Blogs tagged "tech"

GadgeteerZA

Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!

• Android is open source, but your phone isn’t—here’s why Google locked it down Jul 10, 2026

  “Android has come to dominate the global smartphone marketplace, and a large part of why this has happened is thanks ...

• Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds Jul 09, 2026

  “Meta has filed a patent for a system that records your voice and surroundings all day, then uses an AI to analyse yo...

• German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern heads down the open source sovereignty road Jul 09, 2026

  “So far, around 5,000 staff are using their new FOSS tools for chat, video conferencing, and groupware, but the plan ...

Ethan Hawksley's Blog

Technical blog of Ethan Hawksley, a UK-based CS student. Articles on systems programming, low-level computing, cybersecurity, and computer science.

• JSON-LD Explained for Personal Websites Jun 21, 2026

  Everything you need to know about JSON-LD and how to implement it.

• Mitigating Ongoing Registry Supply Chain Attacks May 17, 2026

  They are only becoming more frequent and more damaging.

• The Need for Post-Quantum Cryptography Apr 13, 2026

  Quantum computers are becoming increasingly realistic. We need to be ready.

HavenApps - Blog

Apps for macOS and iOS that feel at home. Local first, no subscriptions, no tracking.

• HavenAcknowledgments is now open source Mar 28, 2026

  HavenApps has released HavenAcknowledgments, an open source Swift package that shows licence notices for your depende...

• HavenDevice is now open source Mar 24, 2026

  HavenApps has released HavenDevice, an open source Swift package that collects device and app information in one plac...

• HavenGPXParser is now open source Mar 20, 2026

  HavenApps has released HavenGPXParser, an open source Swift package for working with GPX files. It reads, validates, ...

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

• OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 with Sol, Terra, and Luna models for wider public use Jul 11, 2026

  OpenAI is rolling out its new GPT-5.6 models to the general public, calling the series “its best coding model yet” an...

• OpenAI launches new ChatGPT Work tool and announces the shutdown of its AI browser Atlas Jul 11, 2026

  OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, a new agentic system powered by the GPT 5.6 model family for handling professional ...

• Hannah Montana Linux has been revived with a modernized stack, but still a lot of pink! Jul 10, 2026

  Hannah Montana Linux, known for its unique TV-inspired theme, has been revived after 18 years of inactivity. The newl...

Hackaday

Fresh hacks every day

• Fixing the Fix for a 3dfx Voodoo Card’s Overly Bright Picture Jul 11, 2026

  After previously fixing an overly bright picture from a Voodoo graphics card with a simple resistor on one of the RAM...

• Reject Modernity, Return to 80s, Learn C. Jul 11, 2026

  We’re not exactly sure how old [SnailMail] is, but he’s probably a member of Generation Alpha considering that to our...

• Documenting the IR Protocol of the PumpSaver Plus Device Jul 10, 2026

  Having a pump in a remote location where you aren’t constantly monitoring it is a common scenario, which can be unfor...

tenticle

• Tech Interview: Aftertaste Feb 25, 2026

  Interviews take a lot of energy. In general but this one in particular. And getting through it also deserves a little...

• Yelling at Matrix Multiplication Feb 15, 2026

  commit ba5eddeadbeefc0ffeeda7ac1a55b00b1e5fafff Author: Anonymous Colleague Date: Fri Jan 23 11:23:42 2026 +0000 Yel...

• Glass Walls of Comp Day Feb 12, 2026

  Glass walls of comp day, “Tough times” reflected on mouth, Spoils go to victor machine.

EmailShot Blog

Tips, guides, and insights about email sharing, email security, and productivity from the EmailShot team.

• Transactional Emails for Game Server Admins: Save, Compare, and Share Them Jul 07, 2026

  Signup confirmations, billing receipts, and downtime alerts pile up when you run a game server or community. Here is ...

• How to Open EML Files on Windows, Mac, iPhone, and Android Jun 04, 2026

  Step-by-step guide to opening EML email files on every platform — in Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, or directly in...

• How to View VCF File Contents Without Importing Contacts May 25, 2026

  How to read any VCF or vCard file without saving contacts to your address book — on Windows, Mac, iPhone, Android, or...

The Emu Café Social

A tranquil café with coffee and tea

• Independence Day Fireworks Jul 05, 2026

  I decided to step out to see if I could see the 4th of July fireworks from a cross-street in Brooklyn Heights. I took...

• Google Hardware Complaints Remind Me of BlackBerry Classic Jul 03, 2026

  I read an article on マリウス.com titled I Do Not Recommend Google Hardware. The author, Marius, goes through the issues ...

• Settings in “No AI” DuckDuckGo Jul 02, 2026

  Back on June 8, 2026, Chris Wiegman published a blog post titled You Don’t Need the DuckDuckGo noai Subdomain. For th...

The Autodidacts

Exploring the universe from the inside out

• People and Clothes Jul 10, 2026

  Some people’s clothes have a way of riding up in unfortunate places, in a way that seems almost willful. It’s as if t...

• Autodidacts Newsletter #26 Jun 29, 2026

  Twenty-four new posts to hitch your mind to

• What Should We Optimize Away? Jun 29, 2026

  Optimize away optimizing away

Stranger Than Usual

• Rollenspielszenen: Urteil über Gamoril Jul 10, 2026

  Zwei Ansätze, die Meinung über Gamoril kundzutun.

• Rollenspielszenen: Seid ihr lebensmüde?!? Jul 08, 2026

  Darf man andere für die dumme Sache kritisieren, die man selbst bis einen Augenblick vorher noch gemacht hat?

• Bahn-Wettbewerb Jul 07, 2026

  Katja Diehl hält es für schädlich, dass die Bahngesellschaft Italo in Deutschland zwei Strecken übernimmt.

Boris Tane

I'm Boris Tane, and I build software

• Slop Creep: The Great Enshittification of Software Mar 14, 2026

  Coding agents didn't make poor engineers dangerous. They made them unstoppable.

• The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead Feb 20, 2026

  AI agents didn't make the SDLC faster. They killed it. All that's left is context.

• How I Use Claude Code Feb 10, 2026

  The research-plan-implement workflow I use to build software with Claude Code, and why I never let it write code unti...

Sam Patterson's Blog

Thoughts on software development, AI, and technology

• Informed versus Uninformed AI Skeptics Mar 27, 2025

  In Which I Describe why some AI Skeptics need to Experiment

• No Longer 98.6 - How Human Body Temperature has Changed Mar 24, 2025

  In Which I Learn that our Body Temperature is Lower than Commonly Believed

• Can Coding LLMs only Increase Complexity? Mar 21, 2025

  In Which I Vent my Frustrations about Using LLMs for Coding

Adventures in Open Source Software

Recent content on Adventures in Open Source Software

• Day One at Percona Jul 07, 2026

  Today I am excited to announce that I have started a new job as the General Manager for MariaDB at Percona. I’ve been...

• Sonoff Zigbee Bridge with Home Assistant Jun 10, 2026

  Back in November of 2024, my father (who is now 86) moved in with us. We are lucky enough to have a house with a base...

• San Francisco Omnistrate Event Jun 05, 2026

  Last month I had the opportunity to attend an event hosted by Omnistrate at the Amazon office on Market Street in San...

Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed

Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed: A place where I complain about technology or dive into quasi-philsophical subjects.

• OPNsense on a Palo Alto Firewall Appliance Jun 29, 2026

  I picked up a Palo Alto Cloudgenix ION 2000 off of eBay and decided to try and stick OPNsense on it. It has a etherne...

• Reviving an Obsolete NAS with Alt-F May 25, 2026

  I was recently handed down a D-Link DNS-323 NAS which I thought would be great for my brother to use. Although the st...

• Self Hosting Passwords May 21, 2026

  A few months back, Ars Technica published Password managers' promise that they can't see your vaults isn't always tru...

Thejesh GN

A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.

• Weekly Notes 28/2026 Jul 10, 2026

  I started Weekly Notes in 2022, with WN-29/2022. With this week’s note, we will complete four full years. Except for ...

• SIR Online: Everything Is Difficult by Design Jul 09, 2026

  I did SIR enumeration online. The application seems to have been written by someone who hates users and doesn’t want ...

• Weekly Notes 27/2026 Jul 03, 2026

  It’s been a hectic week. Lots of work, meetings, and things to get done. I still have things on my list. I might have...

home - SHRIK3 on SHRIK3

A technical blog covering systems programming, Linux administration, Nix, Neovim, and privacy, with an indie web philosophy.

• WIP side channels {meltdown, spectre} Mar 13, 2026

  This is WIP write-up. § praise LLM! While playing with spectre V2 side channel, I found an issue and LLM helped me to...

• checklist for learning programming language Feb 25, 2026

  h1, h2, h3, h4 ,h6 { font-size: unset;} § the language keywords primitive types integer, float, string, array, slice,...

• Agentic Society and Its Future Feb 24, 2026

  A blunt reference, but I immediately thought about Kaczynski 1 when the idea randomly jumped into my mind. There is n...

Saeed Esmaili

I’m a data scientist based in Amsterdam, currently working at Spotify. I work on projects aimed at enhancing the productivity and experience of developers, using research and data analysis to inform our platform strategies.

• Save an audio file into your Spotify account via CLI May 25, 2026

  I have added several long conversational youtube videos into a playlist, hoping I’ll come back to the them some day, ...

• Treat your morning ritual like an opening chess move Mar 16, 2026

  I quite liked this metaphoric view of the morning ritual from Herbert Lui: A good morning ritual needs to be flexible...

• Taming Claude Code: Taking Back Control Feb 18, 2026

  I started using Claude Code in July last year. I was a Cursor user looking for something better, and I was skeptical ...

Blog by Vesa Piittinen

A blog mostly dedicated around web development topics.

• HTML custom elements Dec 07, 2024

  This is a dump of my custom elements knowledge and how to make it all work with React.

• Smallest GIF? Meh! Tiniest data URL is a BMP! Sep 01, 2024

  There is the occasional need for the tiniest possible image, but what can we use as one?

• Two line balanced inline block Feb 04, 2024

  Sometimes you want to have inline elements that have two lines of text. Can you achieve that with just CSS?

Daryl Sun's Journal

An online diary of a lady's misadventures in two worlds

• Special Edition — Ego Oct 31, 2025

  Special Edition — Ego TL;DR:What's the difference between my ego in the real world and my ego online? This blog post ...

• Special Edition — Colors Aug 31, 2025

  Special Edition — Colors TL;DR:Purple is my color. This blog post has approximately 301 words and may take 2 minutes ...

• Special Edition — Take Two Jun 07, 2025

  Special Edition — Take Two TL;DR:If I had another chance, I would have started this blog earlier. This blog post has ...

kmcd.dev

I'm Kevin McDonald. I am a backend software engineer from Texas, living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark. Let's learn together.

• Making Dynamic Protobuf Fast in Go Jul 07, 2026

  Using Buf’s hyperpb to speed up FauxRPC’s runtime-loaded Protobuf request path.

• Proxy, Record, and Mock gRPC APIs with FauxRPC Jun 30, 2026

  Stop writing mock stubs by hand. How FauxRPC uses smart proxying, reflection, and CEL to automate your API testing.

• Exploring Protocol Buffers Interactively Jun 25, 2026

  Announcing protobuf.kmcd.dev, an interactive explainer and playground for exploring the binary details of Protocol Bu...