Reverse engineering Bluetooth LE LED light controllers, or How I Bricked My Christmas Lights If a device communicates via Bluetooth LE and has an app, it deserves to be integrated into my home automation system. I’ve spent a significant amount of time reverse…

A breakdown of 4 simple software engineering and coding habits that improved my productivity. These include keyboard shortcuts, learning to say no, reaching flow state faster, and keeping a big book of commands handy.

Phone-unlocking case law is "total mess," may be ripe for Supreme Court review.

As the developing world witnesses a boom in road building, a movement to retrofit existing roads is gathering steam. Using embankments, channels, and dikes, so-called “green roads” help control floods, harvest excess water for use in irrigation, and slash…

A unified framework for 3D content generation. Contribute to threestudio-project/threestudio development by creating an account on GitHub.

Mary Ratcliffe (pictured), who has died aged 98, worked at a secret code breaking base in Middlesex, helping to decode Nazis messages, using machines invented by Alan Turing.

A managed Postgres offering developed by Supabase and Fly.io

Another cautionary tale about letting big tedious companies on to your federated communication protocol:

In the early 2000s there was a brief beautiful period where every person I wanted to talk to could be reached by XMPP from my personal ejabberd server.…

Nature - Researchers have begun examining the pristine space rocks collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.

The Kong Gateway CI was failing intermittently (about once every 100 runs) on the ARM64 platform with a strange error. Here's how we fixed the error.

The smallest and silliest MIDI synth yet

A security-focused desktop and server linux operating system. - secureblue/secureblue

A U.K. judge ruled against the publisher of the Daily Mirror, finding that the paper used phone hacking to gather information unlawfully on the Duke of Sussex.

Discord's Status Page - Degraded and Unavailable Servers.

Major container lines take drastic measures following spate of incidents

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The 'Problematic Paper Screener' (PPS, WCRI'22, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.04895) flagged 12k+ questionable articles featuring tortured phrases, such as 'glucose bigotry' instead of 'glucose intolerance.' It daily screens the literature for 'fingerprints'…