Kap – An open-source screen recorder built with web technology

Just a few days ago version 2 of Kap got released. It’s an open-source screen recorder built using electron. Installation possible with Homebrew-Cask, after which the app sits neatly in the Menu Bar: brew update && brew cask install kap It’s possible to record sections of your screen, specific windows, or the entire screen. After …

On release cycles and deprecating stuff

From “What Really Happened with Vista: An Insider’s Retrospective” by Ben Fathi: The three year release cycle meant we rarely knew what the competitive landscape and external ecosystem would look like when we started a release […] What we thought we knew three or four years ago when we planned a given OS release was …

Why a software patch is called a patch

Software Bugs A common misconception is that a software bug is called a bug because of an actual bug that was once found. The story goes that Grace Hopper found a moth stuck in Harvard University’s Mark II calculator in 1947 and that she taped it inside a logbook with the words “First actual case …