Nov 01, 2026 from Tim Hårek October 2026 I’m tired. Most things feel like they have to happen fast to not be left out, or fall behind. And I think October has been the month where I’ve felt it most. From the blog since my last time: Switc...
Nov 01, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing What your MUD tax is paying for A zero bond balance can sit beside $23.2 million in developer costs waiting for reimbursement. The tax rate leaves that financing pipeline out.
Nov 01, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing Where Austin’s property-tax dollar goes Most districts charged recapture still receive net operating formula aid. In Austin, a school-tax saving can disappear into the other four property-tax bills.
Nov 01, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing Who earns Texas’s electricity delivery charge? A Houston electricity bill can pay a bond-index fund. An Austin Energy customer can finance an investor-owned transmission line outside Austin.
Nov 01, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing Who owns Austin’s apartments? Camden’s Austin holdings grew 73.6% in its consolidated accounts but only 9.6% in physical footprint. Buying a pension partner’s stake explains much of the difference.
Nov 01, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing Who owns Austin’s hospitals? Seton’s reported community benefit rose 12.3%, while costs minus all reported offsets fell 11.2%. The IRS’s zero-floor rule explains why those two accounting measures moved in opposite directions.
Nov 01, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing Who owns ERCOT’s power, and who owes Texas? Three companies hold 59.3% of the measured thermal fleet. Texas’s $4.1 billion loan portfolio backs a wider group, with different routes to repayment.
Nov 01, 2026 from Sulayman Bowles — Writing Who owns Texas’s private water? At one CSWR system, a 5,000-gallon charge rose from $28.45 to $89.72. At another, it fell from $92 to $89.72. Both joined the same rate pool.
Oct 31, 2026 from Hackaday Rooting an Amazon Echo Dot The Amazon Echo Dot is one of Amazon’s so-called ‘smart speaker’ offerings that tie into their larger Alexa-fueled ecosystem, designed to be a pretty minimalistic device that gives you access …read...
Oct 31, 2026 from Ryan Bagley Iran Openly Threatening the Hormuz Subsea Cables Iranian officials spent October openly threatening the subsea internet cables under the Strait of Hormuz. On October 12, Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said G...
Oct 31, 2026 from Hackaday Voyager 1 Briefly Goes Silent, Scaring Everyone It’s no big secret at this point that we are looking at the final years of the two venerable Voyager spacecraft. With their power supplies diminishing and their 1970s-era electronics …read more
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Oct 31, 2026 from GadgeteerZA The Courier Guy off-grid smart lockers replacing the Post Office in South Africa “Turkish company Rovenma has detailed the technology behind its autonomous lockers used by The Courier Guy, which have rolled out at pace in South Africa in the last few years. Over 2,500 of these ...
Oct 31, 2026 from Hackaday DIY WiFi Analyzer Sniffs Out Congestion and Coverage Issues, Suggests Fixes [Roni Bandini]’s JEV WiFi Analyzer is an interesting experiment that glues together a single-board Linux computer, a USB WiFi adapter, and a specialized AI model to create a new kind …read more
Oct 31, 2026 from Hackaday Bring On Supercon! In just under a week from today, almost 700 hackers will be getting together in Pasadena, CA for three days of scheming, soldering, and socializing. If you’re able to join …read more
Oct 31, 2026 from Kev Quirk Discoverability Is Only Solved If You Can Be Discovered Discoverability Is Only Solved If You Can Be Discoveredby WiddershinsThis is a follow up to my post where Widdershins talks about how they agree with certain parts of my argument, but that the disc...
Oct 31, 2026 from It's FOSS Denmark’s Collabora Pilot Was Never The Microsoft Replacement it Was Made Out to Be Collabora says a ministry merger paused the test, while the ministry says it was interrupted when the election was called.
Oct 31, 2026 from Hackaday Learn to Edit STL Files in Just a Few Minutes Sometimes an STL file needs a bit of editing, but if one doesn’t already know how to use a mesh editor it’s unlikely that one has the time to sit …read more
