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Origin: Halfway through a chat, where is that meme? Every heavy chat user has a bunch of memes saved on their phone and computer, but when they actually need one—halfway through a conversation, wanting to send a "Thanks, let's keep in touch" or "I'm just bad"—they can never find it. The filename is IMG_4821.jpg , albums are not categorized, and searching is impossible. I first came across a great…

June 24, 2026. That is the shutdown date for every Imagen model on Firebase AI Logic — imagen-3.0-generate-002 , imagen-4.0-generate-001 , imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-001 , imagen-4.0-fast-generate-001 . All of them. If you have been putting off this migration, you have run out of runway. The replacement is Google's Gemini Image models — internally called "Nano Banana," publicly named gemini-2.5-fl…

The computer chips inside our phones, laptops and other electronic devices contain billions of tiny switches called transistors. These transistors are usually made from silicon, the material that has powered modern electronics for decades. However, as companies try to make chips even smaller and more powerful, silicon is beginning to reach its physical limits. Scientists […] The post New simple c…

Research covering 19 international standards bodies finds UK strengths in services and telecoms but weaker representation in hardware, semiconductors, and other foundational technologies. Aston Business School-led research calls for greater UK participation in global standards covering AI, semiconductors, 5G, and 6G Aston Business School -led research has called for a UK Standards Participation F…

This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam Coordinate systems. Rotated bounding boxes. A sine wave cycling 637 times per second. A tribute to Alan Turing hidden in binary light. This is how Solstice Village came to be. The Idea June 21. The longest day. Light and darkness at their most dramatic inflection point. I wanted something that felt like the solstice — not a platformer about suns…

After a full week of intensive Bitcoin programming training, the developers at Zone01 Kisumu moved into the most exciting phase of the bootcamp: building real-world solutions powered by Bitcoin, the Lightning Network, and LND. One thing I learned throughout the experience is that the human mind is truly fascinating. The room was filled with innovative ideas, each attempting to solve a different p…

I dived into all the reasons brands are steering clear of silicon-carbon battery tech.

A hobby project on the side. I bought a Mavic Pro Gen1 shell and its GL200A remote for a few euros, sold as non-functional. Rather than just repairing them, I wanted to understand how they talk to each other . This is my logbook — and I want to be upfront that I'm a beginner at reverse engineering, standing on the shoulders of a community that did the hard work. First: is this legal? It's the que…

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Researchers have developed a new type of lidar system that can do much more than traditional versions. In a single measurement, the new technology can determine where an object is, how fast it is moving, and what it is made of. The advance could improve technologies such as self-driving cars, robots and remote sensing systems. […] The post New super-sensing lidar can see an object’s distance, spe…

A confession before the feature tour: for years I was very much against adding gaming to Codename One. I used to work in the gaming industry ( Jane's USAF , among others), so this was never about disinterest or not understanding the domain. The opposite: I knew exactly how much a real gaming stack demands, and I felt that tackling it would dilute our focus on being the best cross-platform app fra…

Real-Time Strategy Redefined Every unit, projectile and explosion simulated in real-time Unmatched Scale & realism All units and projectiles are simulated in real-time. The game offers fully simulated projectile ballistics, explosion physics and terrain deformation. Enjoy an immersive RTS experience, whether you are commanding individual units, or armies of thousands. Take control as you engage i…

I got tired of running headless Chrome myself just to turn HTML invoices into PDF attachments. So I built a small API and listed it on RapidAPI: Simple PDF API . Free tier included. No browser setup on your side. The problem Every SaaS eventually needs PDFs: Invoices and receipts Reports and exports Downloadable confirmations The usual options: Run Puppeteer/Playwright yourself — works, but ops p…

Founded in 2025, Humble Robotics is building self-driving freight trucks with no steering wheel, driver's seat or gas pedal.

The Tailwind CSS4 debate is everywhere right now. And honestly? Most people are arguing about the wrong thing. The real question isn't "inline styles vs. utility classes" — it's about where your styling decisions live and who pays the cognitive cost. Let me break down what's actually happening, with real code, real trade-offs, and a clear take at the end. What Changed in Tailwind CSS v4 Tailwind …

I rebuilt StrictBlock (my app) from the ground up. StrictBlock is an iPhone app blocker and focus app designed to help people stop procrastinating, protect deep work, and build better focus habits. For this relaunch, I did not want to just “refresh the UI.” I wanted to redesign the full product experience around one question: How can I make starting a focus session feel simple, strict, and useful…

This was originally posted on my blog . I was not planning to build a rate limiting library. I had a FastAPI project, I needed rate limiting, I reached for SlowAPI, which is the most popular choice for FastAPI, and wired it up. Took maybe 20 minutes. Then I started actually using it. The request: Request problem The first thing that got to me was the request: Request requirement. SlowAPI's decora…

After spending two weeks debugging issues that only showed up in production — a sitemap _redirects rule that was blocking my own sitemap-index.xml and a Bluesky image upload race against Cloudflare Pages deploy lag — I added three post-deploy checks to my workflow. They're fast and specific to the failure modes I've actually hit, not a full end-to-end test suite. Three sites (aiappdex.com, findin…

Scientific Reports, Published online: 21 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-58323-2 3D perception algorithm of unstructured environment based on point cloud enhanced pixel fusion

After spending two weeks debugging issues that only showed up in production — a sitemap _redirects rule that was blocking my own sitemap-index.xml and a Bluesky image upload race against Cloudflare Pages deploy lag — I added three post-deploy checks to my workflow. They're fast and specific to the failure modes I've actually hit, not a full end-to-end test suite. Three sites (aiappdex.com, findin…