Introduction My wife, Jern Tonkoi, is writing fiction and we’re publishing it ourselves, using Amazon and Kobo, etc, and being someone who likes listening more than reading, creating audiobooks seems a natural direction to go in. Even if it wasn’t, the potential for more visibility and more sales is always going to be attractive, and […]
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Embracing AI While Retaining My Privacy — by Bart Busschots
Rather like with the smart home, when it comes to AI, I’ve taken the second wave approach — I let the early adopters get well and truly burned, and give the developers a chance to make a meaningful start at fixing the biggest problems, before slowly dipping my toe in. Compared to non-geeks, I’m still […]
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Security Bits — 23 November 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Google backpedals on new Android developer registration rules — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (Android is not becoming quite as Apple-like after all — better for Linux geeks, worse for regular folks) Deep Dive — that Cloudflare Outage […]
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Brett Terpstra is My Hero — BT SVG Viewer Plugin for WordPress
I’m still basking in the glory that is my Mind Map of Doom (™️Donald Burr) of every single dang setting in macOS 26. In my how and why I did such a crazy thing post, I told you that Brett Terpstra was instrumental in making the mind map actually useful to present on the web, […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 9 November 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. More evidence of the dangers of Agentic Browsers: ChatGPT Atlas Browser Can Be Tricked by Fake URLs into Executing Hidden Commands — thehackernews.com/… Related Article: Be Cautious with Agentic Web Browsers — tidbits.com/… (by […]
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Creating a Book Website with Static Site Generator Hugo — by Eddie Tonkoi
Hugo – Static webpage framework This is Eddie Tonkoi back to tell you about a new project, this time an element of our burgeoning publishing empire. My wife, Jern Tonkoi, has fallen in love with, and dedicated herself towards, writing creative fiction. She is passionate about it and loves writing, bringing characters to life, and […]
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How I Mind Mapped All of macOS 26 System Settings
In the words sung by that amazing philosopher, Britney Spears, “Oops, I did it again.” I have descended into madness for the second time in my 20 years of Apple podcasting. I have mind-mapped all of System Settings in macOS 26.1 (Tahoe). In this article, I’m going to walk you through how I did it […]
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Slickwraps — No for AirPods Pro, Yes on MacBook Air
When I explained my journey trying to get AirPods to work for me and how the AirPods Pro 3 finally stay in my ears, I bemoaned one thing. The Beats Fit Pro came in a lovely Stone Purple (think lavender), but the AirPods Pro 3 only came in white. White is fine but it’s boring. […]
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Shure MV7+ Microphone — by Eddie Tonkoi
Hello. This is Eddie Tonkoi, with an article about a rather neat microphone, the Shure MV7+, which you are listening to right now. You may remember an article about the Mackie EM-98MS shotgun microphone back in December of 2024. Well, that was me, but under a different pseudonym. This is the first of what I […]
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Rounded Screenshots Part 2 — Rolling my Own and Shottr Update
Two weeks ago, I wrote an extensive article on the trials and tribulations of taking screenshots with macOS Tahoe and its fancy, rounded windows. The two problems to be solved were that some screenshot methods didn’t capture transparent corners for the rounded windows, and the windows in macOS don’t have borders on them, so they […]
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