The sweaters and jackets are out of storage, the furnace is rumbling, and Netflix's October slate of TV shows is heating up, with returning hits like The Diplomat on the way, as well as some anticipated new documentaries.
Formatting an SSD seems like the obvious thing to do if you want to sell it, give it away, or even just give it a new job doing something else. I'm not here to dispute that, but I think that many people are unaware that formatting isn't the 100% fail-proof solution some think it is.
Most people assume the cable that ships with a flagship phone is built to match the phone's actual capabilities. That's a reasonable assumption since it comes straight from the manufacturer, and most companies don't want to look bad if they want repeat customers. Samsung spent years developing fast charging technology that cuts charge times significantly, and you pr
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Back when Twitter was fun, screenwriters would sometimes string together a series of tweets - what came to be known as "tweetstorms." Advice, personal anecdotes, reflections on the craft. It was pretty awesome.The only problem: Once the tweetstorm came ... it went.So, I took to contacting the writers and asking if I could reprint their tweetstorm at Go Into The Story. That way, they'd at least be stored where folks could access them in the future.Here's an example: In May 201
Best Buy is in the middle of its own fall savings event right now, as its Techtober sale is starting off strong. For the gamer, the one product that jumps off the screen is this impressive Acer Nitro Gaming curved monitor—the ideal choice for those looking to up their experience with a bigger screen. With a discount of $280, it's one you'll definitely want to take a
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The community often recommends self-hosted apps like Pi-hole, Vaultwarden, Audiobookshelf, and more. These aren't the only options; plenty of other self-hosted tools can do truly ingenious things. Many of them are lightweight enough to run on that old Raspberry Pi you should still have in your drawer.
There are two big players in the home networking space—eero and UniFi. They both target different audiences, and I have extensive experience with both. I've chosen UniFi to run my homelab because, at this point, it's the only good option out there for my needs. Here's why I use UniFi and why I left eero in the dust.
Netflix's prestige scripted hits like Florence Pugh's chart-topping East of Eden might get the lion's share of the hype, but documentaries and docuseries reliably rank as some of the streamer's most-watched programming. It turns out that even the greatest writers can't script some of the head-shaking storylines that only real life can conjure.
Excel has a funny habit of giving you useful little tools and then making you work to find them. That can be frustrating, but you can fix a lot of Excel annoyances with a few small tweaks until it works the way you want. That's where I landed with table names. I wanted them to be easier to see, and it turns out Excel gives you a couple of ways to make that happen. T
Let me be clear about something — I've been looking for a way to desperately cut down on my screen time. Not just for an article, but like, actually. I think it's a problem. Turns out, actively integrating your smartwatch into attempts to curb that is actually a great idea.
Hi HN!Quick story how it started: I was a freelance web developer in the past and also worked for several companies on web applications. For some projects we didn’t have analytics at all and we had to ask ourselves too many times what our users actually use in the product. Finding a good solution was painful, since we couldn’t use a consent banner (a lot of customers from the government) and existing tools were hard to set up so nobody took the time. I started with this idea already many years a
Declarative vs Imperative Animation in React: Where Each Model WinsA menu opens because isOpen became true. A notification leaves because React removed it from the tree. A card changes visual state when it receives focus.Then there is the hero where the heading splits into lines, the image unmasks 180 milliseconds later, the background drifts while the section is pinned, and the sequence changes direction when the user scrolls back.Both are animation. They are not the same programming prob
A FaceTime-quality call looks like one feature. Underneath, it is five systems that have to work in perfect sequence — camera capture, codec negotiation, NAT traversal, a signaling channel, and connection repair. This guide walks through building a React Native WebRTC video calling app end to end: real code, honest architectural tradeoffs, and the parts most tutorials skip. By the end you will have a working 1-to-1 call, a signaling server, and a clear path to scale beyond two participants. For
An imperative API makes modals easy to open from anywhere. The architectural cost appears one level deeper: somewhere, something has to own the lifecycle.Once a modal can be opened like this:await modal.open(someModal, input);the next requirement usually arrives quickly: the same operation should be startable from somewhere that is not the component rendering the modal.A keyboard shortcut should open a modal.A command palette should open one.A test should mount an isolated application subtree.St
Most practice on CogniPrep is short. A test is a few minutes, sometimes with a clock, sometimes without, and the browser never has to do anything unusual.The newest provider broke that. One test in the UK train driver battery is a vigilance test: 30 minutes of watching for something that rarely happens. At the assessment centre it runs without a break and cannot be paused, so ours does not pause either, and it says so on the public page and again on the brief before you start: leave the page for
shadcn/ui ships one version of each component. One Button, one Input, one Select. That is on purpose: it is a starting point, not a design system.But real products need more. A button with a loading spinner. An input with a prefix and a clear button. A select with avatars. A file upload with progress bars. A badge with a status dot. Every time you need one of those, you open the shadcn docs, copy the base component and spend 20 minutes adjusting it.The Shadcn UI Kit components library collects t
When building a React application, it's easy to search for a “react data grid” and assume that every grid library solves the same problem.In practice, the right choice depends on whether you're arranging page elements, creating an interactive dashboard, or displaying structured data.Let's break down the differences.CSS Grid for page structureCSS Grid is a solid starting point for responsive page layouts.It's useful for:Card collectionsDashboard sectionsContent columnsResponsive page structuresWi
