Blogs tagged "tech"

GadgeteerZA

Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!

• LG Monitors Fill Windows PCs With Adware, and It’s Not Just Recent Displays Jul 30, 2026

  “If you’re using an LG monitor and you suddenly see blaring ads for McAfee scam protection, it’s not because your PC’...

• It Seems a Lot Like Dead Internet Has Actually Come True Jul 28, 2026

  “The infamous dead internet theory was originally a conspiracy that posited that the vast majority of the internet wa...

• EskomSePush app transitioned to neighbourhood service disruptions otherwise it would have died Jul 25, 2026

  This is the story of how the app evolved from being a high demand app to manage the electricity load shedding across ...

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.

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

  I had a great time at a 3-day hackathon

• 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.

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

• Anthropic reveals Claude models breached 3 companies without authorization during tests Aug 01, 2026

  Anthropic has disclosed that 3 Claude models gained unauthorized access to the production systems of three external o...

• Ente Photos adds memory reactions, desktop upgrades, and curated sharing controls Aug 01, 2026

  Ente Photos has introduced a broad set of updates focused on sharing, photo organization, imports, and performance. U...

• Google Earth integrates Nano Banana for historical and future location visualizations Aug 01, 2026

  Google has added its Nano Banana image generation tool to Google Earth, allowing users to create custom images based ...

Hackaday

Fresh hacks every day

• Hackaday Links: August 2, 2026 Aug 02, 2026

  About a month ago, we brought you word that the commercial rescue mission designed by Katalyst Space to save NASA’s S...

• An Automated Water Tank Controller Aug 02, 2026

  [Jumpor] lives in a part of India where the water infrastructure is a little frustrating to use. Water gets delivered...

• Turning Fruits Into Ethylene and Ethane Refrigerant Aug 02, 2026

  One of the best parts about DIY chemistry and physics projects is that you get to decide how early in the supply chai...

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...

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...

The Emu Café Social

A tranquil café with coffee and tea

• Fixing Failed KOReader OTA Update on PocketBook Aug 02, 2026

  I have a PocketBook InkPad Color and PocketBook Color (both first generation). I run KOReader on both. I tried to do ...

• Letter to the Editor Backlink in Chicago Sun Times Jul 31, 2026

  I was checking my backlinks on Ahrefs when I saw one from the Chicago Sun Times. I do not recall having had a Chicago...

• Tell Everyone About Your Hero[in]ism Jul 31, 2026

  A friend sent me a link to an interview in Natiulus titled I Am a Heroin User. I Do Not Have a Drug Problem. I truste...

The Autodidacts

Exploring the universe from the inside out

• Failure Modes Jul 29, 2026

  Graceful degradation is underrated

• Just being is worthwhile Jul 28, 2026

  Some moments are intensely vivid and pleasant. Other moments are intensely and vividly unpleasant, or, more commonly,...

• 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...

Stranger Than Usual

• Der alljährliche Nextcloud-Breakdown Aug 02, 2026

  Diese Woche hatte ich bei einem Update mal wieder Probleme mit Nextcloud.

• Bilddateiformate und Bildkompression Jul 30, 2026

  Eine kleine Einführung, welche Bildformate man verwenden für was verwenden sollte und warum.

• Rollenspielszenen: Baumaterial „finden“ Jul 30, 2026

  Eine Siedlung im Untergrund ist besorgt über eine Baustelle in der Nähe, die für Erschütterungen sorgt.

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

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...

Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed

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

• How to Pass the CCNA Jul 26, 2026

  One of the most challenging things about the CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) exam isn't subnetting, spanning...

• Untitled Jul 24, 2026

  Reddit is now requiring you to have an account and be logged in to use old.reddit.com, the less cluttered and bloated...

• 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...

Adventures in Open Source Software

Recent content on Adventures in Open Source Software

• I Got Scammed Jul 13, 2026

  After what happened to me this morning, I expect the North Carolina School of Science and Math to ask for my diploma ...

• 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...

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 31/2026 Jul 31, 2026

  This week has been good. It’s been a busy week, but it has been good except today. I typed a wrong Git command and pu...

• Ride to Gandikota Jul 25, 2026

  Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are the least explored states in the South for me. I have been adding places of interest...

• Weekly Notes 30/2026 Jul 24, 2026

  I have been to and seen many protests. But this one (#cjpprotests) is very different from the rest. I see them not on...

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 ...

home - SHRIK3 on SHRIK3

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

• 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...

• 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,...

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.

• It's Time for ConnectRPC to Adopt HTTP QUERY Jul 28, 2026
• Beating Go's encoding/json with Schema-Guided ProtoJSON Jul 21, 2026

  How protojsonx compares to standard protojson, JSON, and vtproto.

• gRPC-Web Should Have Fixed gRPC Jul 14, 2026

  gRPC-Web should have been the pressure that made gRPC simpler, more inspectable, and better suited for the web.