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Screenwriting 101: Theodore Melfi

“If you give an actor an honest role, they’ll want to play it, and they’ll know how to play it. When I showed St. Vincent to Jack Nicholson, he said, ‘This is an actable piece.’ I spent a lot of time thinking, ‘What does that mean?’ What an ‘actable piece’, to me, ended up meaning is that it’s honest and pathos and everything you want. If you look at the movies that are out this year, you’’ll find honest work. Yo

Show HN: Cosplay as a tech lead, using gVisor to sandbox agents

Hi everyone,This started as an exploration into harnesses and locally hostable LLMs (the kind that uses less power than a small electric heater), and I used it as an opportunity to retool. I've tried popular ones like Cline, Claude Code, and Pi, but wanted a different UX and integrated sandboxes.The solution that I've landed on is a responsive web interface where I can quickly drive progress. It feels like a microcosm of my day job: define and delegate tasks, organize using kanban, the

4 oddball Bosch tools that make jobs easier than ever

Bosch makes tools that everyone, from DIYers to masonry or woodworkers, can appreciate. We're all familiar with its popular 18V lineup and older, but robust wired tools like impact wrenches, but that's not all the company has to offer that you'll love. In fact, there are several niche tools that make jobs easier than ever.

Your SBC project needs a low-torque drill, and Milwaukee's M12 lineup has one

You might think that Milwaukee's M12 lineup is only for DIYers or woodworkers—and those people can definitely benefit from Milwaukee's compact tools. But, did you know that it's also an ideal power tool line for electronics and single-board computer hobbyists? Here's why you should check out Milwaukee's M12 lineup for your next electronics DIY project.

Wi-Fi 8 is coming, but Ethernet still beats it for one simple reason

Wi-Fi 8 is coming, just like Wi-Fi 7 was before it. And it promises us the sun, the moon, and the stars in terms of performance. Faster speeds. Lower latency. Better reliability. And sure, I'm sure it can deliver all of that. But, as this Reddit meme makes quite clear, can Wi-Fi 8 ever match the power of a good ol' Ethernet cable?

US government opens tech jobs for software engineers and AI experts

The US govt has opened technology job opportunities for software engineers, AI specialists and other technology professionals ...<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1737186606102-6952b85ffdf9?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8NHx8VGVjaCUyMEpvYnN8ZW58MHx8Mnx8MTczNzU3MDUxNHww&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080' />

I&#039;m a 57-year-old unemployed tech worker, I can&#039;t find a job — and I&#039;m starting to panic. What can I do to get back on track?

Finding a job in your late 50s can be a challenge, especially in the tech industry. Career coaches offer some tips on how to ...<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1659077188511-6d1b3c8ef958?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MTZ8fFRlY2glMjBKb2JzfGVufDB8fDJ8fDE2NTkyMDU2ODg&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=1080' />

I finally replaced Docker Desktop with a more tweakable, terminal-friendly alternative

Docker Desktop is the default way to run containers on a Mac, but it is not the only one. Colima, a free open-source runtime driven entirely from the terminal, offers a lighter and more configurable alternative. Here is what it is, how it compares, and who should switch.

People in their 40s and 50s are becoming the stars of the job market. Here is why you should welcome the &#039;middle generation&#039; now

People in their 40s and 50s account for about half of the workforce. As the declining birthrate and aging population progress, the role played by this 'middle generation' is growing every year.About a 5-fold increase in 10 years. Job changes among the middle generation are surgingAccording to da

A link that takes two seconds needs its own pending state, and next/link finally reports one

A plain &lt;Link&gt; in the App Router gives the user nothing to look at between the click and the next screen. On a fast route nobody notices. On a route whose layout has to authenticate you and load your account first, the click looks dead for a second or two, and the honest user response to a dead click is to click again.The usual answer is loading.tsx, and it does not cover this gap. A loading file only renders once the routing boundary it belongs to has been reached, which means after the t

One optional boolean, three states, and the badge next to it only knows about two

Notifio watches rental search pages and emails you when a new listing appears. With the auto-reply upgrade it can also answer the listing on your behalf, by replaying a flow you demonstrated once on that site yourself.That feature has a setup screen: one row per saved search, each row showing where that site stands. A row needs two things before it can reply. A recording, and a live login on that site, because the reply goes out as the user's own account.The recording is on disk, so it is known

A page-turning book in Remotion is one array of leaves, a rotateY and two faces, and the stacking order is the only hard part

The third video ad we built for Nakodo is a book. It drops onto a desk, the cover opens, twenty pages riffle past under a thumb, and it stops on the first of three spreads. It is React, rendered with Remotion, and there is no 3D library anywhere in it.The thing I expected to be hard, the page turn, is nine lines of CSS. The thing that actually took the afternoon was deciding which page is on top. A book in a 9:16 frameThe first decision is not an animation one. A book is landscape and a ree

Building a chart editor with no backend: storing charts in the browser and exporting a PNG

RelationCanvas is a relationship chart editor for fiction writers: characters are cards, relationships are labeled arrows. It has no accounts and no database. The server sends the pages and the JavaScript, and it never receives a chart. That decision shaped three parts of the code: saving, PNG export and sharing. Here's how each one works. (It's a Next.js 16 and React 19 app, but none of this depends on the framework.) One format for everythingA chart is a JSON object wrapped in a small env

Our relative timestamps round instead of floor, so 91 seconds ago reads as 2m ago

Notifio is a desktop app that checks rental search pages on a loop and emails you when a new listing shows up. Almost every number in its UI is a time: when a search was last checked, how long the check took, when a blocked host gets retried, when a listing turned up.All of that goes through one 25-line file. I read it properly for the first time last week and found that it rounds, everywhere, and that rounding means two different things depending on which direction the clock is pointing. T

I gave my Galaxy Watch a battery detox for a week, here&#039;s what actually helped

In 2019, during my school days, I was introduced to the world of smart wearables. The Honor Band 5 was my first smartwatch — I still remember how niche it felt to wear tech among students back then. It offered a solid two-week battery life. Ever since, I have associated smartwatches with devices that don't require frequent charging, until my recent stint with Samsun

These are the 4 most common problems with Ryobi power tools

<p>Ryobi tools strike a balance between cost and competence that weekend warriors love. That said, they’re not without their problems, and it pays to know what you’re getting yourself into before you invest in the ecosystem.</p><img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/ryobi-impact-driver-on-a-brick-surface-1.jpg' />

Watch South Africa vs Australia 2026 2nd Test: Live Streams

South Africa vs Australia 2026 2nd Test: October 18-22Daily start time: 9am BST / 4am ET / 7pm AEDTFree Streams: SABC 3 / SABC+ (South Africa)Unlock your stream with NordVPN (save up to 75%)The South Africa vs Australia 2nd Test 2026 sees the Proteas in a fight to save the series after their emphatic 214-run defeat in Durban. With just one match to follow, at Cape Town's iconic Newlands venue later this month, the hosts must get a result in Port Elizabeth to keep thei

TanStack Start vs Next.js in 2026: Same App, Real Benchmarks

I built the same small store in TanStack Start 1.0 and Next.js 16.4 and benchmarked both on one machine. The original, with any updates, lives on fabwaseem.com.TanStack Start vs Next.js got a lot more interesting on October 13, 2026, when TanStack Start 1.0 went stable. I built the same small store in both frameworks, with the same routes, data, components and Tailwind styles, and measured them on one machine. TanStack Start served 2.9× more server-rendered list pages, 4.6× more product pages an

How to watch Fiji vs Cook Islands for FREE: Live streams for Rugby League World Cup 2026 game

Watch Fiji vs Cook Islands FREE on 7plus(AUS)Stream on Premier Sports (US/CAN/UK)Unlock your stream with NordVPN (save up to 75%)Kick-off: Sun, Oct 18, 1.05am ET / 6.05am BST / 4.05pm AEDTWatch Fiji vs Cook Islands in a vital 2026 Rugby League World Cup Pool A encounter at the McDonald Jones Stadium in Newcastle, New South Wales. Respectively the No7 and No8 teams in the world rankings, the Pacific Island teams will be desperate to win in case one of their bigger pool

&#039;This computer is going to be incredible&#039;: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang explains why the new Surface Laptop Ultra is &quot;really a work of love&quot;

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has sung the praises of Microsoft's new Surface Laptop Ultra, describing it as "so beautiful" and "incredible".Speaking at a developer event in London, Huang outlined the development process that went into building the hardware powering the new product, which is the first Microsoft device powered by an Nvidia chip.“This computer is going to be incredible - it took us four years to build it," Huang told attendees including TechRadar Pro, "this p