Jul 27, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net YouTube introduces custom thumbnails for Shorts and Ask Studio AI thumbnail generation YouTube is launching several updates to simplify the thumbnail creation process. Partner Program creators can now upload custom thumbnails for Shorts, addressing a highly requested feature. This up...
Jul 27, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse “Steph Curry: fluke or breakthrough” ten years later (Previously) Flukes and Breakthroughs In the NBA 2015–16 season, Steph Curry set the all-time single-season record for three-point field goals, 402, completely crushing the old record of 286. Curry...
Jul 27, 2026 from Hackaday Neighborhood Bulletin Boards, circa 1982 When the Internet first started gaining mainstream popularity in the late 90s, many optimists claimed that it would bring people together by reducing barriers to communication. That ideal hasn’t ex...
Jul 27, 2026 from Jordi Villar 2026W29 Appaji - Software Engineer — The detail that got me is that you didn’t even need to run anything. Just opening the take-home project in VSCode could fire the payload through a hidden .vscode config...
Jul 27, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Music sreaming service Qobuz unveils redesigned app with new player and real-time lyrics Qobuz has launched a major update to its mobile and tablet application, featuring a redesigned player experience and the introduction of real-time synchronized lyrics. The refreshed player interfac...
Jul 27, 2026 from Hackaday A Music Box With A Very Modern Heart A ballerina music box is a charming ornament, but it remains one that is limited by its mechanism to a very short performance. [ShielaDixon] has one, and decided to make …read more
Jul 27, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Wine 11.14 adds new WoW64 mode on FreeBSD, 7.1 DirectSound conversion and Start menu icons Wine 11.14 is now available, providing updated compatibility for running Windows applications and games on Linux, macOS, and BSD systems. The new release introduces support for 7.1 format conversio...
Jul 27, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Ruff v0.16.0 expands default rule set and adds Markdown formatting Ruff v0.16.0 significantly increases its default enabled rules, moving from 59 to 413, expanding automatic error detection for most users. The new release also adds support for auto-formatting Pyth...
Jul 27, 2026 from Hackaday Scanwheel: A Pocket-Sized POV TV When you hear the word TV, you probably think of a big LED screen, maybe even the old CRT TVs, but in either case it’s something large and fairly complicated. …read more
Jul 27, 2026 from Hackaday 2026 Frikkin Lasers Challenge: Measuring Nanometer-Scale Displacements with an Optical Cavity Optical cavities – two mirrors arranged to reflect light multiple times between them – form the basis of lasers and certain optical filters. Since any angle between the two mirrors …read more
Jul 26, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Links: July 26, 2026 At a time when so-called “artificial intelligence” seems inescapable, we were encouraged to see news that Amazon will be cracking down on third-party sellers that use AI-generated images for their ...
Jul 26, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots! Weekly Robotics #370 In Weekly Robotics 370, you'll learn about designing an underground robot scheduler, an open-source L2 autopilot, the problem with robot-centric deployment data for general robots, an interesting f...
Jul 26, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Rollenspielszenen: Ich war high! Worte, die man nicht von der Person hören möchte, die das Seil hält, an dem du hängst.
Jul 26, 2026 from Hackaday Filling High Pressure CO2 Tanks From Sugar Fermentation Gas After previously using the fermenting of sugar to obtain ethanol fuel, [Hyperspace Pirate] figured that it’d be a waste to just blast the other half of the yeast production in …read more
Jul 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Evaluating My Nagoya Basho Predictions On July 11, I made my pre-Nagoya Basho predictions for the fourth grand sumo tournament of 2026. To be precise, I picked eight wrestlers to hit double digit wins. Now that the Nagoya Basho has been...
Jul 26, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 26 July 2026 No Skorking Edition Top Story China is breeding a clone army of terror yaks, probably. (CNN) They say they're not, but they also say:These are Tibetan yaks, designed and cloned in secretive labs mo...
Jul 26, 2026 from Hackaday Ever Seen Claude Use Fusion 360? We’ve all done it before: a simple project that escalated to the point of extreme overengineering. But what’s less common is [Lee Hutchinson]’s digital clock, whose case is (somewhat-successfully) ...
Jul 26, 2026 from Hackaday Repairing a “for parts” Canon 7D Mark II DSLR The exciting part of buying a ‘broken, for parts’ off a site like EBay is that you rarely know exactly just how ‘broken’ it truly is. Even if the seller …read more
Jul 26, 2026 from Hackaday Duplicating Parts Using Silicone Molds [Do As I Do] had a simple task to complete. A couple of small parts needed to be duplicated in some quantity, with good dimensional accuracy and surface finish. There …read more
Jul 26, 2026 from ttntm.me - Blog Archived Notes An archive of what used to be my /notes page. Node.js: Buffer in Cloudflare Workers Using things like Buffer.from() in a Cloudflare Worker will result in an undefined error. To make it work, the no...
