It’s been a long holiday week in South Korea, and with long holiday, I had some tinkering to do on all of my browsers. Safari on both macOS and iOS do support ‘read later’ feature with possible options to sync over cloud and save locally. It is a feature handy for short term usage, but…
The Mad Tea Party
Inspiring yet Mad Spiels
How to Generate Type-Friendly Password pt. 3
I do hope I wouldn’t need to come up with even more type-friendly password generators than this version. After making two, one for generic, one for copy-paste, versions of password generators, I am now hit with one of the weirdest policies I’ve encountered yet: there were different limits on how many digits and special characters…
How to Generate Type-Friendly Password pt. 2
As I have written in the past on generating a type-friendly password with Python, it hit me like a freight truck today. One of the Korean apps have “upped” their security policy demanding now I type the password which is likely 20 or more characters, completely random, on a virtual keyboard. If you have never…
AirPods Pro 3 Spiel
I’ve tried AirPods, AirPods Max, and AirPods Pro. Of them three, AirPods Pro grew on me recently as I began to use my prescription glasses more often — headphones, no matter how comfortable it sits around the head, still has some force on the legs of the glasses. Since the release of AirPods Pro 2…
iPhone, iOS Upgradability, and App Supports
Computerworld has been keeping scores on Android smartphones since Android 9 on how major manufacturer is pushing out Android updates to their yesteryear’s products. Latest one came out on March 2025, and the score board is a blood bath. But this post is not about Android — how manufacturers are only interested in selling latest…
How to Stop Prompting Siri on iOS 26 Instead of Safari Tabs
The new redesigned Safari on iOS 26 minimizes the tab bar when the user is not going through the tabs themselves. It doesn’t matter what layout of the tab bar — Safari still minimizes the tab bar to the smallest possible size, much akin to the status bar on the traditional browsers. On iOS, there…
Cronos: The New Dawn Spiel
I started playing Cronos: The New Dawn well aware of the fact that it was from Bloober Team and that it is sitting between AAA and AA, due to its budgets and pricing. What I didn’t learn, and the writers of those reviews and articles have rightfully reserved those details, were the nature of the…