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1. Consumer Electronics Comparison Service
INFO: Planning to buy a smartphone, smartwatch, or tablet? This service could be beneficial. You can compare up to six products and see their differences. However, the interface might feel confusing—the summary is relatively short. Select the category you want to compare from the top menu for a detailed comparison.
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2. How to Reduce the Number of Meetings at Work?
INFO: Meetings in tech companies can often be frustrating and inefficient, as they tend to be asymmetrical—some benefit from them, while others just waste time. The author explains how to cut down on unnecessary meetings by breaking them into smaller parts and replacing them with asynchronous communication (e.g., emails).
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3. How Flash Games Shaped the Video Game Industry
INFO: Flash games were more than just entertainment—they served as a testing ground for indie developers. Platforms like Newgrounds enabled instant publishing and global reach, helping shape game mechanics still used in indie games today. A nostalgic look at what now feels like a "past technology"—even though Flash only disappeared in 2020.
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4. Does Tesla Track Its Drivers? - Monitoring Systems Analysis (Video, 11m)
INFO: The 2024 Tesla Model 3 is one of the most technologically advanced cars on the market, featuring navigation, autonomous driving, and security systems—which means it likely collects vast amounts of data about its surroundings and… driver. What exactly does Tesla track? Where is this data stored? Can the company be trusted with privacy? This analysis dives into Tesla’s data policies, highlighting the manufacturer’s promises and user security controversies. It's worth a closer look.
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5. How Do LLM Agents Work? - Explanation Using Graphs
INFO: AI agents are a hot topic today, but not everyone fully understands how they work. This article breaks down the fundamentals of AI agents using simple decision graphs to explain their logic. The author presents a step-by-step theoretical overview and then demonstrates a basic agent implementation using the PocketFlow framework (which, surprisingly, consists of just 100 lines of code!). This is a beginner-friendly guide for those curious about how AI makes decisions, processes data, and executes tasks.
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6. Code Review as a Productivity Paradox Among Developers
INFO: Code review is essential for maintaining high-quality code, but at what cost? The author explores the downsides of code review, highlighting how it can sometimes lead to frustration and wasted time instead of boosting productivity. Not all the effort put into reviewing code translates into tangible benefits—sometimes, it creates interpersonal conflicts and forces teams to spend time on subjective quality tweaks. So, how can we improve this process and make code reviews genuinely effective? Find out in the article.
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7. Build a Miniature ESP32 Drone Controlled by a Smartphone (Video, 30m)
INFO: This is a cool DIY project for electronics enthusiasts! The creator demonstrates how to build one of the most miniature drones based on the ESP32 chip, controllable via Wi-Fi from a smartphone. The video covers the entire process, from designing the circuit and 3D-printing the frame to assembling the electronics, programming the device, and test flights. The project is budget-friendly, requires no expensive controllers, and can even be upgraded with an FPV module for live video streaming.
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8. Analysis of Oscar statistics – for nerds
INFO: Someone decided to analyze 1,884 Oscar acceptance speeches and identify trends. The analysis looks at how many people are thanked when receiving the award, who is typically thanked, and how the thank-yous from 1950 differ from those of last year. There are lots of numbers and charts. Interestingly, in the 1980s and 1990s, Steven Spielberg received more thank-yous than God.
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9. A game teaching GIT in a 3D world
INFO: The author created Git-Sim, a tool that visualizes GIT operations, but noticed that it doesn't help complete beginners. So, he decided to make a game where the player walks through their repository, viewing the commit history as rooms in the game and learning GIT concepts more intuitively. Based on a voxel engine inspired by Minecraft, he developed a game that makes it easier and quicker to understand how GIT repositories work.
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10. Msty - Local AI Assistant for Managing Notes and Files (Video, 21m)
INFO: An entirely local tool that allows interaction with your notes and files using AI. The video shows how to set up Msty with a regional language model (LLM), connect it to your knowledge base (e.g., notes in Obsidian), and effectively search and analyze the gathered information. Selecting the best AI model for your needs is also discussed. All operations take place on your device without sending data to the cloud, which can be very important when working with, for example, company data.
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11. PostSpark - Editor for Creating Attractive Mockups and Screenshots
INFO: This online tool easily creates visually appealing screenshots and mockups, perfect for presentations, e.g., on social media. You can customize the background, add annotations, adjust image proportions, and, what I particularly liked, change the tilt of the graphic, giving it a 3D effect. The finished graphic can be exported in PNG format.
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12. Charisma - An Underrated Soft Skill
INFO: Programmers often focus on developing technical skills, overlooking the importance of soft skills, such as charisma. The author argues that building deep relationships, empathy, and a positive atmosphere within a team is crucial for effective collaboration. In this text, you will learn what you gain by developing charisma and how to start working on this process.
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13. Archival Storage - The Myth of Immortal Storage Media
INFO: How should archival data be stored to survive for decades or even longer? What storage medium should be chosen? Will the long-lasting data storage solutions developed by major corporations permanently solve the archiving problem? According to the author, not necessarily. This process is primarily an economic issue, not a technological one. What exactly is the problem, and what does the future hold? You’ll find the answers in the article.
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14. Technical Analysis of the Bybit Exchange Attack
INFO: The February 2025 attack on Bybit led to the theft of a large sum of money, compromising the transaction authorization process in the theoretically highly secure (multi-signature) Safe{Wallet}. Using an infected user interface, the attackers altered the signed transactions, gaining control over the exchange's cold wallet. The article thoroughly analyzes the technical side of this attack, including the mechanism of JavaScript malware injection and transaction data manipulation.
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15. Backdoor in the ESP32 Chip! - Less Dangerous Than Previously Thought
INFO: The article debunks the claim that the ESP32 chip contains a deliberate backdoor, allowing attacks on IoT devices. The author explains that the detected HCI commands for reading and writing memory are standard solutions used by Bluetooth chip manufacturers, such as Broadcom, Cypress, and Texas Instruments, and should not be considered a backdoor. It is also emphasized that the hype surrounding this issue is mainly due to speculation and media frenzy rather than a real security threat to ESP32 users. It's a good read to calm down after all the reports of vulnerable electronics flooding the world.
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16. How to Effectively Deprecate a REST API - A Guide for Developers
INFO: Deprecating an API is integral to managing its lifecycle, allowing for a safe and predictable transition to new service versions. The article covers the entire process, from planning and communicating with users to disabling outdated endpoints, with implementation examples in OpenAPI and using the HTTP Deprecation header. It is an essential yet concise read for teams working on API development.
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17. Open-Source Tools Instead of SaaS - A Review of Interesting Solutions
INFO: A collection of 40 interesting open-source tools that can replace popular SaaS services. Among them are platforms for content management, e-commerce tools, authentication systems, analytics, and marketing automation. Each solution is free, open-source, and can be self-hosted.
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18. How to Extract Content from an ePub Protected with LCP
INFO: The EPUB format can include LCP (Licensed Content Protection), which is much less intrusive than DRM but still limits reading the books to a single device. What if your e-reader (e.g., Kobo) does not support the LCP standard, or your desktop applications cannot read legally purchased e-books? The author shows how to extract the content of such a protected book and create an unprotected version. This method does not break cryptographic protections but uses a specific feature in one of the e-book reading applications.
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19. The Impact of Russian Propaganda on LLM Models - How It Works
INFO: Russian disinformation networks, such as "Pravda," deliberately flood the internet with false narratives, which are later absorbed by AI models during training and repeated in their responses. A study conducted by NewsGuard revealed that solutions like ChatGPT-4o and Gemini repeated false information in 33% of cases, highlighting the scale of manipulation.
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20. How to Effectively Use LLMs for Writing Code
INFO: Using language models (LLMs) to generate code can be highly effective, but it requires the right (and responsible) approach and an understanding of their limitations. The author shares insights from over two years of experience working with LLMs, describing key strategies such as managing context, asking the right questions, testing generated code, and treating models as "overzealous programming assistants." The article includes specific prompt examples and approaches for different stages of programming, from learning new technologies to writing production code.
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21. Git-who - CLI Tool for Analyzing Code Authors in Large Repositories
INFO: If you're working with a truly massive Git repository consisting of many components, this tool can help you identify the authors of each part of the code. You can also generate a tabular summary of individual developers' contributions and see who dominates the modifications of specific files and directories. This can be useful for analyzing team structure and assigning responsibility for different modules in large projects.
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22. Analysis of Bundle-URI in Git - Does It Really Speed Up Cloning?
INFO: Bundle-URI support is not new; it's been around for nearly three years, yet not every developer knows this solution. Does implementing bundles speed up your work? The answer is not apparent; as always, it’s "it depends." It’s an interesting solution worth exploring if you haven’t encountered it yet.
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23. How Code Formatters Work and Why It’s Not That Simple
INFO: A code formatting tool is, in theory, a simple program that normalizes code writing styles. It eliminates issues with manual formatting, but its implementation is not as trivial as it may seem. The main challenge is preserving the code's syntactic structure and information about whitespace, element order, and comments, which requires more advanced abstract syntax trees (ASTs).
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24. Docs - Open-Source Alternative to Notion and Confluence
INFO: Docs is a document collaboration tool that combines a simple text editor with Wiki features and access control. It allows offline work, data export in popular formats, and AI support for summarizing and translating content. The application can be hosted on your server.
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25. Black Basta Group Worked on a Tool for Automating Attacks
INFO: Since 2023, the Black Basta ransomware group has been using their custom tool, "BRUTED," to automate credential-stuffing attacks on network devices, firewalls, and VPN solutions. A leak of internal logs from the group's communications revealed details of the brute-force infrastructure and a list of targeted technologies.
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26. FD - A More User-Friendly Replacement for the FIND Command
INFO: Searching for files and directories is a common task performed in the terminal. However, not everyone finds using the FIND command easy. Memorizing many switches and the less intuitive interface can make the task harder rather than speeding it up. This replacement is relatively simple to use, and if you're not a big fan of native Linux solutions, it might be to your liking.
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