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Thea's work is immaculate, and always an interesting read. Her synthesizer modules use FR4 PCBs as the front panels as well, a technique that's pretty popular but executed so well …

It's a very cute box, and I particularly enjoy that this small blog reflects a microcosm of development, fixing bugs for a product, and making it usable for a "customer". That said…

In the same area, both my hometown and the district I attended had 1:1 Chromebook policies. They also had Orwelian programs to allow teachers to see what was on student's screens (…

If you're thinking about FIRST Robotics Competition, then yep that's nail-on-head about what they do. I briefly talked to one of the folks responsible for that system and they ment…

I thought Linus Torvalds was almost wholly responsible for the initial development of git? Even so, everything, especially software, is easier in hindsight....

I believe this is part of their announcement on how the SEC will be handling ICOs, but IANAL. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15902054

Several years ago during the MTGox collapse, /r/bitcoin over on reddit had a suicide hotline pinned to the top as multiple evangelicals had sunken their life savings into BTC. It's…

Their banner graphic says that pre-Quantum Firefox scored 32 runs per minute, so I think it's quite the improvement.

What leaves me curious is what's to happen of the Vive hardware line that Valve sells made by HTC.

I very much find myself agreeing with the items on this list. However, I think it can be expanded to anything that's the "opposite" of programming. Hands-on projects that are as fa…

In this case, their free time breeds free time (barring an employer issuing more work). The logic works in some situations.

Though I find the sentiment appreciable, how the author persevered, goes to show that good backups always are always needed. Backups are only backups if you test them...

There are single-off tools to dump password databases from all 3 major browsers instantly. Terrifying yes, easy to deal with, not so much.

Just reading the story now, but I can confirm that college radio stations (and in general radio stations) are build to run and then be forgotten. My campus still uses a rather old …

Reddit, YouTube, Twitch for media. Chief Delphi for Robotics-related content (FIRST Robotics Alum, so it's an interesting thought pattern to watch as an outsider.) HN, Hackaday and…

Though the site is visually appealing, I fail to understand why nearly 550kB of JS is needed (548kB to be specific). A site like this could get away rather well with just using on-…

The whole "main" page being under 2kB is an adventurous thing indeed. Overall, interesting implementation and incredibly clean layout (CSS is 541b.) What languages are the site wri…

My biggest point of contention with this is... what should replace it? PGP is the current and retroactive psuedo-standard for verification for everything from email to code to buil…

A cursory Google search suggests you could use a package like poppler to convert the pdf to raw text, and then in theory use regex to create data your server could use and serve. I…

Precisely. Though I've never been to one personally (as a man), the women I know who have attended their events seem to benefit from it, as have the few men I know who have. The na…

Oh my goodness, I actually forgot them... Editing my comment, thank you!

I would say to organizations that directly support people, be it Direct Relief, The ACLU, or Charity: water. Other good options are FIRST, Girls Who Code, and The Geek Group, all o…

Though I don't personally like the color scheme, the new logo was by far the best of their options. [0] I wish them the best of luck with their rebrand and hope they realize that t…

This is absolutely incredible, and the load times are incomprehensible for a modern site. What software powers the site? I did some looking and discovered it uses Bulma [1] instead…