Articles
- Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch
Google is turning up the enshittification to 11. Here's a very accurate summary of Google's latest I/O conference. - Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract - Jeff Geerling
And another product that's getting worse for the end user... it's always the same story.
Software/Services
- The Virtual OS Museum
I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds amazing - a pack of hundreds of operating systems, all pre-installed and ready to run and explore. Next time I'm stuck at home, I know what I'm going to do. (via Jack Baty)
Hardware Projects
- GitHub - simoneluconi/SKAFTSARV-to-WLED: Modding the IKEA SKAFTSÄRV with an ESP32 and WLED · GitHub
Ikea sells this really nice looking RGB-LED lamp, and here's a guide on how to hack an ESP32 microcontroller into it to build your own custom smart lamp. - Open Printer | Crowd Supply
Now that I see this, I wonder why nobody has tried making an open source printer before. Probably because making hardware is difficult and expensive, but in a world where all products get enshittified to hell something like this is desparately needed. (via Chris)
Videos
- I should not have liked the world’s first smart home. - YouTube
Tom Scott goes on a road trip through England and visits one interesting place in every county. The whole series is great, but this is my favourite episode so far - he visits the castle of a Victorian era inventor which is filled with all kinds of cutting edge technology of the time. And there's some very poignant social commentary at the end.
Around the Small Web
- Playing ATARI music on Amiga for free!
This is probably only interesting to you if you're into synthesizer music, which I am so I found it fascinating. It's a deep dive into how the Atari produces sound and how this can be reproduced on the Amiga, which has completely different sound hardware. - Make your website or blog fediverse-ready | Stefan Bohacek's Personal Website and Blog
How to link your website with your fediverse profile. That's really neat, and I'm going to implement this after I finish writing this post :) - Fits on a Floppy - A Manifesto for Small Software
This is something we really need, and we're unlikely to get anymore - lean software that doesn't use more resources than is absolutely necessary. (via Michal) - wake up! 16b
Speaking of lean software, here is a DOS demo that has audio and video, and it fits in 16 bytes. Sixteen bytes! You could transfer the file by writing the binary by hand on a post-it. (via Nina)
Misc
- Wikipedia File Explorer — Browse Wikipedia on a Windows XP desktop
Wikipedia, but as a file system in Windows XP. Individual articles open in WordPad. It's not the most useful thing in the world, but the idea is really cool. (via Raffaele) - TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation is loading...
Here you can run every Amiga Workbench in the browser to play around with and get a feel for how the OS developed. (via) - ~ rip.so :: the digital graveyard ~
A virtual graveyard for dead online services and related tech products.