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Thumb keyboards built for home theaters represent one of computing’s more forgotten niches. But will devices like the Steam Machine bring along a revival?

Today, if you can find a pneumatic tube system at all, it is likely at a bank drive-through. A conversation in the Hackaday bunker revealed something a bit surprising. Apparently, in some parts of …

*This speech was delivered thirty-three years ago, and that was quite a different world. The audience hadn’t been expecting much, because…

EHTML (or Extended HTML) can be described as a set of custom elements that you can place on an HTML page for different purposes and use cases. The goal of this library is to provide a convenient way to eliminate JavaScript code on the client side as much as possible for basic and routine tasks. The biggest focus of this library is to offer the easiest way to perform **AJAX** operations just by using HTML. Also EHTML treat your HTML code code not only as a markup language but also as a templating language.

Sam Altman says the one-person billion-dollar company is coming. Maybe I could be that person—if only I could get my colleagues to shut up and stop lying.

Chatbots can pass the Turing test—but they can’t yet handle an office worker’s inbox.

The address that I use for this newsletter has long since been overrun by nonsense. Seemingly every PR and marketing firm in existence has gleefully ... Read more

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

The Return Of The Screwdriver Age

Platform Engineering Labs

Formae, from Platform Engineering Labs, addresses the brittleness of Day 2 operations by using Apple's robust Pkl configuration language.

A full-stack developer and Angular consultant explains how AI models can be treated as local assets, enabling better performance and privacy.

In the previous part of this series, I introduced the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) and the ONNX Runtime as the interoperable toolkit and platform for machine learning and deep models. In this tutorial, we will explore how to use an existing ONNX model for inferencing. In just 30 lines of code that includes preprocessing…

Keynote: The Power of Queues - David Ware | MQ Summit 2025 Comments welcome! View the span class="hashtag-icon-placeholder"/spancode-sync/span tag for more Code Sync talks!

:AGI is a harmful and wasteful fantasy that runs counter to the principles of efficient and effective engineering.

In the global game of nuclear brinksmanship, secrets are the coin of the realm. This was especially true during the Cold War, when each side fielded armies of spies to ferret out what the other guy…

We've been watching enterprises struggle with the same customer service paradox for years: They have all the technology in the world, yet a simple address

In this era of cheap lithium pouch cells, it might seem mildly anachronistic to build AA batteries into a project. There are enough valid reasons to do so, however, and enough legacy hardware that …

We had two repos of Elixir, seventy-five LiveView components, five sheets of high-powered Phoenix channels, a saltshaker half-full of SQLite databases, and a whole multicolored collection of Burrito deployables, Tauri binaries, WebView wrappers, hot-reloaders… Also, a quart of WebSockets, a quart of GenServers, a case of Ecto queries, a pint of raw BEAM bytecode, and two dozen supervisors. The only thing that really worried me was the WebView. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a developer in the depths of a cross-platform binge, and I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.

In today’s fast-paced business environment, the ultimate goal of any data effort is to enable better decisions and drive meaningful organizational outcomes.

M.G. Siegler says AI is Breaking the Browser's Back. His problem starts with OpenAI's GPT Atlas, which some publishers won't let view their contents on the Web. For example, if you a…

A repost, with some updates.

Six months on, the industry is converging: code-execution over tool registries. Anthropic’s data and Cloudflare’s Code Mode show the path…