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Channel 72 on Spectrum Cable in NYC cycles through the NYC DOT traffic cameras with realtime update speed albeit in standard definition. I tune in and leave it on in the background…

I like multi-function displays (MFD) which were probably a necessity in aviation before touchscreen technology and also could be operated by a pilot with gloves on. Multi-function …

Wow, thanks for making this! I’m having lots of fun playing with it. A quibble: Choosing between Draw|Erase|Toggle is awkward on mobile (Safari on iPhone). The old toggle between D…

Amazing work. Thanks for sharing xwax with the world! Are you aware of Rasteri’s SC1000? It uses a magnetic rotary sensor with a modified version of xwax instead of time-coded viny…

James Mickens’s Monitorama 2014 presentation had me laughing to the point of tears. “Look a word cloud!” Title: "Computers are a Sadness, I am the Cure" https://vimeo.com/95066828

Critical article from Apr 2009: on url shorteners -- joshua schachter's blog http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners Print publishers might have a case for URL shorte…

To mitigate link rot I always include a title along with the URL. This is especially important for URLs with opaque ids like on YouTube instead of slugs. If you visit a pulled YouT…

It’s a wonderful resource but they neglect the pagetitle element which is set to “McMaster-Carr” on every page. Links opened in tabs/windows all get the same title and bookmark tit…

There’s a similar device used to transmit the first recovered victim’s fingerprints from the funeral parlor to FBI field offices in Silence of the Lambs.

Web publishing aside: Why do sites like this totally neglect the page title and meta attributes for sharing in social media such as Open Graph? At bare minimum, why not include Bla…

> and things shift around on you for another 20 seconds after that, so when you go to tap a link you accidentally tap an ad that finally loaded under your finger. Why don’t browser…

Why did Apple remove the cursor keys that would appear in landscape aspect? There’s still plenty of unused space for them. Thankfully there’s the long press on spacebar gesture but…

I’m pretty sure Thunderbolt only has the equivalent of 4 lanes of PCIe 3.0 while GPU cards tend to be 16 lane.

I think it was 3 to 6 VME-sized boards. There was 1 Display Generator board, 1 Geometry Engine board (12 x Intel i860 processors in the RealityEngine2), and 1, 2, or 4 Raster Manag…

Aside: Why don’t folks give their web pages titles? There’s a title in the body but I mean actual page titles that show up in browser windows, tabs, and bookmarks. Page Title

This “Smart Window Fan” is a window-mounted economizer. If it’s cooler and dryer outside, like at night, it opens its louvers and pulls in cool air and exhausts warm air. It also h…

Enjoy this awesome cinemagraph from that opening scene (not my work): “Los Angeles, November 2019” Blade Runner (1982) IWDRM https://iwdrm.tumblr.com/post/2927811283

I have a Samsung TV with “smart” features but only connect it to the Internet when using a streaming app. I still use cable for TV so I don’t use builtin apps often. Most of the ti…

Alternatively, you can use less(1) in tail mode to search growing logs. less +F -p pattern /path/to/log (Ctrl-C to break out of tail mode. /pattern to interactively set search patt…

The webcam should’ve been an external option. If I have two or three monitors, only one needs a webcam. Perhaps include a soft shoe or 1/4”-20 accessory mount on top for a ball or …

Over the years, I’ve enjoyed reading many ghacks articles about browsers. However, I find it ironic that every link in the OP article reporting on user tracking practices is wrappe…

Good luck finding any consumer products that ever supported HDMI Ethernet Channel (HEC). In contrast, HEC capable HDMI cables with pins 14 and 19 in a twisted pair were widely avai…

“I need my sleep. I need about eight hours a day, and about ten at night.” — Bill Hicks

This desktop dashboard with three analog panel meters is gorgeous: Ambient Executive Dashboard | Uncrate https://uncrate.com/ambient-executive-dashboard/ A new version that uses Wi…

No need to give up a PCIe slot. The Raspberry Pi Zero and the RPi 4 have USB On-The-Go support so they can appear to be a serial port, Ethernet port, or other types of devices usin…