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Unicode, Tolkien, and Privacy
Unicode, Tolkien, and Privacy
Unicode's private use areas are used for a wide variety of purposes, ranging from coroporate logos to fictional languages. Example of Tolkein's Tengwar.
·johndcook.com·
Unicode, Tolkien, and Privacy
The Illusion of a Smart Home
The Illusion of a Smart Home
I woke up too early this morning to watch India play Australia in the Champions Trophy cricket. I know, I don’t have a life. But while the game was unfolding...
·crazystupidtech.com·
The Illusion of a Smart Home
This isn't even my final form
This isn't even my final form
if it sucks hit da bricks - litany against sunk cost take it easy but take it - litany against burnout/apathy cycle fuck it we ball - litany against perfectionism now say something beautiful and...
·elanorpam.tumblr.com·
This isn't even my final form
Get Into Meshtastic On The Cheap With This Tiny Node Kit
Get Into Meshtastic On The Cheap With This Tiny Node Kit
There’s been a lot of buzz about Meshtastic lately, and with good reason. The low-power LoRa-based network has a ton of interesting use cases, and as with any mesh network, the more nodes the…
·hackaday.com·
Get Into Meshtastic On The Cheap With This Tiny Node Kit
Physical Computing Used To Be A Thing
Physical Computing Used To Be A Thing
In the early 2000s, the idea that you could write programs on microcontrollers that did things in the physical world, like run motors or light up LEDs, was kind of new. At the time, most people tho…
·hackaday.com·
Physical Computing Used To Be A Thing
AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go?
AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go?
A list of questions you need to ask about potential AI solutions, to know if they're going to work well for you and what kind of surprises they'll create.
·ferd.ca·
AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go?
The Strange Afterlife Of The Xbox Kinect
The Strange Afterlife Of The Xbox Kinect
The tale of the Microsoft Xbox Kinect is one of those sad situations where a great product was used in an application that turned out to be a bit of a flop and was discontinued because of it, despi…
·hackaday.com·
The Strange Afterlife Of The Xbox Kinect
AI Promise and Chip Precariousness
AI Promise and Chip Precariousness
The AI industry is more exciting than ever, but the chip situation is very precarious and requires drastic action.
·stratechery.com·
AI Promise and Chip Precariousness
Manual ’till it hurts
Manual ’till it hurts
Try writing your HTML in HTML, your CSS in CSS, and your JavaScript in JavaScript.
·adactio.com·
Manual ’till it hurts
NetBSD on a JavaStation
NetBSD on a JavaStation
Hard as it may be to imagine, there was a time when Java was brand new and exciting. Long before it became the vast clunky back-end leviathan it is today,
·fatsquirrel.org·
NetBSD on a JavaStation
The Future We Never Got, Running A Future We Got
The Future We Never Got, Running A Future We Got
If you’re familiar with Java here in 2025, the programming language you know is a world away from what Sun Microsystems planned for it in the mid-1990s. Back then it was key to a bright coffe…
·hackaday.com·
The Future We Never Got, Running A Future We Got
The Age of Vibe Compute
The Age of Vibe Compute
What happens when our computers know us better than we know ourselves?
·every.to·
The Age of Vibe Compute
Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype
Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype
Fears of an artificial superintelligence that could replace humans are just a distraction at a time when ChatGPT still has major shortcomings.
·gizmodo.com·
Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype
I’m Entering My Curmudgeon Era
I’m Entering My Curmudgeon Era
My current project: I've been dusting off the old hard drives with my ripped CD collection and loading them into an iPod. A 20-year-old piece of tech with its click wheel intact, no WiFi, and no algorithm feeding me recommendations I didn't ask for. The result: I've started listening to
·joanwestenberg.com·
I’m Entering My Curmudgeon Era
The Unpredicted
The Unpredicted
It is odd that science fiction did not predict the internet. There are no vintage science fiction movies about the world wide web, nor movies that showed the online web as part of the future. We expected picture phones, and … Continue reading →
·kk.org·
The Unpredicted
Python's Automation Magic
Python's Automation Magic
From file management to PDF generation, Python's powerful libraries make repetitive tasks obsolete while reducing errors and boosting efficiency for developers of all levels.
·thenewstack.io·
Python's Automation Magic