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The ABC Programming Language

The ABC Programming Language: a short introduction (Also available in Japanese) New: The Origins of Python - An article by Lambert Meertens on the origins of ABC, and its influence on Python. New: Implementation for the Raspberry Pi!. The ABC Programmer's Handbook is available online. ABC is an interactive programming language and environment for personal computing, originally intended as a good replacement for BASIC. It was designed by first doing a task analysis of the programming task.

MagSafe Monday: UAG’s Metropolis Wallet blends Kevlar toughness with everyday utility

MagSafe wallets are probably the category of MagSafe that makes the most sense to me day to day. I am always going to carry a wallet, so might as well kill 2 birds with 1 stone. The UAG Metropolis Wallet is one of the better designed ones I’ve come across from a quality standpoint, so let’s dive into what all it offers. Some of my favorite gear Aqara Smart Lock U50 Upgrade your doors with Apple Home Key and the Aqara U50. MagSafe Monday: Every Monday, Bradley Chambers looks at the latest and g

Security Bite: My favorite privacy features in iOS 26

9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is all we do. Our unique integrated approach to management and security combines state-of-the-art Apple-specific security solutions for fully automated Hardening & Compliance, Next Generation EDR, AI-powered Zero Trust, and exclusive Privilege Management with the most powerful and modern Apple MDM on the market. The result is a totally automated Appl

The most controversial OnePlus 15 rumor looks all but confirmed

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR As previously rumored, the OnePlus 15 is expected to launch with a new in-house imaging engine. This move suggests Hasselblad branding may no longer appear on OnePlus flagships. The change would bring the OnePlus 15 camera process more in line with rivals like Samsung and Google. After months of rumors, it looks like OnePlus’s big camera gamble is all but confirmed. A reliable tipster has revealed that the upcoming OnePlus 15 will ship with a new in-ho

A review of Nim 2: The good and bad with example code

I've been using Nim for about 1-2 years now, and I believe the language is undervalued. It's not perfect, of course, but it's pleasant to write and read. My personal website uses Nim. After reading a recent article on Nim ("Why Nim") and the associated HN comments, it's clear that comments and some information about Nim are misleading and outdated. Since Nim 2, a tracing Garbage Collector is not the default nor the recommended memory management option. Instead, the default memory management mod

UK's largest battery storage facility at Tilbury substation

The 300MW Thurrock Storage project, developed by Statera Energy, is now energised and delivering electricity flexibly to the network across London and the south east. With a total capacity of 600MWh, Thurrock Storage is capable of powering up to 680,000 homes, and can help to balance supply and demand by soaking up surplus clean electricity and discharging it instantaneously when the grid needs it. Our Tilbury substation once served a coal plant, and with battery connections like this, it’s to

Show HN: Simple modenized .NET NuGet server reached RC

Simple modenized NuGet server implementation. (日本語はこちら) What is this? A simple NuGet server implementation built on Node.js that provides essential NuGet v3 API endpoints. Compatible with dotnet restore and standard NuGet clients for package publishing, querying, and manually downloading. A modern browser-based UI is also provided: You can refer to registered packages. You can check various package attributes. You can download packages by version. You can also publish (upload) packages.

Chronicle – Idiomatic, type safe event sourcing framework for Go

Chronicle A pragmatic and type-safe toolkit for modern event sourcing in Go. Want to hire me? Quickstart Warning I recommend going through the quickstart, since all examples use the Account struct used below from the account package. Install the library go get github.com/DeluxeOwl/chronicle # for debugging go get github.com/sanity-io/litter Define your aggregate and embed aggregate.Base . This embedded struct handles the versioning of the aggregate for you. We'll use a classic yet very s

Magnesium Supplements Crash Course: Benefits and Side Effects

Suddenly, everyone is obsessed with magnesium supplements. It’s the key ingredient in #sleepygirlmocktails, powders stirred into tart cherry juice and prebiotic soda, a wellness cocktail for anxious millennials. Your coworkers are popping magnesium glycinate before bed instead of melatonin, because it allegedly cures insomnia, constipation, and existential dread. Folks seem especially concerned with optimizing their poop and pillow time. In the past year, Google searches for “which magnesium is

The AYN Odin 3 is officially the first Snapdragon 8 Elite gaming handheld

AYN TL;DR The AYN Odin 3 will feature a Snapdragon 8 Elite, making it the most powerful device on the market. Paired with a 6-inch 120Hz AMOLED panel, it’s set to become the ultimate flagship handheld. AYN will need to solve the 8 Elite’s heating and driver compatibility issues first. Just a few hours ago, AYN revealed that its upcoming flagship handheld, the Odin 3, will have an exclusive 6-inch 120Hz AMOLED panel. Now the company has revealed the chipset, and it might be the start of a rev

Chronicle – idiomatic, type safe event sourcing framework for Go

Chronicle A pragmatic and type-safe toolkit for modern event sourcing in Go. Want to hire me? Quickstart Warning I recommend going through the quickstart, since all examples use the Account struct used below from the account package. Install the library go get github.com/DeluxeOwl/chronicle # for debugging go get github.com/sanity-io/litter Define your aggregate and embed aggregate.Base . This embedded struct handles the versioning of the aggregate for you. We'll use a classic yet very s

Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility

Negotiation Explanation SOURCE_CAPABILITIES - Source Capabilities This is a message from the source to 'advertise' the power modes that it is capable of supplying. The capabilities are communicated as a list of options with different fixed voltages, current limits, and supported features. The most interesting of these is the - optional - Programmable Power Supply(PPS) mode allowing the sink device to micromanage the delivered voltage and current to optimize power conversion and delivery. Thi

A Review of Nim 2: The Good and Bad with Example Code

I've been using Nim for about 1-2 years now, and I believe the language is undervalued. It's not perfect, of course, but it's pleasant to write and read. My personal website uses Nim. After reading a recent article on Nim ("Why Nim") and the associated HN comments, it's clear that comments and some information about Nim are misleading and outdated. Since Nim 2, a tracing Garbage Collector is not the default nor the recommended memory management option. Instead, the default memory management mod

AI Can Probably Do Some of Your Work Tasks. That Doesn't Mean It Can Do Your Job

The executives behind big generative artificial intelligence companies are quick to claim their products will displace huge numbers of workers. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made headlines in May by saying generative AI could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs in the next few years. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in April that he wants AI to be writing half of the company's code in the next year. And Americans believe it -- a recent Pew survey found 64% of Americans expect fewer jobs tha

A Crack in the Cosmos

Some time around the year 466 BCE – in the second year of the 78th Olympiad, the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder tells us – a massive meteor blazed across the sky in broad daylight, crashing to the earth with an enormous explosion near the small Greek town of Aegospotami, or ‘Goat Rivers’, on the European side of the Hellespont in northeastern Greece. Pliny’s younger contemporary, the Greek biographer Plutarch, wrote that the locals still worshipped the scorched brownish metallic boulder, the s

“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone”

It appears that it was US military communications doctrine to not send the exact same message twice using different encryption ("none" counting as one type of encryption), and the term of art for changing a message to avoid that was indeed "paraphrase". I managed to dig up a US Army document on Cryptology from roughly that era that appears to discuss paraphrasing. The document in question is Department of the Army Technical Manual TM 32-220(pdf), dated 1950, titled "BASIC CRYPTOGRAPHY". It appa

The Mortal Kombat II movie is postponed to a spring 2026 release

We'll have to wait until May to discover the fate of Earthrealm and Johnny Cage. Mortal Kombat II, the sequel to 2021's reboot of the video game adaptation, will be pushed back from its original October 24 release date to May 15, 2026. According to a post on X from the movie's official account, the "tournament demands a new time and place, worthy of its spectacle." The delay goes against the trailer and promotional images that Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema already put out, but the studios ma

Premier League Soccer: Stream Brighton vs. Man City Live From Anywhere

Having suffered an early setback last weekend, Manchester City will look to get back to winning ways on Sunday as it travels to the south coast to play a Brighton team looking for their first English Premier League victory of the campaign. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. After taking plaudits for their impressive opening day 4-0 dem

FTC chair warns Google about Gmail’s ‘partisan’ spam filters

Andrew Ferguson, the Trump-appointed chair of the Federal Trade Commission, recently expressed concern that “Alphabet’s administration of Gmail is designed to have partisan effects.” In a letter addressed to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Ferguson pointed to a recent story in the New York Post describing complaints by Targeted Victory (a consulting and PR firm that’s worked with the Republican National Committee and Elon Musk’s X) claiming that Gmail flags emails linking to the Republican fundrais

UK age check law seems to be hurting sites that comply, helping those that don’t

In Brief The United Kingdom recently started enforcing the Online Safety Act’s age-check rules, and The Washington Post reports that it’s already having a significant effect on web traffic. U.K. law now requires pornography websites to verify their users’ ages through means such as face scans and driver’s licenses; it also requires that online platforms prevent children from being exposed to adult content (which is why sites like Bluesky and Reddit have begun checking some users’ ages). To st

J. Crew Is in Hot Water After Its “Vintage” Ad Turned Out to Be Faked Using AI

The American clothing brand J. Crew is under fire after it was revealed that the company used AI to guzzle up its own aesthetic and promote ads with seemingly fake models. The images, which were published to Instagram earlier this month, don't raise immediate alarm bells. Presumed human men are pictured embodying J. Crew's vintage Americana-prep aesthetic: vibing on boats, cycling past storefronts in muted colors, drawing and painting in their paint-splattered studio, and so on. But as style b

Apple’s discontinued MagSafe Battery Pack doesn’t just stick to iPhones now

We all miss Apple’s MagSafe Battery Pack and want to see it return. In the meantime, the old magnetic battery accessory has resurfaced in an unlikely place. Apple introduced MagSafe as part of the iPhone 12 lineup, mainstreaming magnetically attached accessories and vastly improving wireless charging performance with precision alignment. MagSafe Battery Pack was easily the best demonstration of both advancements in one product. But when Apple moved the iPhone from its Lightning connector to s

Pick up an Apple AirTag four-pack for only $70 in this Labor Day sale

Labor Day sales include a decent number of Apple devices this year, from big to small. AirTags are among the latter; you can pick up a four-pack of the Bluetooth trackers for only $70 right now. That's only about $5 more than the pack's record-low price, and it's one of the best prices we've seen all year. For Apple users, AirTags offer some large advantages over rival trackers. The ultra-wideband functionality offers precise tracking with iPhones less than five years old, so you can narrow you

"This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated" Why?

It appears that it was US military communications doctrine to not send the exact same message twice using different encryption ("none" counting as one type of encryption), and the term of art for changing a message to avoid that was indeed "paraphrase". I managed to dig up a US Army document on Cryptology from roughly that era that appears to discuss paraphrasing. The document in question is Department of the Army Technical Manual TM 32-220(pdf), dated 1950, titled "BASIC CRYPTOGRAPHY". It appa

Verizon Finally Restores Service in Most Areas After Day-Long Outage

Verizon said thousands of people who were affected nationwide by a massive outage now have service back. If your Verizon-backed phone was out most of yesterday or even still down today, you weren’t alone. The company said the blackout was caused by a “software issue” but did not respond to a request to elaborate on what exactly that meant. Verizon officials assured customers that their engineers were actively engaged in diagnosing and resolving the service disruption. By early evening, the com

Premier League Soccer: Stream Nottingham Forest vs. West Ham Live From Anywhere

Nottingham Forest will look to heap more pressure on West Ham boss Graham Potter as his struggling team heads to the east Midlands off the back of successive heavy defeats. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching English Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. The Hammers have conceded 11 games across their last three games, including five at home in a disastrous derby clash at t

Premier League Soccer: Livestream Liverpool vs. Arsenal From Anywhere

Arsenal face a stern test of their title challenge credentials on Sunday as they travel to Merseyside for a blockbuster clash against defending EPL champs Liverpool. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. Arne Slot's Reds come into this key fixture on a high after their thrilling 3-2 win over Newcastle at St. James' Park on Monday, in a ma

Extreme Heat Makes Your Body Age Faster

It is well known that heat causes exhaustion in the body due to dehydration. But aging? A recent study concluded that extreme heat accelerates the aging of the human body, a worrying fact given the increasing frequency of heat waves due to climate change. The researchers are not talking about the effects of solar radiation on the skin, but biological aging. Unlike chronological age—that answer that you give when asked how old you are—your biological age reflects how well your cells, tissues, a

How to Clean a TV Screen or Computer Monitor

We've all been there: You moved your TV or computer monitor with bare hands and got it all greasy, or you splashed a bit of liquid on it in sports- or video-game-fueled excitement. How do you clean your screen? Read our guide below for pro tips. Interested in other screen-related information? Be sure to check out our list of the Best TVs, Best OLEDS, Best Cheap TVs, and How To Buy a TV. Interested in computer monitors? We have a guide to the Best Computer Monitors too. As usual, all our latest