Electrostatic motors reach the macro scale
18 Aug 2024 5 min read Glenn Zorpette is editorial director for content development at IEEE Spectrum. C-Motive’s founders, Justin Reed [left] and Daniel Ludois, hold the company’s prototype 360-watt electrostatic motor. C-Motive Technologies It’s a pretty sure bet that you couldn’t get through a typical day without the direct support of dozens of electric […]
Rye and Uv: August Is Harvest Season for Python Packaging
written on Wednesday, August 21, 2024 It has been a few months since I wrote about Rye here last. You might remember that in February I passed over stewardship of my Rye packaging too to Astral. The folks over there have been super busy in building a lot of amazing tooling for Python packaging in […]
I’ve Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It
In 2020, I built my first side project. I scratched my own itch, then started selling it, and since then, the project has earned me over $15,000. But a few months after releasing it, I was so tired of the maintenance that I wanted to shut it down. Here is a story about my short […]
The Discovery of the Celendrical Date Line
A History of the International Date Line – discovery of the IDL The Discovery of the Celendrical Date Line Ferdinand Magellan It was Antonio Pigafetta (c. 1491-c. 1535), the Italian chronicler of the first circumnavigation of the world by the Portuguese explorer and navigator Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), who first mentioned a peculiar incident that had occurred during […]
ScreenPlay Is an Open Source Live-Wallpaper App for Windows and OS X
Live Reloading ScreenPlay code hot reloading feature enables fast iteration, allowing you to see the changes you make to your projects in real-time. This feature eliminates the need to constantly restart your content, saving you time and helping you stay focused on your creation.
AMD and FreeBSD Begin Collaborating over OS Improvements
The FreeBSD open-source operating system project published their Q2’2024 status report that outlines some interesting work happening to this leading BSD project. Among the work the past quarter, the FreeBSD Foundation has been sponsoring projects to work on enhancing the audio stack, hierarchical rate limits for OpenZFS, porting of the Vector Packet Processor (VPP) to […]
Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM
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Australia approves 17-20GW solar power link to Singapore
Sun Cable said that the approval “signifies the Australian government’s confidence that Sun Cable can deliver this nationally important project within appropriate approval conditions”. Cameron Garnsworthy, Sun Cable Australia’s managing director, said the approval was a landmark moment in the project’s journey. The company will now focus on achieving a final investment decision by 2027. […]
Being on The Semantic Web is easy, and, frankly, well worth the bother
The Semantic Web is the old Web 3.0. Before “Web 3.0” meant crypto-whatnot, it meant “machine-readable websites”. I thought this concept hadn’t really gone anywhere but it turns out that The Semantic Web (best read in a very deep voice) is now very widely adopted. The Semantic Web is so widely adopted in fact that […]