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Federal prosecutors have charged Atlanta resident Sam Tunick with destroying evidence after his GrapheneOS phone wiped itself during a Customs and Border Protection search. While agents claim the dev…
Frustrated by manual time adjustments on standard clocks, I decided to build a custom self-setting device using a Raspberry Pi Zero W and an Adafruit seven-segment display. To overcome my limited Pyt…
I built an early prototype called PGSimCity to visualize the PostgreSQL engine in 3D as it loads city code. This model is unreviewed and likely contains inaccuracies in both the simulation and explan…
I joined John Backus in 1974 to help refine his Red language, a functional system designed to overcome the complexity of conventional programming. Our work explored variable-free approaches and forma…
I helped build the case for freeing prediction markets, hoping they would surface vital economic information. Instead, platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket have become backdoor sportsbooks, while asy…
Fonts In Use serves as an independent archive documenting typography in real-world applications. The platform categorizes thousands of examples by topics like music and architecture, formats such as…
Port Zero revolutionizes developer networking by assigning stable *.portzero.local domains to every local process, completely eliminating port conflicts and EADDRINUSE errors. By simply setting your…
Inspired by Hank Green's timeline, I used Foxglove to visualize the Artemis II mission. By combining JPL Horizons trajectory data with mission photos, I built an interactive 3D scene. The project fea…