How Tailscale tells macOS users that our menu bar icon has been swallowed by The Notch—and why our new UI makes it less of an issue.

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My year of baking lessons, guided by a full-stack engineer who teaches patience.

Could you really control someone's hot water with just an email address? The hot water took too long to come out of the tap. That is what I was trying to solve. I did not intend to discover that, for a while there, water heaters like mine may have…

The worst thing about Cities: Skylines 2 is that it was recently released. If this hugely ambitious city-builder simulation would have been released some time ago, patched over and over again, and updated with some gap-filling DLC, it would be far…

What killed the LAN party? Digital photography would vastly improve as the century progressed, but LAN parties would mostly disappear. The reasons for this are strange and contradictory, Merritt K said. "LAN parties started declining as broadband…

Just like regular bikes, electric bikes experienced a pandemic boom, giving more people an alternative way of commuting, picking up the kids, or just getting outside. But you might already have a functioning bike and wonder if you need to invest in…

Photo by Jay Galvin/Flickr/CC Some people, upon learning how we’ve lived our lives, are unable to conceal their chagrin on our behalf, that our lives should be so limited, as if experience so geographically circumscribed could be neither rich nor…

In the early summer of 2018, you could buy an Apple Watch with built-in GPS, wireless payments, and speakers that buzz water out after a swim. Meanwhile, Katharine Berry was hustling to keep five-year-old watches with black and white screens alive.…

Few narratives are as satisfying as that of the small but intrepid hero bringing down the big, arrogant giant, aided by the giant’s own hubris. David stoning Goliath, the Rebellion torpedoing the Death Star, the Karate Kid crane-kicking Cobra Kai’s…

The headquarters of Buffalo’s Pack Club may not seem very distinctive from the outside, but it’s a rare kind of building. This short, white, entirely undecorated building on Elmwood Avenue houses a top-secret group whose very existence makes you…

Twenty-one-year-old Michael Wilson bought a half-dozen properties around Buffalo and may have taken up to $8.2 million from people he had never met. Then he disappeared.