Apr 06, 2026 from Hackaday Pocket-Sized e-Ink Gets a Firmware Upgrade Not so long ago, e-ink devices were rare and fairly pricey. As they have become more common and cheaper, some cool form-factor devices have emerged that suffer from subpar software. …read more
Apr 06, 2026 from Hackaday Making the Case Against Markdown For some reason, Markdown has not just become the format of choice for giving READMEs in GitHub repositories some flair, but also for writing entire websites and documents. In a …read more
Apr 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social High Ad Block Usage in Indonesia I came across an article on Backlinko featuring statistics about worldwide ad blocker usage. Different surveys noted in the article have wildly different results. But the first survey discussed, co...
Apr 06, 2026 from Isaac Clayton 196 Years It’s been a while, I know. I sit here writing today because I feel trapped; a prisonless prisoner who laid bricks until one day he woke up in a cell of his own creation. Am I overconstrained, overb...
Apr 05, 2026 from Hackaday Building a Vise Stand with Pen-Like Retracting Wheels Old shop tools have a reputation for resilience and sturdiness, and though some of this is due to survivorship bias, some of it certainly comes down to an abundance of …read more
Apr 05, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots! Weekly Robotics #355 The other day, I sat down with Adar Hay, the CEO of Jiga, to talk about supply chains and moving projects from prototyping to production. The outcome of this chat is this article, which also restar...
Apr 05, 2026 from Hackaday Tiny Moves, Big Depth: An Open-Source Macro Focus Slider When taking macro photographs, you often need just a tiny bit of controlled motion — so little that it’s tough to pull off by hand. To address this, [Salveo] designed …read more
Apr 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Mailed: Newsletter Leaf Journal 274 I mailed issue 274 of The Newsletter Leaf Journal yesterday. Fun fact: I originally mailed the newsletter on Sundays. One reason I switched to Saturday was to avoid Sunday holidays, notably Easter....
Apr 05, 2026 from Peter's Path Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote Mere Christianity. He gave the talks on BBC radio during the war. Lewis puts aside church rules that divide people. He focuses on the core of the faith. The book...
Apr 05, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 5 April 2026 Bug Buggy Bugger Edition Top Story North Korea used a supply-chain attack to gain access to widely-used open-source web client package Axios. (Axios) And here's a version you can actually read. (CN...
Apr 05, 2026 from Hackaday Despite Penalties, Lawyers Can’t Stop Using AI Despite a few high-profile cases in recent years with lawyers getting caught using LLM-generated documents and facing disciplinary action due to this, it would seem that this is not deterring …read...
Apr 05, 2026 from Peter's Path Veluwe Wander Trail part 02 Hiked part 2/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 20.5 kilometres from Wolfheze to Planken Wambuis. Starting at the Airborne memorial in Wolfheze, this stage crosses open farmland and quiet meadows befor...
Apr 05, 2026 from Peter's Path Happy Easter Happy Easter to all of you. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. - Matthew 28:6 Let us remember what Easter truly means. Easter marks the resurrectio...
Apr 05, 2026 from Hackaday Re-Learning How to Run As I write this, four astronauts are on their way around the moon for the first time in 50 years. A lot us have asked ourselves just exactly why you’d …read more
Apr 05, 2026 from Jordi Villar 2026W13 The Singularity Will Not Be Streamed — What makes this story land is the contrast. The Singularity doesn’t get stopped by a hero or a kill switch — it gets killed by a toothpick, a neighborhood mee...
Apr 05, 2026 from Thejesh GN Sydney City Walk We did a leisurely walk through Sydney’s city center. We will probably do one more walk. But this one was mostly around Uma’s need to walk in the park and see water, and that’s what we mostly did. ...
Apr 05, 2026 from Hackaday Turning a Bluetooth Caliper into a FreeCAD Input Device It’s a common ritual: whipping out those calipers or similar measuring devices to measure part of a physical object that we’re trying to transfer into a digital model in an …read more
Apr 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Cursor 3 launches unified multi-repo workspace for building software with AI agents Cursor 3, the latest release of the AI-native development environment, delivers a unified workspace designed for building software with AI agents. The new multi-repo interface enables humans and ag...
Apr 05, 2026 from Hackaday Cleaning an IBM 5150, And The Perfect Period PCB Soldermask Now that early PCs have moved firmly from the realm of e-waste into being collector’s items, it’s worth putting in some effort to restore them if you find one. [Epictronics] …read more
Apr 05, 2026 from Latest entries from petermolnar.net 05 April, 2026 It really is the stupid phone ruining everything isn’t it? The stupid screens of doom and the stupidity of the world isn’t it? Yes. However, it's not the device itself, and not the base functionali...
