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I've been working on my homelab for years, and I enjoy sharing what I learn through this blog and my YouTube channel.

Over the past few years, I realized the homelab community (which isn't really a defined thing—that's okay) hasn't had its own gathering, the way makers, software engineers, embedded developers, and HPC professionals do.

There are many events that have crossover into the homelab realm, but nothing focused on energy-efficient servers, privacy-respecting self-hosted software, keeping old hardware useful, or cable management and rackmounting on a budget.

This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants This is the second of four posts on how AI has impacted our Lean LaunchPad class and what we did about it. Part 1: The Year AI Came For Us Part 2: This Post Next Week Part 3: The World Outside the Classroom Changed, The Class Didn’t […]

Despite the predictions that no one would ever put build data centers in space, Google is starting on Thursday. Google’s prototype satellite will be one of 130 payloads on SpaceX’s Transporter 18 mission on October 1. The server will follow a dawn-dusk orbit, a special case of a sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), following the terminator line […]

The post Servers in dawn-dusk orbit first appeared on John D. Cook.

On September 26, 1996, Toshiba announced the first DVD player, the Toshiba SD-3000. It was released in Japan in November 1996 and initially cost ¥77,000, equivalent to about $770 US. It was the first consumer DVD player in the world,

The post First DVD player announced Sept 26, 1996 appeared first on The Silicon Underground.

When someone is explaining something to me, I ask on average one question every thirty seconds. I’m sure this is frustrating to some people, but it’s actually a good habit and you should do it too. Trying to understand Most of the questions I ask are very short, and require...

Release: commit-rewriter 0.2

Support for branches other than the default branch. Use uvx commit-rewriter --branch other to run against another branch. #3

Tags: git

Release: datasette 1.0a41

Alec Garcia added support for OpenTelemetry to Datasette in this release.

I've also refactored all of Datasette's modal dialogs to a single Web Component, which is now documented for other plugins to use.

Tags: javascript, datasette, web-components, alex-garcia, opentelemetry

Another example to add to the list.

The post No, really, you need to pass all unhandled messages to DefWindowProc, part 2 appeared first on The Old New Thing.

As of this week, I’m suddenly seeing people dismiss points made in otherwise readable articles because Pangram says these were (partially) AI authored. I hate the origins and consequences of GenAI more than almost anyone. I can’t wait for the bubble to burst also. I presented in Amsterdam on how AI has killed my professional field.
AND YET.
If you discover that an opinion piece was authored with or by GenAI, by all means feel free not to engage with it.

the question everyone is asking

OpenAI hacks a foreign government — and the US faces its most critical AI test yet.

One of the great things about modern HTML is that it tries to standardise stuff that developers are already doing. If there are a myriad ways of, for example, loading video onto a page - then browsers and other interested parties should work out how to make a standard <video> element. An interesting new proposal has been brought forth by Microsoft. There are a dozen ways to show a preview of an…

A survey of sandbox usage across package manager clients.

On September 25, 1928, Motorola was founded. Retro computer enthusiasts think of Motorola as a CPU manufacturer, and to a lesser degree, perhaps as a computer manufacturer. But its primary line of business for the majority of its existence was

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I have a weird setup for my laptop. In summary, I have been irrationally scared of running Fedora on bare, dual-GPU metal, so I run it in a virtual machine with Hyper-V on Windows as a hypervisor. The idea was to let Windows manage GPUs and power management stuff like...

Are humans conscious? Not all LLMs agree.

Let the library do the math for you.

The post When working with Win32 <CODE>FILETIME</CODE>, don’t forget that you have <CODE>std::chrono</CODE> now appeared first on The Old New Thing.

My comment on We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary — Hacker News.

I've been wanting this from Cloudflare for years.

The classic problem here is if you do that thing where user agents that send "accept: text/html" get HTML, while user agents that don't get JSON or some other format.

This used to be impossible to deploy behind Cloudflare caching, because they ignored the Vary header on anything other than images - so you risked caching the JSON version and then serving it up to someone who was expecting HTML.

(Independent of the Cloudflare feature I ended up deciding never to use that pattern, because I prefer having URL that predictably returns HTML or JSON - I add a .json suffix to my apps to serve JSON instead.)

Tags: http, cloudflare

We all agree on what needs to be done. Now let’s do it.

Tool: Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground Google released two new Gemini text-to-speech models today - gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts. They come with a library of over 2,000 voices, plus the ability to create a custom voice with "just a 30-second audio samp...