Blogs tagged "tech"

Matt Rasmussen

Tech artist. Dad. Horror snob. Blogging since 1999.

• Notes on “Eight for a Wish, Nine for a Kiss” Oct 17, 2026

  I think I saw it today. “My farmhouse.” The inspiration for the ghost story, “Eight for a Wish, Nine for a Kiss.” Rec...

• Are you playing Flask? Oct 10, 2026

  Flask? It’s only a roguelike deckbuilding autobattler with art by John Kenn Mortensen. Who wants that? Who would even...

• SimEarth: The Living Planet Oct 01, 2026

  SimEarth was $70 USD when it dropped in 1990. That’s $180 in 2026 dollars. It was Maxis’s third release. Fortunately,...

Sulayman Bowles — Writing

Essays on software, AI systems, and markets.

• Harris County’s toll-road cash Oct 21, 2026

  HCTRA transferred $961 million to other county transportation funds over three years. Its accounts show why a toll do...

• The school-tax dollar Austin keeps Oct 21, 2026

  Austin ISD booked $1.51 billion in maintenance-and-operations taxes in FY2025. Recapture sent just over half away. Th...

• Five cities, two balance sheets Oct 21, 2026

  Five Texas cities report positive General Fund balances and negative governmental unrestricted net position. The diff...

MacBorn

MacBorn reviews and recommendations for great Mac software.

• Playing Quake III Arena on a modern Mac Oct 17, 2026

  I returned to Quake III Arena after many years and used ioquake3 to get it running on my MacBook.

• Disk Utility vs. VeraCrypt: How to encrypt files on a Mac Oct 11, 2026

  I needed to protect files stored in iCloud and on an external USB drive, so I compared VeraCrypt with the encrypted d...

• Disk Utility or VeraCrypt: How should you encrypt files on a Mac? Oct 11, 2026

  I needed to protect files stored in iCloud and on an external USB drive, so I compared VeraCrypt with the encrypted d...

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.

• Finding state bleed in Google Search Oct 20, 2026

  What happens without a search query?

• 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.

GadgeteerZA

Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!

• Self-hosting doesn’t actually save you money, and the people who promise it does are setting beginners up to quit Oct 19, 2026

  Yep it’s quite true. If you are just going to host one or two things, you could get away with a Raspberry Pi, but I h...

• Open-Source Self-Hosted Zer0 URL Shortener Oct 18, 2026

  A modern-looking, tiny, fast, self-hosted URL shortener built for Docker Compose. zer0 keeps the redirect path lean, ...

• The Beginner’s Almanac for Wet Shaving Oct 17, 2026

  “The first week in any wet shaving group feels like walking into a conversation halfway through. Somebody posts an SO...

News - AlternativeTo.net

The latest tech news from AlternativeTo

• Google brings Gemini's Personal Intelligence to Android Auto and cars with Google built-in Oct 22, 2026

  Google has announced that its Gemini AI assistant is now available globally on Android Auto and in cars with Google b...

• Substack introduces podcast sponsorship program, giving creators new revenue options Oct 22, 2026

  Substack has announced that it will begin offering podcast sponsorship capabilities to creators on its platform, mark...

• PHP patches critical AI-discovered PHP2Shell vulnerabilities affecting millions of sites Oct 22, 2026

  PHP maintainers have released emergency fixes for two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, ...

Hackaday

Fresh hacks every day

• Trying to Get Linux Running on a Nokia E6 Oct 22, 2026

  The Nokia E6 is a smartphone from back in the old days when Symbian was a thing. [fluffleswaffled] has been doing the...

• Reading QR Codes by Hand Oct 22, 2026

  QR codes can be a handy way to send a link or contact details without all that tedious mucking about with typing in a...

• Making a Five-Segment Display with Platinum-Titanium Cathodes Oct 22, 2026

  Before the advent of effective semiconductor LEDs many display types existed to display things like numbers and other...

tenticle

• Pricing Rarity Oct 06, 2026

  Unfinished; posting anyway. As a kid I lived through several collecting manias in the midst of my peers. Hockey cards...

• 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...

EmailShot Blog

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

• How to Attach an Email to a Google Calendar Invite Oct 18, 2026

  Google Calendar only attaches Drive files, not emails. Here is how to attach a Gmail message to a Calendar event in t...

• 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...

The Emu Café Social

A tranquil café with coffee and tea

• Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 10-11-26 Oct 11, 2026

  After a nine-day work/NLJ/newsletter-induced lull in the Pook-Emu Bee, I return with my sometimes-regularly-scheduled...

• Interpreting Trackback Spam on NLJ Oct 06, 2026

  I receive remarkable amounts of comment spam on The New Leaf Journal’s Guestbook page, but I seldom receive pingback/...

• Re-Filling My Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser 3 Oct 04, 2026

  I documented my then-new Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser on The New Leaf Journal last December. I then documented my s...

The Autodidacts

Exploring the universe from the inside out

• Curiosity Traps Oct 13, 2026

  On reverse honeypots, rewarding close attention, and finding your people

• Listening to music as an active process Oct 11, 2026

  Although I’m a semi-professional musician, most days, I listen to far less music than my friends. I generally work in...

• TIL how to deeplink all the things Oct 07, 2026

  I have written before about how to link to a specific segment of a youtube video, and how to link to specific words o...

Boris Tane

I'm Boris Tane, and I build software

• Self-improving software is inevitable Oct 10, 2026

  Production tells us exactly how to make our software better, we've just never had the tools to run this on auto-pilot.

• 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.

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

Stranger Than Usual

• Rollenspielszenen: Barriere Oct 21, 2026

  Auf der Flucht vor der Polizei, die auf Demonstranten geschossen hat, haben wir aus Versehen eine undurchdringbare Ba...

• Lückenwelle Oct 21, 2026

  In den letzten Tagen gab es einige größere Sicherheitsvorfälle in der Welt.

• Das UUID-Verzeichnis Oct 20, 2026

  Ich habe ein Verzeichnis mit allen UUIDs gefunden. Praktisch! Oder soll ich besser sagen: Vollkommen nutzlos? Aber da...

Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed

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

• Implementing a 3-2-1 Backup Strategy with restic and Backblaze B2 Oct 10, 2026

  In order to follow a proper 3-2-1 backup strategy, you should have three copies of your important data: two local on ...

• 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...

Adventures in Open Source Software

Recent content on Adventures in Open Source Software

• 2026 Open Source Summit EU - Prague Oct 15, 2026

  The Linux Foundation hosts a number of open source events, including a series of Open Source Summit (OSS) conferences...

• 2026 Postgres Summit US - New York City Oct 04, 2026

  While my role at Percona is focused on MariaDB, I still have a soft spot for PostgreSQL, so when a spot became availa...

• 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 ...

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.

• Thejesh Gangaiah Nagarathna Oct 17, 2026

  I have been thinking about writing about my full name for a while, especially after this incident in which an AI hall...

• Weekly Notes 42/2026 Oct 16, 2026

  It was my birthday week. I took the day off and didn’t do much. Anju took me to Mai Mai on MG Road. I loved the food....

• Getting Started with Reticulum Oct 14, 2026

  I have been looking for a network protocol stack that can be run in addition to the regular TCP/IP network at TVC. Ki...

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.

• Bibliography Oct 02, 2026

  §§ Computer Arch. David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design, (RISC_V Version). David ...

• 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