Oct 01, 2025 from Tim Hårek September 2025 Fall is upon us! It’s getting colder and darker everyday now, it’s starting to smell like fall. Anyhow, this is what I’ve been up to this month! From the blog since my last recently post: A year wi...
Sep 30, 2025 from Commented Out Countdown Timer for Children's Games: Hardware Design The idea for this project was a simple countdown timer to be used by children for various games and activities where the user interface was designed to be as simple as possible; the display was cle...
Sep 30, 2025 from Nadav Ami When You Forget Your BIOS Password I have an old Linux laptop that I decided to repurpose last weekend. After spending 5 hours backing up files (APFS drive + read-only FUSE drivers + stubborn dev who doesn’t want to think too hard (...
Sep 30, 2025 from Nadav Ami When You Forget Your BIOS Password I have an old Linux laptop that I decided to repurpose last weekend. After spending 5 hours backing up files (APFS drive + read-only FUSE drivers + stubborn dev who doesn’t want to think too hard (...
Sep 29, 2025 from briancmoses.com DIY NAS: 2025 Texas Linux Fest Edition I'm going to have a booth at Texas Linux Fest, so I built a TXLF-inspired DIY NAS that I will give away in a raffle! It has an Intel N150 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, TrueNAS CE, 4TB of NVME storage, 10G...
Sep 29, 2025 from The Phoenix Trap Patch-Perfect: Smarter Homebrew Upgrades on macOS Homebrew upgrades don't always need to drag you through major version bumps. I wrote brew-patch-upgrade.pl to keep updates patch-perfect, and along the way fixed my own Log::Any::Adapter::MacOS::OS...
Sep 28, 2025 from Chuniversiteit Do large language models respect copyright notices? A group of researchers studied what happens when you explicitly remind large language models to respect copyright notices.
Sep 28, 2025 from Jordi Villar 2025W38 Surviving Long-Running Projects — A nice reality check on how grueling big projects can be. The author basically says: expect them to drag on, plan for “boring” maintenance, and set up routines to ...
Sep 28, 2025 from Virtuwise The Clock is Ticking: CISA Orders Patches for Cisco Zero-Days CISA directs federal agencies to patch zero-day flaws in Cisco firewall devices amid active exploitation by hackers.
Sep 28, 2025 from BattlePenguin Cryptocurrency, Collapsing Governments and Captain James T. Kirk The dominant US headlines for the fall of 2025, in both mainstream and big-alternative media, involve the assassination of Charlie Kirk. As expected, people are taking to social media, politicizing...
Sep 27, 2025 from Michael Lynch Get xkcd Cartoons at 2x Resolution I recently learned a neat trick from Marcus Buffett: xkcd has an undocumented way to get images of the cartoons at double their normal resolution. The _2x trick For example, xkcd #2582 “Data Trap” ...
Sep 27, 2025 from Michael Lynch List of 2x-resolution xkcd Cartoons This is a list of all the xkcd cartoons that are available in 2x resolution, as of today’s date. See the accompanying post, “Get xkcd Cartoons at 2x Resolution,” for an explanation. 1: No higher re...
Sep 26, 2025 from Bobby Hiltz Credit Feed #2: Fail/No Fail I talk about two platformers---one of them a modern classic---that I picked up during a sale on the Nintendo Switch
Sep 26, 2025 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev) You are holding BUILD files wrong I’ve heard it from people new to Bazel but also from people very familiar with the Bazel ecosystem: BUILD files must go away. And they must go away because they are redundant: they just repeat the ...
Sep 26, 2025 from Chuniversiteit Assassin’s Creed II is better than I thought it would be I played Assassin’s Creed II in preparation for my trip to Florence this year and it was almost as good as Florence itself.
Sep 24, 2025 from Personal Log at usebox.net Physical editions coming! I released two games in 2024: The Heart of Salamanderland for the Amstard CPC, and Alien Intruder for MS/DOS 16-bit, and both are getting a physical release with Poly Play. The Amstrad CPC game edi...
Sep 22, 2025 from Chuniversiteit Yes, I took a short break I just wanted to let everyone know that I have returned from my hiatus and have absolutely nothing to show for it.
Sep 22, 2025 from Rock and Null Billin: Building a modern cross-platform invoice app with Compose Multiplatform Billin is a cross-platform invoicing app built with Compose Multiplatform, designed to deliver a clean, consistent experience on both Android and iOS. By sharing logic across mobile while fine-tuni...
Sep 22, 2025 from kmcd.dev My Favorite Interview Question Why I love asking candidates to explain how the internet works.
