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Why Your USB-C Charger Won't Talk to Cheap Devices
Episode 5871
Daniel has a 300W GaN charging brick with ten ports, and one of them refuses to charge his pocket speaker. USB-A works fine. USB-C to USB-C just make…
1 week, 6 days ago
Homebox Fork's Two Backend Scripts Need a Real Job Runner
Episode 5870
Daniel's Homebox fork added two backend scripts the upstream project was never designed to host: one converts new images to WebP and rewrites databas…
1 week, 6 days ago
Scraping AliExpress Specs: Selectors, Agents, or Neither?
Episode 5869
Daniel has a home inventory system that tracks where things physically are, and he wants to add a snapshot function: save an AliExpress URL, pull the…
1 week, 6 days ago
Fine-Tuning Parakeet for Um-Free, Hebrish Speech
Episode 5868
Daniel wants to bend Parakeet to his will: strip the ums, catch niche words, and handle the Hebrew he sprinkles into his English. He's done this befo…
1 week, 6 days ago
Toddler Meltdowns After Daycare, Explained
Episode 5867
Your toddler is a delight all day at daycare, then melts down the moment you arrive for pickup. It has a name — after-school restraint collapse — and…
1 week, 6 days ago
When Asking About a Leaky Roof Ends Your Lease
Episode 5866
Israel's Fair Rental Law bars landlords from waiving tenant protections, caps deposits, and makes lock-changing a criminal offense. So why do tenants…
1 week, 6 days ago
Four Pocket Players That Won't Sell You a Device Today
Episode 5865
Daniel wants an iPod-shaped appliance that holds a hundred gigabytes of podcast archive, plays it over Bluetooth at the beach, and never sends him a …
1 week, 6 days ago
Inside a 15-Month-Old's Head: What Ezra's Brain Is Doing
Episode 5864
Ezra is fifteen months old. He says "Dada," "Mamma," and "Up." He's taken a few faltering steps. And he will sit on the floor handling a wire strippe…
1 week, 6 days ago
What Shabbat Does to Your Brain That Sleep Can't
Episode 5863
The jackhammer returns at 7 a.m. Sunday, and with it the whiplash Daniel wrote in about: 25 hours of quiet, then the world snaps back. This episode d…
1 week, 6 days ago
One Show, Eighteen Feeds: Apple's Duplicate Content Rules
Episode 5862
Daniel wants to submit eighteen topic-channel RSS feeds of a single podcast to Apple and Spotify. The problem: Apple's data model has shows and episo…
1 week, 6 days ago