today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 22, 2026

• Graphics Stack

  • Video Cardz ☛ GPU Screen Recorder 6.0 supports Linux recording on AMD, Intel and NVIDIA

    GPU Screen Recorder is a Linux alternative to NVIDIA ShadowPlay, offering hardware-accelerated recording, streaming and instant replay. It supports AMD, Intel and NVIDIA GPUs on both X11 and Wayland, with most of the recording workload handled by the GPU to keep CPU usage low.

    The software supports normal screen recording, live streaming and an instant replay mode. The latter continuously keeps the most recent recording period and saves it when requested, similar to ShadowPlay Instant Replay. Supported video codecs include H.264, HEVC, AV1, VP8 and VP9, although actual hardware encoding support depends on the GPU and driver.

• • Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

    • Education

      • Benny Siegert ☛ My FrOSCon 2026 talk · benzblog

        I presented the jj version control system and also tried to make a connection to the ongoing maintenance crisis in open source. After all, newcomers often cite git as a scary thing they have to learn.

        The manuscript for my talk (in German) is now available at /talks/froscon2026/.

      • Audiocasts/Shows

        • Hackaday ☛ Hackaday Podcast Episode 383: QR Codes, Caving Gear, And The Old School Way To Learn Electronics

          In this week’s episode, Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start things off by getting excited about the recently announced 2026 Retrocomputing Challenge. From there the conversation will cover efforts to improve desktop 3D printing with lasers, an expensive grill with an ESP32 controller and an open source firmware, open source tools underground, and some impressive techniques to squeeze a bit more utility out of the common QR code.

    • Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

      • Open Data

        • Giles Dickenson-Jones ☛ The boring part first: Building a crosswalk from O*NET-SOC to ANZSCO

          In 2025 I served as an adviser for a project to map occupational transition pathways in India. Although the work leveraged locally-sourced data and occupational profiles, the methodology leaned heavily on studies that use occupational profile data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET). With the basic idea being that the viability of a transition pathway was in-part determined by how similar two jobs are (conditional on geography, wage rate differentials, education etc).