Trying Talk Machine: first impressions of a voice-first AI app
I recently spent some time testing Talk Machine, a voice-first app available on iOS, Android, and the web. I mainly
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Year: 2026
What the metrics remember: almost two decades of technical writing on ToughDev
I have been writing on ToughDev since 2008. At first the site was mostly a place to keep notes: old
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JSP syntax highlighting in IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition
By default, syntax highlighting for Java Server Page (JSP) does not work very well in IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition. Only
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Running Windows XP and Windows 10 ARM on UTM for Mac
I recently spent some time experimenting with Windows XP 32-bit and Windows 10 ARM on UTM for Mac. The two
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Patching an Inno Setup installer to run on Windows for ARM
After getting the Windows 7 Games package from Win7Games.com working well on ordinary x86 and x64 Windows 11 machines, I
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PIC32MZ Iomega ZIP100 Parallel Port Emulator [Part 2: LPT100 Hardware Design]
A few months after successfully getting Super 8086 Box, DOSBox-X, and QEMU to emulate an Iomega ZIP100 parallel-port ZIP drive,
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PIC32MZ Iomega ZIP100 Parallel Port Emulator [Part 1: DOSBox & QEMU Testing]
In early 2023 my beloved Iomega ZIP100 parallel port drive started to randomly eject disks. I figured that the drive
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Configuring a modern laser printer to work with DOS, Windows 3.1 and Windows NT 3.51
I couldn’t believe it took me less than 15 minutes to get Windows NT 3.51 to print to my Brother MFC-L2750DW
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