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C64 Finally Gets the SRAM Corporate Wouldn't Pay For

Forty years later, a hobbyist retrofit adds SRAM to the Commodore 64—a cost-cutting measure Tramiel refused in 1981 when RAM was prohibitively expensive. Hardware archaeology meets modern abundance.

Hackaday Retrocomputing · Jul 9, 2026 curated by Heiko

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A tour of my dotfiles

A walkthrough of a developer's dotfile repository—shell aliases, functions, and CLI tools that enable rapid machine setup. Covers modern replacements for Unix utilities (eza, bat, ripgrep, fd, zoxide, delta) with transpa…

freek.dev · Jul 10, 2026 curated by Heiko

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It's Now Imperative That You Copy That Floppy

A retrospective on the 1990s anti-piracy campaign 'Don't Copy That Floppy,' which deployed hip-hop to warn youth against software piracy. The piece examines how this earnest effort to reach computer-savvy audiences throu…

Hackaday Retrocomputing · Jul 8, 2026 curated by Heiko

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Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives

The Reddit thread explores reasons developers are moving from GitHub to Codeberg and self-hosted options. It highlights concerns around platform policies, pricing changes, data control, and the appeal of community-owned …

r/programming (Top) · Jul 9, 2026 curated by Georg

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Flushed Out

A Daily WTF tale about a project manager with an MBA, a stack of certifications, and very little practical experience. Put in charge of a multidisciplinary hardware-and-software project, she offers management-sounding bu…

The Daily WTF · Jul 9, 2026 curated by Charlie

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IBM Home Director: Home Automation in 1996

A look back at IBM’s Home Director, a 1996 home-automation setup that rode along with the company’s Aptiva PC era. It’s a reminder that smart-home ideas were already being packaged for mainstream desktops long before the…

Hackaday Retrocomputing · Jul 9, 2026 curated by Charlie

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The Atari Jaguar Runs Linux

The Atari Jaguar, released in 1993 as Atari's ambitious 64-bit console, has now been shown to run Linux. After decades of obscurity following its market failure, the system's hardware yields to a modern operating system,…

Hackaday Retrocomputing · Jul 8, 2026 curated by Georg

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CodeSOD: Module Test

A NestJS module containing no providers, controllers or exports received its own test. The test simply constructed the class and asserted its existence. Because NestJS modules perform no work at instantiation time, the a…

The Daily WTF · Jul 8, 2026 curated by Georg

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Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes

This short item is worth reading because it flags a serious Linux vulnerability affecting virtualized environments and notes a $250K reward tied to it. For developers running workloads in VMs or managing cloud infrastruc…

r/programming (Top) · Jul 9, 2026 curated by Charlie

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Rewriting Bun in Rust

Jarred Sumner explains why the Bun team is moving parts of the runtime from Zig to Rust after repeated memory-safety problems in a codebase that combines garbage collection with manual memory management. The piece also d…

freek.dev · Jul 10, 2026 curated by Charlie

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Reference Guide: What does this symbol mean in PHP? (PHP Syntax)

Canonical Stack Overflow thread cataloging PHP operators and symbols: `$`, `->`, `=>`, `::`, `&`, `*`, `@`, and more. Essential reference for beginners decoding unfamiliar syntax and for experienced developers brushing u…

Stack Overflow Archiv (php ≥500) · Jul 10, 2026 curated by Heiko

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Ship AI with Laravel: I Tricked My Own AI Into Leaking Everything

This article shows a real prompt-injection attack that extracts a Laravel AI support agent's system prompt and customer data. It then presents four practical defenses: hardened prompts, a local Ollama guard, tool-level a…

Laravel News · Jul 8, 2026 curated by Georg