Thirty Years Later, The Windows 3.1 Video Driver You Needed
Over the course of the 1990s we saw huge developments in the world of PC graphics cards, going from little more than the original IBM VGA standard through super VGA and then so-called “Window…
Building a host telemetry solution using Tailscale
An often overlooked dimension of data collection is flow data from hosts. This is not a new concept, there have been tools built for this for a very long time, but in many cases, and especially over the last 8-10 years, many system engineers have gravitated toward tooling like grafana and prometheus. While these are fine tools and if done well provide an excellent view of host health, they aren’t really a full picture of host behavior.
The EFF has issued a warning to online service providers, including ISPs, web site publishers, and bloggers, to start deleting their log files ASAP. The EFF has also created a free tool called logfinder that makes it easier to find and delete those log...
Fathom Analytics: A Better Google Analytics Alternative
Ditch complex, intrusive analytics for Fathom - a better Google analytics alternative. Experience ease of use, forever data retention & full legal compliance.
The Focus Dial Never Shipped, But You Can Build One From Scratch
What do you do when a crowdfunded product you really liked gets cancelled? Naturally, you take the idea and build your own version of it. That’s what [Salim Benbouziyane] did when the Focus D…
Everyone likes something cheap, and when that cheap thing is a router that’s supported by OpenWRT, it sounds like a win. [Hennung Paul] ordered a Wavlink WL-WN586X3 for the princely sum of 39…
Are you familiar with Huffman encoding? That’s where you pick shorter codes for more frequent letters. Morse code is the same way, in that the most-used letters are the shortest. [Matheus Ric…