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You Don't Need MIDI-OX Anymore: Building a SysEx Librarian with the Web MIDI API If you own a Yamaha DX7 or a Roland Juno-106, you already know the ritual. Install a utility from 2003. Fight USB-MIDI drivers on Windows 11. Open MIDI-OX. Configure ports. Pray the SysEx buffer doesn't choke mid-dump.
Shipping a libmpv-based video player on the Mac App Store Most well-known mpv-based Mac players, including IINA, distribute outside the Mac App Store. When I built Reel, a local-video player/library app for macOS, I wanted to know why, and whether it could be done. It can. It took a month from first
Most developers use AI like autocomplete. The best developers use it like a software engineer. Over the past year, AI coding assistants have become part of our daily workflow. Whether you're using ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, they can generate code in seconds. But here's t
very IT tech I know has the same ritual. New machine lands on the bench, or you're at a client site, and before you can actually fix anything you spend twenty minutes assembling the same handful of tools. Download this. Extract that. Oh, this one wants .NET. Oh, this box has no internet. Oh, the cli
Improved institutional safeguards and stricter regulations have pushed the burdens of protection and risk reduction on to Australian businesses.
British data intelligence startup StirlingX Ltd. has raised $20 million in an early-stage round to accelerate product development and push into new markets. StirlingX describes itself as a data intelligence company built inside a drone maker. Its platform is designed to capture, secure, fuse, analyz
Sam Altman is calling for a US-led international forum to set global safety standards for artificial intelligence, arguing that no single country should be left to dominate the technology. In an op-ed published Wednesday in the Financial Times, the chief executive of OpenAI Group PBC proposed “a US-
Here's how to watch Portugal vs Croatia as footballing legend Cristiano Ronaldo aims to steer his team to the next round.
These Proxmox optimizations saved me from overheating and catastrophic data loss
After releasing an interactive timeline of every iPhone ever made, sheets.works is back with a similar project covering every iPad Apple has released since 2010. Here are the details.
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Back in May, AT&T launched Build-A-Plan, a new way to customize your wireless plan's perks and pricing. It seems to have been a success, as the company is now expanding the program to include home internet as well. The expansion is taking place on July 7. Starting on that day, if you use Build-A-Pla
Apple will announce the results of its fiscal third quarter of 2026 on Thursday, July 30. Here’s what to expect.
The Old Way: Dynamic Magic and Its Hidden Costs Years ago, in ASP.NET MVC and Razor, we had a seductively quick tool for passing state to the UI: ViewBag. // Controller ViewBag.Role = "Admin"; ViewBag.CanEdit = true; ViewBag.Theme = "Dark"; ViewBag.FeatureFlags = new[] { "beta_dashboard", "export_cs
ctrodb is a client-side database for TypeScript. Schema validation, MongoDB-like queries, full-text search, relations — all in about 8KB gzipped with zero runtime dependencies. v1.4 is the biggest release yet. It adds offline sync. npm install ctrodb GitHub: github.com/ctrotech-tutor/ctrodb ctrodb.v
If you're an SRE or DevOps engineer — try blastradar.vercel.app and tell me what you actually think. The tool BlastRadar scores any code diff for production risk — paste a diff, get a 1-10 score, a plain English explanation of what could break, and a blast radius showing which systems are affected.
We are so excited to finally announce the winners of the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge, our celebration of finishing what you started by reviving abandoned side projects, hackathon creations, and long-forgotten repos with help from GitHub Copilot. First things first: thank you all so much for yo
If you ask a factory manager what a productive year looks like, the answer is simple: every week should look roughly like the last. If you ask a scientist, a founder, a software engineer, a novelist, or a master craftsman, you'll probably hear a very different story. They won't remember their career
Someone double-clicks what they think is Maccy, a clipboard manager, and gets a macOS password prompt: "Maccy wants to make changes." They type it in. Most infostealers would grab whatever you typed and run. This one validates it against PAM first -- the same Pluggable Authentication Modules stack m
Book: Decoupled PHP — Clean and Hexagonal Architecture for Applications That Outlive the Framework Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Complete Guide to Go Programming + Hexagonal Architecture in Go My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub — an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other
