Posts tagged "tech"

UDP Broadcasting and the Joys of IPv4 Subnetting

In the previous installment on UDP broadcasting and service discovery, the basics of both were explored, including an implementation in the form of NyanSD and its protocol. Contained in the …read more

7 Open Source Trello Alternatives For Your Kanban Boards

Trello has changed a lot since I started using it in 2013. If you want that old-school Kanban simplicity back, here are the open source alternatives worth a look.

Open Book Touch Makes Crowd Funding Debut

If you have even the slightest interest in open hardware e-readers, you’ve certainly heard of [Joey Castillo]’s Open Book project. We’ve covered his efforts to develop an affordable reader that …re...

gRPC-Web Should Have Fixed gRPC

gRPC-Web should have been the pressure that made gRPC simpler, more inspectable, and better suited for the web.

The Seemingly Impossible Oscillator

Back in the days when an integrated circuit meant a simple but expensive device such as a 741 or a 555, most electronics enthusiasts made do with discrete transistor circuits. …read more

Linked List : Annotating Photos for Humans and Machines

Photos taken on a mobile phone can include metadata. I like it for various reasons. My various projects depend on metadata, such as date, location, orientation, etc. But more and more, the phones a...

Star Trek Was Right about Prompt Injection, Sorta

This following statement is a lie: “I am telling the truth”. Okay, now that it’s just us meatbags, let’s get down to brass tacks. Captain Kirk’s logic bombs couldn’t possibly …read more

DRM-Free Ebook Sources

I read a blog post on Schemascape titled Using the Xteink X4, a minimalist e-reader. I have one, and I will have everyone know that I ordered mine in fall 2025 after reading about it in Liliputing ...

Can’t Find That ISA Sound Card? No Worries!

Many older hackers will have at some point gotten rid of an old piece of hardware that they later ended up regretting. All those ISA cards were next to useless …read more

Get your ESP32 Sunny Side Up with this Solar Dev Board

There are a lot of ESP32-based development boards out there– and why not? It’s a versatile chip that can be used in all sorts of situations, and people want boards …read more

📝 2026-07-13 23:22: Every time I look at Sven's blog I get jealous. I loved his previous design...

Every time I look at Sven's blog I get jealous. I loved his previous design so much I copied it (with his permission). His new design is so fun and it's making me want to make mine more fun (no cop...

15 MILLION FOR CLIMATE COLLAPSE

Strategic plan my ass, more like a 15 million euro donation.

Using Your Own RBMK Reactor Control Center At Home

To give people the most intimate RBMK experience, the [Chornobyl Family] has been working tirelessly at not only replicating the original RBMK reactor control room and its SKALA industrial control ...

Rollenspielszenen: Ganzkörpertopflappen

Wie schützt man sich vor Verbrennungen durch eine Miniatursonne?

I have no TEE, and I must attest

It’s A Spectrum, With An RP2350 ULA

There was a time in the early 1980s when it was common to see home made keyboards for 8-bit machines that came with membrane or rubber keyboards. Though we’ve seen …read more

Daily News Stuff 13 July 2026

Seven Ate Nine Edition Top Story Apple's upcoming M7 processor, destined for a full rollout with Pro, Max, and Ultra models, is expected to support as much as 1.5TB of RAM for local AI and other ma...

2026 Hackaday Supercon: Call for Proposals

We are absolutely stoked to announce that the Hackaday Superconference is taking place this year November 6th through 8th in glorious Pasadena California, and we want to see you there! …read more

Matrix 1.19 launches with encrypted room history sharing, custom emojis, and six new MSCs

Matrix 1.19 delivers several enhancements to this open standard and protocol for real-time communication. The update introduces encrypted room history sharing, allowing clients to specify which dev...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 07-13-26

It has been 12 days since I last published “daily” Pook-Emu Bee links due to some combination of being busy and not feeling my best. Both of those blockers exist today, but I have time to squeeze i...