Month: October 2024

I really love taking photos with my phone, and I think I do it pretty well. I tried submitting some of my photos to the IPPAWARDS competition, but none of them made it to the finals or got published. So, I’m sharing some of them here — though not all of them. My photos are … Read more

Installing a new theme for SDDM is a good way to improve the appearance of your Linux login screen. This guide will take you through the steps required to install an SDDM theme. 🎥 Check out the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T85ZjBAGt6o&embedable=true 1 Download an SDDM Theme Visit the Pling website to find and download an SDDM theme: … Read more

Recently I had a project which involved drawing a flow consisting of interconnected blocks. It was quite a complex flow with a lot of blocks of different heights. The image below shows a more or less simplified version. Each block could have an arrow coming to the next block reflecting a connection. Some blocks could … Read more

Getting your first users for a tech startup can feel like chasing a needle in a haystack. Forget the same old advice about ads, posting content into the void and networking events. There are smarter, free and underrated ways to get people talking about your product. In this article, we’re diving into unconventional, game-changing actionable … Read more

The entire history of cryptography, information protection, steganography, and cryptography has been marked by the antagonism of two sides—attackers and defenders of some form of information being transmitted through one or more communication lines. At certain times, attackers had the upper hand when all systems (globally) became completely vulnerable. At other times, the defenders prevailed, … Read more

I don’t want to alarm anyone, but the entire SaaS industry is about to implode. Or explode. Or both, simultaneously. That’s because AI is making software creation so cheap and fast that current SaaS pricing models are starting to look like a particularly unfunny joke. Remember when people paid actual money for calculators? It’s going … Read more

I have been fascinated by neurotechnology for a long time, and explored ways to achieve telekinesis (= mind control) at home, affordably and without unnecessary suffering. For this purpose, people have already invented out-of-the-box devices that can record EEG (= electromagnetic signals emitted by our brain) to use the brain data for anything you can … Read more

The idea of generative AI is not novel; it was first introduced in the late 1950s by generating new sequences of data based on input text. However, it became realistically available and technically feasible after Generative AI techniques like the Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) was released in 2014. GAN can generate images, videos, and audio. … Read more

The recent launch of the popular Telegram-based clicker game Hamster Kombat(HMSTR)was quickly followed by a massive sell-off, with the native token dipping by 42% in the space of three days. As a result of this latest development, scores of social media users have begun to call out the developers behind the clicker game for allegedly … Read more

This post is part of a series comparing different ways to implement asynchronous requests on the client, which is colloquially known as AJAX. I dedicated the previous post to Vue.js; I’ll dedicate this one to Alpine.js – not to be confused with Alpine Linux. I’ll follow the same structure as previously. Laying out the work … Read more