With modern tools, you have to try very hard to do something stupid, because the tools (rightly) recognize you’re doing something stupid. [Andreas Karlsson] can speak to that first hand …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/07/compiling-four-billion-if-statements/)

FLOSS Weekly Episode 795: Liferay, Now We’re Thinking With Portals
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/07/floss-weekly-episode-795-liferay-now-were-thinking-with-portals/

This week Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls chat with Olaf Kock and Dave Nebinger about Liferay! That’s a Java project that started as an implementation of a web portal, and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/07/floss-weekly-episode-795-liferay-now-were-thinking-with-portals/)

Vintage Crystal Radio Draws the Waves
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/07/vintage-crystal-radio-draws-the-waves/

The classic crystal radio was an oatmeal box with some wire and a few parts. [Michael Simpson] has something very different. He found an assembled Philmore “selective” radio kit. The …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/07/vintage-crystal-radio-draws-the-waves/)

The First Real Sputnik
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/07/the-first-real-sputnik/

Americans certainly remember Sputnik. At a time when the world was larger and scarier, the Soviets had a metal basketball flying over the United States and the rest of the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/07/the-first-real-sputnik/)

Forget Ship in a Bottle, How About Joule Thief in a Fuse Tube?
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/07/forget-ship-in-a-bottle-how-about-joule-thief-in-a-fuse-tube/

We love close-up pictures of intricate work, and [w] hits the spot with a tiny joule thief in a fuse case (social media post, embedded below) powered by an old …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/07/forget-ship-in-a-bottle-how-about-joule-thief-in-a-fuse-tube/)

Tulip is a Micropython Synth Workstation, in an ESP32
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/08/tulip-is-a-micropython-synth-workstation-in-an-esp32/

We’re not sure exactly what Tulip is, because it’s so many things all at once. It’s a music-making environment that’s programmable in Python, runs on your big computer or on …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/08/tulip-is-a-micropython-synth-workstation-in-an-esp32/)

Magnesium and Copper Makes an Emergency Flashlight
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/08/magnesium-and-copper-makes-an-emergency-flashlight/

Many of us store a flashlight around the house for use in emergency situations. Usually, regular alkaline batteries are fine for this task, as they’ll last a good few years, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/08/08/magnesium-and-copper-makes-an-emergency-flashlight/)