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The internet's best time-killer is back
StumbleUpon is back. Sort of. Although the original site shut down and became Mix back in 2018, other people have developed various randomizer-style websites to provide a similar experience. <img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2026/06/a-world-map-appears-on-a-screen-in-stumbleupon-cc-1.jpg' />
5 uses for my Kindle that aren't reading books
I've used the same Kindle for over a decade, and since it worked fine for my needs, I never got around to jailbreaking it. When Amazon ended software support for my Kindle model, I finally took the leap. Now that it's jailbroken, I'm able to use my Kindle for so much more than just reading books.
How I stopped rebuilding the same React features from scratch (using Claude Code skills)
Every React project starts the same way.You open a new repo, and the first thing you need is auth. So you ask Claude Code to build it. And it generates... a 30-line login form. No OTP. No magic link. No proper error handling. No Zod validation. Just boilerplate you have to rewrite to match your actual conventions.I got tired of this. The problem with AI-generated codeThe issue isn't that Claude is bad at coding. It's that it doesn't know your conventions. It generates what a generic React a
Building Principia for Windows XP
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What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?
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Tidal AI Policy
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ReAct Inside — From Message to State, Understanding How AI Agents Really Work
When people first encounter ReAct (Reason + Act), they often think it's just adding three fields—Thought / Action / Observation—to the prompt.But in reality, the core of ReAct isn't the prompt format. It's the Agent's State Machine.This article explains, from an engineering perspective, how ReAct actually works inside an LLM, and how it relates to modern Function Calling and Tool Calling. 1. What Is ReAct?ReAct (Reason + Act) comes from the 2022 paper ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting
You don't need to free up RAM on your Android phone (in fact, you shouldn't)
<p>Over the last few years, you might have come across a common Developer Options hack that promises to free up RAM on your Android phone by limiting background processes. Or perhaps you're still using an app to clear cache and memory.</p><img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2026/06/two-2.jpg' />
This is why I only buy fitness trackers, not smart watches
With companies continuing to release new generations of their smartwatches, one area consistently receives the most attention: fitness. Health and fitness features have become a primary focus of smartwatches in recent years, and that trend shows no signs of slowing down.
React Suspense & the use() Hook: Complete Guide (2026)
Suspense has been in React since 16.6, but data fetching with Suspense was experimental until React 18/19. Now it's a first-class async UI primitive, and the new use() hook gives you a direct way to integrate it without a library. What Suspense Actually DoesSuspense doesn't know anything about fetching. When a component throws a Promise during render, React catches it, renders the nearest <Suspense> boundary's fallback, and retries when the Promise resolves.// Conceptually, what libra
I don't trust Amazon Echo speakers anymore, so I turned mine into a Bluetooth speaker with no cloud connection
I have several Echo smart speakers in my home. Amazon has continued to make the prices of these devices relatively cheap in order to try to lock people into its smart home ecosystem. I no longer really trust my Echo speakers, so I wanted to see if I could put them to use in another way.
5 free and open-source software (FOSS) to replace Microsoft, Google, and big tech
You don't really own much of your digital life. Your files live on someone else's servers, your phone reports back to its manufacturer, and the software you rely on every day can change its terms, raise its price, or disappear whenever the company behind it decides. That's the trade most of us made without thinking about it: convenience in exchange for control.
10 Most Feature-Rich React Data Grid Libraries in 2026
Comparing the most feature-rich React data grids in 2026, from pivot tables and tree data to server-side loading, AI-assisted development, advanced filtering, and spreadsheet-style editing.When you're evaluating a React data grid in 2026, the challenge usually isn't finding a React data grid that supports sorting or filtering.Almost every grid can do that.The real challenge is figuring out which libraries go beyond the basics and provide the advanced capabilities that tend to appear six months a
Pollen (CEO Negus-Fancey, CTO Wright) tried to remove article, and Google helped
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Overqualified, underemployed, and still showing up: The military spouse employment challenge
Spouses improvise, adapt, yet may be unemployed anyway.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1655189536833-694186d88868?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8N3x8RW1wbG95bWVudHxlbnwwfHwyfHwxNjU3NzUyOTA4&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=1080' />
Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
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Better Images of AI
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NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, June 29 (game #848)
Looking for a different day?A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Sunday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, June 28 (game #847).Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can be difficult, thou
Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models (2024)
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Context vs Prop Drilling: I Put the Re-render Blast Radius Side by Side
"Prop drilling is bad, use Context" is repeated everywhere — but the actual cost stays abstract. So I put the two approaches side by side with live render counters. Click one button and the difference is impossible to miss.▶ Live demo: https://context-vs-props-drilling.vercel.app/Source (React 19 + TS): https://github.com/dev48v/context-vs-props-drillingTwo identical 4-level trees, both React.memo'd. One threads a value down as a prop through every level; the other provides it once via Context a