Posts tagged "tech"

2026W30

GPT 5.6 Sol Ran a Real Business—and Lost $447 — The part that stuck with me isn’t the zero revenue or the users going from 61 to 66, it’s how the agent got there. Under a 24 hour deadline it paid T...

Spotting Emacs in the Wild

Emacs is one of the big classic text editors, right up there next to vi. It’s famous for its interface and its ubiquity across the *nix world. It’s such a …read more

Shotcut 26.8 adds elements panel and new stock asset library

Shotcut version 26.8 introduces the Elements panel, a compact asset library with emoji stickers, sounds, overlay transitions, animated text, and graphics, all under royalty-free licenses. This rele...

Gitea Runner 3.0.0 supports standard artifact and cache actions

Gitea Runner 3.0.0 introduces native support for standard GitHub Actions cache and artifact actions, eliminating the need for the gitea-upload-artifact fork. The release also implements container-e...

Making a Retro(ish) Game Console From Scratch

As easy as it is to make a late 1980s-style game console using a modern microcontroller, there’s arguably more fun in doing things the traditional way. This is the challenge …read more

Running Again

I have not been running. The last time I ran anything serious was a decade back. The max I have been doing is walking. Though I must say I love walking, especially with friends and family. It’s a g...

2026 Nagoya Basho Unfortunate For Yokozuna

I learned from a Sumo Stats post that the 2026 Nagoya Basho marked the first grand sumo tournament since the July 1991 Nagoya Basho that multiple Yokozuna failed to reach 10 wins. Yokozuna Onosato ...

Easy Theremin Uses ESP32

The Theremin is that classic electronic musical instrument that makes those weeee-ohhhhh noises which were so popular in mid-century science fiction movies. Mid-last-century, that is, because this ...

Un manifeste Offpunk

Un manifeste Offpunk Ce texte est une traduction en français du Offpunk Manifesto rédigé par Arlon de Serra Grande et que j’ai co-signé An Offpunk Manifesto (English version) Versão em português La...

DaisyDisk review: Where did all my Mac storage go?

DaisyDisk turns storage cleanup into a clear visual map, helping you find oversized files, forgotten downloads, and space-wasting folders without digging through Finder.

Hackaday Links: August 2, 2026

About a month ago, we brought you word that the commercial rescue mission designed by Katalyst Space to save NASA’s Swift gamma-ray observatory had reached orbit and early indicators were …read more

Weekly Robotics #371

Today in the Weekly Robotics newsletter: Gemini Robotics 2, a place to find your next robot dataset, how it is to build large construction robots, the legacy of the DARPA Robotics Challenge, and more!

Seven books I keep close because I love them

The bookshelf by my elbow, the one that I can reach without getting up, has seven books on it, not necessarily the ones I look in the most, but the ones whose emanations I most hope will infuse me ...

Der alljährliche Nextcloud-Breakdown

Diese Woche hatte ich bei einem Update mal wieder Probleme mit Nextcloud.

An Automated Water Tank Controller

[Jumpor] lives in a part of India where the water infrastructure is a little frustrating to use. Water gets delivered to underground tanks outside of homes, and must then be …read more

Daily News Stuff 2 August 2026

Omniglot Edition Top Story Microsoft has vowed to make Windows 11 actually work in 8GB of RAM, which is timely given that the company is shipping Windows PCs with 8GB of RAM. (Tom's Hardware) Befor...

Turning Fruits Into Ethylene and Ethane Refrigerant

One of the best parts about DIY chemistry and physics projects is that you get to decide how early in the supply chain you want to begin, such as with …read more

Marketing for Makers

A KVM Without the V (Or the M)

Many of us will be used to the idea of a KVM, a device that pipes keyboard, video, and mouse over the network from a remote machine to your own. …read more

Architectural LED Install Shows How To Do It With Style

Anyone can string up some LED string lights in a space with mixed results. However, if you want to create a lighting environment that’s classy and stylish, it takes a …read more