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Adobe's Project Indigo: A New AI-Powered Camera App Challenges Smartphone Photography Norms

2025-06-23

Adobe's Project Indigo: A New AI-Powered Camera App Challenges Smartphone Photography Norms

Adobe launched Project Indigo, an iPhone camera app developed by former members of Google's Pixel camera team. Combining computational photography with AI features, it offers pro controls and a more natural image look, avoiding over-processing. It achieves high-quality results by combining up to 32 frames with mild tone mapping and sharpening, and includes AI-powered features like "Remove Reflections." Currently available for iPhone 12 Pro and later, an Android version is coming soon.

(www.engadget.com)

Tech computational photography smartphone photography

Behind the Scenes of Ventoy: Building a Cross-Platform Bootable USB Creator

2025-08-06

Behind the Scenes of Ventoy: Building a Cross-Platform Bootable USB Creator

Ventoy, an open-source tool for creating multi-bootable USB drives, involves extensive cross-compilation. This code snippet shows a portion of the Ventoy build script, covering various architectures such as x86, ARM64, and MIPS64, along with the building and integration of tools like BusyBox, cryptsetup, and FUSE. The process requires pre-downloading some dependencies and configuring and compiling accordingly for different target architectures and operating systems. The final output is an image supporting multiple boot methods, making it user-friendly across diverse hardware platforms.

(github.com)

Development build multiboot

Manually Decoding GZIP: A Deep Dive into the Deflate Algorithm

2025-09-18

The author attempts to manually decode the string "TOBEORNOTTOBEORTOBEORNOT" compressed with GZIP, providing a deep dive into the Deflate algorithm. The article details the GZIP data structure, including magic numbers, compression methods, timestamps, and other fields. It focuses on the core of Deflate compression—the LZ77 algorithm. LZ77 uses characters and copy commands (length and distance) for encoding, effectively reducing data size. By manually parsing the compressed data, the author reconstructs the original string step-by-step. The conclusion: bit encoding is more efficient than byte encoding for data compression, but manual decoding is complex.

(jjrscott.com)

Development

Free Guide to Mastering Social Skills: From Basics to Advanced

2025-08-11

This completely free guide to social skills contains three sections with seventeen in-depth lessons. It starts by explaining how to get the most out of the guide and set social goals, helping you overcome fear and the temptation of manipulation. It then teaches you how to interpret comfort and discomfort signals in body language and use your own body language to send positive messages. Furthermore, the guide instructs on how to conduct smooth and comfortable conversations, how to support friends in need, and provides quick tips for rapidly improving social skills.

(www.improveyoursocialskills.com)

Misc interpersonal communication

DNS4EU: An EU-Funded DNS Service Relies Heavily on Non-EU Providers

2025-06-12

DNS4EU: An EU-Funded DNS Service Relies Heavily on Non-EU Providers

This investigation examines the EU-funded DNS4EU project, aimed at strengthening digital sovereignty and security for EU citizens. Through DNS lookups, Whois queries, and BGP route tracing, the author reveals that DNS4EU's core infrastructure relies heavily on non-EU providers, including Cloudflare and AS60068 based in the UK. This contrasts sharply with the project's goals, raising questions about its security and data sovereignty. The article uses a lighthearted narrative style combined with technical details to highlight the shortcomings of the DNS4EU project.

(techlog.jenslink.net)

Tech

NYC Congestion Pricing: 43K Fewer Cars in Manhattan's Core

2025-01-14

Data from the MTA shows Manhattan's congestion pricing initiative has yielded significant results in its first week. An average of 43,000 fewer vehicles entered the toll zone daily, a 7.5% reduction. While slightly below projections, this decrease has led to faster bus speeds (up to 40%) and improved traffic flow. The revenue will fund transit improvements, though the policy faces opposition from some congressmen. Transit advocates praise the immediate positive impacts.

(gothamist.com)

Tech Congestion Pricing Traffic NYC

AI Adoption Slowdown Among Large US Firms: Census Bureau Data

2025-09-08

AI Adoption Slowdown Among Large US Firms: Census Bureau Data

US Census Bureau's bi-weekly survey of 1.2 million firms reveals a decline in AI adoption among companies with over 250 employees. The survey asks businesses about their use of AI tools like machine learning and natural language processing in the past two weeks. While overall AI adoption continues to grow, the data shows a slowing trend among larger firms, suggesting potential challenges in widespread AI integration, particularly regarding diminishing marginal returns for large enterprises.

(www.apolloacademy.com)

Tech large firms US Census Bureau

Warp Terminal Gets Code Editing and Project Management Upgrades

2025-09-03

Warp Terminal Gets Code Editing and Project Management Upgrades

Warp terminal has been updated with lightweight code editing capabilities, allowing users to quickly modify agent-generated code, such as changing variable names or small functions. A simple file tree for browsing, opening, and adding files as context has also been added, along with file opening and creation using the file palette (cmd-O). Project management improvements include a new zero-state welcome screen for quickly starting new projects, navigating existing ones, or resuming previous conversations. New projects are set up with project rules and codebase indexing, while existing projects can utilize slash commands like /init to bootstrap with a version-controlled WARP.md file. Support for AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and Cursor rules is also included.

(www.warp.dev)

Development Warp terminal

Android 16 Linux Terminal Now Runs Graphical Linux Apps

2025-02-01

Google's ambition to transform Android into a fully-fledged PC operating system is taking a significant step forward. The Linux Terminal app in the upcoming Android 16 beta now boasts the ability to run graphical Linux applications, including Doom. This impressive feat is due to improvements in hardware acceleration and display server support. While not yet live in the latest beta, this functionality, leveraging the Android Virtualization Framework (AVF), paves the way for running more complex desktop-class programs on Android, potentially bridging the gap between Android and Chrome OS.

(www.androidauthority.com)

Development Linux Terminal Graphical Apps

Local Deep Research Assistant: A Powerful AI Research Tool Combining LLMs and Web Search

2025-03-11

Local Deep Research Assistant: A Powerful AI Research Tool Combining LLMs and Web Search

A powerful AI-powered research assistant performing deep, iterative analysis using multiple LLMs and web searches. Run it locally for privacy or configure it for cloud-based LLMs (Claude, GPT) for enhanced capabilities. It supports full webpage analysis, offers rich output options (detailed findings with citations, reports, summaries), and features local document search (RAG) for private document collections. The system intelligently selects search sources (Wikipedia, arXiv, DuckDuckGo, etc.) based on your query, offering flexible LLM and search engine support.

(github.com)

Development Research Tool

The Economist's Subscription Pricing: A Global Mess

2025-05-18

The Economist's Subscription Pricing: A Global Mess

Two years ago, a wildly inconsistent global pricing structure for The Economist's digital subscription was revealed, with prices varying over 300% depending on location. Poorer nations paid significantly more than wealthier ones. This continues in 2024, with Australia and New Zealand still heavily overcharged. An 'Economad Index' comparing subscription prices reveals even greater discrepancies than the Big Mac Index, highlighting The Economist's illogical and unfair pricing, leading one subscriber to cancel their subscription.

(halcrawford.substack.com)

Misc The Economist global pricing subscription prices

British Airways Pilot Annual Flight Hours

2025-06-27

British Airways Pilot Annual Flight Hours

This article details how British Airways pilots log their annual flight hours. It explains the roles of pilots (Pilot in Command PIC, Pilot 2 P2, PIC Under Supervision PICUS, etc.) and how, according to British Airways Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), responsibilities are shared between the Captain and First Officer during a sector. For example, during descent, the First Officer will fly the approach until 1000ft AGL, then the Captain takes over for landing. All approaches are monitored approaches.

(jameshard.ing)

Misc flight hours British Airways pilot roles

xtool: A Cross-Platform Xcode Replacement

2025-05-17

xtool: A Cross-Platform Xcode Replacement

xtool is a cross-platform tool (Linux/WSL/macOS) that replicates core Xcode functionality using open standards. Build and deploy iOS apps with SwiftPM without needing Xcode. Key features include building SwiftPM packages into iOS apps, signing and installing apps, and programmatic interaction with Apple Developer Services. It also offers an XKit library for interacting with Apple services and iOS devices within your own apps.

(github.com)

Development Cross-Platform

The Wicked Trick: Dynamically Patching Python Function Source Code at Runtime

2025-08-24

This post details a fascinating yet dangerous technique: dynamically altering a Python function's source code at runtime. By manipulating the `.__code__` attribute, recompiling, and injecting into a namespace, the author demonstrates dynamic function replacement. This powers LlamaBot's ToolBot, which focuses on tool selection, not execution. Generated code compiles and runs in the same Python environment, accessing runtime variables for enhanced AI capabilities. While security risks exist, this showcases Python's flexibility and the importance of separating tool selection from execution in LLM agents.

(ericmjl.github.io)

Development Dynamic Code

Ciro: AI-Powered Sales Prospecting, 10x Efficiency

2025-05-08

Ciro: AI-Powered Sales Prospecting, 10x Efficiency

Ciro, founded by a team with backgrounds from Meta, Stanford, Google, and Bain & Co., is building AI agents to revolutionize sales prospecting. Their product automates lead scanning, qualification, and enrichment on platforms like LinkedIn, reducing the time sales reps spend on manual searching and qualifying by over 30% – a 10x efficiency boost. Backed by top-tier investors including Y Combinator, SV Angel, and CRV, Ciro is already cash-flow positive.

(www.ycombinator.com)

AI

47 Seconds of Gym Hell: How I Fixed PureGym's Broken Check-in with Apple Wallet

2025-08-16

47 Seconds of Gym Hell: How I Fixed PureGym's Broken Check-in with Apple Wallet

An iOS developer's frustration with PureGym's app (47 seconds to check in!) led him on a wild ride. He discovered laughably insecure APIs – an 8-year-old unchanging PIN was more secure than the minute-refreshing QR code. Using mitmproxy, he reverse-engineered the system, built an Apple Wallet pass using PassKit, and slashed check-in time to 3 seconds. The article details the process: reverse engineering, certificate wrestling, Swift backend development, and more. He even integrated it with Home Assistant. A humorous and technically detailed personal project highlighting the importance of user experience.

(drobinin.com)

Development

C Programming Practices: Purity, Speed, and Correctness

2025-09-18

This document presents notes on C programming practices, covering coding style, function and variable naming conventions, formatting, commenting, and clever C tricks like bit counting and loop unrolling. The author emphasizes striving for code purity, speed, and correctness, offering insights into utilizing header files, compilers effectively, and revisiting common programming paradigms like the use of GOTO statements. The goal is to improve the quality and efficiency of C programming.

(www.teamten.com)

Development

Jefit's 15-Year Grind: From Dad's Living Room to Silicon Valley

2025-07-18

Jefit founder Ying shares the story of building his fitness app from a personal project in his dad's living room to a company with over 13 million users. Starting with a small loan and facing numerous challenges—funding issues, team building, and relocating to Silicon Valley—Ying persevered, creating a platform focused on user experience and quality. The article highlights the struggles and perseverance of entrepreneurship, and the importance of teamwork and user loyalty.

(www.jefit.com)

Startup Fitness App User Loyalty

Page Objects: Making Your UI Tests Less Brittle

2025-09-15

Page Objects: Making Your UI Tests Less Brittle

Testing web pages requires interacting with elements, but directly manipulating HTML makes tests fragile. Page Objects solve this by encapsulating a page or fragment as an application-specific API. This allows interacting with elements without directly accessing HTML. The goal is to mimic user actions, providing a clean interface that hides underlying widgets. Text fields use string accessors, checkboxes booleans, and buttons action-oriented methods. Good Page Objects model the user's perspective, not the UI's internal structure, returning basic data types or other Page Objects. There's debate on including assertions within Page Objects. The author prefers keeping assertions in test scripts, avoiding bloated Page Objects and using assertion libraries to reduce redundancy. This pattern works across various UI technologies, useful not just for testing but also as a scripting interface for applications.

(martinfowler.com)

Development Page Objects

Open Source PebbleOS Smartwatches Are Back: Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2 Pre-orders Open

2025-03-18

Open Source PebbleOS Smartwatches Are Back: Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2 Pre-orders Open

rePebble has announced two new smartwatches running open-source PebbleOS: the Core 2 Duo and the Core Time 2. The Core 2 Duo features an ultra-crisp black and white display, a polycarbonate frame, costs $149, and starts shipping in July. The Core Time 2 boasts a larger 64-color display, a metal frame, costs $225, and begins shipping in December. Both watches are inspired by the classic Pebble design, offering long battery life, a simple and beautiful aesthetic, and compatibility with thousands of existing Pebble apps. Available exclusively for pre-order on the rePebble website, quantities are limited.

(ericmigi.com)

Hardware

Six Months on Alpine: The Musl Trade-off

2025-09-04

Six Months on Alpine: The Musl Trade-off

The author spent six months using Alpine Linux as their daily driver. Alpine is praised for its speed, excellent package management, and lightweight nature. However, the author encountered compatibility issues due to Alpine's use of the musl libc instead of glibc, particularly with experimental software requiring glibc. While workarounds like gcompat, self-compilation, or Flatpak exist, they add friction. Ultimately, the author decided to explore other distributions like Void Linux or Debian for better compatibility and stability.

(blog.jutty.dev)

Development

Tattoo Removal: The Elegant Agony of Picosecond Lasers

2025-05-08

Tattoo Removal: The Elegant Agony of Picosecond Lasers

Tattoo removal is no longer a nightmare! Today's picosecond laser technology is revolutionizing how we remove unwanted ink. These lasers shatter ink particles into tiny pieces, allowing the body's immune system to clear them. While the process isn't painless, multiple sessions can effectively fade or remove tattoos. Advances in technology and affordability are making tattoo removal commonplace, comparable to routine maintenance. This boom signals a potential shift in tattoo culture itself, questioning the permanence of body art.

(www.gq.com)

Tech tattoo removal aesthetic medicine

Fray: A Concurrency Testing Tool for Java

2025-06-08

Fray: A Concurrency Testing Tool for Java

Fray is a powerful concurrency testing tool for Java designed to help developers identify and debug elusive race conditions that manifest as assertion violations, runtime exceptions, or deadlocks. Leveraging advanced techniques like probabilistic concurrency testing and partial order sampling, Fray offers controlled concurrency testing and deterministic replay for debugging specific thread interleavings. Easily integrated into existing testing frameworks like JUnit 5 (using annotations) and others, Fray also provides Gradle and Maven plugins for streamlined setup. Contributions are welcome!

(github.com)

Development concurrency testing race conditions

Firefox's Ticking Time Bomb: Critical Root Certificate Expiring Soon!

2025-03-11

Firefox's Ticking Time Bomb: Critical Root Certificate Expiring Soon!

Users of older Firefox versions face a critical deadline: March 14, 2025. A crucial root certificate expires then, disabling add-ons and breaking streaming services (like Netflix) if you haven't updated to Firefox 128 (or ESR 115.13+). This also compromises security features. Check your version now and update to avoid broken add-ons, streaming issues, and security vulnerabilities!

(betanews.com)

Tech Security Update

Open-Source E-Paper Dev Kit Hits 75Hz Refresh Rate

2025-08-12

Open-Source E-Paper Dev Kit Hits 75Hz Refresh Rate

The Modos Paper Dev Kit is an open-hardware e-paper monitor development kit boasting a blazing-fast 75Hz refresh rate, low latency, customizable screen updates, multiple image modes, and flexible dithering. Connecting via HDMI or USB, it's compatible with Linux, macOS, and Windows. Available in 6-inch and 13-inch monochrome options, its controller is adaptable to other panels. Addressing challenges like proprietary systems, lack of standards, and high costs in e-paper technology, Modos aims to foster a community dedicated to establishing best practices and unlocking e-paper's full potential.

(www.crowdsupply.com)

Hardware

TabSub: Serverless PubSub for Browser Tabs

2025-04-03

TabSub is a lightweight Javascript library for publishing and subscribing to messages between browser tabs using local storage. No server is required. It provides a simple API with `publish`, `subscribe`, and `state` functions. While not heavily tested for concurrency, small-scale tests showed promising results. TabSub is MIT licensed and available on Github. An example demonstrates syncing the playback state of two audio players.

(simon-frey.com)

Development Local Storage

Lua: An Underrated Programming Language

2024-12-26

Lua: An Underrated Programming Language

Lua, a concise and efficient embedded scripting language created in 1993, remains surprisingly underrated despite its strengths. This article highlights Lua's advantages: ease of learning and mastery, an excellent C API, multi-paradigm support, and exceptional embeddability. While widely used in games and embedded systems, the author also points out some unique aspects of Lua, such as its indexing conventions (starting at 1 but not mandatory), error handling, and nil-terminated arrays, which developers should be aware of. Overall, Lua is a powerful language deserving more recognition; its efficiency is evident in applications like Neovim plugins.

(nflatrea.bearblog.dev)

Development scripting language embedded

Danish Metal Detecting Hobbyists Unearth Ancient Treasures, Rewriting History

2025-06-21

Danish Metal Detecting Hobbyists Unearth Ancient Treasures, Rewriting History

A Danish engineer's casual metal detecting hobby led to an extraordinary discovery: a hoard of 1,500-year-old gold artifacts, including an amulet inscribed with "He is Odin's man." This inscription, the oldest known written mention of Odin, pushes back the known history of his worship by 150 years. Denmark's unique approach to metal detecting, allowing hobbyists to search and turn over finds, has revolutionized archaeological research, resulting in a wealth of discoveries far exceeding those of neighboring countries.

(www.scientificamerican.com)

Tech metal detecting

Minecraft Gets a Gigantic, Blocky Britain

2025-04-15

Minecraft Gets a Gigantic, Blocky Britain

A massive Minecraft map of Britain is coming, featuring every county and a 15km buffer zone around each, resulting in over a billion blocks! Players can explore iconic landmarks, familiar towns and cities, rivers, beaches, and more. Creative mode allows for building, redesigning, and even creating minecart railways. Players can even map Britain themselves using the in-game mapping tools, recreating the work of the Ordnance Survey. Get ready to remake Britain, your way!

(www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk)

Game Map Britain

Roame Hiring: Lead Full-Stack Engineer to Revolutionize Travel Booking with AI

2025-05-11

Roame Hiring: Lead Full-Stack Engineer to Revolutionize Travel Booking with AI

Roame, a flight search engine leveraging credit card points and miles, is seeking a Lead Full-Stack Engineer. Backed by top-tier investors, Roame empowers millions to maximize their points' value. The ideal candidate possesses 4+ years of experience, mastery of Next.js, Firebase, and Go, and a strong understanding of AI pipelines. The San Francisco-based role requires in-person work. Roame offers competitive salary, equity, benefits, and a culture emphasizing collaboration and rapid iteration.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Development Travel Booking

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