Sep 21, 2026 from Michael Lynch Refactoring English: Month 21 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...
Sep 20, 2026 from Hackaday Ski Lift Removes Mice from Chicken Coop Getting rid of rodents like squirrels, mice, or groundhogs is a lot like digging a hole on the beach. No matter how much you remove, it’ll always fill back in. …read more
Sep 20, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Grist is an open source self-hosted spreadsheet with a database hiding underneath “Grist is a relational spreadsheet-database app that I can host on my own server. When I first tried it, it felt familiar because the basic idea is still the same: I get rows, columns, cells, and t...
Sep 20, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 20 September 2026 Whatever Happened To B Cells Edition Top Story AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable. (Tech Crunch) They always were. They are, without exception, "the dog ate my homework" stories. "Did...
Sep 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-20-26 I have not had much time to post new articles (long or short lately), but let us get the last full week of September off to a good start with a new edition of the Pook-Emu Bee. 1 | Linux 7.3 Adds S...
Sep 20, 2026 from Hackaday World War I Coded Message Appears Cracked, Finally When you think of wartime cryptography, you probably think of World War II and Enigma, although there were other famous codes used during that war. But in fact, there have …read more
Sep 20, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Tankrabatt 3.0 Wieso führen wir hier in Deutschland einen Tankrabatt ein, der doch nichts bringt?
Sep 20, 2026 from Latest entries from petermolnar.net Making nginx use blocklistd fail2ban is nice and simple to use, but has a brutal overhead on modest hardware that can handle a surprising amount of traffic. There is a more elegant solution which is much less known, called bl...
Sep 20, 2026 from Hackaday Reverse Engineering A Sony Car Stereo LCD For his own reasons, [Jose Luis Monteiro] (aka [emsyscode]) decided he needed to drive the LCD on a Sony CDX-A250 car stereo’s front panel using an Arduino. There’s probably a …read more
Sep 20, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Revolut, Europe’s biggest fintech, confirms breach exposing sensitive customer information Revolut, Europe’s largest fintech company, has confirmed that an impersonation scam exposed personal information belonging to about 680 customers. Attackers reportedly compromised an Italian govern...
Sep 20, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash adds million-token context and lower API costs Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a native omnimodal model for text, images, audio, and video with a context window of up to 1 million tokens. The model is designed for large documents, exte...
Sep 20, 2026 from Hackaday A Bandpass Filter Pulls In The Signals It’s an unfortunate side effect of proximity to a large transmitter that the received signal can overload a receiver’s front end even when tuned to other frequencies. [Rfrht]’s had this …read more
Sep 20, 2026 from Hackaday No GPU, No Problem: Flagship LLMs on a GPU-less Teenaged Server There are lots of reasons to run LLMs locally, from privacy concerns to just wanting to futz about with the technology, but if you want to run the big models, …read more
Sep 20, 2026 from Hackaday Teardown and Repair of a Insoma Water Timer Water timers are nifty devices that can water the lawn at set times or keep that vegetable garden from turning into a dustbowl. When [electronupdate] timer refused to output water …read more
Sep 20, 2026 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed Why I Stopped Paying to Host Two Static Sites I recently switched from Namecheap shared hosting to Cloudflare Pages. I have two websites that are both plain text html files that I edit by hand (for now). For my needs, paying to host two plain ...
Sep 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Sumo Ballet I have been watching all of the top division bouts at the 2026 Aki Basho (September Grand Sumo Tournament). One of the highlight bouts on day 4 featured Yokozuna Onosato vs Takayasu. Takayasu deliv...
Sep 20, 2026 from Hackaday Laser Your Way into Debug Mode on the RP2350 The RP2350 is actually a pretty secure chip, all things considered. It has secure boot, ARMv8’s TrustZone to split secure and non-secure execution, and you can permanently disable debug — …read more
Sep 19, 2026 from Hackaday A Hotspot Becomes A Handheld A Linux handheld computer is, in theory, easy and inexpensive given the availability of single-board computers, but in practice the budget invariably edges well into three figures. There’s an inter...
Sep 19, 2026 from Kev Quirk 2026-09-19 22:28: Watched Forrest Gump for the first time in 20 odd years this evening. Watching it... Watched Forrest Gump for the first time in 20 odd years this evening. Watching it again with an adult brain...Jenny is a real bitch! Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you...
Sep 19, 2026 from Hackaday Coreboot Hikes the Bay Trail to DRAM Initialization This article is written on an open-source operating system, but not an open-source machine — the BIOS isn’t open-source, and even if it were supported by the coreboot project (formerly …read more
