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This article argues for designing software through prototyping and suggest the way you can adjust the shape of your codebase to leverage coding agents to build prototypes faster.

Here is our scenario : you are the technical director of a web startup, already having proven your talents with your thematic VOD streaming channel - and your boss suddenly thinks you're a grown enough company to jump on the broadcast wagon and manage your own 24/7 live TV channel, targeting IPTV and multiplatform OTT, with a mix of some live studio shows and mainly pre-recorded programs. And of course readify it for later iTV DTT distribution. Quite an exciting challenge ! Fortunately, the web attitude has contaminated many industries with its desire to promote interoperability and avoid vendor lock-in with full-IP standard worflows. The BBC has shown the way for a long-time, funding many developments like the Dirac codec for its own needs of tapeless workflows and open-sourcing them quickly afterwards. Other TV channels like SVT from Sweden (with CasparCG) and many independent developers have jumped onboard, and by combining their efforts with your usual web video tools like FFmpeg or other free tools, you can for sure build the target platform.

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Tang FPGA boards are affordable, and [nand2mario] has been trying to get an x86 core running on one for a while. Looks like it finally worked out, as there is an early version of the ao486 design o…

Mendly – the Home Maintenance Reminder: Last week, my water purifier got completely clogged and stopped giving any output. Only then I realized that I had forgotten to replace its filter the previous month. A similar thing happened with my air conditioner—it wasn’t cooling properly becaus…

We’ve been in digging round displays recently, which was why we were pumped to come across this super handy and great-looking build from maker vishalsoniindia! Details here on Instructables: …

Developers can use their AI tool of choice for spec-driven development with this open source toolkit.

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AGENTS.md is a simple, open format for guiding coding agents. Think of it as a README for agents.

A new convention is emerging in the open-source ecosystem: AGENTS.md, a straightforward and open format designed to assist AI coding agents in software development. Already adopted by more than 20,000 repositories on GitHub, the format is being positioned as a companion to traditional documentation, offering machine-readable context that complements human-facing files like README.md.

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Interleaving and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) presents a powerful opportunity to validate the retriever configuration, the model, and the prompt, in one package. In this article I focus on comparing the outcomes of Bing, Google, and Brave search results when using team-draft interleaving in a RAG web research platform.

Chat with AI without privacy concerns. Jan is an open-source ChatGPT-alternative, running AI models locally on your device.

Your HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) system is one of the most expensive appliances in your house. When it breaks down…

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Roo Code puts an entire AI dev team right in your editor, outpacing closed tools with deep project-wide context, multi-step agentic coding, and unmatched developer-centric flexibility.

Extension for Visual Studio Code - A whole dev team of AI agents in your editor.

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Do you find an odd comfort in the uncanny, regular intonations of a Numbers Station? Then check out [edent]’s numbers station project, which leverages the browser’s speech synthesis eng…

What are the 'quality-of-life' expectations for agentic applications? To learn more, we test Gemini CLI, Google's open source AI terminal app.

Does Aider have the same level of control over the terminal compared to more recent agentic CLIs like Claude Code, Gemini CLI and Warp?

A chyron is the text that appears at the bottom of the TV on news channels. Maybe you'd like to add a chyron to your live stream or recorded videos? Learn how in this post.

For home HVAC systems, heat pumps seem to be the way of the future. When compared to electric heating they can be three to four times more efficient, and they don’t directly burn fossil fuels…

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Noise Nugget 2040 handles all the complexity of digital HD audio synthesis in a very compact, production friendly, and affordable package. It contains: Raspberry-Pi RP2040 Stereo Speaker Amplifier …

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