Tech

Generally “interesting technical stuff” (software and hardware), vs the craft and profession of building software (see Software Engineering).

Mesh Networking

• MeshCore - Off grid mesh radio communications system

• Reticulum Network

Neat

• Forking Chrome to render in a terminal - Fathy Boundjadj

• NHS using drones to fly blood tests between Southwark hospitals

• DoomPDF dev stuffs a Linux system into a PDF • The Register

• Downtown Doug Brown » Upgrading my old Chumby 8 Linux kernel part 1: U-Boot

• An Electromagnetic Force - Aeracode

• The legacy of Lynn Conway, chip design pioneer and transgender-rights advocate - Michigan Engineering News

• Intro | Putting the “You” in CPU

• Building a Balloon Tracking Cyberdeck | blog.howrandom.net

• Simon Hardwick | Why Did the Eurovision Song Contest Look Odd This Year?

Fun

• iracigt/ventinari-clock: A functional malfunctioning clock

• curl -v https://google.com - YouTube

Hardware

• Project MINI RACK | Miniature rack builds, for portable or compact Homelabs.

• Off-The-Shelf 10” Gear Guide : r/minilab

• MIRPH-1 – MIRPH Designs

• K-9 2.0. WiFi Controlled and Autonomous Robot Dog. : 23 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables

• Glo, The Polyphonic Whale

• Le Powerwall de Glubux - France PowerWall DIY - Fabriquer sa batterie Lithium-ion 18650

• Nukit 222nm Far-UVC

• TfL abandons plans for driverless tube trains

  • “It’s now been confirmed that the study [into driverless trains] reached the same conclusion that every other study into the issue has already reported — it’ll cost an awful lot of money for very little benefit.” - I hadn’t realised this!

• Daylight | A More Caring Computer

• You Can Use LEDs As Sensors, Too | Hackaday

• UniFi Comparison Charts

• I Built My Dream Keyboard from Absolute Scratch - YouTube

• Our First Step Towards the Home of the Future - Impulse Blog

• π•pistrelle Bat Detector

• USB Power Delivery For Hobby Projects – Flameeyes’s Weblog

• BLE Satellite – MOHIT BHOITE

Tools

• superwhisper

• An All-In-One Agreements Platform | Agree.com

• docusealco/docuseal: Open source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill, and sign digital documents ✍️

• Domain redirect service hassle-free - redirect.pizza

• GitHub - microsoft/typespec

• stoplightio/elements: Build beautiful, interactive API Docs with embeddable React or Web Components, powered by OpenAPI and Markdown.

• OpenDevin/OpenDevin: 🐚 OpenDevin: Code Less, Make More

• daytonaio/daytona: The Open Source Dev Environment Manager.

Law

• Performing an Online Safety Act Assessment For mastodon.bentasker.co.uk | www.bentasker.co.uk

• UK Orders Apple To Break Encryption Worldwide While World Is Distracted | Techdirt

• Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder * TorrentFreak

• TuneIn ruling may lead to a more restrictive future for UK smart speaker and Internet radio users | The SWLing Post

• Break Google’s Search Monopoly without Breaking the Web - Open Web Advocacy

Misc

• The IPv6 transition | APNIC Blog

• ovh/venom: 🐍 Manage and run your integration tests with efficiency - Venom run executors (script, HTTP Request, web, imap, etc… ) and assertions

• Deciphering Glyph :: Unsigned Commits

• Andrew’s Blog - Resolving an unusual wifi issue

• Home | Kindle Modding Wiki

• Everyone knows your location

• How Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal - Ars Technica

• Ghostty Is Native—So What? | g.p. anders

• 100R — about

• Subpixel textures

• GreyNoise Labs - RattaGATTa: Scalable Bluetooth Low-Energy Survey

• xen0bit/rattagatta

• The solar industrial revolution is the biggest investment opportunity in history – Casey Handmer’s blog

• Hear that? That’s the sound of an ultrasonic cold brew coffee ready in under three minutes

• combatwombat/netbeep: Chrome extension to play sounds on network requests, depending on request type and file size.

• A Quick Guide to Containerizing Llamafile - DEV Community

• The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2024 – tecosystems

• Deciphering Glyph :: Let Me Tell You A Secret

• Taliban Shuts Down ‘queer.af’ Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance

• [archiloque.net] Trusted peers network

• Bricked Xmas

• 39 Post Office convictions quashed after Fujitsu evidence about Horizon IT platform called into question • The Register

• Public inquiry launched after 736 UK post office workers falsely convicted of fraud - Boing Boing

• Mixed Signals | Roads.org.uk

• The coming storm - Charlie’s Diary

• SebastianMuskalla/ModelessVim: Configuration files to turn vim into a modeless editor.

• A YaCy experiment - Chronicae Novis Rebus

• There’s a technology built into our cars to make driving safer – but we’re not using it.

• Safety Differently and The Principles of Human Performance | by Tom Connor | 10x Curiosity | Medium

• The Markdown Web

• Use of HTTPS Resource Records

• Upsert in SQL

• Fake Response Server: Slow response time generator – Sean Shadmand

• Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking – BadCyber

• Drinking distilled water