Astronomy Live on Twitch
Although there are a few hobbies that have low-cost entry points, amateur astronomy is not generally among them. A tabletop Dobsonian might cost a few hundred...
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How Tailscale Peer Relays saved my holiday: a 12.5X performance boost from India
Visiting family in India used to mean sluggish, inconsistent connections to a U.S. homelab. Tailscale Peer Relays meant no more frozen terminals or slow transfers.
Read moreAWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 G7e instances, Amazon Corretto updates, and more (January 26, 2026)
Hey! It’s my first post for 2026, and I’m writing to you while watching our driveway getting dug out. I hope wherever you are you are...
Read moreTikTok explained why some US creators are seeing posts with “0 views”
TikTok has been glitching for US users since Sunday, and TikTok’s new US owners finally confirmed the cause: a power outage at a US data center. “Since...
Read moreHow to get Doom running on a pair of earbuds
Over the years, hackers and modders at large have made it their mission to port classic first-person shooter Doom to practically anything with a display. Recently,...
Read moreWho Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet?
The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf — a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices — recently shared a screenshot indicating they’d compromised...
Read moreMecha Comet – Modular Linux Handheld with Snap-On Modules
Linux handhelds are having a moment of late, yet few wear their geek cred as proudly as the Mecha Comet, a new open source, palm-sized computer...
Read moreHow open standards enable zero trust on commodity hardware
Confidential computing has always held a certain promise. The idea that workloads could process sensitive data while remaining isolated even from the infrastructure that runs them...
Read moreIs Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?
In July 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe triumphantly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, the long-sought linchpin of the subatomic...
Read moreRevisiting The Linux 6.19 Performance With Some New Wins & Losses
Back at the start of the Linux 6.19 kernel cycle I ran benchmarks showing some scheduler performance regressions with the new kernel. Fortunately, two weeks out...
Read moreThere is No Need to Trap Focus on a Dialog Element
I was building a Modal component that uses the <dialog> element’s showModal method. While testing the component, I discovered I could tab out of the <dialog>...
Read moreA security checklist for your React and Next.js apps
Modern cloud native attacks don’t always rely on a single breakthrough exploit. Instead, threat actors chain together small assumptions, overlooked behaviors, and trusted components in ways...
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