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New Releases
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SANS ☛ Wireshark 5.0.0rc1 Release - SANS Internet Storm Center
Wireshark Release Candidate 5.0.0 was published: soon we can expect a new major version of Wireshark.
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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
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Heads-up: Alien Pastures blog will become Hugo-powered
I have been playing with the idea of leaving WordPress behind as the content publishing platform for my Alien Pastures blog. Wordpress is great software and it’s versatile and offers a wealth of plugins that allow the blog owner to do all kinds of nice stuff.
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Education
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Hackaday ☛ Bring On Supercon!
But even if you can’t make it to Supercon, you’re not shut out. We have an absolutely killer slate of talks, and we’ll be streaming at least one stage’s worth during the event. Watching a good talk isn’t just entertainment, but it can plant new seeds of possibility in your brain, or give you new perspectives on something that you thought you already knew. A super talk can launch a thousand hacks.
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Elias Farhan ☛ CppCon 2026
After two years, I went back to CppCon this week to give a talk about game engines and my little summer experiment with Soup Raiders (blog series here). But CppCon is more than just talks!
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Standards/Consortia
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Rodrigo Ghedin ☛ How to free your email from the clutches of Google (Gmail) or Microsoft (Outlook)
The process itself isn’t particularly complex. The problem is cultural. The dominance of these two services — Gmail and Hotmail/Outlook — has eroded our understanding of one of the oldest [Internet] technologies we still use, and one that remains important.
Email is decentralized, meaning different service providers talk to each other. To take part, you need one of these providers and a domain — the part after the @ in name@domain.com.
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Henrique Dias ☛ Long Live XSLT 1.0
XSLT is being deprecated from the browser platform, and is planned to be fully removed in the coming year. I had already seen some posts come by that mentioned that they were replacing XSLT with something else, but I completely missed the gist. RIP XSLT.
Two years and a few days ago, I introduced styled RSS feeds and XML sitemaps on this website. To do so, I relied on this almost obscure Internet technology that a lot of people don’t know about: XSLT. XSLT was originally introduced in 1999, and version 1.0 has been part of the web platform since then.
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