Scientific codebases stall when nobody on the team profiles Python
A CUNY astrophysics group spent months building a Python pipeline that took an hour to walk through 200 GB of simulation output. The grad student who wrote it had a good reason…
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Your side project needs a path to attention before polish
A side project can be technically finished and still be invisible. That is the awkward gap this source is trying to close: building software has become easier, but getting the attention of…
lyrion/lms-community keeps the Squeezebox dream alive on your hardware
There is a corner of the home audio world that did not die when Logitech stopped making Squeezebox hardware. The software that drove those little networked speakers now lives on GitHub at…
The five MySQL questions that actually trip people up
I keep a folder of MySQL interview prep that grows about as fast as the engine itself. Every time someone asks me what to study for a database interview, the honest answer…
Twenty Linux console mail clients that still earn their place in 2026
Console email clients feel like a relic to most modern desktop users, and the case for using one in 2026 is real but narrow. A console client is light on system resources,…
Proxmox VE lands on ARM64, but the Pi is still on the sideline
The virtualization world has been quietly moving sideways for years. x86-64 (the dominant 64-bit PC architecture) is not going anywhere in the data center, but ARM64 (the 64-bit architecture that powers everything…
Where to shop online when you do not want to feed Amazon
Amazon is the easy button for online shopping. One click and a package shows up two days later. The price for that convenience is a shopping cart that knows more about your…
Save videos from X without handing a stranger your login
Saving a video from X looks like a two-click problem until the clip comes from a private account, the download site demands notifications, or the file arrives with no audio. The safest…
What your ISP can actually see about your browsing in 2026
The honest answer to whether your ISP can see what you do online is yes, more than most people expect, and the gap between what HTTPS protects and what the ISP still…
Hard drive errors: how to triage before you lose the data
A failing drive rarely announces itself with a single dramatic crash. More often it whispers for weeks: a file that will not open, a save that takes five seconds longer than it…