Four under-the-radar Google Play features I now consider non-negotiable
TL;DR A recent Play Store session revealed four practical features that improve control and convenience: per-app auto-update toggles, a Download…
HPV vaccination cuts HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to under 1% in Denmark
TL;DR A cohort study of Danish women vaccinated as girls found vaccine-covered HPV types 16 and 18 have been almost…
Plain-text double-entry accounting for a multi-currency household
TL;DR A software engineer replaced brittle homegrown scripts with a plain-text, double-entry system built on Beancount to track a two-person,…
Ten Years Managing Personal Finances in Plain-Text Beancount Ledgers
TL;DR Since January 2016 the author has tracked personal finances in plain-text Beancount files, spending roughly 30–45 minutes each month…
How Protesters Became Content for the Cops: The Spectacle of Protest Policing
TL;DR In 2025, protest policing in major US cities shifted toward highly staged, confrontational tactics that prioritized displays of force…
How Much Daily Walking Reduces Risk of Chronic Back Pain, According to Research
TL;DR Chronic back pain affects hundreds of millions globally and can diminish quality of life and finances. A recent Wired…
Punkt’s MC03: German-assembled privacy smartphone arriving in the US
TL;DR Punkt’s MC03, a privacy-focused smartphone assembled in Germany, will be sold in the US this spring for $699. It…
Trump Phone Misses Another Promised Release Date, Questions Remain
TL;DR The device known as the Trump Phone (or Trump Mobile) has failed to meet another scheduled launch, according to…
I let Gemini draft my emails for a week — why I had to intervene
TL;DR A reporter handed his inbox to Google Gemini for five days. The AI sped through routine tasks at first…
Leaked preview shows Samsung integrating Perplexity into Bixby on Galaxy S26
TL;DR Leaked One UI 8.5 firmware and a short video suggest Samsung is routing web-based Bixby queries to Perplexity, with…