A beastly Linux laptop, with some caveats — I recently raised funds for a new beast of a development machine for my work on elementary OS. After receiving the laptop, installing elementary OS, and using it for a while now, I’m ready to share my thoughts. A video is also coming soon as promised, but that takes a…

New features and snazzy UI refinements — Today I’m happy to announce the latest release of the private-by-default browser for elementary OS. Ephemeral 5 brought some useful new features, and 5.1 add few small refinements that really add polish. What is Ephemeral? If you’re just hearing about it for the first time (or need a refresher): Ephemeral is the private-by-default…

What’s new with the always-incognito web browser — In case you’ve missed it, I’ve been actively developing Ephemeral, the always-incognito web browser, for elementary OS. My vision for version 1.0 was simple: a barebones web frame that didn’t keep any information around about your browsing. …

The always-incognito web browser — Ever since Firefox Focus landed on Android, I’ve been a fan. It’s an interesting idea of making privacy a habit by default instead of a separate mode you manually enable; on Android, you can set it as your default web browser meaning Google doesn’t vacuum up all of your browsing…

tl;dr I’m going full-time at elementary — My Career at System76 In 2013 I was looking for a new high end laptop to help with my elementary contributions — I wanted it to be powerful and high quality, and of course it had to support Linux out of the box. …

Know when your websites are misbehaving! — Web Watcher by KJ Lawrence is a native app that aims to replace third-party services for something your computer is perfectly capable of doing on its own: monitoring websites. While it might seem trivial at first, Web Watcher fills a niche for me that I’ve long tried to fill by…

Let’s Imagine an Alternate Universe — This whole YouTube Music thing has been really poorly handled. …

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A new app for elementary colors — This past weekend, I realized I was opening a web browser to do something a native app could do better: referencing and copy-pasting colors. I was inspired to build that native app, and after a weekend of hacking, I’m proud to introduce Palette.