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US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology

https://www.cnet.com/home/security/when-flock-come...

Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/

Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

https://braw.dev/blog/2026-04-06-reallocating-100-...

Struggling to heat your home? How about 500 Raspberry Pi units? (2025)

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/thermify_he...

Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/digital_sov...

The Life and Death of the Book Review

https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-life-and...

Expanding Swift's IDE Support

https://swift.org/blog/expanding-swift-ide-support...

Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache

https://vinyl-cache.org/organization/on_vinyl_cach...

Show HN: Waffle – Native macOS terminal that auto-tiles sessions into a grid

https://waffle.baby

PGLite Evangelism

https://substack.com/home/post/p-193415720

20 years on AWS and never not my job

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-04-11-20-yea...

Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example

https://kalmanfilter.net

New metal with triple copper's heat conduction challenges fundamental physics

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-met...

Homelab

https://www.0xn1nja.dev/homelab

Data centre in the shed reduces energy bills to £40

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rpy7envr5o

Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement

https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/lichess-and-tak...

Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers

https://colaptop.pages.dev/

Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure

https://eualternative.eu/guides/building-saas-eu-s...

40x Faster Binary Search

https://www.p99conf.io/session/40x-faster-binary-s...

USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers

https://werwolv.net/posts/usb_for_sw_devs/

Ukraine Tested Space-Launch Capabilities in Middle of War Twice

https://united24media.com/latest-news/ukraine-quie...

Reading Is Magic

https://samkriss.substack.com/p/reading-is-magic

The best seat in town

https://www.torched.la/the-best-seat-in-town/

Borges' cartographers and the tacit skill of reading LM output

https://galsapir.github.io/sparse-thoughts/2026/04...

Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft

https://www.unfolder.app/

Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/meta-social-media...

Vegetative Patients May Be More Aware Than We Knew

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/magazine/vegeta...

ML promises to be profoundly weird

https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everythi...

They See Your Photos

https://theyseeyourphotos.com/

Watgo – A WebAssembly Toolkit for Go

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/watgo-a-webasse...