Collaborate Disseminate
Much of the world appears to revolve around sports, and sports tracking is a pretty big business. So how do people keep up with their favorite team? Well, [Jackson] and …read more Continue reading An Overly Complicated Method of Tracking Your Favorite Sports Team
The 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web passed earlier this year. Naturally, this milestone was met with truckloads of nerdy fanfare and pining for those simpler times. In three …read more Continue reading Gopher, the Competing Standard to WWW in the ’90s is Still Worth Checking Out
You’ve no doubt noticed by now that while some links are gold and/or bold, most links out there are blue, especially on web pages of yore. But why? the TL;DR …read more Continue reading So, Why Are Hyperlinks Blue, Anyway?
These days, we’re blessed with wired and wireless networks that can carry huge amounts of data in the blink of an eye. However, some areas are underprovisioned with bandwidth, such …read more Continue reading German Experiment Shows Horses Beating Local Internet Connections
Signal is a popular encrypted messaging app, typically used on smartphones. The cross-platform service can now be used via the ESP32, however, thanks to the work of [Dharmik] and [Tirth]. …read more Continue reading Messaging on Signal Via The ESP32
The Internet teaches us that we can accept stand-ins for the real world. We have an avatar that looks like us. We have virtual mailboxes to read messages out of …read more Continue reading Internet Chess on a Real Chessboard
[Benjojo] got interested in where the magic number of 1,500 bytes came from, and shared some background on just how and why it seems to have come to be. In …read more Continue reading Just How Did 1500 Bytes Become the MTU of the Internet?
I could probably be described as a SpaceX enthusiast. I catch their launches when I can, and I’ve watched the development of Starship with great interest. But the side-effect of …read more Continue reading Starlink: A Review and Some Hacks
Twitch Plays Pokemon burst onto the then nascent livestreaming scene back in 2014, letting Twitch viewers take command of a Game Boy emulator running Pokemon Red via simple chat commands. …read more Continue reading Code Your Own Twitch Chat Controls For Robots — Or Just About Anything Else!
After a journey of a decade, what started as Project Loon by Google is no more. Promoted as a way to bring communications to the most remote parts of the globe, it used gigantic, high-altitude balloons equipped with communication hardware …read more