Why and How I am Using Emacs for Writing My Next Novel
In part II of his Emacs series, novelist Theena Kumaragurunathan, demonstrates how Emacs is becoming an extension of his writing brain.
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GameCube Dock for Switch, Revisited
While modern game consoles are certainly excellent, there is still something magical about the consoles of yore. So why not bring the magical nostalgia of a...
Read moreLocalStack for AWS Drops Community Edition Raising Developer Concerns
LocalStack has recently announced changes to the delivery of its AWS Cloud emulators, dropping the popular open source Community Edition, and creating a single image that...
Read moreThe WalMart Atomic Clock
In the realm of first-world problems, your cheap wall clock doesn’t keep time, so you have to keep setting it. The answer? Of course, you connect...
Read moreReal-Time 3D Room Mapping with ESP32, VL53L5CX Sensor and IMU
ST’s VL53L5CX is a very small 8×8 grid ranging sensor that can perform distance measurements at a distance of up to 4 meters. In a recent...
Read moreLinux Mint is adding post-install home encryption option
Linux Mint 23 will expand its System Administration tool (mintsysadm) with a new Users section, enabling post-install home encryption and more. You’re reading Linux Mint is...
Read moreF2FS Delivers “Several Key Performance Optimizations” With Linux 7.0
The Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) has multiple performance improvements to provide its users with on the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel…
Read moreReverse Engineering a Dash Robot with Ghidra
One of the joys of browsing secondhand shops is the possibility of finding old, perhaps restorable or hackable, electronics at low prices. Admittedly, they usually seem...
Read moreX.Org Server’s “Master” Branch Now Closed With Cleaned Up State On “Main”
This Valentine’s Day there is a lot of red on the screen for the X.Org Server with the code delta as a result of renaming of...
Read moreJikipedia turns Epstein’s emails into an encyclopedia of his powerful friends
Lesley Groff, Epstein’s executive assistant. | Image: Jmail The folks behind Jmail are at it again with a clone of Wikipedia that turns the treasure trove...
Read moreNASA has a new problem to fix before the next Artemis II countdown test
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said Saturday the agency is looking at ways to prevent the fueling problems plaguing the Space Launch System rocket before the Artemis...
Read moreVintage Canadian Video Hardware Becomes Homebrew Computer
Are you in the mood for a retrocomputing deep dive into the Scriptovision Super Micro Script? It was a Canadian-made vintage video titler from the 80s,...
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