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A curated set of futuristic UI components — reusable, customizable, and framework-friendly.

This video details the meticulous process of reverse-engineering a TV Guardian, a device designed to censor offensive language. The creator analyzes the circuit board, identifying key components and their functions. Data extraction from the ROM chip is achieved using an Arduino and careful manipulation of SPI signals.

I have an ever increasing feeling that something is off. I find myself feeling skeptical, cynical. Weary of whatever I encounter. Feeling like nothing is authentic or genuine. Because someone is always trying to sell me something. Around every corner an ad lurks. Waiting to capitalize off my attention. Capitalize off any genuine moment in real life or online. I think I have ad fatigue

A crank-driven automaton made from wood that endlessly types "I hope this email finds you well" on a laptop

A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin offers a biographical and poetical portrait of one of Oregon’s best known artists. Examining important moments and themes in Le Guin’s life and oeuvre, the exhibition encompasses a rich variety of media, immersing guests in the ideas, playfulness and hope that course through Ursula K. Le Guin’s art. The exhibition is curated by Theo Downes-Le Guin, the author’s son, with contributions from many others who knew the author or her work.

This isn’t a rhetorical question. I genuinely want to know why developers choose to build websites using React.

My wife invited a couple in their late 50s to join us for the holiday today. They were here for a party on the 4th as well. I told them they had the whole...

We’ve been building XMPP systems for over 25 years. The XML performance question comes up often in early conversations. Every single time, we end up optimizing ejabberd configuration, clustering, architecture, client protocol usage, and databases instead.

The actual game in question here is Ruin: Chapter 0, an interactive fiction game in the stylings of something you might have seen on the ZX Spectrum, albeit with a lot more flair. And, perhaps, a lot more glitches - a big flashing imagery warning is needed for this one. Playable within your browser, it's kind of hard to describe what you do, or even what you're doing, in Ruin. From what I can gather, you are a knight, the hero of rune, tasked by the king to retrieve a sword and defeat evil forever. But no matter what, I just keep getting my ass kicked by this evil, and every time I die it just says "get owned" at me! Rude!

With this rule, Life is just an experience, I’m suggesting an alternative. The goal isn’t to achieve great things (although that can be nice). Nor is it to be remembered (although helping future generations is a lovely goal). Instead it’s to experience all of the different kinds of experiences that life allows. In a previous rule, I described this as living to make stories.