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A Guide To Using Triacs For Switching AC

For switching high-powered loads from a microcontroller, or for switching AC loads in general, most of us will reach into the parts bin and pull out...

Java News Roundup: WildFly 39, Open Liberty, Spring Framework, JobRunr, Gradle, Micrometer

This week’s Java roundup for January 12th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of WildFly 39; point releases of JobRunr and Gradle; maintenance releases of...

Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc6

Linus has released 6.19-rc6 for testing. “So we finally ended up with a slightly bigger rc than usual for this stage in the release cycle, but...

Linux 6.19-rc6 Released With More Bug Fixes

Linus Torvalds just tagged the Linux 6.19-rc6 kernel in working toward the stable Linux 6.19 kernel release likely on 8 February…

Hackaday Links: January 18, 2026

Looking for a unique vacation spot? Have at least $10 million USD burning a hole in your pocket? If so, then you’re just the sort of...

Dima Kogan: mrcal 2.5 released!

mrcal 2.5 is out: the release notes. Once again, this is mostly a bug-fix release en route to the big new features coming in 3.0. One...

You need to listen to the cosmic horror-comedy podcast Welcome to Night Vale

It’s relatively rare for a podcast to last 14 years, especially a fiction one. In fact, as far as I can tell, Welcome to Night Vale...

ReactOS For “Open-Source Windows” Achieves Massive Networking Performance Boost

ReactOS as the long-in-development “open-source Windows” project has been on quite a roll recently. Beyond a big Windows NT 6 compatibility improvement and fixing a very...

Wine Patches Bring Newer Versions of Adobe Photoshop to Linux

Wine patches finally fix Adobe Creative Cloud installer on Linux, letting you install Photoshop 2021 and 2025 without copying files from a Windows VM. You’re reading...

Linux 6.19 Landing Fixes For USB2/USB3 Issues With Apple M1/M2 Macs

Ahead of the Linux 6.19-rc6 kernel release due out later today are two USB fixes for Apple M1 / M2 Macs running the mainline kernel. These...

Multi-column Dock for GNOME Rethinks What a Dock Can Do 

The Multi-Column Dock extension for GNOME Shell lets you organise apps in collapsable groups with labels, colours, and for better dock management. You’re reading Multi-column Dock...