Oct 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Issue 300 of The Newsletter Leaf Journal I mailed the 300th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal earlier this afternoon. I launched the newsletter back in July 2020 as a companion to The New Leaf Journal. While it still serves the purpo...
Oct 03, 2026 from Hackaday 2026 Retrocomputer Challenge: Vectron65 Plus Puts the Emphasis on Plus [Nick Bild] evidently has a soft spot for the 6502, given that his Vectron65 Plus home computer project uses at least one of them, depending on the add-ons. You see, …read more
Oct 03, 2026 from Hackaday The ESP32, An SDR In Itself Perhaps the most famous of all the software-defined radio (SDR) receivers is the RTL-SDR, a digital TV receiver on which an undocumented feature was found. Perhaps other radio-enabled chips also …r...
Oct 03, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 3 October 2026 Kleene-Belnap Jailbreak Edition Top Story I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further. (Tech Crunch) Apple is changing the meaning of granting applications full disk access, because ...
Oct 03, 2026 from Hackaday Fixing a Power Grid That Loses Over Half Its Power to Inefficiency and Theft [Mini Shaji Thomas] has a deeply interesting article on IEEE Spectrum detailing how the power distribution system for a city of over twenty million people went from failing to first-class. …read more
Oct 03, 2026 from Kev Quirk Privacy and Webmentions Following my recent post about not checking Mastodon, a reader raised an interesting privacy concern regarding Webmentions. They explained that they had stopped using Webmentions altogether because...
Oct 03, 2026 from Hackaday Own The OSD Chip In Your Cheap Composite Monitor [Ogrinz Labs] has built a Robbie the Robot suit, which is super-cool, but has a huge flaw. When inside the suit, he’s too tall to do what the original Robbie …read more
Oct 03, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse Recent addenda to articles 202609: Errors, omissions, and retractions I was going to start with “it has been a while since we had one of these” but then I saw that the previous one started with “Wow, has it really been 7 months since I did one of these?” and that was...
Oct 03, 2026 from Kev Quirk 2026-10-03 09:04: Took the dogs out on the field this morning. All the dewey spider webs were... Took the dogs out on the field this morning. All the dewey spider webs were beautiful in the morning sun. I'm no Jack Baty, but they're good enough. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace...
Oct 03, 2026 from Hackaday That’s No Moon… That’s an Exoplanet! It wasn’t that long ago that a science teacher would have told students that there was no evidence of planets around other star systems. Even more recently, they might have …read more
Oct 03, 2026 from It's FOSS We View Consumer Data as Toxic Waste Obscura VPN splits your identity from your browsing across two independent companies so neither can see both. Founder Carl Dong on trust, QUIC, reproducible builds, and why the no-logs promise stop...
Oct 03, 2026 from Hackaday Is This The Smallest Internet Radio? Internet radios have been a thing in some form for the last quarter century, and the advent of cheap networked microcontrollers has made them easier than ever to build. But …read more
Oct 03, 2026 from Hackaday 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: Lunar Lander on the PDP-1 A lot of the retrocomputing world is focused on the 1980s, and for good reason– the home computer revolution was in full swing in that decade, and there is a …read more
Oct 02, 2026 from Hackaday Electronic Busy Board is Fun for Kids and Hackers While you may not be familiar with the term “busy board”, you’ve almost certainly seen one. It’s the sort of toy with a bunch of buttons, switches, and of course …read more
Oct 02, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual 🕴 MAN IN BUSINESS SUIT LEVITATING Heute habe ich gelernt, dass es in Unicode den code point U+1F574 (MAN IN BUSINESS SUIT LEVITATING) gibt. 🕴
Oct 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social New NLJ Article: 86 Days Until Christmas On October 1, 2026, I (being N.A. Ferrell) published a new article on The New Leaf Journal titled 86 Days Until Christmas: Seen in Carroll Gardens. On September 29, I had come across an inflatable ...
Oct 02, 2026 from Hackaday 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: A Homebrew Computer In Only Three ICs Homebrew computers don’t have to be retrocomputers, but [Just4Fun]’s all-through-hole, 68008-based “68k-MBC” certainly qualifies, so it is a worthy entry in our ongoing contest. While there are bot...
Oct 02, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 2 October 2026 Etymologists Stone Edition Top Story Xbox is not for sale, says Xbox. (Windows Central) Unless you have a lot of money. Like... Any at all. Tech News Pi 1.0 is here. (Earendil) It's a thing. That p...
Oct 02, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 10-02-26 October begins two-for-two with Pook-Emu Bee Links before our regularly scheduled Saturday off-day for the Newsletter Leaf Journal. I think they’re hoping you get the hint 1 | Japan announces new p...
Oct 02, 2026 from Thejesh GN Weekly Notes 40/2026 It’s been a crazy but good week. It’s also been a fun week. Last Friday was a long class at APU before the midterm holidays, which kind of tired me out, so I spent most of Saturday at home resting.
