Programs and Tools

I’ve seen a lot of news like this recently from US-based media outlets. As someone living and working in Germany for a German company, I find it particularly interesting that I haven’t heard anything about this elsewhere.

Mozilla has recently had a lot of blowback about several recent changes they’ve made to Firefox. There was a reaction recently from a member of the Thunderbird team.

In an effort to speed up TypeScript compilation, Microsoft has decided to rewrite the compiler to be a native application.

This is why the Windows 95 setup team didn’t just use the limited GUI options that were availble in MS-DOS for the setup application instead of three separate operating systems.

I am generally a huge fan of Apple’s interfaces, but this is one of their dumbest design decisions to date.

Have you ever wondered why the Windows 95 setup seems to consist of three different types of UI? As it turns out, that is due to the fact that setup actually runs on three different operating systems.

Macs have been my primary computers for decades, but I have also had the occasional Windows PC. These are some screenshots from them.

Microsoft’s new version of Outlook for Windows has seen its fair share of criticism, but one omission is just shocking in 2024.

I had the idea to write a post about the editors and IDEs I have used over the years. These are the ones that stood out to me and why. Screenshots included!

A couple of weeks ago, I bought a license upgrade for the Mac editor BBEdit despite not using it all the time. This is why.

I have been a Mac user for over twenty years and have taken screenshots of my systems with almost every version of Mac OS. This is my collection.

I installed Fedora on my PC to try out as my daily driver. I loved the experience except for a few irritations that eventually got me back to using Windows.