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Following up on my review, this article lists the current status of OpenBSD's support for Lenovo's ARM-powered 2024 ThinkPad T14s (Snapdragon).

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The ThinkPad powered by Qualcomm’s new ARM processor performs great and feels nice but is plagued by power management issues.

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With Google shutting down legacy G Suite accounts, it's due time to look for alternatives for my family. A comparison.

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RFC8620: The JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP)

I’m a fan of email.

Everyone tells you that email is the reason why you are unproductive. That same people, however try to sell you the next instant messenger as the “solution” to the mental overload of having thousands of mails in your inbox. Most of these tools, though, only work with horribly fat, closed clients that need your immediate attention 100% of the time. There’s no labeling, sorting, or starring of messages. There’s no good way to communicate in batches. IMHO, Messaging has its place, but it’s not a replacement for email.

Email, on the other hand, is the mature tool that silently helps you get stuff done. I’m a fan of email.

Also, I have always been a fan of Fastmail. While I’m currently not a customer (I was at two different occasions), I applaud the team’s drive to keep the worlds email infrastructure as open as possible.

Mail is one of the last uses of the Internet, where open standards still matter and JMAP sounds like the next step in the right direction to keep it like this.

Superbly directed review of the freshly updated Kawasaki Versys 650. This is how you should do reviews on YouTube.

UX Critique

Dabbling in user interface design? This blog is a must-read.

In case you haven’t seen it, yet: Masquerade has this awesome realtime face-tracking and rendering technology that looks like its coming straight from the future. Man, augmented reality has come a long way.

Give it a try on your iPhone!

Google C++ Style Guide: Integer Types

Every once in a while people complain that your API is not exposing unsigned types. Especially without implicit type conversion (read: Go) it can be tiring “to be forced” to cast to unsigned integers everywhere.

This is the link to handout in such cases.

Update: Even more depth explanation.

Via: Reddit.

Bicycling Magazine: ‘Senseless’

Most comprehensible article about the current state of bicycling helmet technology you will find.

Story about how I got my fat ass to run every day.

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Source: MIT. Via: Engadget.

How hard is it to get a git hash collision?

Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems

Very informative article about the vital features of “fifth generation file systems” and why you need to upgrade ASAP.

Great series of photos of early Apple prototypes from Hartmut Esslinger’s new book Keep It Simple.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/28/5757414/apple-prototype-tablets-phones-laptops-from-the-80s-photos

Looks like self-driving cars are really going to happen.

Via engadget.

The future that everyone forgot

Lovely write-up of all the nice things Danger, Inc. brought to the (by then not yet called like this) smartphone table in the early 2000s, before it quickly evaporated after being snatched up by Microsoft.

Nice (and, alas, as expensive) alternative to the Brammo. Review of the 2014 Zero Motorcycles SR.

The OpenBSD guys finally forked OpenSSL: libressl.org. Make sure to check out ‘OpenSSL Rampage’ to see what they stumbled upon!

An Eye Tracking Study on camelCase and under_score Identifier Styles

So, finally the circle is closing: Nowadays, people are not writing web browsers using text editor technology, but the other way round: From ATOM to ZED.

At The London Bike Show 2014, Empire showed the prototype of a 3D printed titanium trail bike frame.

The future of (motor?) bike helmets.

Nokia Lumia 1520 review: Finnish fable

Smartphone batteries finally reach ranges useful to heavy users, too. Nokia Lumia 1520 is the first to break the 100h GSMArena Endurance Rating barrier.

Why didn’t I hear of the Brammo Empulse R before? This is the first electric bike, I’d actually buy!

The Rock Piper will mainly be operating in the northern hemisphere. She is fully booked the next two years. We wish her many safe journeys.
—Source

WTF?

I think, I’ll finally be switching my usernames everywhere to something more grown-up.