home.
Why Cheap USB-C Cables Are Quietly Damaging Your Devices
I bought a five-pack of USB-C cables on Amazon last year for $8.99. Free Prime shipping, four stars, two thousand reviews.