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You want high-quality connected speakers for your home without depending on shitty apps that stop working in a year? You want to stream from your own hardware and control everything with Free Software? Then this article is for you! I wrote a blog post on my audio setup! Quite happy with the result.
Hello internet, I am trying to set up a home server where I can store photos and ideally still access them from my phone. I am not knowledgable at all in tech but am willing to learn. I thought I could use an external harddrive to run store all the files and programs to run it and just plug it into
In February I caught myself pasting an internal document into someone else's chat window. Nobody had complained. I had not read a policy that forbade it. I just did not want to keep doing that every day. "I'll host my own. That's a weekend." It was not a weekend. It took seven months. The mines I
Hey everyone, I wanted a tracker that didn't feel bloated, so I built this entirely in Vanilla JS and Firebase. No heavy frameworks, just raw performance so it loads instantly in the gym. The hardest part was building the "Biological Fatigue Map". I custom-designed SVG muscle maps for exercises (pul
“Let’s split it into agents” has become the AI equivalent of “let’s make it a microservice.” Sometimes the boundary is useful. Sometimes it only creates more state, more coordination, and a harder failure to explain. The most dangerous assumption is that separate agents should run in parallel. Par
Much of the traditional software operations we deal with are online, we click a button, wait for a moment, and the transaction or operation is completed. But there is a big area that deals with software operations that require offline processing. For example, background processing of jobs, e.g., Op
A pragmatic look at the hidden costs, the small-batch myth, and why user trust matters more than deploy frequency. I. Introduction "CI/CD will save you money. It will make your team faster. It will eliminate bugs. It is the only way to build modern software." We've all heard this.
The problem I was trying to solve Candidates send hundreds of applications. Companies receive thousands of resumes. Most candidates never hear back. Both sides exhausted. Most of the effort wasted. The insight that changed my thinking: senior engineers don't apply to jobs. They get headhunted.
The problem that wouldn't leave me alone A few months ago I was auditing a client's site and had five tabs open: Hotjar for heatmaps, Ahrefs for SEO, a spreadsheet for tracking fixes, ChatGPT for "why is this page not converting," and a half-finished Notion doc trying to tie it all together. Some
I maintain a small collection of single-purpose web tools. Last month I built a favicon checker: you type a URL, it reads the icon declarations in the HTML head, probes every referenced file, and also hits /favicon.ico directly, because plenty of software still requests that path without ever readin