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I’ve been a fan of the Budgie desktop for quite some time. For about three years it was my desktop

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It’s time to celebrate! May 2025 is the fifth annual Maintainer Month, marked with discounts, events, educational resources and a

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Various formatting languages exist to manage how text appears in software documentation. One of the most crucial is Markdown. It

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In moments of urgency, the user interface (UI) becomes more than a tool: It becomes a teammate. When incidents happen,

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Knockout-tournament soccer is the best soccer because of how it amplifies the sport's essence. The magic of the game lies in the tension between unpredictability and mastery. On one foot, the game is so difficult, so low-scoring, and played over such a relatively short times...

If Natasha Cloud has stopped smiling at all since mid-March, she has done so only in the privacy of her own home. She beamed when she met Ellie the Elephant at Liberty training camp last month. She and Breanna Stewart laughed it up on Cloud’s Instagram stories during a recen...

It's time to wrap up the month with a challenging themeless. Keep an eye out for tricky clues and fun wordplay. This week's puzzle was constructed by Geoffrey Schorkopf and Brian Callahan, and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Geoffrey is an Atlanta Hawks fan. Brian is a Chicago Bulls fan. In addition to making crosswords together, they’ve bonded over mediocre basketball.

Defector crosswords, launched in partnership with our friends at AVCX, run every Monday. If you’re interested in submitting a puzzle to us, you can read our guidelines HERE.

At some point near the start of the fourth quarter of Game 4 of the Western Conference Final, in which the Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves, 128-126, a thought occurred to me: These teams are playing too hard. It just didn't seem possible that an NBA...

The site, starwarsweb.net, was a covert CIA communications tool. It has pictures of Yoda and C-3PO on it.

Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

Health experts say to wash your water bottle every day. I definitely do this, even if I can’t recall the last time I actually washed my water bottle. I must wash it so often, all my water-bottle-washing incidents blend together. It’s involuntary, like breathing. You wouldn’t...

Editor’s Note: Bellingcat Investigator Peter Barth, who grew up in Texas, researched and reported this story in collaboration with the Texas Observer. William “Bill” Asher Richardson Jr. pulled into the driveway of his upscale Corpus Christi home late on a Sunday night at the end of summer. The wealthy Texas oilman was unloading his Winnebago […]

The post New Leads in an Infamous Corpus Christi Cold Case appeared first on The Texas Observer.

Ronnie Dugger, founding editor and longtime publisher of the Texas Observer and for many years the crusading conscience of the progressive movement in Texas and beyond, died of complications of dementia at a hospice center in Austin on May 27. He was 95.  Dugger was the author of biographies of Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan […]

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Every wave of technology comes with a promise.

Electricity would end poverty. Radio would unify the world. The internet would make us all smarter. Blockchain would decentralize power. AI, we are told, will create plenty of jobs. Eventually.

Eventually is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

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Running a massive web design business solo, while focusing on one platform, automating wisely, networking locally, and keeping support simple can help with strategies to scale without stress.

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortions in the United States actually went up, in part because of a novel legal strategy that pitted blue states against red states. Pam Belluck, who covers health and science for The Times, discusses that strategy and explai...

After President Donald Trump threatened to single out Apple with tariffs, he offered remarks to reporters that undercut his case. First he seemed to say this would apply to many iPhone makers, but then reiterated he’d said this straight to Apple...

In this episode co-hosts discuss "community thinking" in WordPress plugins, highlighting the importance of user feedback and effective engagement strategies.

I did a few random experiments with my life over the years and they were always interesting. Life has this tendency to set itself in some sort of autopilot mode and you slip into weird habits without realizing it. So the idea of forcing myself to do things differently is qui...