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1. Liquid Glass obscures macOS volume changes

macOS Tahoe/Golden Gate moved the volume change UI to a tiny indicator at the top of the screen, a significant regression from Sequoia’s large overlay — the author calls out Apple’s declining design quality and unwillingness to QA macOS for free.

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/7/4.html

2. A Git hook to prevent committing directly to main

A simple git pre-commit hook that checks the current branch name and blocks commits on main, saving the hassle of fixing accidental direct commits on the main branch.

https://alexwlchan.net/2026/no-main-hook/

3. WorkBuddy Blue Book

An open-source 27-chapter practical guide for WorkBuddy, organized into 4 learning paths — from getting started to building multi-agent workflow systems, turning every success into reusable automation.

https://workbuddy.homes/

4. How to hide an update in the Mac App Store

Keep both the old and new versions of an app installed on disk so the Mac App Store sees the new version (by bundle identifier) and stops showing the update prompt, while you keep using the old version.

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/7/5.html

5. Mysteries of Telegram DC

A deep dive into Telegram’s 5 data centers — DC5 (Singapore) frequently goes down, DC2 actually has many users (contrary to common belief), DC3 no longer accepts new users and has been phased out, and different DC query methods have varying accuracy.

https://dev.moe/en/3025

6. Regressive JPEGs

Exploiting progressive JPEG’s multi-scan feature to pack multiple images or video frames into a single JPEG file, creating in-image animations that switch frames as the image loads over a slow network — no JavaScript or CSS required.

https://maurycyz.com/projects/bad_jpeg/

7. Auditing Samba File & Directory Changes With Elasticsearch

A complete guide to setting up Samba file share auditing with Filebeat collecting full_audit syslog messages, parsed by an Elasticsearch ingest pipeline into structured fields for change tracking.

https://helgeklein.com/blog/auditing-samba-file-directory-changes-with-elasticsearch/

8. I made my blog solar-powered - a huge update

A detailed upgrade log of an apartment solar system from powering just a blog to whole-apartment use, covering LFP batteries, dynamic energy tariffs, Victron Multiplus inverter, and real-time P1 energy monitoring.

https://louwrentius.com/i-made-my-blog-solar-powered-a-huge-update.html

9. Calm Technologies That Excite Me

Exploring the “calm technology” philosophy through products like the Daylight Computer paper-like tablet, modded iPods for offline music, the Clicks Communicator physical keyboard case, and dictaphones — all aimed at distraction-free focused computing.

https://abhi.now/blog/calm-technologies/

10. You probably don’t need Oh My Zsh

Benchmarks show Oh My Zsh adds 0.38s of shell startup latency; switching to starship for prompts, fzf for history search, and a minimal manual config brings it down to 0.07s — most OMZ features are unnecessary for modern Zsh setups.

https://rushter.com/blog/zsh-shell/

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