Technology Commentary

First published June 2017.

There are people who believe that Max Headroom, the character from the Eighties (pictured at top), was a genuine piece of computer animation. But although he was conceived by the animators Rocky Mo…

Haiku is a spiritual successor to BeOS, with a focus on a clean and user-friendly design paired with low system requirements. After about a year and a half since the last beta, Haiku R1/beta5 has b…

The dulcet tones of a modem handshake may be a thing of the distant past for most of us, but that hasn’t stopped there being a lively hacking scene in the world of analogue telephones. Often …

If you cut your teeth on Z-80 assembly and have dabbled in other assembly languages, you might not find much mystery in creating programs using the next best thing to machine code. However, if you …

A short quick holiday edition of the weekly newsletter. With some thoughts on the latest in boosted humanity.

Posted on Thursday 5 Sep 2024. 1,133 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.

A brief history of hypertext and Urbit networking

As more DAOs, NFT and digital communities find their way to Urbit, others are likely to follow their paths, making them their own, just like the network itself.

Team Topologies cofounder Matthew Skelton presents a new concept of continuous stewardship to address generating code for the long term.

Kubernetes is the heart of the AI revolution, allowing both legacy VMs and new AI applications to exist in a cohesive environment.

The security of your software is directly impacted by the dependencies you choose.

The natural evolution of any software market is a small number of leaders.

Kubernetes security is notoriously complicated, but open source Nimbus aims to simplify it with automation rather than policies and tools.

The dedicated cloud is about keeping control of your data and your architecture and giving yourself options, including freedom to change your mind.

By layering rate-limiting policies in an API gateway that acts conditionally based on request data, you have an opportunity to enrich your API ecosystem.

Signature Plastics is continuing on under new ownership.

For many of us of a particular vintage, the internet blossomed in the ’90s with the invention of the Web and just a few years of development. Back then, we had the convenience of expression o…

It takes but an ill-fated second to break a bone, and several long weeks for it to heal in a cast. And even if you have one of those newfangled fiberglass casts, you still can’t get the thing…

World’s first espresso machine designed for DIY enthusiasts and coffee lovers. Build your own espresso machine and configure it with our open source software

Want to build your own espresso machine, complete with open-source software to drive it? The diyPresso might be right up your alley. It might not be the cheapest road to obtaining an espresso machi…

The e-paper “dashboard” is something we’ve seen plenty of times here at Hackaday. Use it to show your daily schedule, the news, weather, maybe the latest posts from your favorite …

QR codes are used just about everywhere now, for checking into venues, ordering food, or just plain old advertising. But what about data storage? It’s hardly efficient, but if you want to sto…

We should all be familiar with QR codes, those blocky printed patterns containing encoded text, URLs, or other data. A few years ago they were subject to their own cloud of hype, but now they have …

Recently [mit41301] wondered about increasing the data capacity of QR codes, and was able to successfully triple the number of bits using color. He chose the new rectangular micro QR code (rMQR) st…

It seems like only yesterday we covered a project using QR codes to archive data on paper (OK, it was last Thursday), so here’s another way to do it, this time with a dedicated codec using th…

A month ago, I’ve talked about using computers to hack on our day-to-day existence, specifically, augmenting my sense of time (or rather, lack thereof). Collecting data has been super helpful…

What you need to learn to partner with generative AI

The start of my cyberpunk jacket project.

A brief intergenerational pause...