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The Blitz Github page says: "Blitz is currently in a pre-alpha state." .. "we would not yet recommend building apps with it." Is it a good idea to already build something on top of…

Is bassoontracker too old-school? https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/

W3C has been defining SVG Native, but it hasn't progressed much lately — mostly because there hasn't been any interest in it. SVG Native is a small subset of SVG 2.0 which doesn't …

It isn't only corporate development teams — open source development teams want to spy on their users, too. For instance, Homebrew: "Anonymous analytics allow us to prioritise fixes…

Linux kernel version 7.1 will drop support for 486: "Linux devs think even one second spent on 486 support is a second too many." https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/linux-kern…

The movie was made in 1983 and it already uses the word "hallucination": "what you see on these screens up here is a fantasy; a computer-enhanced hallucination" https://www.imdb.co…

Here's Andreas Kling's general thoughts on Rust: - Excellent for short-lived programs that transform input A to output B - Clunky for long-lived programs that maintain large comple…

Debian Trixie drops 32-bit x86 support. Ubuntu dropped 32-bit support already earlier, which meant that lightweight Lubuntu and Xubuntu don't support it either. It's sad to see old…

> Oklab is a nightmare in practice - it's not linked to any perceptual color space, but it has the sheen of such in colloquial discussion. It's a singular matmul that is supposed t…

I have been using lima to run Linux VMs on macOS. This new Apple tool looks very similar and I might replace lima with it.

Does your crawler respect robots.txt? Does it request pages with nice delays so that it doesn't bring down servers? Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422413

Many modern file formats are based on generic container formats (zip, riff, json, toml, xml without namespaces, ..). Identifying those files requires reading the entire file and th…

Wikipedia has a good explanation why the PNG magic number is 89 50 4e 47 0d 0a 1a 0a. It has some good features, such as the end-of-file character for DOS and detection of line end…

Bluetooth is also turned on after every OS update. I don't understand why macOS does these. They can't be bugs because they have been around for years.

That's why I've decided that my next mouse won't have any rubber in it, but it's difficult to find a good mouse without rubber. I'm still looking for one. Generally, I try to avoid…

Another annoying Xcode feature is that building a macOS app with Xcode command line tools (xcodebuild) sometimes complains that my iPhone is locked: "An error occurred whilst prepa…

> Ideally, you can constrain the set of inputs to only valid ones by leveraging types. But if that's not possible and a truly invalid input is passed, then you should panic. But ho…

Which open format can handle this kind of video? The Cineform video codec can store stereo video, but I don't know if it would be suitable for this.

There's few new 5K monitors: ASUS ProArt Display 5K PA27JCV (already sold for $799) and Benq DesignVue PD2730S.

Is this an experimental only JS engine or do you aim to implement the entire ECMAscript specification? I have been following the Rust Boa project, but I think that it isn't product…