Microcontrollers like the ESP32 have helped to democratize hobby engineering, with cheap hardware and accessible projects. Some of these builds can feel quite out of reach, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t stop to admire them and maybe take inspiration for future ideas.
I've always loved how much freedom Linux gives you to customize your desktop. I've spent years ricing GNOME and KDE Plasma, but I've always avoided window managers (WM) like i3 and Hyprland. Without a graphical interface, customization feels more like programming than personalizing your desktop. I recently decided to give WMs a try, but building a polished setup wou
Oversharing on Google is almost a bit too easy. Google is designed for seamless collaboration, which means the system tends to default to settings that reduce the amount of friction you encounter when attempting to share. Unfortunately, that also means some of the default settings are overly permissive by default.
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Six in 10 drivers say headlight glare is a problem after dark, and nearly three-quarters of those affected believe it has worsened over the past decade, according to a survey done by AAA in February 2026. Among those who experience glare, 92% identify oncoming headlights as the primary cause, and about one-third of respondents report being blinded by glare reflected
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OpenBSD is known for its devotion to security, but can it work as a desktop? The BSDs are great alternatives to Linux distributions, but this OS is probably better suited to a router or homelab project, right?
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Artificial intelligence came at just about the right time, speeding up app and software development as the world started to contend with skills shortages, but it changed the pace so much that security teams have not been able to keep up.Recently, we’ve seen AI being applied across multiple other domains with role-specific agents and tools, but that’s introduced its own challenges. While tools like Claude Code have proven a hit for generating, reviewing and editing cod
Mainframes continue to underpin a vast share of the global economy, handling roughly 70% of the world’s core transactions. The idea that AI-powered code translation will enable enterprises to modernize the platform or even move away from these systems seemed an innovative approach—but it’s fundamentally flawed. Translating code is not the same as modernizing a business-critical platform and conflating the two risks underestimating their complexity and destabilizing th
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Loath as I am to say it, the future of gaming platforms isn’t looking so rosy right now. Windows is increasingly becoming more recalcitrant, constantly throwing hurdles in the faces of PC gamers in the form of performance-ruining updates and unsolicited AI implementations. And in the console world, Sony has irked everyone by ditching physical games from January 2028, while the recent bout of mass layoffs at Xbox belies its ‘back on track’ messaging.Meanwhile, Valve ap
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I'm a developer with 4+ years of experience building production web applications for startups and clients.My primary stack is React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Node.js. I've also worked with React Native, Three.js, and GSAP, building everything from SaaS dashboards to interactive websites.I'm looking for freelance or contract opportunities (short or long term). Dm me on discord(kiyo151) if you are interested.
Like most developers with a side project, I got tired of the same boring link-in-bio tools. You drop your Linktree in your Instagram bio, people click it, and... nothing. No data, no reward, no reason to come back.So I built Folded — a link-in-bio that turns your audience growth into a game. How it worksEvery time someone visits your Folded profile, you earn XP.XP unlocks ranks — 15 tiers with unique badge artwork, from Stone all the way up to Apex. The system uses log-scale thresholds so e
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I ran my own site through my own speed tool last week and it failed. Performance 80, Largest Contentful Paint 3.8s — Google's threshold is 2.5s. Which is awkward, because the site sells speed optimisation.Fixing it turned up something I'd had wrong for a while: React.lazy() does not stop a chunk from downloading. It stops it from being in the main bundle. Those are different things, and the difference was costing me ~103KB on every single page view. The setupTwo components imported the Open
