Changelog News The code, prose & pods that shaped 2025
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Dec 15, 2025 Explore a year in tech with standout projects like January's printer cow and a thought-provoking essay on personal computing. February brings tools that focus on AI's impact, while March highlights a multisensory interface design call. Dive into May's virtual museum and June's writing motivator. Discover revamped classics like Game Genie in July and thought-provoking math of wealth in August. The year wraps with a CSS deep dive and reflections on how tech evolved in 2025. Join for innovation highlights and fresh perspectives!
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USB Printers As Networked Microservices
- Printer Cow turns any USB thermal printer into an HTTP networked API endpoint for easy remote printing.
- This reframes simple hardware as a microservice, enabling any service to send print jobs over HTTP.
How DRM Changed Home Computing
- Benj Edwards links surveillance capitalism and DRM to the decline of friendly personal computing.
- The piece reframes past home tech as being pushed from ally to adversary by corporate control.
Build Small Apps To Change Habits
- Try building small habit-changing apps like Touch Grass to break morning doomscrolling.
- Reese Kentish's approach shows simple tools can reshape daily phone habits.