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Personal writing by Rui Carmo on technology, products and industry change, published since 2002.

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2026 83

  1. Siri AI is now open to "all" developers
  2. Reviving a Touch Bar MacBook with Fedora Silverblue
  3. Tracker. The biggest update yet.
  4. Notes for October 25-31
  5. Lenovo ThinkSmart View
  6. MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display
  7. The Price of a Token
  8. The New iPad mini
  9. Claudia
  10. The Quiet
  11. The UGREEN FineCam Pro
  12. Apple Find My
  13. Nintendo Switch
  14. Notes for October 18-24
  15. The iPhone Duo
  16. Macintosh Mini
  17. The Radxa Linkr
  18. Notes
  19. Miyazaki
  20. 11 Years at Microsoft
  21. TrellisWM
  22. Apple HomeView
  23. The Voice Memo Conundrum
  24. Verdict
  25. Notes
  26. A Personal Agent
  27. Teenage Engineering's CEO Says It'll Stop Making Synths
  28. Introducing Mistral Large 4
  29. Google Admits Not Every Android App Runs Great on Intel Googlebooks
  30. Read More...
  31. Read More...
  32. an app page
  33. Redlamp
  34. Apple Mail on Mac May Stop Syncing Microsoft 365 Accounts
  35. Read More...
  36. macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
  37. Read More...
  38. Read More...
  39. Read More...
  40. Read More...
  41. Read More...
  42. M8 Music Tracker on iPad
  43. Swift 6.4 Released
  44. Read More...
  45. Read More...
  46. quite an extensive list of resources
  47. the last keynote
  48. sovereignty pitch
  49. The Kuycon P20
  50. Links
  51. Building Piclaw on Top of an Opinionated Coding Agent
  52. Epub
  53. my complaints about SwiftUI
  54. The Beelink Mate Pro
  55. The Chuwi MiniBook X N150, One Year Later
  56. Notes for July 19–25
  57. The M5Stack Tab5
  58. ranted about before
  59. MilkV Jupiter 2 / SpacemiT K3
  60. Notes for May 17-24
  61. Logitech Combo Touch (long-term)
  62. the papercuts I wrote about a few months ago
  63. Siri for Families
  64. Googlebooks were announced
  65. Maclock hack
  66. rootshell
  67. Notes for April 27 – May 3
  68. Lessons on Building MCP Servers
  69. MLX / Apple Silicon AI
  70. Cydintosh
  71. Orange Pi 6 Plus
  72. Xteink X4
  73. The Xteink X4
  74. So You Want To Do Agentic Development
  75. pi
  76. Agentic Skills
  77. TIL: Claude Opus 4.6 Can Reverse Engineer STL Files
  78. The Haves and The Have Nots
  79. Maclock
  80. Clair Obscur
  81. broke again
  82. YouYeeToo NestDisk
  83. Outlook

2025 35

  1. quite some time
  2. my AI policy
  3. Notes for December 9-24
  4. Agentic Systems
  5. The TRMNL (DIY Everything Edition)
  6. Arturia AstroLab 37
  7. Maclocks
  8. Notes for November 17-22
  9. Reviews
  10. rant about modern UI
  11. last year
  12. Creating Per-Project MCP Servers
  13. Cudy AX3000 Wi-Fi 6 System
  14. Chuwi AuBox 8745HS
  15. Reviews
  16. Sodola SL902-SWTGW218AS
  17. ArmSom Forge1
  18. Reviews
  19. SuperNote A6X2 Nomad (long-term)
  20. 3D printed SE/30
  21. MiniBook X N150
  22. Orange Pi RV2
  23. AI Image Generation
  24. AI Speech Technologies
  25. Model Context Protocol
  26. Kingroon KP3S Pro V1 (long-term)
  27. HomePod Mini
  28. Polyphemus Filament Dryer
  29. Chuwi LarkBox S
  30. Space
  31. ArmSoM AI Module 7
  32. iKOOLCore R2Max
  33. Hades
  34. in the past
  35. SuperNote A6X2 Nomad

2024 34

  1. TerraMaster F4-424 MAX
  2. Supernote
  3. wisdPi WP-UT5 5GbE USB adapter
  4. Debix Model A
  5. CM3588 NVMe NAS Kit
  6. Keychron K2 HE
  7. Banana Pi M5 Pro
  8. as one or two
  9. XPI-3566-Zero
  10. Hexgears Immersion A3
  11. SL-SWTGW218AS
  12. medieval flavour
  13. TrackerKB
  14. Radxa X4
  15. Luckfox Pico Mini B
  16. Two Trees SK1 Enclosure Kit
  17. GMKtec G2
  18. Banana Pi M7
  19. TypeScript
  20. Rewind
  21. TP-Link L-SG108E
  22. Keychron K11 Max
  23. 3DConnexion SpaceMouse Wireless
  24. BSP D8 Bluetooth Controller
  25. Keychron K7 Max
  26. Tailscale
  27. AceMagic AM18
  28. Orange Pi Zero 3
  29. Two Trees SK1
  30. Logitech K380
  31. YouYeeToo R1
  32. External links and privacy policy update
  33. Logitech G Cloud
  34. Orange Pi 5+

2023 12

  1. iPhone 15 Pro, Watch Series 9
  2. Portainer
  3. OBSbot Tiny 4K, RODE NTG1
  4. Radxa Zero
  5. Bluehand
  6. Wasm
  7. Mac Mini M2 Pro
  8. LG 28MQ780-B
  9. Lenovo ThinkSmart View
  10. Beelink U59 Pro
  11. Space
  12. Kingroon KP3S Pro V1

2022 21

  1. Retroid Pocket 3
  2. Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga
  3. Banana Pi M2 Zero
  4. Logitech Combo Touch
  5. Proxmox
  6. Obsidian
  7. Kubernetes (k8s)
  8. Dierya 63, Adafruit Macropad
  9. Xbox Series X
  10. RP2040 and RP2350
  11. MiniDexed
  12. redesigning the case
  13. Xiaomi Mi Stick 4K
  14. Platinum GTK theme
  15. Monome Norns Shield
  16. M8
  17. Avatto Folding Keyboard
  18. Gitea
  19. Novation Circuit Tracks
  20. Shortcuts
  21. review policy

2021 5

  1. MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro)
  2. Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5
  3. LG 34WK95U-W
  4. Arturia KeyLab Essential 61
  5. my OP-1

2020 5

  1. Surface Book 3
  2. Rust
  3. I started using for books decades ago
  4. Reface DX
  5. Synology DS1019+

2019 4

  1. Watch Series 5
  2. iPad Mini 5
  3. Roli Songmaker Kit, Korg Nanokey Studio
  4. Surface Laptop

2018 3

  1. Donations
  2. iPhone XS
  3. that worked in Workflow

2017 7

  1. HomeKit
  2. Space
  3. BQ Prusa i3 Hephestos
  4. Surface Pro 4
  5. So you're going to manage a Data Science team
  6. SyncThing
  7. PeakHour 3

2016 9

  1. a utm referral tag
  2. MSSQL on Linux - the details
  3. VS Code
  4. Streacom ST-F1CB WS Black Aluminum Case
  5. Citrix X1 Mouse
  6. ESP8266 (and ESP32)
  7. Elementary
  8. Five myths about micro-services, and three truths
  9. Logitech Keys-To-Go

2015 1

  1. Plan9

2014 3

  1. Acer C720
  2. Acme
  3. Inferno

2013 3

  1. HTC One
  2. Docker
  3. Golang

2010 4

  1. Samsung Wave 8500
  2. aren’t new by any means
  3. Ipad
  4. Networking

2009 4

  1. Mobile Industry Unites to Drive Universal Charging Solution for Mobile Phones
  2. The Sony Reader
  3. Calibre
  4. Yamaha DX7

2008 7

  1. Asus Eee PC 901
  2. Pci
  3. Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX33
  4. Press
  5. DisplayLink DVI
  6. Ios
  7. Gone, Without a Trace

2007 7

  1. Android
  2. Virtual Network Computing (VNC)
  3. Sony Reader
  4. Games
  5. Markdown
  6. JavaScript
  7. Vim

2006 7

  1. Xmpp
  2. Bluetooth
  3. Music
  4. sashimi (a Sushy variant)
  5. Macintosh
  6. Virtualization
  7. Fedora

2005 8

  1. Aperture
  2. Scalable Vector Graphics
  3. Security
  4. Midi
  5. more and more things
  6. SheepShaver
  7. 3D Graphics
  8. Hardware

2004 6

  1. The Blue Packet
  2. C/C++
  3. UPnP (Universal Plug and Play)
  4. Debian
  5. eBook Readers
  6. AI

2003 2

  1. Databases
  2. Rdp