Apr 21, 2026 from Hackaday Analog Circuitry Lets You Blow This LED Out LED candles are neat, but they’re very suboptimal for wish-making: you can’t blow them out. Unless you take the circuit from [Andrea Console]’s latest project that lets you do just …read more
Apr 21, 2026 from Hackaday 2026 Green Powered Challenge: A Low Power Distraction Free Writing Tool Distraction free writing tools are a reaction to the bells and whistles of the modern desktop computer, allowing the user to simply pick up the device and write. The etyper …read more
Apr 21, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 21 April 2026 Stack Em, Pack Em, And Rack Em Edition Top Story Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO after fifteen years of keeping the company in a very profitable holding pattern. (Tech Crunch) A visionary? N...
Apr 21, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net WhatsApp to launch WhatsApp Plus subscription with new features and customization options WhatsApp is set to introduce a premium subscription plan called WhatsApp Plus, targeting users seeking more advanced personalization options without changing the standard app experience. While the ...
Apr 21, 2026 from Hackaday The Splice Must Flow There are plenty of electronic components out there, but the one we tend to forget is the most basic: wire. Sure, PC boards have largely replaced wire with copper traces, …read more
Apr 21, 2026 from Peter's Path Veluwe Wander Trail part 18 Hiked part 18/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 13.6 kilometres from Rheden to Rozendaal. From Rheden the trail climbs into the Veluwezoom National Park and crosses the rolling heath of the Posbank, w...
Apr 21, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Atlassian will start collecting Jira & Confluence user data to train AI by August 17, 2026 Atlassian has announced changes to its customer data usage, effective August 17, 2026, impacting users of products such as Confluence and Jira. These updates will introduce new controls over how me...
Apr 21, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-21-26 Let us see what is happening around the world wide web with today’s collection of Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it. (Emile Ma...
Apr 21, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Threema 7.1 brings liquid glass design and UI improvements to iOS Threema 7.1 for iOS introduces the Liquid Glass design, adding transparent surfaces and a lighter look in line with iOS 26’s appearance. The Contacts tab, Threema Safe, and message forwarding inter...
Apr 21, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Git 2.54 brings 'git history' command & enhanced hooks for better repo management Git 2.54 introduces the experimental git history command for targeted rewrites, allowing users to reword or split commits without impacting the working tree. Hooks can now be defined in configurati...
Apr 21, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Grafana 13: improved dashboard suggestions & Data visualization tools Grafana 13 introduces suggested dashboards that match users’ data sources, now with compatibility scores and improved search for easier dashboard setup. Visualization suggestions are refined to use...
Apr 21, 2026 from Peter's Path The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote The Weight of Glory. It is a collection of nine essays, most originally delivered as sermons or lectures during the Second World War. The book includes well-know...
Apr 21, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Qwen3.6-Max-Preview delivers major agentic coding and knowledge gains Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is now available as a preview on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, bringing major improvements in agentic coding with significantly higher benchmark scores compared to Qwen3.6-Plus. T...
Apr 21, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net GIMP 3.2.4: new WIA plug-in, and bug fixes for Windows users GIMP 3.2.4 restores Windows scanner functionality by introducing a new WIA-based plug-in, replacing the old TWAIN-dependent version. The release addresses multiple vulnerabilities in popular image ...
Apr 21, 2026 from Hackaday CAN Bus Analyzer Runs In Your Browser If you’ve got a modern car, truck, or tractor, it’s probably got a CAN bus or three that is bouncing data all around the vehicle. Listening in on these transmissions …read more
Apr 21, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Kimi K2.6 released with long-horizon execution, agent swarms, and full-stack AI coding Moonshot AI has released its latest flagship model, Kimi K2.6, introducing advanced coding features, long-horizon execution, and a collaborative agent swarm system. This release delivers strong gai...
Apr 21, 2026 from Rock and Null The rise of abandonware AI allows us to ship software instantly, but it’s also fueling a surge of "disposable" projects. The team behind the code matters more than the code itself in the age of AI generation.
Apr 21, 2026 from Hackaday SuperDisk: The Better Floppy That Never Caught On Once the microcomputer era got going in earnest, the floppy disk quickly supplanted the tape as the portable storage method of choice. They were never particularly large, but they were …read more
Apr 21, 2026 from Ambient Irony Pest Toast Just pesting. Nope, that doesn't work. hissy emote pic.twitter.com/jeiay7xS5A — ChunkyMonkey (@Chunkymk01) April 21, 2026 // That does though. Oh, now it works. It's not doing the delayed load of t...
Apr 21, 2026 from Hackaday Flipper Zero Transmits APRS With No Extra Parts APRs is an amateur radio protocol allowing the exchange of short packets of data. It’s commonly used to transmit a GPS position, though it can find other applications. The Flipper …read more
