Blogs tagged "tech"

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, ...

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.

GadgeteerZA

Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!

• Jellyfin Playlist Membership — Easily browse Jellyfin Music song titles to add or remove from playlists Aug 22, 2026

  I wanted to quickly see which of my song titles are already in which playlists, and to quickly add them to other play...

• Moving your Linux home folder to a dedicated drive is the distro-hopping secret I wish I knew earlier Aug 19, 2026

  “Home is where the heart is. On Linux, home is where everything personal to you is: your documents, downloads, screen...

• The Powerful Chinese AI Model Experts Warned About Is Here Aug 18, 2026

  The “best” model is not always the “best” model for you. Why I say this, is because Z.ai’s model is still outperforme...

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

• OpenAI launches a ChatGPT plugin for Apple Messages that can basically text on your behalf Aug 22, 2026

  OpenAI has released a new ChatGPT plugin for Mac that gives the AI direct access to your Apple Messages conversations...

• Spline V2 launches with rebuilt 3D editor, AI agents, WebGPU, and new desktop app Aug 22, 2026

  The browser-based 3D design platform Spline has gone through one of its biggest overhauls with the launch of Spline V...

• Google adds Preferred Sources and enhanced content controls for Search and News Aug 21, 2026

  Google is rolling out a Preferred Sources button that allows users to save favorite news sites for prioritized access...

Hackaday

Fresh hacks every day

• An Atari Desktop On A Sega Aug 23, 2026

  Over recent years there have been a range of classic 16-bit consoles coaxed into running familiar operating systems, ...

• Open-Source ExpressLRS Receiver Reaches for Range Aug 22, 2026

  Drone control links are, from a radio signals perspective, nothing short of amazing: using a transmitter capable of t...

• The Shutter Makes This 3D Printed Camera Special Aug 22, 2026

  Making a film camera is a project within the reach of almost anyone, from the experimenter with cardboard and sticky ...

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

• Headlines That Say “I Ran Out Of Ideas” Aug 22, 2026

  I came across a New York Post opinion column by Lydia Moynihan titled The Gwyneth Paltrow AI controversy only hurts w...

• Against “Like Them, but Better” Aug 22, 2026

  I came across a short post on @iamgregb (I assume by Greg B) titled “Like Them, but Better.” It’s Not. In the post, h...

• Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-21-26 Aug 21, 2026

  It is time to wrap up another perfect five-for-five Pook-Emu Bee work-week before we take tomorrow off for Newsletter...

The Autodidacts

Exploring the universe from the inside out

• Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand Aug 20, 2026

  Sticks tongue out at AI

• The Hopefully Eventually Ultimate Desktop Linux Troubleshooting Guide: Recovering from Crashes and Freezes Aug 20, 2026

  Free advice from the printer fixer

• Failure Modes Jul 29, 2026

  Graceful degradation is underrated

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

• Hörnchen oder Waffel? Aug 22, 2026

  Ich muss hier unbedingt den Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache vorstellen. Ich dachte, ich hätte das schon längst getan.

• Thimbleweed Park 2 Aug 21, 2026

  Thimbleweed Park 2 ist in der Entwicklung und es gibt ein Dev-Blog

• Erlebnis Sonnenfinsternis: Der Komödie zweiter Teil Aug 19, 2026

  Wie ein sonniger Tag sich kurz vor Beginn der Sonnenfinsternis in eine Waschküche verwandelte.

Adventures in Open Source Software

Recent content on Adventures in Open Source Software

• 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 ...

• 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...

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.

• 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...

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,...

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 34/2026 Aug 21, 2026

  With the Peppo team here in Bangalore and other commitments, the week was crazy busy. I met at least half of the Pepp...

• Embedding Workouts using Web Component Aug 16, 2026

  I wanted a way to represent workouts by the muscle groups they activate. Most applications where you log do it. I tho...

• Weekly Notes 33/2026 Aug 14, 2026

  I ended the Netflix subscription. We have not been using it for a long time, and we were just paying; finally, this m...

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.

• The CPU Cost of Protobuf Varints in Go Aug 04, 2026

  Do fixed-size integers serialize faster than varints? We benchmark the CPU overhead of continuation-bit parsing using...

• 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.