Blogs tagged "tech"

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.

• 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

• 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!

• Australians Could Soon Opt Out of Social Media Algorithms Altogether Sep 09, 2026

  “The Australian government is proposing to give social media users the option to switch off the default algorithmic f...

• I discovered KDE’s hidden superpowers after installing these 3 open-source utilities Sep 08, 2026

  “If you’ve been in the Linux space for a while, you know just how customisable KDE Plasma can be. However, a lot of u...

• Kept is an open-source self-hosted alternative to Google Keep notes Sep 06, 2026

  It looks and feels like Google Keep notes, but is private and tracker-free. It has some extra features too, such as l...

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

• Move passwords and passkeys between Android managers safely Sep 11, 2026

  Android now lets users transfer passwords and passkeys directly between supported password managers, without download...

• Gemini app arrives on Windows with Alt + Space shortcut Sep 11, 2026

  Google has launched the Gemini app globally for Windows 10 and 11, bringing Gemini to a dedicated desktop app. Users ...

• Cursor Projects puts long-running coding tasks on autopilot Sep 11, 2026

  Cursor has launched Projects in beta, a workspace for longer-running coding work that uses a coordinator agent to pla...

Hackaday

Fresh hacks every day

• Trying to Fix a Suspiciously Cheap Enterprise-Grade Network Switch Sep 11, 2026

  When you see a listing for an Ethernet switch whose specification list is in effect ‘yes’, with a four-digit price ta...

• Making a Neo Nuvistor Project in 2026 Sep 11, 2026

  For a little while vacuum tubes and semiconductors were fighting a heated battle for dominance, with bipolar junction...

• Hand-Coded ASM Powers Homebrew SNES Game Sep 11, 2026

  Nintendo has made many game consoles in its long history — one that famously overlaps that of the Ottoman Empire — bu...

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.

• 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

• Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-10-26 Sep 10, 2026

  We went just over one week without daily Pook-Emu Bee links. Sickness (probably mostly allergies) and work intervened...

• PSA on RSSAmplifierBot and BriskBot Sep 06, 2026

  I discovered two new bots in my server logs last week: RSSAmplifierBot and BriskBot. They come from RSS Amplifier and...

• Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-02-26 Sep 02, 2026

  My throat is irrtated, my nose is stuffy, and I have a slight headache. It’s ragweed season. Unrelated: It’s time for...

The Autodidacts

Exploring the universe from the inside out

• 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

• How to fit Qwen3.8-27B into 16GB of VRAM and run it on a single RTX 3080 card: the best quantizations and Llama.cpp flags I've found Aug 23, 2026

  TL;DR: UD-IQ3_XXS with KV cache quantization

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.

Stranger Than Usual

• Antiquiertes HTML Sep 11, 2026

  Ich habe einen Blogpost gefunden, in dem HTML-Gebilde zu sehen sind, die man heute nicht mehr so sieht, bzw. die nich...

• Rant: Java und Spring Sep 10, 2026

  Java ist keine schöne Programmiersprache, aber das Spring-Framework macht es um Größenordnungen schlimmer.

• Rollenspielszenen: Gewaltfreie Demonstration Sep 09, 2026

  Shane und Siobhan haben eine Diskussion über Gewalt und Demonstrationen

Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed

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

• 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...

• Why We Believe in the Preposterous Aug 08, 2026

  We all have that friend or family member that believes in the most ludicrous things, convinced of a conspiracy that d...

• 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...

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

• 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 ...

• Galera Clustering and MariaDB Server Aug 04, 2026

  Today marks the start of my fourth week at Percona and these few weeks have been, well, exciting to say the least. I ...

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 37/2026 Sep 11, 2026

  It’s been a hectic week. I had quite a bit of work both at work and at home. I’m still lagging on my home TODO list. ...

• Loading Indian Maps on a Garmin Forerunner 965 Sep 05, 2026

  The primary reason I bought this watch was the ability to display and navigate using proper offline maps. Garmin does...

• Weekly Notes 36/2026 Sep 04, 2026

  It’s been a good week and a busy one too. I have started contributing to Pucar as a technologist. I will blog more 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 ...

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?

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,...

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.

• 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.

• The Gravity of Ashburn, Virginia Aug 25, 2026

  Why a suburb in Northern Virginia rivals the world's largest internet hubs.

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!