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Programming Leftovers and Devices/Hardware
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Qt ☛ Qt Contributor Summit 2025: Highlights
The Qt Contributor Summit is an annual community event hosted by Qt Group, which brings together developers, contributors, and maintainers. This is a unique opportunity for participants to connect with each other, learn about the latest developments in Qt, and further contribute to the future of the framework.
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Rlang ☛ Python needs its CRAN
How is it that in the year 2025 of our Lord installing a Python package is still such a gamble?
This post comes from someone that rarely uses Python, but consider the following: [...] -
Rlang ☛ The birthday problem
The birthday problem is a classic counter-intuitive mathematical result concerning the probability that two people, in a group, have the same birthday.
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Perl / Raku
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Rust
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Rust Weekly Updates ☛ This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 613
Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust!
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Open Hardware/Modding
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Jeff Geerling ☛ TrueNAS on Arm is finally a thing
A few years ago, I admit it was rare to find someone running Arm hardware more powerful than a Raspberry Pi in a homelab (or more serious) setting, outside of cloud providers running Ampere or custom Arm CPUs.
But as Pis and Rockchip boards have become more powerful (and efficient), and Apple's M-series silicon has become more interesting (the M4 mini being an excellent value proposition for a quiet, tiny server), and even Ampere Altra pricing coming down a bit since it's an 'old' server CPU now, still offering 64 or 128 lanes of PCIe Gen 4... I don't think I'm weird in suggesting Arm is a viable platform for reliable, even powerful servers.
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Hackaday ☛ Hackaday Podcast Episode 334: Radioactive Shrimp Clocks, Funky Filaments, Owning The Hardware
In this episode of the Hackaday Podcast, editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start out with a warning about potentially radioactive shrimp entering the American food supply via Walmart, and things only get weirder from there. The extra spicy shrimp discussion makes a perfect segue into an overview of a pair of atomic One Hertz Challenge entries, after which they’ll go over the latest generation of 3D printer filament, using an old Android smartphone as a low-power Linux server, some tips for creating better schematics, and Lorde’s specification-bending transparent CD. Finally, you’ll hear about how the nature of digital ownership influences the hardware we use, and on the other side of the coin, how open source firmware like QMK lets you build input devices on your terms.
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Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications