Aug 24, 2026 from Kev Quirk 2026-08-24 11:01: A friend asked for help setting up a blog, so I went with #Pureblog (obviously).... A friend asked for help setting up a blog, so I went with #Pureblog (obviously). We went from nothing to fully working blog, with all the customisations she wanted in about 25 minutes. I know I'm b...
Aug 24, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Wine 11.16 brings VA-API hardware video decoding, improved ARM64 support, and 35 bug fixes Wine 11.16 is now available for Linux, macOS, and BSD, reinforcing its role as a compatibility layer for running Windows applications and games on POSIX-compliant systems. This release stands out b...
Aug 24, 2026 from Jordi Villar 2026W33 Software Engineering fundamentals matter more than ever — The welding analogy is the part I keep coming back to, he learned to build things in his 20s that he couldn’t lift or get out the door of t...
Aug 24, 2026 from Hackaday The Casio F-91W As A Contactless Payment Device. The Casio F-91W digital watch is perhaps one of the most successful pieces of consumer electronics ever made, having quietly supplied the essential function of an inexpensive and accurate LCD …read...
Aug 24, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Floorp 12.17 adds tab stacks, container choice, workspace icon picker & improved Zen mode Floorp 12.17 is now available, delivering a range of new customization and workflow features for users of this Firefox-based web browser. This release introduces tab stacks for more advanced tab or...
Aug 24, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Things 3.23 adds early completion and flexible rescheduling for repeating to-dos Things 3.23 introduces more flexible repeating to-dos, allowing users to complete them early or easily reschedule individual tasks with Make Exception or Update Rule options. Generated copies of re...
Aug 24, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Gemini Notebook rolls out upgraded experience to all users The upgraded Gemini Notebook experience is now available to all users, with mobile support coming soon. Users can also access their notebooks in AI Mode directly within Google Search. Updates inclu...
Aug 24, 2026 from It's FOSS TeamSpeak Will Let You Call Your Friends Directly The feature is in alpha testing now and is set to bring 4K screensharing and picture-in-picture support.
Aug 24, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Adobe adds new AI audio generation tools for music, speech, and sound effects to Firefly Adobe has announced that Firefly, its suite of AI-powered creative tools, can now generate music, speech, and sound effects, expanding the platform beyond images and video. Generate Music uses the ...
Aug 24, 2026 from Hackaday Neo-Cyclostyle: Automatic Document Copying Devices in 1890 Document duplication has been a highly desirable feature, long before medieval monks slaved over yet another illuminated manuscript by flickering candle light. Fortunately one part of the Industria...
Aug 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Burger King Surpasses Wendy’s Fox Business reported on August 9, 2026, that Burger King surpassed Wendy’s as the (distant) second largest burger chain in the United States after McDonald’s. According to the report, Wendy’s had ...
Aug 24, 2026 from Hackaday 3D Printing a Railway Pump Car A staple of old movies featuring railways, many handcars – also called pump trolleys or pump cars – feature the characteristic seesawing beam. Requiring at least two people, the motion …read more
Aug 24, 2026 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog Squash git commits I often review git pull/merge requests (PRs) both for work and open source projects. Many of those PRs have a number of commits with commit messages like “fix”, “actual fix”, “fix again”, or other ...
Aug 23, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Links: August 23, 2026 We’ll start this week off with some disappointing, though not entirely unexpected, news — the ambitious commercial mission to save NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is officially a bust. The …r...
Aug 23, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots! Weekly Robotics #373 Weekly Robotics 373: how to train robots at a million-hour scale, NASA abandons satellite rescue mission, ROS enters Physical AI world, a construction digger interface, and more!
Aug 23, 2026 from Hackaday Using the Basic SNES Hardware to Play Minecraft After previously putting a very basic version of Minecraft on the Game Boy Color, [Tobi] decided to have some fun and port that version also to the Super Nintendo (SNES), …read more
Aug 23, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 23 August 2026 A Zelda In Time Edition Top Story Never send a Link to do a Zelda's work: The LINK mission intended to boost the Swift Observatory into a higher orbit has itself spun out of control, leaving Swift ...
Aug 23, 2026 from Hackaday Making LEDs in the Home Fab Impressive as it most certainly is when an amateur fabricates a semiconductor, most of the projects we’ve seen are more demonstrations than workable chips. [Dr. Semiconductor], however, is going mu...
Aug 23, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Rollenspielszenen: Kriminelle Konstrukte Wenn es Wachkonstrukte gibt, gibt es dann auch Kriminalkonstrukte?
Aug 23, 2026 from Personal Log at usebox.net New website After 8 years of love/hate, I decided to leave Hugo and go Haskell.