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Layoffs Are Near a 57-Year Low — So Why Is America’s Job Market Freezing Up?

Employers are holding onto workers at a rate unseen since the late 1960s, yet job seekers are running into walls everywhere they turn. Something in the American labor market has quietly broken, and the consequences could ripple far beyond the unemployed.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1715860873971-5548ca4a6dc7?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MjB8fEpvYiUyME1hcmtldHxlbnwwfHwyfHwxNzE2MjIxMzA3fDA&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080' />

4 Tips On Creativity From The Creator Of Calvin &amp; Hobbes

I saw this article in Fast Company a while back and in reading it, I realized how important comic strips have been in my adult life. Doonesbury. The Far Side. Bloom County. And, of course, Calvin &amp; Hobbes.Calvin &amp; Hobbes was created by Bill Watterson. And in the documentary Stripped, which came out in 2014, the famously &#x201c;media averse&#x201d; cartoonist, provided 4 tips on creativity:1. You Have To Lose Yourself In Your Work&#x201c;My comic strip was the way that I explored the wor

I ditched desktop apps for these 5 Linux terminal apps, and I’m not going back

Terminal apps have a reputation for being too minimal, confusing, and useful only for technical workflows. And while that might have been true a few years ago, modern terminal apps are a lot more intuitive and functional, covering plenty of everyday computing use cases. This makes them excellent lightweight alternatives to typical desktop apps. In fact, here are fiv

This is the right way to weatherproof your 3D prints without using sealant or epoxy

Want to 3D print items that live outside? One option is to throw caution to the wind, print with whatever material you like, and seal everything up with an aftercoat. Unfortunately, this requires time and money, and things can still wear with time.

These 3 Qi2 accessories changed the way I use my phone forever

As a long-term Android user, MagSafe was the biggest source of envy for me when looking at iPhones. Built-in magnets inside smartphones open the door to a million creative accessories, eliminating the need for 3M adhesive or annoying clamps. It is a beautiful solution to a hundred different accessory-related problems.

Woodworkers already solved most of your 3D printing design problems

Did you know that 3D printing and woodworking are very similar? They're actually way more similar than you might think. I've woodworked for longer than I've 3D printed, and these are the tricks that I think you should steal to take your 3D printing to the next level.

This old Windows limitation punished you for buying a bigger hard drive

File systems are something we rarely think about anymore, but in the early days of Windows, they could make a surprisingly big difference in how much of your pricey hard drive you actually got to use. FAT16 had one incredibly frustrating quirk with how it handled cluster sizes. Its inefficiency effectively punished you for buying a bigger hard drive, as it could lea

The Googlebook&#039;s best feature is the one thing you can&#039;t see while you&#039;re using it

I wasn't particularly satisfied with the Googlebook launch. As a tech writer and product reviewer, I was basically obligated to spend two weeks with a product that felt grossly unfinished and super confused about its identity. But one feature, the Glowbar, just can't escape my mind.

Don&#039;t let years of OneNote notes stop you from switching to Joplin

Finding a good alternative app is the easy part. The hard part is deciding what to do with everything you're leaving behind. Years of OneNote notebooks can hold everything from recipes and saved links to work notes you still need. The good news is that moving them into Joplin is easier than you might expect.

My Galaxy phone butchered my photos with AI I didn&#039;t ask for, so I switched to a FOSS camera app instead

Do our phone cameras really record what they see, or do they embellish? We're living in the age of computational photography, after all, and with modern AI technology, it's possible to take a raw photo and turn it into anything. It's like applying an Instagram AI filter to your memories.

6 3D printing projects that make your home feel custom-built

<p>A custom-built home is all about designing elements that feel perfectly adapted to your space and routine. With a 3D printer, you can retroactively apply this concept to the objects inside your home, to great effect.</p><img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2026/08/bambu-lab-p2s-3d-printer-with-the-roof-up.jpg' />

Merge, split, and compress PDFs in your browser

I kept avoiding random PDF websites for contracts, invoices, and reports. Those files should not leave the laptop just to merge two exports or pull out one page.So I added PDF tools to KeptTools. They run in the browser. Nothing is uploaded. Merge a few PDFs into oneOpen Merge PDF.Add two or more PDFs.Put them in the order you want. Remove any you do not need.Merge and download one PDF.Example: add report-a.pdf and report-b.pdf, put A first, then download kepttools-merged.pdf with every pag

Build an x402 client from scratch: read the 402, sign, retry

This article was generated by an AI system; the executed outputs shown were independently re-run and verified before publication.x402 puts payment inside the HTTP exchange itself: the server answers 402 Payment Required with the terms, the client signs a payment, and retries. This tutorial builds both sides - a paid endpoint and a client that signs and retries - using the official packages (github.com/coinbase/x402) and a public test facilitator. No account, no API key, no billing page. Wha

The Kelly criterion for traders: formulas, a worked example and the limits

Originally published on IMRYN, where the interactive calculator runs in the browser. Reviewed 2026-10-24.The Kelly criterion gives the fraction of capital that maximises long-run logarithmic growth. For a trade that either wins R times the amount risked or loses it, the Kelly fraction is f = p - (1 - p) / R, where p is the win probability.Example: a 55 % win rate with a 2:1 win/loss ratio gives f = 0.55 - 0.45 / 2 = 32.5 %. Most practitioners stake a fraction of Kelly, because the inputs are est

How We Localized a Client-Side Web App into 10 Languages (With Full RTL Support)

We have a simple mission at RahaLune: build professional-grade tools that are 100% free, private, and accessible to everyone.Until recently, our QR Scanner was English-only. We received feedback from users in the Middle East, South America, and Europe asking for native language support. Today, I’m thrilled to announce that the RahaLune QR Scanner is now natively translated into 10 languages. The 10 LanguagesWe now support:🇺🇸 English, 🇫🇷 French, 🇪🇸 Spanish, 🇩🇪 German, 🇹🇷 Turkish, 🇨🇳 Chinese

Google Gemini 4 Argon for Three.js: What Community Tests Actually Show

AI-assisted disclosure: Codex assisted with research, code and writing. Measurements, failure cases and limitations are retained from the original article.Originally published by Alicia on 2026-10-14: Digital Garden by Alicia.Gemini 4 Argon is an AI model in Google's Gemini family, released on October 13, 2026. This article collects public community tests of the model generating Three.js scenes, including workflows that drive Blender MCP. It is written for digitalgarden.si, an interactive 3D gar

CRKD Nitro Deck 2 review: a great but heavy Switch 2 handheld controller

CRKD Nitro Deck 2: One-minute reviewThe CRKD Nitro Deck 2 is primarily billed as a Nintendo Switch 2 controller for handheld use, but it offers a lot more besides. It's CRKD’s follow-up to the Nitro Deck and Nitro Deck+, two previous accessories aimed at the original Nintendo Switch.The CRKD Nitro Deck 2 has a functional design focused more on ergonomics than style, although some of the colorways add some panache; the Pal Grey variant I reviewed, for instance, harked

Six Chart Types in My React and TypeScript Dashboard Demo

My charts repository contains a small dashboard-style chart showcase built with React, TypeScript, Vite, and Recharts. The README is still the standard React and Vite template, so it does not explain the actual application. The implementation in src/App.tsx is much more useful: it contains six chart examples, typed mock datasets, reusable presentation components, and a dashboard shell. One wrapper, several visualizationsChartCard is the central layout abstraction. It accepts a title and chi

Building E-commerce Applications with React: A Practical Guide

Building an e-commerce application with React involves much more than displaying products and adding a shopping cart. A production-ready storefront needs predictable state management, responsive product listings, reliable cart calculations, accessible interfaces, and a checkout flow that customers can trust.In my experience, the biggest challenge is keeping the shopping experience consistent as users browse products, change quantities, apply discounts, and move toward checkout. React makes this

How to switch fitness trackers without losing your old health and workout data

When an ageing fitness tracker finally needs to be replaced, sometimes you're tempted to switch brands — for example, trading in your ageing slim Fitbit for a bigger running watch. You might be getting a new running watch in the Black Friday sales, or hoping for one under your tree — but a new tracker sometimes that means losing years of data about your workouts, sleep, heart rate, and general activity. Your historical health data is useful for more than just flexing