Category Archives: Tech Review

A review of my favorite writing tool and the tool behind almost all of the post-2021 New Leaf Journal drafts: KDE’s Ghostwriter markdown editor.

An early review of the beta version of JMP Chat, an SMS-XMPP bridge with native apps for Android.

After The Great Suspender Chrome extension I had been using had some unfortunate added telemetry, I decided to review two fully free and open source Great Suspender forks.

Reviewing a now-defunct powerful search engine for old newspapers.

〜The story of my purchasing a 2013 Asus Nexus 7 tablet and installing Ubuntu Touch on it〜

A 2021 review of alternative search engines and front-ends to the Google-Bing duo.

I review Jeff Starr’s search engine launchpad, a useful tool for practical purposes and for popping search bubbles.

Reviewing the Mondrian global theme for the KDE Plasma desktop environment.

My first impression assessment of Pixelfed, an open source decentralized alternative to Instagram, from my experiences on its flagship instance in 2020.

Reviewing an endearing and useful web browser extension.