In my article called Choose your browser carefully I wrote about some of the serious problems with browser privacy and browser telemetry and I tested a bunch of browser. Rather than making a new 2026 version with updated information about each…

What’s a null? Zero? A philosophical question? Occasionally someone hands me an old MacBook Pro saying that the screen is fried, asking if it’s junk.

I check to see if it’s an A1706, A1707, yada yada, open the lid, and knock the back of the screen like I’m knocking on someone’s front door. “Is this flexgate?”

There’s always that confused look as it turns on and as to not look totally insane, “Wait, I know what you’re going to ask next, so who’s flexgate?”

nikitonsky: Don’t style your labels as controls. User might think they are clickable (they are not)

Mount Sneffels in the San Juan Mountains near Ridgway, Colorado (© lightphoto/Getty Images)

View of the Wroclaw Market Square from the Witches’ Bridge in Wroclaw, Poland (© Piotr Mitelski/Shutterstock)

Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) applies to all transport protocols in principle. However, it had limited deployment for UDP until QUIC became widely adopted. As a result, documentation of UDP socket APIs for ECN on various platforms is sparse….

Ammonite fossils from the Jurassic Period (© J Nemchinova/Getty Images)

nikitonsky: Looks like our friend ChatGPT has run out of icons.

Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia (© Jan Wlodarczyk/Alamy)

White House Ruin at Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona (© Ingo Arndt/Minden Pictures)