I just wish there was a search engine to find a blog now. It's really hard to find a blog using Google search or at least an easy way to find a personal blog.
I really enjoyed John Muir pubs like How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step by Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot. They are available for a handful of vehicles (the Subaru one is a favorite of mine). Available at a used bookshop or new.
Great drawings, useful for non-motor-heads. The Sub version has info like resuscitating a drowned lizard :)
Avoid if You hate R. Crumb style drawings and hippies.
Try entering 1566913101 as the search in Amazon, currently USD23.00
Edit, adding: you don't need a specific one to gain great knowledge.
Pretty sure my dad still has his. I still have memories of his working on our microbus at the time, back in the early '70s. Don't think I was even five, yet, but I remember lying underneath the thing with him, watching while he worked on the brakes(?). And another time, he and Mom working a couple of jacks to pull out the engine.
Yeah, that copy earned its keep. Think it still has some of the grime...
What about learning more about something you already own and use? It would give you an opportunity to have a more hands on, real world experience and if it does break you can fix it?
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Hi, I'm an Android Developer with 6 years of experience, I have 2 open-source Android apps published on Play Store. Recently learned about Jetpack Compose.
I honestly didn't notice any difference in performance when Firefox Android Beta was switched to the new codebase a couple of weeks ago. Not saying it's not there, just that I couldn't tell.
I have trouble getting used to the new UX.
I keep hitting the address bar to open a site from my top sites in the current tab. That used to work, now it just opens the search interface. Instead you have to hit the -- much smaller -- tab overview button to open a top site in a new tab. Which means I end up having to manually close old tabs all the time now, something I don't remember doing. (To be fair, Chrome works the same way.)
I don't know how I'm supposed to use the new Collections feature. It's extremely prominent in the UI, I assume everybody else must be finding it super useful?!
They broke the offline reading list? You used to be able to bookmark a page in Reader Mode and have it available even when there is no connection (subway, airplanes). Instead of promoting this really neat (and given that Reader Mode is still a thing, cheap) feature, I think they just got rid of it. I had like a dozen of long articles in that list I still wanted to read (I think the bookmarks are still there). Hopefully they'll restore it before it transitions from Beta to Release, but who knows.
