BKOOL Bikes Are No Longer Locked In: Full Compatibility with QZ

For years, many BKOOL bike owners faced a frustrating reality: excellent hardware, but limited software freedom. In recent times, BKOOL users were pushed toward a very narrow ecosystem, with ROUVY becoming one of the main remaining supported options after the BKOOL platform transition. ROUVY itself confirmed the migration path for BKOOL subscribers and hardware users. […]

I Fixed Echelon Compatibility in QZ. By Stealing Their Own Unlock.

A few months ago I wrote about how Echelon firmware updates were breaking compatibility with QZ. Devices were still connecting, Bluetooth looked fine, but no real data was coming through anymore. Power, cadence, speed everything that matters was gone. This wasn’t random. Something had clearly changed in the initialization phase. So I started digging. The […]

When GitHub Charges You a Few Cents… and You Start Wondering

I first noticed something strange when I received an invoice from GitHub. My public open-source repository was listed as being billed under “metered” usage. If you know GitHub’s pricing, you’ll know they have “metered” services — pay-as-you-go features like extra storage or GitHub Actions minutes. Public repositories shouldn’t normally incur these charges, so something was […]