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HP’s OmniBook Ultra 14 is one of the best alternatives to the MacBook Air you can buy right now, and it’s more affordable than many of its Windows competitors.

My first day with the Steam Machine was a mess. Instead of enjoying a worry-free game console, I spent hours troubleshooting what felt like a finicky PC. That's because the Steam Machine is a PC, with a very important twist. Since the Magnavox Odyssey came out in 1972, game consoles have been built with the […]

Cold Court is a brother-sister duo from Philly that seems to love nothing more than shoving all of their influences together in a messy soup that at least superficially resembles the hyperpop you've come to expect from acts like 100 Gecs. But, where songs like "Dumbest Girl Alive" goofily wink at pop punk and emo, […]

Wooting’s 60HE v2 isn’t just a terrific Hall Effect keyboard. It’s a fantastic keyboard period.

The Xperia 1 VIII marks an attempt at a step change for Sony's flagship phone line. Not only has it had an aesthetic overhaul, but Sony has also revamped the camera system, dropping the continuous optical zoom telephoto that's defined the last four generations of Xperia phone. It's not all different. Sony staples like a […]

An eminently binge-able series that honors classic horror tropes while reinventing them in surprising ways

From its opening minutes, Moves of the Diamond Hand is upfront about what it offers: You're going to have a lot of strange conversations, and you're going to roll a lot of dice. Get on board with this proposition, and the reward is one of the most creative roleplaying games I've seen in years, even […]

I can't remember the last time I got excited about a fan. Normally, I just buy whatever Vornado or Dreo model fits my budget, but that was before I started testing the battery-powered Standing Circulator Fan from SwitchBot. As the name indicates, the SwitchBot fan is a 3D circulator - a fancy way of saying […]

We've lost something in the past 15 years. Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Apple; they've all convinced us that streaming is the best way to watch movies and shows at home. With everything at our fingertips, there's no need to run to Blockbuster for the weekend's entertainment, or wait for a DVD rental to arrive in the […]

With 416 horsepower, a 31-inch 8K screen and Dolby Atmos, Benz's electric "Grand Limousine" might just make minivans cool.

The Frame Pro 2026 benefits from meaningful tweaks. AI audio and picture tuning work in tandem with a new anti-glare coating to deliver impressive benefits.

Anime collaborations are everywhere, from Gundam watches and Naruto nights at Major League ballparks to just about anything Evangelion. But these Ghost in the Shell keyboards from Iqunix are some of the coolest examples I've seen of anime-inspired everyday tech. They look sick and they type and play great. At $249 they're a hefty upcharge […]

Revisar código es una de las actividades más subestimadas del desarrollo de software. La mayoría de los equipos la tratan como un trámite, algo que hay que aprobar antes de mergear. El resultado es que los PRs se aprueban con un “LGTM” después de dos minutos de scroll, y los problemas reales pasan de largo. Una revisión bien hecha no es leer línea por línea buscando typos. Es entender qué intenta hacer ese código, si lo hace de la manera correcta, y si introduce riesgos que no existían antes. Eso requiere un proceso, no un instinto. Este artículo cubre cómo estructurar ese proceso: qué revisar, en qué orden, qué preguntas hacer, y cómo detectar problemas de seguridad sin ser un experto en ciberseguridad. Empieza por el contexto, no por el código El error más común en code review es abrir el diff y empezar a leer desde la primera línea modificada. Antes de ver una sola línea, necesitas entender qué problema resuelve este cambio. Lee la descripción del PR. Si no hay descripción, o si dice “fixes bug”, ya encontraste el primer problema. Un PR sin contexto obliga al reviewer a reconstruir el razonamiento del autor desde cero, y eso aumenta la probabilidad de aprobar algo que no debería aprobarse. Lo que un buen PR debe explicar: Qué cambia no cómo, sino qué problema resuelve Por qué este approach si hay alternativas que se descartaron, decirlo Cómo probarlo, pasos para verificar que funciona Qué no cubre, scope explícito evita confusiones Si tienes esa información antes de ver el diff, tu revisión va a ser significativamente más efectiva. Qué revisar y en qué orden No toda línea de código merece el mismo nivel de atención. Un buen reviewer distribuye su energía de forma inteligente. Primero: arquitectura y flujo de datos. ¿El cambio tiene sentido a nivel de diseño? ¿Agrega una dependencia innecesaria? ¿Rompe alguna abstracción existente? Esto es lo más difícil de cambiar después. Segundo: lógica de negocio. ¿El código hace lo que dice que hace? ¿Los edge cases están cub

The Toy Story franchise began with a story about a vintage doll feeling threatened by the arrival of an electronic action figure. Woody and Buzz's rivalry embodied a shift that was happening in the '90s as children's toys were becoming more technologically sophisticated, and while toys have gotten even more tech-focused in the years since, […]

The new Thread Networks Diagnostics Tools app from Thread Group, the standards body behind the wireless IoT protocol, officially launches in beta today. The app, which arrives on iOS and has been available on Android in alpha for a few weeks, is the first dedicated tool to provide visibility into your Thread-based smart home network. […]

Let's be real: There's no shortage of Zelda-style games to play right now. That's true even if you've exhausted all there is to see in Tears of the Kingdom or Echoes of Wisdom. Indie developers keep finding new ways to refresh the formula, whether it's fusing it with a Soulslike, making it cozier, or simply […]

I'll admit it. I was wrong. Wildly colorful lighting is delightful for your smart home - well, outdoors, at least. Smart lighting is one of my favorite features of the smart home - it combines convenience with ambiance, letting you change the entire look of your room with just a press of a button. But, […]

Nimble’s thoughtfully designed SharePower is a modular power bank you can share with a friend.

I think a lot of people still imagine AI coding as opening ChatGPT, asking for code, and copy-pasting the result. That's not really how I work anymore. The biggest shift for me is that planning matters far more than coding. Earlier, execution was expensive, so most of the effort went into writing code. Now execution is cheap. I can have an agent implement something in minutes. The hard part is making sure the plan is correct. Most of my effort goes into thinking through the architecture, edge cases, failure modes, test strategy, and how the change fits into the broader system. If the plan is vague, the agent will confidently implement the wrong thing. The quality of the result is mostly determined by the quality of the plan. Once I have a plan, I break it into small independent pieces. Each piece should be executable without additional clarification. If an agent needs to stop and ask questions, the task probably isn't broken down enough. Those pieces become tickets. Then an agent picks up a ticket and implements it. The important thing is that the agent isn't operating in a vacuum. I try to give it a good environment to work in: Clear architectural rules Reusable skills and workflows Guardrails Hooks for things that must always happen One lesson that really stuck with me is that instructions are guidance, not guarantees. At one point I had "always use a git worktree" written in AGENTS.md. The model still ignored it occasionally. When I dug into it, the answer was simple: models can drift from instructions. So if something absolutely must happen, don't rely on instructions. Enforce it. Put it in a hook, script, validation step, CI check, or some other deterministic mechanism. If it is important, make it impossible to skip. Once the implementation is done, the agent opens a PR. This is where another useful pattern comes in: don't let the same model review the code it wrote. I usually have one model implement and another model review. Different models catch different t

If you had asked me a week ago to recommend a thinner alternative to PopSockets’ magnetic phone grips, I would have told you to buy the OhSnap Snap Grip 5. Ask me now and I’ll redirect you right back to the company that accidentally invented the phone grip in 2012 when trying to come up […]