May 02, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 2 May 2026 Very Bad Word Edition Top Story Just a five days ago I wrote this: It's been a while since we've had a big tech news story. No disasters, no miracles. Things haven't suddenly gotten better - or at ...
May 02, 2026 from Hackaday IR Device Control That Lives Off The Cloud There are lots of smart home systems that will let you blast your older dumb appliances with infrared to control them. However, many are tied to ugly cloud systems that …read more
May 02, 2026 from Peter's Path Marskramer Path part 03 Hiked part 3/20 of the Marskramer Path, 17.4 kilometres from Borne to Delden. You walk past the Carmelite monastery in Zenderen, where life behind the monastery walls still consists of simplicity a...
May 02, 2026 from Ambient Irony Lost A Day Oops. Looks like the server died just before the daily backups, not just after. (I pasted yesterday's post in from the version I cross-posted over on Ace's blog.) But the move I've been planning fo...
May 02, 2026 from It's FOSS Ubuntu’s Official Flavour List Is Shrinking, And That’s Not a Bad Thing There are fewer official flavors with 26.04 LTS version. Is it alarming?
May 02, 2026 from Hackaday Peripherals Hacks Custom peripheral projects are among the most rewarding. Especially if you’re like me and you sit at the computer eight hours per day, anything that you can use on a …read more
May 02, 2026 from Hackaday This Handy Synth Packs An ESP32 Since the first electronic hobbyist wired up a multivibrator to a keyboard many decades ago, electonic synthesisers have been a staple of home-made projects. Now with the proliferation of significa...
May 02, 2026 from Hackaday Debugging a Stopped Foucault Pendulum’s Electronics After the Foucault pendulum at the Houston Museum of Natural Science stopped working a while back after maintenance on the building, workers set out to determine what was wrong with …read more
May 02, 2026 from Hackaday Rust Helps Make A $1 Handheld Console These days, even an old Game Boy will set you back $100 or more, and a new handheld console will be many multiples of that. However, you can build a …read more
May 02, 2026 from Hackaday 3D Printed Orrery Runs On A Single Motor The solar system is kind of hard to observe in motion all at once. Sometimes, it’s nice to have a little model to look at, so you can see the …read more
May 02, 2026 from Julia Evans Testing Vue components in the browser Hello! One of my long term projects on here is figuring out how to write frontend Javascript without using Node or any other server JS runtime. One issue I run into a lot in my frontend JS projects...
May 01, 2026 from Hackaday Magnetic Induction Heats Water Producing hot water off-grid is a surprisingly energy-intensive activity, and although it looks simple on its surface it can get quite complicated especially when used in large scale for something ...
May 01, 2026 from Bobby Hiltz Blogging in 2026 Blog post about blogging and blogs in which I blog about blogging and the top 5 blogging platforms are not featured here and neither are the 10 greatest AI writing prompts for blogs that guarantee ...
May 01, 2026 from Hackaday Adapting a 100-Year-Old Lens To A Modern Camera You can get all kinds of fancy lenses for modern cameras, with all sorts of mechanical and electronic wizardly to make them shoot better images. But what if you paired …read more
May 01, 2026 from Hackaday Running DOOM on a Travel Router With Touch Screen Continuing his quest to put DOOM on literally everything that has a capable enough processor and a screen, [Aaron Christophel]’s most recent target is a Slate 7 Pro travel router. With …read more
May 01, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 1 May 2026 Yay Edition Top Story CPanel, a web hosting software suite used by 70 million sites worldwide, had a security hole big enough to drive a Kenworth through without needing to check for clearance. (Bl...
May 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-01-26 We welcome May with a new edition of the daily Pook-Emu Bee links (after a spotty week). It looks nice outside my window… 1. Stripe introduces Link, a digital wallet that autonomous AI agents can u...
May 01, 2026 from Kev Quirk Thoughts on Leaving GitHub I've read a few posts about people leaving GitHub recently, and following my short note to the Fediverse a number of people have piped up saying they're not fans of GitHub, either. From the reading...
May 01, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Podcast Episode 368: A Pencil that Draws Against You, 3D Printing Stuff, and Tablet, Shmablet! This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over the international tubes to bring you the latest news, mystery sound results show, and of course, a big bunch …read more
