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Notes from the fof.lol kitchen: how the tools work inside, why they look like a farmers’ market, and useful tips. With comics, because the vegetables insisted.
Before a video interview
Camera, light, voice and echo in one minute, the delay that grows while you send video, a blocked UDP and the interviewer’s time zone. With cherries in a tie rehearsing a smile.
Read the postWhen the power goes out
How long the power station really lasts with your appliances, which tools work without the internet, and why they have to be installed while the lights are still on. With a glowing lemon.
Read the postBuying a used phone: a 10-minute check at the meeting
Screen, touch, battery, camera, Wi-Fi and microphone, plus the locks and the IMEI no web page can check. A minute-by-minute plan, and a watermelon detective with a report you can keep.
Read the postWhy everything runs in your browser, not on a server
Twenty-five tools in one tab, like a packed minibus. What a modern browser can do, why it needs HTTPS, why an iPhone asks for a tap, and the honest list of outside services.
Read the postWhat to do when something doesn’t work
Blocked camera, silent sensors, a private window that forgets everything, a page stuck in the past. One checklist for every tool, and a kiwi that can’t find north next to the fridge.
Read the postThe link that remembers everything
The whole result rides inside the link, in an envelope with no return address. How to send it to Telegram or by email, keep a PNG or a PDF for yourself, and who can read it.
Read the postThe Hall of Fame is open. Yes, for vegetables
Ten tools got portraits, brass plaques and biographies, seven more wait in silhouette. A report from opening night, with the shortest speech in history.
Read the postWhat we know about you. Spoiler: nothing
No accounts, no cookies, no uploads. Where your data really goes on fof.lol, why there is no cookie banner, and how an onion searched our server and found only a spider.
Read the postMoving out of the browser: how to install fof.lol tools as apps
Own icon, own window, works offline. How to install any tool on Android, iPhone, iPad and a computer, in two taps, with a pumpkin shedding a tear at the end.
Read the postOur principles, or why our tools look like a farmers’ market
Seventeen free tools, one bench and six rules we stick to, explained in comics by a watermelon, a pumpkin and an onion that knows a bit too much.
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