Are you ready to spend some time soldering and setting up projects on your Pi this weekend? Then today's post is for you! Below, I talk about building a custom turntable with a Pi Pico, designing a custom OBD-II dashboard for your car, and building a tabletop game soundboard.
Like most people, the way I mainly share a photo with friends and family is by texting it to them. This works fine if you just quickly want to share a moment. However, it's a very fragmented situation, and there is a better way—more than one, in fact—built into Google Photos.
More than perhaps any room in your home, the kitchen begs for 3D printed solutions. It’s an area that’s ripe with opportunities for custom optimizations—especially if you’re restricted by space. My kitchen can always use more functionality, and these five prints help.
If you have kids, managing their screen time can be a constant battle. It can be difficult to enforce the rules because it's easy for them to pick up a phone or tablet without you realizing. If you have Pi-hole set up, you can use it to shut down their internet access when it's time for bed.
I've been using VLC for years, so when I recently started reading about mpv as a compelling alternative, I decided to give it a try. My first impression wasn't great. mpv opened my videos just fine, but compared with VLC, it felt almost unfinished. The interface is sparse, there aren't traditional menus full of settings, and a lot of the conveniences I was used to s
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. BackgroundFaroIQ is a strategic intelligence platform for nonprofits that I built for the Microsoft Agents League Hackathon 2026. It runs a 9-agent pipeline on Azure AI Foundry, produces a full strategic report in under 90 seconds, and executes automatically into Microsoft 365.The hero section was one of the most important design decisions of the project. In a hackathon, the first screen a judge sees defines t
The useReducer hook is a state management hook in React that provides an alternative to the useState hook. It is used when the state of a component is complex and requires more than one state variable.Syntax:const [state, dispatch] = useReducer(reducer, initialState, init)reducer: The reducer is a function responsible for defining how the state transitions from one state to another based on dispatched actions. It takes two arguments: the current state and the action being dispatched.initialState
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If you've built more than one or two production apps, you've probably written auth + RBAC from scratch more times than you'd like to admit. Here's the pattern I keep coming back to — JWT access + refresh tokens, httpOnly cookies, and role-based route protection on both the frontend and backend.This post walks through the core pieces. At the end I'll link a ready-to-use starter kit if you'd rather not rebuild this from scratch every time.The problem with "just use localStorage"A lot of tutorials
Your design system has tokens. Your linter does not know they exist.eslint-plugin-react has 104 rules and not one of them can tell you that #ffffff1f should have been var(--surface-highlight). That gap is invisible in review, because a hex value in a className looks exactly like every other string.So I ran four rules over my own code: 401 .tsx files across a design system, a docs site, a blog, and a control-room app. 144 violations in 50 files. The design system defines 192 tokens. It also break
I’ve used and reviewed a number of the best coffee machines in Australia in the last few years, from simple one-button pod options through to more involved models offering plenty of refinement. For my money, one of the standout espresso machines I’ve had the pleasure of using is the Philips LatteGo 4400 Series, and it’s now down to a delightfully low AU$613 at Amazon for a limited time. This compact model from Philips is a fully automatic machine, meaning you only nee
Have you noticed that ChatGPT has suddenly started dropping f-bombs? I have, and it seems that I’m not the only one.It first happened in a casual chat, and it really caught me off guard. We were discussing Netflix’s Jujutsu Kaisen and before I had sworn in our chat, ChatGPT used the f-bomb to describe a character’s actions as “f**** awful”. Before that, I’d said things like “God damn,” in the conversation, but ChatGPT was the one to introduce the f-word. It did so com
React 20 ref as a Prop: Migrating Away From forwardRef Across a Large Component LibraryThis article was written with the assistance of AI, under human supervision and review.Most React component library maintenance debt stems from a single historical artifact: forwardRef. The pattern emerged because refs were special-cased in React's original architecture—passing them required wrapping every component that needed to expose a DOM handle. Component library teams spent years adding forwardRef
Now that AI has quickly become embedded in global enterprise operations, it has the ability to impact everything from data analysis to decision-making and even security. Most conversations, however, focus on AI capability, power, productivity, and accuracy, but leave out one major issue. While everyone is focused on what happens as AI is implemented, very few are asking what happens when access to AI capability suddenly disappears.A prominent example of this is the de
NATO is planning to fortify the border with Russia and its allies with a network of sensors and drones, with AI assistanceThe Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative will track threats along the NATO borders with Russia and BelarusThe strategy mirrors the steps taken by Ukraine to bolster its defenses against Russian aggressionNATO’s concerns about its border with Russia and Belarus have grown into plans to deploy sensors and drones along 3,500 kilometers, with an AI elem
Stop me if you've heard this before: "I don't have enough time in the day." I don't have the stats, but I'll go out on a limb to say that 99% of us, including myself, have muttered that common phrase before. In my case, I talk about not having enough time when it comes to streaming. I watch a lot of shows for work, but I struggle to find things to stream when presse
<p>CachyOS has earned a reputation for being fast, but because speed is easiest to benchmark in frame rates, it’s often discussed in the context of gaming too.</p><img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2025/11/a-laptop-screen-with-the-cachyos-logo-showing-in-a-linux-terminal.jpg' />
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My Q&A with one of the writers of the movie Moneyball.Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
20 years ago, the computers in your car mostly handled fuel injection and ignition timing, shifted the transmission, and triggered the anti-lock brakes when something went wrong. Each one ran on a dedicated chip, wired to do exactly one job, and nothing changed unless a mechanic swapped the part.
