How to copy and paste on an iPad
The iPad copies by touch like an iPhone, but it also takes keyboard shortcuts and lets you drag things between two open apps. Every method, plus Procreate and the fixes when paste won't show up.
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What is a passkey?
Passkeys replace typed passwords with a key your device keeps and you unlock with your face or fingerprint. How they work, where they're stored, moving them between managers, and what to do if you lose your phone.
Relic Blog11 min readTypes of ciphers, from Caesar to AES
Substitution, polyalphabetic, transposition and modern ciphers, each with a worked example you can check, and a quick guide to identifying an unknown cipher.
Relic Blog10 min readLocalSend vs KDE Connect vs Quick Share
A side-by-side look at three free ways to move files between phone and computer: platforms, iPhone support, same-Wi-Fi rules, clipboard sharing, and where each one falls down.
Relic Blog10 min readQuick Share on Windows and iPhone
How to set up Quick Share on Windows 10 or 11, send files both ways, and fix it when the PC won't show up. Plus what the new AirDrop support means for iPhone owners.
Relic Blog9 min readSnipping Tool for Mac: what to use instead
Snipping Tool is Windows only, but every Mac has its own version built in. The shortcuts, the Screenshot app, screen recording, and what each Snipping Tool feature is called on a Mac.
Relic Blog9 min readWhich messaging apps are end-to-end encrypted in 2026
A checked list of which chat apps encrypt your messages end to end as of September 2026, with the catch for each one: backups, carriers, Secret Chats and work accounts.
Relic Blog10 min readCan you AirDrop to Android?
Google's Quick Share can now send to and receive from an iPhone's AirDrop on newer Pixel, Galaxy, OnePlus, OPPO and other phones. Which ones work, the steps both ways, and what to use if yours is left out.
Relic Blog9 min readClipboard history on a Mac
Tahoe finally gave the Mac a clipboard history, tucked inside Spotlight. The shortcut, the 7-day limit, the password problem, and what to use when it falls short.
Relic Blog7 min readAirDrop for Windows: how to send from an iPhone to a PC
Apple never made AirDrop for Windows. LocalSend, PairDrop, Phone Link, iCloud and the quick hacks, with the limits of each, so you can move files from an iPhone to a PC.
Relic Blog9 min readWhat AI crawlers fetch from a small open-source site: 31 days of logs
We checked every request that claimed to be GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and the rest against the operators' published IP lists. Then we looked at what the real ones read. The data is downloadable.
Relic Blog10 min readjq cheat sheet
jq is sed for JSON. The filters you use most, built up against one API response so every command has a visible result, from map and select to group_by and raw output.
Relic Blog7 min readwget vs curl: what is the difference?
wget and curl both fetch over HTTP, and there the resemblance ends. One is a recursive downloader, the other a protocol swiss army knife. What each is genuinely better at.
Relic Blog7 min readA pull request template you can copy today
A Markdown file your host pre-fills into every new PR. Three templates to copy, where the file lives on GitHub and GitLab, and what separates a checklist people use from one they delete.
Relic Blog8 min readOllama models: how to choose and run them
Ollama runs language models on your own hardware with almost one command. The catch is picking one your machine can hold. How to read a model listing, do the RAM math, and run it.
Relic Blog10 min readPrompt injection examples, explained for defenders
Prompt injection turns untrusted data into instructions a model obeys. The categories of prompt injection examples, why they work, and how to defend without pretending it is solved.
Relic Blog8 min readEd25519 vs RSA
For a new SSH or signing key, Ed25519 is the better default: smaller, faster, and harder to misconfigure. When RSA is still the right call, and the commands to generate each.
Relic Blog6 min readThe best local LLM depends on your hardware
The best local LLM is the smallest one that does your task and fits your memory. A buyer's guide organized by hardware tier and task, with honest evaluation advice.
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