Blogs tagged "tech"

home - SHRIK3 on SHRIK3

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

• Hmmm I read something at some point ... let me grab the link.. Sep 30, 2026

  NOTE: having the links here doesn’t necessarily mean endorsement (though I often have similar takes … ) § (Psuedo) AI...

• I have no TEE, and I must attest Jul 13, 2026
• 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...

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.

• I don't like passkeys Sep 18, 2026

  The underlying technology is good, but the implementation isn't there yet

• How to get a free .arpa domain Aug 31, 2026

  It only takes a few minutes to set up.

• My Experience with Hack Club Horizons Europa Jul 30, 2026

  I had a great time at a 3-day hackathon

GadgeteerZA

Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!

• Honor’s Magic 9 Pro Max Has a Shotgun Mic and a 500mm Lens Mount Sep 30, 2026

  “The Honor Magic 9 Pro Max launches in China on September 28 with a directional “shotgun” microphone, ARRI cinema col...

• Veilamp is an open source music player that also streams your music to friends Sep 29, 2026

  You really have to see this cross-platform player to believe everything it does. Apart from all sorts of technical mu...

• First for South Africa as robotic exoskeleton aids Table Mountain rescue Sep 28, 2026

  I can really sympathise with this situation as it happened to me as well a few years ago. We hiked up the mountain an...

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

• Google introduces Gemini 4 Argon with million-token output Oct 02, 2026

  Google has announced Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier AI model for long running tasks in software development, enterp...

• Qt 6.12 LTS brings CRA compliance, QML hot reload, Qt Canvas Painter and HarmonyOS support Oct 01, 2026

  The Qt Company has officially released Qt 6.12, its latest Long-Term Support (LTS) version of the widely-used cross-p...

• Gitea drops legacy versioning with major 28.0 release and adds audit logging, bot accounts Oct 01, 2026

  The open-source self-hosted Git platform Gitea has announced version 28.0, marking a significant milestone with the a...

Hackaday

Fresh hacks every day

• Gardening With…OpenSCAD? Oct 02, 2026

  Unless it’s automated or using some other form of high-tech trickery, a vegetable garden isn’t exactly the sort of th...

• Power It With Sodium (But Please Don’t) Oct 02, 2026

  [Applied Science] has a new demo of an old 1970s patent for a portable generator that is both interesting and terrify...

• Elgato Key Lights Get Matter Upgrade Oct 01, 2026

  [Michael H Thiesen] had a couple of Elgato Key Lights in his home streaming setup. The only problem was that they wou...

tenticle

• Pizza Time Jul 31, 2026

  Unfinished; posting anyway. Pizza and 2+1 offers go together like Apache Airflow and data engineering: Nobody knows w...

• 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...

EmailShot Blog

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

• How to Set Up BIMI and Get Your Logo Into the Inbox Oct 01, 2026

  What BIMI is, what it actually requires in 2026 — DMARC enforcement, an SVG Tiny PS logo, and possibly a VMC or CMC —...

• How to Check Your Domain's SPF, DKIM, and DMARC Records Sep 15, 2026

  Check your domain's SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records in seconds with a free online DNS checker — plus how to read the res...

• 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 ...

The Emu Café Social

A tranquil café with coffee and tea

• A Townhouse For Sale in Brooklyn Heights Oct 01, 2026

  I came across an article about a “fully restored 1840s Brooklyn Heights townhouse” available for the low price of $12...

• Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 10-01-26 Oct 01, 2026

  Let us start October off on the right foot with an exciting new edition of the Pook-Emu Bee Links. Oh no, whatever wi...

• Toys R Us Leaving Japan After 35 Years Oct 01, 2026

  Back in the 90s and very early 2000s, most of my video games came from Toys ‘R Us. See, for example, my discussion in...

The Autodidacts

Exploring the universe from the inside out

• How to copy URLs of multiple Firefox tabs without installing an extension Sep 24, 2026

  It’s easy, once you know you can

• Older than the dog Sep 05, 2026

  How wise do our mentors need to be?

• Ode to Metadata Sep 01, 2026

  Make your projects 4-dimensional

Boris Tane

I'm Boris Tane, and I build software

• On-Call Is Now Theatre Aug 21, 2026

  On-call was calibrated to the cost of waking up a human. That cost just went to zero. Self-operating software is comi...

• 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.

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

Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed

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

• Are LLMs 'Other Minds'? Sep 27, 2026

  On whether LLMs and agentic AIs are a positive and beneficial invention, I tend to lean more toward optimism. Althoug...

• Why I Stopped Paying to Host Two Static Sites Sep 20, 2026

  I recently switched from Namecheap shared hosting to Cloudflare Pages. I have two websites that are both plain text h...

• Converting FLACs to Opus Aug 11, 2026

  I have music collection of over 12,000 tracks. I prefer to actually own my music (ie digital files) and being able to...

Stranger Than Usual

• FrankMoji Oct 01, 2026

  FrankMoji ist eine Schriftart für Emojis, die an Clipart aus den 90ern erinnert.

• JPEG XL steht vor der Tür Sep 30, 2026

  Firefox und Chromium unterstützen bald das neue Bildformat JPEG XL.

• Dropbox deleted Sep 29, 2026

  Ich habe meinen Dropbox-Account gelöscht. Ich habe ihn ewig nicht mehr gebraucht.

Adventures in Open Source Software

Recent content on Adventures in Open Source Software

• 2026 Percona Live EU - Amsterdam Sep 22, 2026

  I was super-eager to attend my first Percona Live as a Perconian. While I was supposed to be at the one in the US in ...

• 25 Years of Professional Open Source Sep 10, 2026

  I forget when I was first introduced to open source. Back when I got my first computer in 1978, most of the software ...

• Passbolt Password Server Sep 01, 2026

  For $REASONS I decided to cancel my 1Password subscription. It renewed in February so I have time to get comfortable ...

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 ...

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.

• How Do We Get More Microgrants in India? Sep 28, 2026

  I gathered a group of folks and did the BOF session at IndiaFOSS/2026. The idea behind the BoF session wasn’t to pres...

• Weekly Notes 39/2026 Sep 25, 2026

  In one of my earlier blog posts, I mentioned that I have become more routine, more protective of my time, and indirec...

• Weekly Notes 38/2026 Sep 18, 2026

  It’s been a busy week, but not as busy as last week, mostly because Monday was a holiday and I got some rest. Uma was...

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.

• gRPC vs REST Is the Wrong Question Sep 21, 2026

  The traditional advice is REST for public APIs and gRPC for microservices. But is this a false dichotomy?

• Joining Buf Sep 06, 2026

  A check-in for my career

• Let's Talk About Streaming Data on the Web Sep 01, 2026

  A practical look at streaming data in the browser, from response streams and WebSockets to WebTransport over HTTP/3.

R74n Newsletter

Be notified when Sandboxels and other R74n projects are updated, along with ramblings from the developer!

• Sandboxels v1.15: Update of the Century Jul 14, 2026

  Highly anticipated features such as Undo/Redo, Copy/Paste, and more are now in the game!

• Wordslop: Try the new categorical puzzle game! May 25, 2026

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

• GenTown Update: Astronomy, Zoology, Onomatology! Apr 28, 2026

  Residents can now discover neighboring planets, moons, plants, animals, and more!