This free, open-source resource planning tool is one of the best self-hosted tools I’ve ever used

Apart from being a freelance writer, I run a small marketing agency that helps brands with content creation, social media ads, and email campaigns. While it is a small business, I have a few employees who work with me, along with several clients with multiple deliverables for each of them. As someone managing the entire business by myself, it often gets overwhelming to keep track of all the work, projects, deliverables, timelines, finances, and whatnot. Owing to this, I have been looking for resource planning and management software for a long time. Now, there isn’t a scarcity of such tools out there. ERP solutions are plentiful, but most of them cost a substantial amount of money. Considering that this is a small business, I’m not willing to make that investment as yet. So, I started looking for software that could be self-hosted — to avoid paying hefty fees.

Anton Jørgensen
Denmark

SpaceX just filed for what could be the biggest IPO ever

Elon Musk's final frontier is officially open for business now that SpaceX has formally filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC. That kicks off what could be the largest initial public offering ever when it lists on the Nasdaq stock exchange with the ticker SPCX. SpaceX generated $18.67 billion in...

Sophia Wilson
Atlanta

‘Solve all diseases,’ you say?

Let’s unpack what Demis Hassabis said at the end of yesterday’s Google I/O keynote. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. This week's issue is a special...

Jane Smith
Los Angeles

Your cheap USB-C cables will fail with USB4

There's sometimes a negative connotation that anything cheap must be of bad quality, but that couldn't be further from the truth. More affordable mechanical keyboards can oftentimes be just as good as more expensive typing machines. The same goes for a bottle of red sauce or even a monitor, so...

John Doe
New York

I replaced GitHub Copilot with a self-hosted AI and I won’t go back

I'm a fairly novice coder, even though I've dabbled in one language or another over the last few decades. I'm also terrible at formatting, so I really appreciate autocomplete and formatting help from agentic coding tools. I've been using GitHub Copilot, partly because it's the default in VS Code, but...

Emily Brown
Houston

I ignored BIOS updates for three years until I realized they were fixing my entire platform

BIOS is something that users touch only while building a PC, enabling DOCP/XMP, or reinstalling Windows. Once that is done and the PC starts working again, the BIOS becomes invisible. I was in the same situation; I built my PC about three years ago and went back to the BIOS...

Sinook Virchenko
Ukraine

I quit using Adobe Firefly for a free open-source alternative

The controversies around image and video generation are hard to ignore; whether training data was scraped without consent, or artists are getting compensated, or whether the outputs are doing something genuinely new or just laundering someone else's style. Adobe Firefly was the one that felt the least icky since it's...

Agata Nußbaum
Germany

I fixed my home network lag without buying a new router or a mesh system

When people think of home network upgrades, mesh Wi-Fi or a fancy router is usually what they think about. After all, the marketing around mesh networks makes it seem that they're a silver bullet to every Wi-Fi problem. However, many mesh systems cause the exact problems that they promise to...

Olivia Miller
Seattle

Cron inside WSL beats Windows Task Scheduler for one reason: it actually works the way I think

You've probably already heard the standard pitch for WSL. Windows Subsystem for Linux gives users an environment to run Linux apps, commands, and graphical tools. That pitch is accurate, and the fact that you can access Linux without dual-booting or spinning up a separate VM is reason enough to install...

Emily Brown
Houston

4 Android Auto tweaks that transformed my car’s infotainment system

Most of us treat Android Auto as a utility to set up once and never touch again, trusting Google's default settings, hoping the experience is safe and functional for the widest audience possible. For me, though, functional isn't as good as a personalized user experience, and even in its current...

Zlatodan Kmeta
Ukraine

Your Kindle doesn’t need to be hacked to escape Amazon’s walled garden

When you buy a Kindle, you only focus on reading books on it, like most folks. Only after owning one do people look for tutorials and guides to remove the niggles. Several tutorials, forum threads, and video comments are packed with people seeking guidance on jailbreaking the Kindle.

William Garcia
Boston

Your Pixel comes with these 4 fantastic apps, and they deserve a spot on your home screen

Phones these days come with a wide range of apps installed out of the box, ranging from the essentials to the bloatware we all want to remove. But somewhere in the middle are genuinely useful apps that you might not immediately realize you need until you start using them. These...