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10 Screenwriting Skills and Traits You Need
Develop your expertise in 10 areas to maximize your screenwriting potential.During the 18+ years I’ve run this blog, I have been privileged to conduct one-on-one interviews with nearly two hundred screenwriters including dozens with Black List and Nicholl Fellowship winning writers. Along the way, it’s been fascinating to learn the variety of approaches to the craft, yet at the same time how certain universal themes recur.I was struck by five personality traits and five skill sets
Your slow Wi-Fi might not need a faster plan—check these 8 things first
Fast internet is pretty much a basic necessity these days, and if you don't have it, it'll cause you grief every single day. Sometimes, the fix is getting a better plan, but you should always do the troubleshooting work first to make sure that's really what you need.
From Husky to Yukon: 5 durable toolboxes that won't break the bank
A decent toolbox for your garage or shop certainly won't come cheap, but that doesn't mean you have to spend thousands on one, either. At first, a little tool bag or some bins will suffice, but as you start to stock up on power tools, batteries, wrenches, screwdriver sets, sockets, bits, and more, you'll eventually want something bigger. Here are some affordable cho
Learn how to easily share files using Quick Share on Googlebook and Android
One of the greatest selling points of Google's new Android-powered, AI-focused Googlebook laptops is the tight integration with your Android smartphone. There are plenty of new ways to connect your laptop and smartphone, but the tried-and-true feature for sharing images, documents, and other files still reigns supreme. Here's what you need to know about using Quick
A university-branded boot camp promised tech jobs. It delivered only debt
Looking back, there were a lot of warning signs. Christopher Collins fielded several calls a day from recruiters with ...<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1650473395449-5ad9037cc318?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8NXx8VGVjaCUyMEpvYnN8ZW58MHx8Mnx8MTY1MDU5OTI2OA&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=1080' />
5 premium desktop apps that the open-source community cloned for free
Subscription software keeps getting more expensive, and most of us end up paying for a massive suite of features we rarely touch. The good news is that for almost every major paid desktop app, there is usually an open-source counterpart that costs nothing and runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Uninstalling Windows apps in bulk is super easy with this free, open-source tool
When you're clearing out unwanted apps from your Windows PC, uninstalling one or two is easy enough. But if you have a dozen programs you no longer use, removing them one at a time can take a while, since Windows 11's Settings app doesn't let you select multiple apps and uninstall them together.
These 4 tricks make my Galaxy Watch feel more like a mechanical watch
Smartwatches are, well, smart, but that doesn't mean other watches are dumb. For example, mechanical watches don't require batteries at all — they operate purely through a tightly wound spring. You can give your Galaxy Watch the same vibe in a few simple steps.
One chart shows white-collar biz is thriving even as jobs dry up
There is a striking contrast between the decline in employment in white-collar sectors and the rise in their economic output.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1662643500140-7c2fdf816dd2?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8Mjd8fEpvYnN8ZW58MHx8Mnx8MTY3MDI1NjU3Nw&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080' />
I decided that my smart home should ask me more questions (here's why and how to set it up)
A smart home means different things to different people. Many of us want a home that takes care of itself quietly in the background, while others look at the concept as one that leverages technology to feel more like a helping hand.
Ask HN: What to do with lots of spare compute in colocation?
I moved my homelab into a colocation rack (proper DC deployment with redundant power) a while ago. Things have been running smoothly, and a few favorable 2nd hand deals later I now have 128 cores (Epyc Zen 2), roughly 1TB of RAM and several dozen TBs flash and spinning storage running idle.It's all on spare enterprise-grade hardware (15th generation Dell PowerEdge, redundant SAS SSD/HDD arrays), interconnected with 25G. Uplink is 10G. It's utilizing number of external IPv4 address
Show HN: Killer Clues Cryptic Game
Hello,I'd like to introduce the latest thing ive made in my unemployment: Killer Clues. Every day you get one sentence with a killer hidden inside it. It could be a weapon, a cause of death, or something else, and your job is to work out what it is.Writing tiny murder cryptics turns out to be more fun than writing job applications.Let me know any positive or negative feedback you have. I am always interested in listening and improving.Enjoy.
Show HN: Vaguely Right, a Jev-based daily game – submit a clue to hit the target
Each round you get a spectrum with a target on it (Calm ----X-- Stressful). Name something that sits at the target: a job interview, a walk in the park, a goose?The closer you are, the higher your score.Mechanically it's like a crossover between Wavelength and Family Feud.The model is prompted to place the submitted clue as most people would see it,so you are aiming for the consensus reading of the spectrum and your clue.Every player gets the same 5 rounds a day. Free, no signup, play th
3D-printed airless wheels could be a game changer for Ukraine's ground robotic vehicles — ultralight no-deflation tyres improve resistance to punctures and explosions
Ukrainian developers complete combat trials of airless wheels for ground robotsNew 3D-printed wheels eliminate inflation requirements for battlefield robotic vehiclesUkrainian wheel sets weigh between 32 and 56 kgUkrainian engineers have developed inflation-free wheels for unmanned ground vehicles, aiming to keep robotic platforms moving despite damage encountered during frontline operations.The project brings together Print&Live UA, iSCALE 3D, and participating speci
Day 19: Using JSON.stringify() and JSON.parse() in My E-Commerce Project 🛒
Today, I continued improving my e-commerce website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.I learned how to use JSON.stringify() and JSON.parse() with localStorage to store and retrieve cart data.WHAT I LEARNED 1.JSON.stringify()It converts my cart array into a JSON string so that I can store it in localStorage.localStorage.setItem("cart", JSON.stringify(cart));Today, I continued improving my e-commerce website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.I learned how to use JSON.stringify() and JSON.parse()
My SPA was invisible to Google, and the fix broke on Cloudflare's build
I built kitdecoder.com, a set of browser-based dev tools, as a plain JSsingle-page app. A few weeks in I fetched my own homepage the way a crawler wouldand got back the and an empty . Headings, FAQ andstructured data only existed after JavaScript ran, so as far as Google wasconcerned the site was blank.The fix is prerendering: visit every route at build time and save the resultingHTML. I wrote a small Playwright script that serves the build locally, opens eachof the ~40 routes, waits for the h1
16 cores, 5.2 GHz, and 55 TOPS: Minisforum's newest AI workstation is mostly a massive upgrade to 192GB of memory - and that is not necessarily a bad thing
Minisforum's MS-S1 MAX-P495 is on pre-order at $7,399 with 192GB of unified memory and a 2TB SSDCPU and NPU specs are similar to previous iterations: 16 cores, 32 threads with a boost in clock speeds of 100 MHz, in addition to increased NPU performance by 10% to 55 TOPSThe real upgrade is memory: 192GB total, 160GB for the GPU, and about 7% more bandwidth, enough to fit a 284B-parameter MoE model on one boxMinisforum has opened orders for the MS-S1 MAX-P495, a 3.5-lit
Global smartphone shipments just hit a 14-year low — here's why
Counterpoint Research reports a 20% decline in smartphone shipments compared to this time last yearThat puts this period at the lowest level in 14 yearsThe RAM crisis is largely to blame, but consumers may also be holding on to their phones for other reasonsThis year seemingly hasn’t been a vintage one for phone companies. According to Counterpoint Research, global shipments are 20% lower this quarter than in the third quarter (Q3) of 2025, making this the lowest Q3 i
Russia resorts to desperate World War One defence technique to protect its oil refineries — floating barrage balloons failed to curtail V1s and are unlikely to succeed against UAVs
Russia has updated the concept of barrage balloons to defend oil refineriesBarrage balloons were first deployed over 100 years ago to defend against air raidsIt is not clear what the measures are defending against, as they only appear suitable for disabling smaller dronesRussia has deployed barrage balloons around its oil refineries to defend against Ukraine drone attacks – but the demonstration using a small drone has raised questions about the effectiveness of the m
Can a model predict virality better than people? Building CloutBot with Kimi
How we used Kimi (Moonshot AI) to build an on-chain AI rival for CloutCall, a Monad Metropolis hackathon project.The gameCloutCall is a prediction game about the internet's favourite argument: "this is going to blow up." Every market asks one question about a public YouTube video: will it pass N views by a deadline? Players sign in with Face ID (Mera passkeys on Monad), make a call in one tap, and dare a friend to take the other side.We wanted a rival that is always there, always has an opinion,
