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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…

This is a submission for the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge What I Built FadeKey is a zero-knowledge, self-destructing secret sharing engine. Encrypted entirely in the browser using AES-GCM, the decryption key resides only in the URL hash fragment ( #key=... ). Since browsers do not send the hash fragment in HTTP requests, the server never sees the key or plaintext. The project is divided into…

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we break down the news from Microsoft Build from Project Solara and the Scout agentic assistant to Microsoft's push to rely less on OpenAI and Anthropic, and the mounting pressure on GitHub. Read More

We are exploring an experimental blockchain mechanism called "Proof of Weather" In the world of blockchain, various methods are used to achieve network consensus. The most well-known is Bitcoin’s Proof of Work (PoW). While PoW is an excellent mechanism, it has one major drawback. It consumes an enormous amount of electricity. At one point, I found myself wondering: Does blockchain really require …

Rocket scientists have always faced a trade-off in propulsion technologies. Chemical rockets can provide lots of oomph, but burn through fuel so quickly they can only do so for a few minutes. Electric propulsion, on the other hand, can run for days, but the pushing power they provide is miniscule compared to their chemical cousins. A new paper in the Journal of Propulsion and Power from researche…

Running a Crypto Trading Bot on a $5 VPS: The Complete 2026 Guide I spent $47.99 on cloud hosting last year. Then I discovered I could run my entire crypto trading operation on a VPS that costs less than my daily coffee. Here's exactly how I did it — and why you should too. The Problem with Cloud Hosting When I first built my trading bot, I hosted it on AWS. Fine for prototyping. Terrible for a s…

A few updates: 1. The BBC got in touch last week to ask if I'd look at a press release and embargoed preprint on quantum computing to give some expert commentary.  The work turned out to be from Microsoft, claiming another breakthrough in their desire to fabricate functional majorana qubits.  The preprint shows their "multi-qubit" tetron device, with signals coming from its operation.  What was n…

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi explore how landmark PFAS litigation, municipal filtration projects, and emerging 3D printed water treatment technologies are reshaping the global fight against “forever chemicals.” The post From Courtroom to Clean Water: The PFAS Crisis Creating New Opportunities for 3D Printing appeared on Fabbaloo .

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Machine tool manufacturer DMG MORI Federal Services (DMFS) has been selected for the US Defense Logistics Agency’s (DLA) Joint Additive Manufacturing Accelerator (JAMA) IV Pilot Parts Program.  The program’s performance period began February 25, 2026. For DMFS, the selection marks the company’s first project focused on AM parts production. DMG MORI has built its reputation…

Oil tankers may be stuck behind strait of Hormuz, but holding the Iata AGM in Brazil defies warnings of impending shortages Nothing says jet fuel crisis, as one prospective attender put it, like flying everyone to Rio de Janeiro. Aviation leaders will converge in Brazil this weekend for the Iata AGM, the annual global airline summit, with the industry still, for the most part, looking resolutely …

Crucible v1.1.0 — The App-Building Kit Release 🚀 Most component libraries give you a black box: install a package, fight its API, and inherit a runtime dependency you can't fully control. Crucible takes the opposite approach — it generates the source code for components directly into your project. No runtime. You own every file. v1.1.0 is the App-Building Kit release. What's new 14 new components…

Every developer has a set of small utilities they reach for daily — decoding a JWT, formatting JSON, generating UUIDs, testing regex patterns. Most of these tasks don't need a full IDE or installed software. So I built Filuni — a free, browser-based toolkit with 121+ tools across 12 categories. Here are my 10 favorites for developers: 1. JWT Decoder Paste a JWT token, instantly see the decoded he…

I made a thing... I wanted to try out some of the cool stuff that came out of Microsoft Build 2026. Azure Linux "Desktop" is a small Windows app that boots a full Linux desktop in a window. It opens, starts an embedded Linux container, and a few seconds later you are looking at a themed XFCE desktop running on Azure Linux 4.0, with working audio, GPU acceleration, copy and paste, and a display th…

Ankit Kohli & Amber Srivastava, Assistant Prof. ABSTRACT Social media has been a game-changer for communication, democratic participation and dissemination of information. Platforms like Meta Platforms, previously known as Facebook, X Corp. (formerly Twitter), and Google LLC have become the custodians of online visibility, with algorithmic governance. Issues surrounding moderation that are se…

Akanksha Singh, LL.M., Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur, M.P. ABSTRACT The rapid proliferation of deepfake technology has emerged as one of the most formidable challenges confronting contemporary legal systems. Characterised by an unprecedented degree of realism, near-zero creation costs, and exponential scalability, deepfakes function not merely as a novel category of digital harm…

NASA’s PExT terminal has shown that spacecraft can seamlessly communicate through multiple government and commercial networks, a major step beyond traditional single-network systems. The mission is now expanding to test new capabilities that could help create a more flexible, reliable communications infrastructure for future space missions.

Last weekend I built a thing. A store selling digital products for creators. A dark-themed Flask app hooked up to Stripe, running on a $4 DigitalOcean VPS behind Cloudflare. What I'm selling: 50 Dark Aesthetic 4K Wallpapers — $12 15 Social Media Templates — $15 Notion Life OS Dashboard — $25 100 Midjourney Architecture Prompts — $19 50 Dark Stickers Pack — $9 10 Python Automation Scripts — $29 Co…

title: "CSS First + Thin Component Wrapper: A 10KB Component Library Practice" description: "From UnoCSS back to native CSS, a design token-driven component library solution. Four-layer CSS architecture, minimal Vue components, bundle size analysis, and a comparison of maintainability, showing how to build a 10KB component library with 500 lines of code." tags: [vue, css, designsystem, architectu…

Cloud gaming on macOS has improved a lot over the last few years, but I kept running into the same issues: random ping spikes, micro-stutters, Bluetooth latency, and network interruptions caused by background system services. Instead of tweaking settings manually every time I launched a gaming session, I decided to build a small native macOS utility to automate the process. The result is CloudBoo…