Imagine that you’re at your company’s all-hands meeting and one of the sellers is proudly ringing the office gong to celebrate closing a big deal with a client who’s on the other side of the world. It’s a big deal because it’s a major project. Their logo is going to look sleek on your website,…

Learn about Intuit's unique approach to understanding customer problems and how they cultivate a culture of innovation.

The Linux Foundation is making available a set of free tools for building software bills of material (SBOMs) based on the software data package exchange

Marc Andreessen has changed his tone over the past year; there is a cynical interpretation, but I think the shift is justified.

When I ask hobby makers what skills they would most like to learn next, the answers are frequently welding and machining/metalworking. In this Blondihacks video, Quinn patiently runs through the to…

A disaster hits your area. Cell and phone services are overloaded or down.  You can’t connect with your loved ones and friends to coordinate emergency plans.  Or can you? Thankfully, you have a backup method of communication: the handy two-way radio transceiver, known colloquially as the walkie-talkie.  Walkie-talkies may have been one of your favorite […]

The mirror might not lie, but no one looks at you in the mirror more than you do. Your business or project or life story is intimately known to you. You have lived it. But the outside world will ne…

A big change in how the Internet is defined - and who defines it - is underway.

An email has been going around the internet as a part of a release of documents related to Apple’s App Store-based suit brought by Epic Games. I love this email for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that you can extrapolate from it the very reasons Apple has remained such a […]

The self-sovereign internet underscores a tension between those who desire perfect oversight of society and those who desire perfect privacy. In this post, I explore a method for conditional legibility of private communications.

Consider this Scheme expression, taken from the Rosetta Code example for the Mandelbrot set:

Apple’s upcoming operating systems have an impressively long list of supported models, but devils dance in the details. Older devices won’t be able to take advantage of all the new features, reasonably enough, but you should be aware of what you might be missing.

Humans crave progress. This helps us feel productive, but it distorts our attention away from thorny problems onto easier to-do lists.

This article explores the world of SVG favicons. We cover adding them to HTML, using emojis, inlining them as data URIs, supporting dark mode, and animations.

Museums are always looking for ways to engage their visitors. See how one artist is using SparkFun parts and projection mapping to make that happen.

As part of SiFive’s announcements today, along with enabling SiFive IP on Intel’s Foundry Service offerings, Intel will be creating its own RISC-V development...

GitHub Docs are open source, and you can contribute to the project by visiting the GitHub repo.

There are thousands of configuration files on your computer. You may never directly interact with the bulk of them, but they're scattered throughout your /etc folder and in ~/.config and ~/.local and /usr. There are probably some in /var and possibly even in /opt. If you've ever opened one by accident or to make a change, you may have wondered why some configuration files look one way while others look completely different.

People don’t say yes or change their minds because you persist. That’s because we don’t like to admit we were wrong. If we’re going to go forward, it’s because somethi…

Elon Musk isn’t superman. He does have supermoney.

Engineer Eduard Luzyanin created this wild ride that combines a motorcycle and a tank. The Hamyak is a single-seat vehicle that's propelled by a rolling

Learn why determining the spacing between elements on their shared parent element leads to more resilient and maintainable code.

You're stuck. But what exactly is this thing we call being stuck? It's when your mental model of a program does not match the actual program...

Civo announced the result of its research on the use of containers in organisations.

The Fingerbot is a tiny machine you can install over existing switches for lights, appliances, and other devices, bestowing them with remote-control capability. Its modular design works with a variety of button and toggle switch styles. Grab the Adaprox Bridge to add Alexa, Google Home, Siri, and other cloud-based control.

The Fingerbot Plus is an upgraded version of Adaprox's tiny remote-controlled machine. In addition to its flipping all kinds of switches and pushing all kinds of buttons, it now has a touchpad so you can control devices when you don't have your phone handy. It also has greater pushing force and a higher battery capacity.