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Instagram is finally letting everyone reorganize their profile grid

Nearly a year after it was announced, Instagram says it's delivering the ability to rearrange the posts in your profile grid. It had been available to some people in test groups, but as of June 8th, it's rolling out widely via the Android and iPhone mobile apps. Until now, the posts on your Instagram profile have been locked in chronological order beyond the ability to pin three posts at the top, but once the feature is live on your account, you can long-press and drag posts freely, no matter h

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How Agile Octopus Pricing Actually Works (And Is It Worth the Hassle?)

I just switched to Octopus Energy about a month ago. Haven't moved to Agile yet because I'm still waiting for my smart meter installation. But I've spent way too much time researching how the pricing works, so figured I'd write up what I've learned. Most electricity tariffs charge you the same rate no matter what time of day it is. Boil the kettle at 3am or 6pm, same price. Agile is different. The price changes every 30 minutes. And you know what tomorrow's prices will be in advance, because Oct

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Mobile Midsommer Madness

This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam When it comes to Summar Solstace - the place to be is Sweden. It is one of the highlights of the calendar. This project aimed to recreate some of the mystique around the event- just in time for some fresh surestromming! Now you can get it on the GO! Midsommer Madness now in an an Android APK! GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/xbill9/midsommer-android / midsommer-android Midsommer Madness 🇸🇪 Midsommer Madness is a

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Apple’s Screen Time updates are too little, too late

Ask to Browse is one of the new features coming to Screen Time. | Screenshot The Verge Apple spending a big chunk of its WWDC keynote on parental controls was surprising for several reasons. But the biggest is that, despite all the airtime, it didn't announce much new beyond a redesigned interface. Almost all the features touted already exist or are upgrades to current options. Why Apple chose to do this isn't a mystery. You can trace the threads from the recent landmark social media trials ag

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The Author Doesn't Have to Be an Engineer: How the Harness Holds Quality (Series Part 5)

Hi, I'm Ryan, CTO at airCloset. Disclaimer: "cortex" in this article is the internal codename for an AI platform built in-house at airCloset. It is unrelated to existing commercial services like Snowflake Cortex or Palo Alto Networks Cortex. In Part 1 (Series Intro), I wrote about how cortex's harness has matured to the point where non-engineers (business-side managers, PMOs, and the like) can open PRs to the production repository. The harness here is the runtime foundation for AI in production

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5 things I already love from the iOS 27 beta

Some app icons have a little more glass, but it gives them more identity. iOS 27 has only been out for a few hours, and I've been messing around with the developer beta on my iPhone 16 Pro. I was most interested in trying out the new Siri AI, but unfortunately, I'm still on Apple's waitlist for that. In the meantime, I've been poking around a bunch of features that aren't about AI and found a lot that I'm happy with - even though this doesn't seem to be as big of an update as previous years, t

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I built a hardware-inspired UI component library in pure Vanilla JS — here's how

Most UI components feel like UI components. You click a toggle and it moves. Fine. It works. But it doesn't feel like anything. I wanted to change that. I've always been drawn to physical interfaces — the satisfying click of a mechanical switch, the weight of a hardware knob, the way a button depresses when you press it. Web UI almost never captures that. Everything is flat, instant, weightless. So I started building components that feel like they exist in the real world. Not skeuomorphic in the

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Top 10 Free Online Tools Every Developer Should Bookmark

Top 10 Free Online Tools Every Developer Should Bookmark Disclosure: I built these tools after repeatedly running into the same development tasks over and over again. They're free to use, browser-based, and process data locally whenever possible. As developers, we spend a surprising amount of time doing small repetitive tasks: Decoding JWTs Comparing configuration files Converting timestamps Generating UUIDs Building cron expressions Inspecting API payloads Most of these tasks shouldn't requi

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