Aug 21, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Bun 1.4 lands: Rust rewrite and zero external dependencies mark major milestone for devs Bun 1.4 has arrived as a landmark release for the JavaScript runtime, marking its transition to being fully written in Rust, a shift that comes after months of development and early adoption by too...
Aug 21, 2026 from It's FOSS Canonical is Funding a PhD to Automate C to Rust Translation for Ubuntu The three-year project aims to translate hundreds of thousands of lines of C into Rust.
Aug 21, 2026 from Hackaday Self-Hosting Offline Websites If there’s one thing that’s guaranteed in the tech world it’s that nothing is guaranteed. From AOL, Netscape, Yahoo, and MySpace, every tech empire seems to eventually fall to ruin. …read more
Aug 21, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Go 1.27 released with generic methods, struct improvements, and memory allocation gains Go 1.27 has been released, delivering substantial updates spanning the programming language, toolchain, runtime, and standard library. The language specification now supports generic methods, letti...
Aug 21, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Bending Spoons buys Airtable for $1.3B A couple of weeks ago, Bending Spoons announced an agreement to acquire Airtable, the collaborative no-code spreadsheet and database platform, in an all cash deal valued at $1.285 billion. Includin...
Aug 21, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Slack launches 'Slack Code' with dedicated channels for teams to code with AI agents Slack has introduced Slack Code, a new feature that lets teams collaborate with AI coding agents in dedicated channels. Available on all Slack plans, users can start a task by tagging an agent, whi...
Aug 21, 2026 from Hackaday Running Zork On The Steam Controller The Steam Controller is a device capable of many interesting feats. It’s intended to act simply as an input device, and yet, it can run games all on its own. …read more
Aug 21, 2026 from Hackaday Superconducting Temperature Record set at Ambient Pressure An interesting type of superconductors available to us today are the ones that achieve this property at room temperature, with only the small snag that they require crushing pressures that …read more
Aug 21, 2026 from Chuniversiteit Welcome to my new and improved* website Chuniversiteit has a fresh new look and more convenient packaging! Mostly for myself, but maybe it will also benefit you.
Aug 21, 2026 from Boris Tane On-Call Is Now Theatre On-call was calibrated to the cost of waking up a human. That cost just went to zero. Self-operating software is coming, and your rotation is the last thing standing in its way.
Aug 20, 2026 from Hackaday Samsung Printer is the Next Frontier Of Minecraft Servers While DOOM remains the undisputed champion of ‘game you play on every piece of hardware’ it seems that the role of ‘game you play on everything just because you can’ …read more
Aug 20, 2026 from The Autodidacts Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand Sticks tongue out at AI
Aug 20, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-20-26 I’m a bit late with Pook-Emu Bee links today, but the streak continues. By the way, WordPress’s admin area looks different after the latest update. Change in color contrast. I’m not complaining. 1 ...
Aug 20, 2026 from The Autodidacts The Hopefully Eventually Ultimate Desktop Linux Troubleshooting Guide: Recovering from Crashes and Freezes Free advice from the printer fixer
Aug 20, 2026 from Hackaday Homebrew 68K Machine Has A PCI Bus The Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus was first introduced all the way back in 1992. It quickly became the standard way to interface add-on cards on the PC platform, supplanting …read more
Aug 20, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 20 August 2026 Triple-Baked Balaclava Edition Top Story Microsoft GitHub says the 8-hour outage of its systems was caused by a combination of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft VS Code. (The Register) Have you tried t...
Aug 20, 2026 from Hackaday Foldable OLED Displays and the Bane of Dust Much like Apple’s once vaunted super-slim butterfly keyboard, today’s range of portable devices featuring flexible OLED displays – which can fold said display into a much smaller form factor – …rea...
Aug 20, 2026 from Hackaday 3D Printering: Why is my PLA so Brittle? Over the years poly(lactic acid) (PLA) – also known as polylactide – has become a popular thermoplastic for a variety of reasons. One of these reasons is that it’s easily …read more
Aug 20, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net KDE Gear 26.08 brings improvements to Okular, Dolphin, Konsole, Kdenlive, Minuet, and more KDE Gear 26.08 has been released, introducing updates across a wide range of applications developed by the KDE community. This release brings user-facing changes and workflow enhancements that affe...
Aug 20, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Meta launches native Mac app for Meta AI Meta has released a native Mac app, version 1.0 beta, for its AI chatbot, Meta AI, designed for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 15 or later. The app allows users to share application windows with ...
