Aug 13, 2026 from It's FOSS VLC is Wrongly Blamed for Microsoft Defender's Clumsiness VLC takes a long time to play MP3 on Windows? Blame it on Microsoft Defender, not VLC.
Aug 13, 2026 from Hackaday Have Scientists Stuck the Landing on the Glueball Discovery? Exciting discoveries in particle physics are one of those things that it can be easy to get blase about. Some people get caught up in the obvious excitement, while others …read more
Aug 13, 2026 from Brajeshwar 10x Is Easier Than 2x Ten times the result, and less work than doubling. I read 10x Is Easier Than 2x by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy1 expecting motivational arithmetic but got something of an argument about subtract...
Aug 13, 2026 from Michael Lynch Refactoring English: Month 20 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...
Aug 13, 2026 from Londogard Blog Hot Tub (Balboa) + Home Assistant + ESP32 (M5Stack) = <3 One day I asked a chatbot how easy it would be to make my Balboa hot tub smart. Apparently: quite easy. A quick search turned up an existing GitHub repository (shomanjk/esp32_balboa_spa) that contr...
Aug 13, 2026 from Londogard Blog Automate EV Charging using Home Assistant, EVCC, Easee and Sigenergy This spring my wife and I went ahead and bought a (used) EV, Skoda Enyaq iV80 2022. It’s not relevant for this blog but it’s a very nice car, and I do enjoy the EV “way”. With that said I found mys...
Aug 12, 2026 from Hackaday Your Laptop Keyboard, On Another Device It’s likely many of us have been in the position of first set-up on a machine such as a Raspberry Pi, and had keyboard problems. Either no spare keyboard is …read more
Aug 12, 2026 from Hackaday The Agony of Packaging Linux Apps One of the great things of Linux as an ecosystem is that there is so much choice. Yet this is also its greatest weakness, as unlike on MacOS and Windows …read more
Aug 12, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 12 August 2026 Viverrid Browser Edition Top Story SK Hynix plans to expand its production in China by 50%. (Tom's Hardware) And it's gone. Tech News Gemini has reached a billion users. (Ars Technica) Rather in th...
Aug 12, 2026 from Hackaday Read a USB Logitech Racing Wheel on an ESP32‑S3 Now that MCUs like the ESP32-S3 are quite capable computer systems including USB host functionality, it only makes sense that you can connect USB peripherals like Logitech racing wheels to …read more
Aug 12, 2026 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog Agentic Engineering Is Just Everything We Haven't Been Doing The adoption of AI Tooling ironically encourages better practices. Now you have to actually do everything you've been putting off.
Aug 12, 2026 from Hackaday Procrastineers Rejoice! 2026 Supercon Call For Participation Extended A few weeks ago, we put out the call for participation for this year’s 2026 Hackaday Supercon, taking place in Pasadena, CA this November. Today was going to be the …read more
Aug 12, 2026 from Peter's Path Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Why read the book? Robert Louis Stevenson published Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886. The story is short and direct. A lawyer named Gabriel Utterson investigates the strange behaviour ...
Aug 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-12-26 Can we complete a perfect Sunday-Friday Pook-Emu Bee link week? With this, we are 5/7 of the way there. Articles 1 | New $472M electronic brain modernizes aging CH-47 Chinook helicopters (Amir Khol...
Aug 12, 2026 from Hackaday Watch Today’s Eclipse at Home In a few hours, there is a solar eclipse that will be visible with a track that goes from Spain up through Greenland. Too late to travel for it, but …read more
Aug 12, 2026 from Hackaday Getting Back Into Resin Printing: First Results When we last left off, I had just set up a new SLA resin printer and was on the verge of doing the initial round of printing to see just …read more
Aug 12, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog ContentBuilder Explained: The Secret Behind SwiftUI's Type-Checking Speedup In WWDC 2026, Apple engineers introduced a new SwiftUI feature — ContentBuilder. From the usage perspective, it seems to be nothing more than a ViewBuilder with a wider scope. Apple also claims thi...
Aug 12, 2026 from Hackaday 3 KB Solitaire Fits in QR-Code, Runs in DOS In these days of hundred-gigabyte-and-more monster games, it can be nice to stop and remember what a human can do with assembly language and very, very little storage space. In …read more
Aug 12, 2026 from It's FOSS SimpleX Chat Wants Its 400K+ Users to Become Investors Too The funds will go towards keeping the project up and running.
Aug 12, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Tabs now available in Paper Design Tabs are now available in Paper Design, allowing users to open and work on multiple files at the same time. This update supports parallel prompting, helping users explore ideas faster and stay orga...
