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

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2026 77

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

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

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

  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. Elementary
  7. Five myths about micro-services, and three truths
  8. 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 7

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

2004 6

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

2003 1

  1. Rdp