S2Pi’s N04 and N05 HATs for Raspberry Pi 5: NVMe Storage Expansion in 2230, 2242, 2260, 2280 Sizes
S2Pi has introduced two new HATs tailored for the Raspberry Pi 5, designed to enhance the device’s storage capacity through its new PCIe interface. These boards are engineered to optimize the performance of NVMe M2 SSDs and expand the Raspberry Pi 5’s storage capabilities and performance. The N04 board, a PCIe Peripheral Board, is crafted […] ⌘ Read more

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OKdo ROCK 5 AIO Edge Media Board with 3 TOPs NPU and Pre-integrated AI Stack
The OKdo ROCK 5 AIO Edge AI Media Board, belonging to the ROCK Series, features a 3 TOPS NPU. It incorporates an AI stack designed for compatibility with GStreamer and OpenCV, suitable for custom computer vision projects. The ROCK 5 AIO is powered by the reliable Rockchip RK1808 System-on-Chip (SoC), which features a dual-core ARM […] ⌘ Read more

Introducing the MaTouch ESP32-S3 SPI IPS 2.8″ with Camera OV3660 by Makerfabs
Makerfabs has expanded its product lineup with the introduction of the MaTouch ESP32-S3 SPI IPS 2.8″ module, featuring the OV3660 Camera. This Makerfabs module is designed for smart applications like remote monitoring and facial recognition, offering compact dimensions and flexible storage options. The module is equipped with the ESP32-S3 controller, providing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.0 […] ⌘ Read more

Banana Pi Announces BPI-F3 RISC-V Development Board with 2 TOPS AI Performance
The Banana Pi BPI-F3 is a development board powered by an 8-core RISC-V processor, capable of supporting up to 16GB of RAM memory. This open-source board stands out as the first to incorporate the RISC-V K1 chip, developed by SpacemiT Technologies Ltd., designed in accordance with the RISC-V Foundation RVA22 standards. As previously mentioned, the […] ⌘ Read more

How to Convert Images to Webp on Mac from Command Line
Do you need to convert images to webp format from the Mac? Converting images to WebP offers tremendous file size savings, often compressing an image up to 70% without losing image quality, so it’s understandable why many Mac users and web developers, designers, and workers would wish to convert and compress images into WebP format. … Read More ⌘ Read more

How to Convert Images to Webp on Mac from Command Line
Do you need to convert images to webp format from the Mac? Converting images to WebP offers tremendous file size savings, often compressing an image up to 70% without losing image quality, so it’s understandable why many Mac users and web developers, designers, and workers would wish to convert and compress images into WebP format. … Read More ⌘ Read more

DFRobot Coin-Sized ESP32-C6 Board with RISC-V Core, Priced at $4.90
The Beetle ESP32-C6 is a compact and versatile IoT development board by DFRobot, designed for Arduino enthusiasts and developers looking to explore low-power IoT solutions. This tiny gizmo offers up to 16x I/Os and an array of communication protocols including Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5, Zigbee 3.0, and Thread 1.3. This device utilizes the same Espressif […] ⌘ Read more

BlueSMiRF v2 High-Speed ESP32-Based Module with Duplex Transmissions up to 921600bps
SparkFun has just unveiled the latest addition to its BlueSMiRF lineup – a compact and advanced wireless module that maintains the familiar form-factor of its predecessors. Designed for seamless compatibility, it effortlessly integrates with Arduino boards and other devices featuring 6-pin serial connectors, enhancing its utility in a wide range of applications. According to … ⌘ Read more

Arducam Launches PiNSIGHT The Next-Gen 12MP AI Vision Solution for Raspberry Pi
Arducam introduces the PiNSIGHT, a 12MP Vision AI Mate specifically designed for the Raspberry Pi 5, priced at $69.99. This camera solution is set to enhance the vision capabilities for Raspberry Pi enthusiasts and professionals alike, with an estimated delivery by the end of March. The device boasts a 4K camera module, providing crisp and […] ⌘ Read more

Low-cost Libre Computer Solitude with 4GB LPDDR4 starts at $45.00
The Libre Computer Solitude AML-S905D3-CC is a cost-effective Single Board Computer designed for supporting upstream AI and neuro-computing. Compatible with SystemReady IR operating systems, it features an advanced BIOS that is UEFI-compatible, facilitating support for a range of standard Linux distributions. The SBC is equipped with an Amlogic S905D3 processor, comprising 4 E-Cores and 2 […] ⌘ Read more

Macintosh Turns 40
The Macintosh computer, which has played a pivotal role in shaping personal computing and design principles throughout the entire tech industry, has turned 40 years old. The first Macintosh debuted on January 23, 1984 as a groundbreaking product. Distinguished with friendly unique hardware design, a revolutionary graphical user interface, the ability to speak text aloud, … Read More ⌘ Read more

Emerald 2 Mini PC with Triple HDMI and Intel Iris Xe Graphics
This month, Simply NUC, Inc unveiled their newest Mini PC, the Emerald 2 NUC. This advanced model is designed to be compatible with a range of Intel’s 13th Gen processors, coupled with Intel Iris Xe Graphics, enabling support for multiple 4K displays. Additionally, the Emerald 2 boasts a capability of supporting up to 64GB DDR4 […] ⌘ Read more

Banana Pi Teases Open Source Router with Triductor TR6560+TR5220 Wi-Fi SoC
Banana Pi recently showcased a Mini router designed with the  Triductor TR6560 along with TR5220 Wi-Fi System-on-Chip. Some key features of the Banana Pi BPI-Wi-Fi6 Mini are its GbE LAN port and its GbE WAN port for wired connectivity. This device shares a familiar form-factor with the previously launched Banana Pi BPI-R3 Mini Router board […] ⌘ Read more

Waveshare Unveils Cost-Effective PCIe to M.2 HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5, Priced at $8.99
The distributor Waveshare recently featured a PCIe to M.2 HAT+ compatible with the latest Raspberry Pi 5 Single Board Computer launched last year. This device boasts a compact design and is available at a budget-friendly price, making it an attractive option for tech enthusiasts and professionals alike. Similar to the HatDrive Top by Pineberry, which […] ⌘ Read more

AAEON’s UP Xtreme 7100 Targets Robotics and Industrial Solutions
The UP Xtreme 7100, AAEON’s newest addition to its range of developer boards, is engineered with a specific focus on applications in Autonomous Mobile Robots, Automated Guided Vehicles, and broader industrial automation. This device features a fanless design and is equipped with up to 16GB of RAM. It also includes dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, catering […] ⌘ Read more

RP2040-Based Board Featuring 6 High-Power Module Slots with up to 15A Continuous Delivery
The Pimoroni Yukon, powered by the Raspberry Pi RP2040 chip, is a high-power, versatile board specifically designed for robotics and other applications that demand control over actuators like motors, servos, steppers, and speakers. This board is tailored to cater to various advanced functionalities in a user-friendly package. The Pimoroni Yukon, powered by the RP204 … ⌘ Read more

(Updated) Banana Pi introduces SenaryTech SN3680 based SBC
Banana Pi’s new SBC board features the SenaryTech SN3680 SoC which combines a quad-core CPU, 6.75 TOPS NPU and a GE9920 GPU. The BPI-M6 also provides 4Kp60 display support, 1x GbE port, and optional wireless connectivity. The BPI-M6 mirrors the Raspberry Pi SBC design, however it’s powered by the Synaptics VS680 SoC which is populated […] ⌘ Read more

Affordable $12.99 ESP32-S3 Gizmo with Compact USB Flash Drive Form-Factor
The Waveshare ESP32-S3 GEEK, designed as a compact and versatile embedded device, caters to both developers and hobbyists with its USB Flash drive form factor. Enhancing its functionality, this innovative gadget features a small yet interactive 1.14-inch LCD display, adding a visual component to its array of capabilities. At its core, the ESP32-S3 GEEK Board […] ⌘ Read more

Low Profile Radxa X2L SBC Featuring Intel J4125 and RP2040 Microcontroller
The Radxa X2L, powered by the Intel Celeron Processor J4125, is a compact yet robust mini-computer designed to cater to a wide range of computing needs. It’s a perfect blend of performance, connectivity, and versatility, making it suitable for both personal and professional use. Unlike other recent Radxa offerings such as the Radxa Zero 3E, […] ⌘ Read more

Acer Teams Up with Qualcomm to Launch Advanced 5G and Wi-Fi 7 Routers
Acer today announced the launch of two innovative gaming routers: the Predator Connect X7 5G CPE and the Predator Connect T7 Wi-Fi 7 Mesh Router. These routers are powered by the Qualcomm Immersive Home Platform and feature tri-band Wi-Fi 7, designed for gaming and streaming experience with their robust, high-speed connectivity. The Predator Connect X7 […] ⌘ Read more

Download Over 900 eBooks of Classics Free from StandardEbooks
If you’re interested in doing some reading of the classics, you may appreciate the Standard Ebooks project, which offers free high quality ebooks that are well-formatted, proofread, and professionally designed using style manuals. Standard Ebooks focuses on books that are in the public domain and without copyright restrictions, which is how they’re able to offer … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/21/dow … ⌘ Read more

Download Over 900 eBooks of Classics Free from StandardEbooks
If you’re interested in doing some reading of the classics, you may appreciate the Standard Ebooks project, which offers free high quality ebooks that are well-formatted, proofread, and professionally designed using style manuals. Standard Ebooks focuses on books that are in the public domain and without copyright restrictions, which is how they’re able to offer … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/21/dow … ⌘ Read more

** Accessibility-first **
Whereas mobile-first design and development invited folks to think more expansively about the physical reality of the devices people use, accessibility-first design and development invites folks to think more expansively about the lived experiences, and physical reality of actual people. ⌘ Read more

Early Black Friday Deals: iPad 10th Gen for $349 ($100 Off!)
Amazon is back with more great early Black Friday deals for Apple products, this time they’re taking 22% off the iPad 10th gen price of $449, selling the latest model iPad for just $349. That’s $100 off Apple’s standard retail price for the same iPad! The iPad 10th generation features a modern design, 10.9″ Retina … Read More ⌘ Read more

Jeffrey Paul: Apple OSes Are Insecure By Design To Aid Surveillance: https://sneak.berlin/20231005/apple-operating-system-surveillance/

Get Over 5000 Free Icons & Symbols with SF Symbols
Apple has launched SF Symbols 5, a large collection of iconography for developers and designers to use in their apps for Apple experiences. If you’re a designer or developer, you’ll probably appreciate all the new symbols available that you can use in apps for the Apple ecosystem, whether for interface, toolbars, navigation, contextual menus, or … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/10/06/get-over-5000-free-icons-symbols-with-s … ⌘ Read more

A guide to designing and shipping AI developer tools
GitHub’s design experts share 10 tips and lessons for designing magical user experiences for AI applications and AI coding tools. ⌘ Read more

Mango-picking robot snaps up $1 million in venture capital
A robot designed to pick mangoes and hopefully ease worker shortage issues, expected to ”create ripples through the supply chain”, has landed $1 million in venture capital. ⌘ Read more

Exploring developer happiness, inclusion, and productivity at GitHub’s Design Conference
As a design organization, we have the opportunity to make a significant impact on designing the platform for all developers. How does the emergence of creative AI impact our work? How can we achieve an inclusive experience for a spectrum of all abilities? What does designing for developer happiness look like? ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net hmm, I’d be up for thinking about that. At least at the protocol and design level–I’m afraid I can’t help much with Go programming.

Erlang Solutions: Lifting Your Loads for Maintainable Elixir Applications
This post will discuss one particular aspect of designing Elixir applications using the Ecto library: separating data loading from using the data which is loaded.  I will lay out the situations and present some solutions, including a new library called ecto_require_associations.

Applications will differ, but let’s look at [this example]( … ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Lifting Your Loads for Maintainable Elixir Applications
This post will discuss one particular aspect of designing Elixir applications using the Ecto library: separating data loading from using the data which is loaded.  I will lay out the situations and present some solutions, including a new library called ecto_require_associations.

Applications will differ, but let’s look at [this example]( … ⌘ Read more

The Apple Vision Pro: designed to make you less happy
Creepy. Dystopian. And more than a little like a drug dealer. ⌘ Read more

Victorian flower farmer invents award-winning app encouraging people to buy local
In a bid to encourage Australians to buy locally grown flowers, a young entrepreneur in western Victoria designs a digital marketplace to connect producers with the local market. ⌘ Read more

Design’s journey towards accessibility
Design can have a significant impact on delivering accessible experiences to our users. It takes a cultural shift, dedicated experts, and permission to make progress over perfection in order to build momentum. We’ve got a long way to go, but we’re starting to see a real shift in our journey to make GitHub a true home for all developers. ⌘ Read more

Unlocking inclusive design: how Primer’s color system is making GitHub.com more inclusive
How Primer’s updated light and dark theme color contrast strategy resolved hundreds of color-contrast-related accessibility issues over one thousand use cases. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I think those headsets were not particularly usable for things like web browsing because the resolution was too low, something like 1080p if I recall correctly. A very small screen at that resolution close to your eye is going to look grainy. You’d need 4k at least, I think, before you could realistically have text and stuff like that be zoomable and readable for low vision people. The hardware isn’t quite there yet, and the headsets that can do that kind of resolution are extremely expensive.

But yeah, even so I can imagine the metaverse wouldn’t be very helpful for low vision people as things stand today, even with higher resolution. I’ve played VR games and that was fine, but I’ve never tried to do work of any kind.

I guess where I’m coming from is that even though I’m low vision, I can work effectively on a modern OS because of the accessibility features. I also do a lot of crap like take pictures of things with my smartphone then zoom into the picture to see detail (like words on street signs) that my eyes can’t see normally. That feels very much like rudimentary augmented reality that an appropriately-designed headset could mostly automate. VR/AR/metaverse isn’t there yet, but it seems at least possible for the hardware and software to develop accessibility features that would make it workable for low vision people.

There’s a link to the blog post, but they extracted a summary in hopes of keeping people in Google properties (something they’ve been called out on many times).

I was never contacted to ask if I was OK with Google extracting a summary of my blog post and sticking it on the web site. There is a very clear copyright designation at the bottom of each page, including that one. So, by putting their own brand over my text, they violated my copyright. Straightforward theft right there.

Erlang Solutions: Re-implement our first blog scrapper with Crawly 0.15.0
It has been almost four years since my first article about scraping with Elixir and Crawly was published. Since then, many changes have occurred, the most significant being Erlang Solution’s blog design update. As a result, the 2019 tutorial is no longer functional.

This situation provided an excellent opportunity to update the original work and re-implement the Crawler using the new version of Cra … ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Re-implement our first blog scrapper with Crawly 0.15.0
It has been almost four years since my first article about scraping with Elixir and Crawly was published. Since then, many changes have occurred, the most significant being Erlang Solution’s blog design update. As a result, the 2019 tutorial is no longer functional.

This situation provided an excellent opportunity to update the original work and re-implement the Crawler using the new version of Crawl … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah. I’d add “Big Data” to that hype list, and I’m sure there are a bunch more that I’m forgetting.

On the topic of a GPU cluster, the optimal design is going to depend a lot on what workloads you intend to run on it. The weakest link in these things is the data transfer rate, but that won’t matter too much for compute-heavy workloads. If your workloads are going to involve a lot of data, though, you’d be better off with a smaller number of high-VRAM cards than with a larger number of interconnected cards. I guess that’s hardware engineering 101 stuff, but still…

System76 building a brand new laptop, designed in-house
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Erlang Solutions: Here’s Why You Should Build Scalable and Concurrent Applications with Elixir
In today’s world, when dealing with high levels of system requests, you need applications that can handle them without slowing down. Here’s where Elixir comes in. Elixir is a programming language that is designed to create highly scalable and concurrent applications. Built on Erlang’s virtual machine (BEAM), it has been used for decades to build highly reliable … ⌘ Read more

** Accessibility and the product person **
This post is a slightly modified version of a talk I presented to the product practice at my work. It presents a few ways that product designers and managers can help to move accessibility forward. It is a little bit different than what I normally share, here, but, I thought it may be interesting to some folks.

[![Picture of a slide with the title “Why though?” It also includes a quote from Kat Holmes’ book Mismatch. The quote reads: “There are many challeng … ⌘ Read more

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The worst kind of blogging is blogging about blogging, so, I’ll keep this blogging about blogging short!

I’ve made some minor updates to the design of the website that have improved it’s usability a wee bit, and are a step in the right direction toward upping my accessibility game. The major remaining accessibility issues are around color contrast and some structura … ⌘ Read more

Isode: Icon-5066 3.0 – New Capabilities
We are thrilled to announce the latest update to our STANAG 5066 server, Icon-5066. With this new release, we’ve incorporated a host of exciting features and enhancements, designed to not only add new functionality to your deployment but also increase the performance of your HF Radio Network.

The below is a list of the changes, and updates that can be found within Icon-5066 v3.0.

This major new feature enables management of ALE conf … ⌘ Read more

Announcing the launch of the All In for Maintainers DEI Resource Hub
The DEI Resource Hub is a vetted collection of resources, tools, and best practices designed to help open source maintainers create and maintain inclusive and diverse open source communities. ⌘ Read more