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I'm back. Using i3 on Ubuntu server.

Don't let that stop you. Flourless chocolate cake is good stuff, you could probably make a reasonably tasty gluten-free version of the chocolate upside down cake in the article.

I've been learning to bake recently, so I'm loving this. Really appreciate the creativity and the interesting recipes. Probably one of the best fun weekend pieces on Ars in some time. I wouldn't mind seeing more stuff like this.

I bought the Spectre x360 earlier this year to replace my old Macbook Air. I've been very happy with the choice so far. It's hard to believe that something this nice came out of HP.

Does anybody happen to know if High Sierra fixes the longstanding issues with DisplayPort MST chaining? It'd sure be nice if I could get a Macbook Pro to extend a desktop across three external monitors instead of mirroring to the chained one. Now that Apple doesn't sell its own displays anymore...

This kind of "acquihire" is increasingly common in Silicon Valley, particularly as an exit for a failing venture-backed startup that has run out of money. Recruiting technical talent is expensive and time-consuming, so companies are willing to pay to bring in a known-good team of people who...

This an anti-competitive dick move by Intel, but it's also a whole lot like the way that Microsoft has abused its FAT patents over the years. It kind of feels like karmic payback. Also, Microsoft has only itself to blame for the extent to which third-party software on its platform is...

Here's my current GNOME 3 setup with Arc:

Airmail's keyboard accessibility is its killer feature. It lets me go through my entire inbox—moving, archiving, and tagging messages—completely without touching the mouse. Having to use anything else for mail just feels painfully slow by comparison. I really wish there was something comparable...

For the future. ;-)

Bringing windowed Android applications natively to Chrome OS seems like a pretty big win, particularly if they can get developers to provide good keyboard accessibility. The previous ARC implementation seemed terribly janky to me, so I'm glad that they revisited it and are getting it done right...

The part about out-bidding IBM during the Sun acquisition in order to ensure the long-term health of Java and the Java ecosystem is pretty funny. Considering Oracle's track record for open source stewardship, that goal would probably would have been better served by letting IBM have it.

I went to the performance in San Jose and really enjoyed the experience. The music was great and there were some amazing moments where it all really pulled together wonderfully. They even included a segment based on Picard's flute song from The Inner Light that I thought was particularly moving...

I think the failures just understandably get a lot more visibility in the press than the ones that are successful. Of the 30 tech projects I've backed on Kickstarter, only one of them really failed. Sometimes the functionality falls a little short of what was originally promised, though never in...

This scenario doesn't really exist in the real world. If a small software company that is building an actual product tries to enforce a patent against a large multinational that is cloning said product, the larger company will generally use its significantly larger defensive patent portfolio to...

I appreciate the timing on this, because I'm currently moving to my new home and I'd really like to get cable management right from the start when I set everything up. I currently have a shelf under my desk where I have a power strip, but there are still too many non-power cords (e.g. ethernet...

I originally got one of these a few years ago when I first started doing serious mobile application development, because I wanted to have one keyboard on my desk that I could easily use with multiple test devices. It soon became my main day-to-day desktop keyboard. I'm not sure why, but I find...

I suspect that maintaining all of this deep integration between host operating systems and various supported guest platforms from version to version really does require a significant amount of engineering effort, and I'd honestly not have a problem paying annually for that, but... The way that...

I don't think that "canIuse" offers a clear picture of who is working on what, and to what extent things are supported. Mozilla has supported WebGL by default in Firefox on the desktop since 2011, but I think canIuse lists their support as "partial" because Firefox only supports it environments...

I think it's worth noting that, while Apple is definitely lagging in many areas, they are still actively participating in the standards process and advancing their browser. Although even Microsoft managed to get there first, Apple does fully support WebGL across desktop and mobile now, for...