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10 bands

I have been struggling a bit lately finding things to write about in this blog, mostly because I don’t want to contribute to the conversation about AI. So when Alex posted about concerts, he got me...

AMD Pulls a Bait-and-Switch on Linux Users with Vivado Licensing Changes

Tells Linux users to either pay up or get stuck on an aging, unsupported version forever.

Reviving an Obsolete NAS with Alt-F

I was recently handed down a D-Link DNS-323 NAS which I thought would be great for my brother to use. Although the stock D-Link firmware functions okay, it's officially EOL and there hasn't been an...

Wordslop: Try the new categorical puzzle game!

R74n's latest minigame - a unique take on the word game genre - is out now!

How to View VCF File Contents Without Importing Contacts

How to read any VCF or vCard file without saving contacts to your address book — on Windows, Mac, iPhone, Android, or directly in your browser with no software needed.

Flag Design

Broken Walls

There have been many times where I have faced a situation and didn't act. I'll have that gut feeling, and it'll tell me that I need to say this or do that, but I decided not to. It's tough to put t...

Hackaday Links: May 24, 2026

If your first-generation Chromecast was acting a little wonky this week, don’t worry. Contrary to fears online, the 2014 device hasn’t been excommunicated by Google. In a statement to Ars …read more

Very Uncool, People. Very Uncool…

Read Very Uncool, People. Very Uncool… An older couple wanders over, and the wife says to a sixteen-year-old cashier: Customer: "Just so you know, someone is slumped over the steering wheel in your...

Weekly Robotics #361

It's my pleasure to welcome Point One as a quarterly sponsor of Weekly Robotics! Point One makes centimeter-level positioning practical for production robotics teams — combining the world's densest...

Scratch, Dig, Blow

This post is about brand loyalty and how the magic of marketing and public relations often hides a rancid base note.

Scratch, Dig, Blow

This post is about brand loyalty and how the magic of marketing and public relations often hides a rancid base note.

Video of Cato Institute Online Event on the Supreme Court Birthright Citizenship Case

I participated, along with prominent legal scholars Gabriel Chin and Paul Finkelman.

Daily News Stuff 24 May 2026

Fledermoose Edition Top Story Samsung made a last-minute deal to give massive bonuses - not as massive as SK Hynix, but still enough to pay off my entire mortgage - so everything is peachy and thin...

Putting Aluminium Foil Under Your Wi-Fi Router: What It Does and Why Experts Recommend It

“The trick sounds like something from a frugal grandparent: put aluminium foil behind your Wi-Fi router to make the signal stronger. For years, tech experts said don’t bother. Then in 2017, researc...

Marskramer Path part 06

Hiked part 6/20 of the Marskramer Path, 17.3 kilometres from Holten to Lettele. From the Holterberg you descend to a more open area to Espelo, popularly called Splo. There are about 150 scattered f...

Rollenspielszenen: Morgenlied

Mit einem fröhlichen Morgenlied geweckt zu werden ist nicht jedermanns Sache.

Evidence Found in Ethiopia That Homo sapiens Cremated Their Dead 100,000 Years Ago, 60,000 Before the Oldest Known Record

An international research team, which includes Ferhat Kaya, a researcher at the Academy of Finland at the University of Oulu, has discovered what could be the earliest evidence of human cremation. ...

The complicated relationship between developers and security experts in Scrum

Good product security is possible only when developers and security experts work together, but this turns out to be hard in practice.

2026W20

We’ve made the world too complicated — The piece names something I keep circling back to — most of us operate daily within systems we can’t meaningfully inspect. We write code on machines we don’t ...