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In this article, you will find the most essential information about the best reference management tools for Linux in 2024 that you can use while working.

The personal, minimalist, super-fast, database free, bookmarking service

Play with BubbleUPnP all your music and videos to Android devices, UPnP/DLNA/OpenHome streamers, Samsung/Panasonic/LG/Sony Smart TV, Chromecast, Chromecast Audio, Chromcast with Google TV, Chromecast built-in and embedded, Amazon Fire TV and Stick, Android TV, Xbox, Playstation, Roku

Image hosting and sharing software that allows you to get your own image hosting service. It's your hosting and your rules, say goodbye to the closures and restrictions.

Most people have heard of ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google Gemini or the image generator DALL-E. If you’re in the creative space, you…

Full stack typesafe API-first development with REST.

I used to like the original FourSquare. The "mayor" stuff was a bit silly, and my friends never left that many reviews, but I loved being able to signal to my friends "I am at this cool museum" or "We're at this pub if you want to meet" or "Spending the day at the park". [...]

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We empower developers to embrace participatory software architecture via distributed computing and smart contract systems.

In this four-part article, we will learn how to create a Blockchain network with Hyperledger starting from a full overview of Hyperledger…

The only thing makers like more than building things is making systems to build things. [Eric Hunting] has compiled a list of these modular building systems. You’ve certainly heard of LEGO, g…

Playing back music files from USB sticks is a common feature these days, and is built-into the infotainment system in [Folkert van Heusden]’s Opel Astra. Unfortunately such USB playback featu…

I’m off visiting my parents for a while, and have managed to bring nearly everything along with me that I need to get work done, and it all fit in a small backpack! This includes a portable a…

ColBERT is a new way of scoring passage relevance using a BERT language model that substantially solves the problems with dense passage retrieval.

Here’s how I made my kitchen smart and what I still wish it could do.

Smart home tech makes for happy animals.

Developing for the Amiga used to involve reading dense programming manuals and trial and error. In contrast, developing these days can be as simple as barking orders at ChatGPT to spit you out some…

Connect APIs in Python with integrations, triggers, and deployment all handled for you.

This is a quick blog post to remind me how to do something in future. I’ve written before about how to download magazines from the Internet Archive and make gifs from their covers. In that po…

Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives. If you want to preserve some of your favorite computing memories like that paper you wrote about the joys of the Information Superhighway, […

Addon to auto-redirects all pages opened from Twitter/other feeds to their archived versions in Wayback Machine + Auto-save if not yet archived. Sites in update-able Excludes list don't...

I wrote this thing to replace all the links in an HTML document with Wayback Machine links. It looks at the file's date and tries to find contemporaneous archives. I think I'll also do that with links in every blog post that is more than, say, 5 years old. Opinions differ widely on what the half-life of a link is, but it is Not Long because Everything is Terrible. It would be nice if there ...