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CutScape v0.6.0: an InkScape extension for outputting to 2D plotters, cutters, engravers, and CNC…

Developer jetpax has released version 0.6.0 of CutScape, an Inkscape extension that sends drawings out to 2D plotters, vinyl cutters, engravers and CNC machines. The release is posted on GitHub. This version adds presets for Secabo’s C IV, S and T series cutters. CutScape’s messages no longer trigger Inkscape’s warning dialog, and the whole interface […]

Adafruit Blog · EN

A hackable analog phone system for your home

Major Hack’s Analog Redial project on Hackaday.io turns one or two old telephones, rotary or touch-tone, into a working phone system. The board supplies real dial tone and ringing, lets the phones call each other, and includes an answering machine. Dial codes are set up from a web page, and you can upload your own […]

Adafruit Blog · EN

A los desarrolladores de software se les fue de las manos cómo lo bautizan. Y ahora todos pagamos un 'impuesto cognitivo' por ello

Durante décadas, podría decirse que las ingenierías ha compartido un principio básico: los nombres importan . Es decir, que un puente, una válvula, un compuesto químico o un instrumento quirúrgico reciben nombres que dicen algo sobre su función, su forma o su propósito. Nadie espera creatividad literaria en un manual técnico : lo que se espera es claridad. Sin embargo, según el programador Salih Muhammed , en el mundo del software algo se terminó torciendo en los últimos años. Hoy convivimos con listados de aplicaciones, librerías de desarrollo y plataformas cloud poblados de serpientes, diose

Genbeta Dev · ES

Après les licenciements, id Software (DOOM) et MachineGames (Wolfenstein) se rapprochent pour écrire l'avenir de l'id Tech

Studio historique de Bethesda, longtemps à la pointe de la technologie et père du moteur id Tech (DOOM, Indiana Jones et le Cercle Ancien...), id Software a beaucoup souffert des licenciements opérés par la PDG Asha Sharma dans les rangs d'Xbox en juillet 2026. D'après différents rapports, la moitié des effectifs du studio ont été supprimés entre les branches d'Austin, au Texas, et Francfort, en Allemagne,...

Gamekult · FR

NI’s new Massive XL is nicely overstuffed but easier to morph, mutate, and play

What do you get the music synth user who's got everything? Here's what: mutation and generation options that actually lead you into more tweaking, not away from it. Plus goodies from the original Massive and PPG, and some of our favorite NI effects. Massive XL feels like the sequel Massive X wanted to be. Here's a first hands-on -- at just the right time, with a $99 intro price. The post NI’s new Massive XL is nicely overstuffed but easier to morph, mutate, and play appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music .

Create Digital Music · EN

XEN FX LAB: sequel to Zen Delay adds tweakable spring tank, dub mode

XEN FX LAB is a follow-up to a software hit (and hardware, before that), adding a modeled spring reverb, strike for "knocking" the virtual tank, and a dub button for adding dub-style throws, plus significant performance optimizations all round. And yeah, it's time for more wild drones and dubs and echoes and the lot. macOS, Windows; VST3, AU, standalone; also on iOS. The post XEN FX LAB: sequel to Zen Delay adds tweakable spring tank, dub mode appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music .

Create Digital Music · EN

Mangle everything: modulated mayhem in circuit-bent Sinevibes Malfunction v3

This is why you get intimate with code, line by line. Artemiy at Sinevibes obsessed over details, breaking a filter model by rewiring its internal connections -- and now, with v3, giving it precise modulation in a wide variety of shapes. Now, like kids kicking over a sandcastle, we can take that handiwork and apply it to total, absolute destruction. The post Mangle everything: modulated mayhem in circuit-bent Sinevibes Malfunction v3 appeared first on CDM Create Digital Music .

Create Digital Music · EN

The Luminar Fall Update Has Some Powerful New Tools

Luminar has released a solid fall update with some new features and some enhancements. The update is free to current owners and can, of course, be purchased by photographers who are interested. This new update is version 1.29.0. The update should appear automatically, or you can click "Check for Updates" in the Luminar dropdown menu. [ Read More ]

Fstoppers · EN

Rooting an Amazon Echo Dot

Julian Imhof, writing on andystechlab.dev, turned a 2018 Echo Dot 3 into a local Home Assistant voice satellite. Amazon cloud isn’t used in handling the voice commands. The work needs a Linux computer, an open-source project, and a USB cable soldered to the board. The Echo Dot doesn’t have a USB socket, so the USB […]

Adafruit Blog · EN

Introducing Kody: Your Personal Software Factory

Kody turns the good answer into a package you keep.

Kent C. Dodds · EN

When Software Meets Hardware

When software meets hardware, engineering principles remain largely the same, but the sensible defaults often change. Kuldeep Singh describes our experience modernizing a large IoT fleet of battery-powered sensors. Our familiar principles remained important; what changed was how we applied them. These practices emerged through experiments, failures, and operational experience—each challenge helping us replace a reasonable assumption with a more sensible default. more…

Martin Fowler · EN

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

The other day, I saw a viral tweet saying that people talking about how LLMs are causing slow, bloated, code are going to eat crow once they re-write everything in super-optimized assembly. We're not quite at the point where we want to write everything in assembly , but some variant of what Nolan Lawson said about testing, you can choose how many bugs you want now , which I less eloquently noted here , is becoming more true for performance. In response to a comment in my last post that the cost of formerly specialized performance work has dropped by many orders of magnitude and performance wor

Dan Luu · EN

“We should be more ambitious with the software we build”

Since early this year, Michael Malis (of pgrust ) has been showing me interesting things he's done and saying [W]e should be more ambitious 1 with the software we build There is, understandably, a lot of skepticism about projects like pgrust because there are so many low-quality AI-generated projects out there. If I didn't know Malis and didn't look into it, I would just assume that pgrust was another vibe slopped project that's never going to work. But I know Malis well enough to trust his work without looking into it, and if you look into it a bit, you'll see that in testing pgrust, he's tes

Dan Luu · EN

The Pulse: Time to rethink software security because of AI?

A month’s worth of security breaches in a single day – will things get worse before they improve?

Pragmatic Engineer · EN