Reviews

Podroid Runs Full Linux Containers on Your Android Phone Without Root — I Pulled an Nginx Image on the Train and Now I Question Everything

Podroid lets you run full Linux containers on Android without root access. I spent a weekend pulling Docker images on my phone and questioning my life choices.

Apr 4, 2026 6 min read

Cloudflare Just Built a WordPress Killer Called EmDash — And After 48 Hours With the Beta, I Cannot Tell If It Is Genius or Delusional

Hands-on EmDash review after 48 hours with Cloudflare's new serverless CMS. Sandboxed plugins, Astro 6.0 under the hood, and 38ms TTFB on Workers edge.

Apr 2, 2026 6 min read

SolveSpace Runs Full Parametric CAD in a Browser Tab With Zero Cloud Dependencies — I Modeled a Snap-Fit Enclosure and Almost Forgot I Was in Firefox

SolveSpace compiles its entire C++ codebase into WebAssembly and runs parametric CAD in your browser with zero network dependencies after loading. I tested it against OnShape and FreeCAD.

Apr 1, 2026 5 min read

GitHub Copilot Just Edited an Ad Into Someone's Pull Request — And the Screenshots Are Exactly as Bad as You Think

GitHub Copilot inserted ads for itself and Raycast into a developer's pull request description when asked to fix a typo. 926 points on Hacker News. Here's what happened, what it means, and what you should do about it.

Mar 30, 2026 4 min read

Miasma Traps AI Web Scrapers in an Infinite Poison Pit — I Set It Up on My Nginx Server and Watched the Bots Drown

Miasma is a new open-source tool that traps AI web scrapers in an infinite loop of fake content instead of blocking them. I tested it on my Nginx server and compared it to Anubis and robots.txt.

Mar 29, 2026 6 min read

Velxio 2.0 Lets You Emulate Arduino and Raspberry Pi in a Browser Tab — I Tested It Against Wokwi

Velxio 2.0 emulates 19 microcontroller boards across 5 CPU architectures entirely in the browser. I compared it to Wokwi and found surprising strengths.

Mar 28, 2026 6 min read

I Installed Wine 11 on Three Different Linux Boxes Last Weekend — And NTSYNC Made One of Them Feel Like a Completely Different Machine

Wine 11 ships with NTSYNC kernel-level synchronization, WoW64 completion, and Wayland improvements. I tested it on three machines — here is what actually changed for Linux gaming.

Mar 25, 2026 7 min read

Project Nomad Turns Any Old Laptop Into an Offline Wikipedia and AI Server — And It Is Completely Free

Project Nomad is a free, open-source offline knowledge server that bundles Wikipedia, local AI, offline maps, and educational courses into one easy-to-install package. I set it up on an old ThinkPad in 12 minutes and it might be the best free software I have reviewed this year.

Mar 23, 2026 8 min read

I Found Tooscut at 1 AM and Immediately Uninstalled DaVinci Resolve — Here Is Why This Free Browser Video Editor Changes Everything

Tooscut is a free browser-based video editor powered by WebGPU and Rust/WASM that delivers near-native performance. I tested it against Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and CapCut — and cancelled my Adobe subscription.

Mar 22, 2026 6 min read

I Spent a Weekend With OpenCode and My Cursor Subscription Suddenly Feels Like a Scam