The Android operating system comes with a Special App Access menu that includes a number of powerful permissions, most of which can grant apps installed on your phone a high level of access to the device.
Smart plugs are often dismissed as little more than a cheap way to remotely control lamps or switch on your coffee maker before you even get out of bed. But they're capable of much more than that, and one of their most useful applications is right there—in your homelab.
A Pi-hole is an incredibly powerful tool, but it’s also a window into every single digital interaction on your network. It sees every domain every device in your house asks for, timestamped and tied to a specific client IP.
While there is still only one Windows, Linux distros come and go. While some early distros have stood the test of time, others have fallen into computer history. I'll look back on some pioneering Linux distros you can't get anymore, at least in current versions.
The second-generation Echo Dot was the first smart speaker I ever owned, but it was ultimately a disappointment. There was nothing inherently wrong with the hardware; it was Amazon's proprietary software that was always the problem. It's possible to hack an old Echo Dot and escape Amazon's ecosystem altogether.
DeWALT makes excellent power tools, and most people have all the basics that are pretty large. Sometimes, all you need is a small and versatile tool to get the job done. Whether you're low on space or don't want to buy huge tools, here are some tiny DeWALT tools that'll deliver big results.
Linux users like to argue about which distros are best, especially on Reddit. This can be either generally or for a particular use case, such as on laptops. I wanted to look at some of the "worst" distros and see if they were really as bad as some Reddit users claimed.
Switching to Linux is easier than it used to be, but one of the issues that hasn't changed is software compatibility. Genuinely good open-source apps that should run anywhere don't run on Linux at all or just aren't good at it. Unfortunately, open source doesn't mean cross-platform. Some of these tools are so deeply tied to Windows internals that even their own deve
German luxury sedans offer plenty of allure, but they also demand a price that few people can actually afford. This is only made worse if you want a back seat that can actually comfortably fit an adult. At the top of the trim ladder of a Korean mid-size sedan, however, sits a model that delivers most of what you'd want from a German luxury sedan for a fraction of th
Do you know how many requests your smart devices make on your network? I didn't until I tracked it for 24 hours. Out of over 30 devices, just six smart plugs and switches used nearly 1.5GB of data and made nearly half a million DNS requests—in one single day.
I run AI Change Watch, a small independent project thatcrawls what 15 AI vendors publish about their own models — deprecation tables, lifecycle pages, pricingand SDK releases — and records every time one of them changes.At some point I added a Content-Security-Policy. It was correct. It shipped. Production was fine.And then, locally, every interactive thing on the site stopped working. The symptomnext dev starts. The page loads. It looks exactly right — the layout, the data, the styles, all
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Next.js 16 is the biggest architecture shift since the App Router: caching is now opt-in instead of implicit, middleware.ts became proxy.ts, and Turbopack is the default bundler for every app. If you upgrade for one reason, upgrade because you finally control when your data is cached instead of guessing.I run Next.js in production, and the caching model in 15 was the part I fought most. Half my no-store and revalidate lines were cargo cult, added to make a stale page go away without really knowi
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I built a 150+ tool website with Next.js 15 on Cloudflare Pages (utlkit.com).Half the traffic was from China, half from elsewhere. Time to add i18n.I thought it would take a day. It took four, and I rewrote the approach three times. Why is i18n Harder Than You Think?A 100+ page tool site needs more than translated text. You need to handle:LayerProblemRoutingDoes the URL change on language switch? How does Google distinguish en/zh pages?SEOBilingual title/description/keywords? How to set can
Next.js 16.3 introduced a broader Instant Navigations architecture designed to make transitions feel closer to a client-side SPA while preserving the benefits of React Server Components. The framework uses techniques including reusable route shells, caching, streaming, and partial prefetching to reduce the visible delay between navigation and interaction.Next.js 16.3 also includes significant development-performance improvements, including lower memory usage and faster builds and rendering.Why I
The Gap in the App Router Caching SystemThe Next.js App Router introduced a revolutionary, multi-tiered caching system. Between the Data Cache, the Full Route Cache, and the Client Router Cache, Next.js handles server-side rendering and static generation flawlessly. However, as enterprise applications scale into highly interactive, dashboard-heavy Single Page Applications (SPAs), developers quickly discover a glaring gap in the Next.js architecture: Client-Side State Synchronization.Imagine a co
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