Techno Babble

The sign outside the Panera Bread in Chico, California, clearly informed customers that they must wear…

Choosing a developer-friendly host is key to success as a web professional. You’ll want to be…

It’s 2020 and you know you need a high-quality website to make a positive impact on your potential customers. But it’s sometimes unclear what that even means. What constitutes a top-notch web presence changes quickly in this industry. “High quality” means something different in 2020 than it did in 2010, or even 2015 for that matter. For instance, responsive design is a must now, but that wasn’t always the case. Keeping up with the times is a challenge. But it’s well worth the effort if you want to start seeing results. If this is something you struggle with, that’s precisely […]

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Glass-and-steel monoliths replaced local architecture. It’s not too late to go back.

How much would you enjoy a movie that took months to finish? We suppose it would very much depend on the film; the current batch of films from the Star Wars franchise are quite long enough as they are, thanks very much. But a film like Casablanca or 2001: A …read more

Some cool-mist humidifiers work by flinging water at a vaporizer, but our favorite kind uses a piezoelectric transducer. These work by using high-frequency sound waves to pound the surface of the water with mechanical energy. That energy introduces standing waves that force the water to break apart into a fine …read more

Humans have several primal fascinations and perhaps two of the biggest ones are fire and music. While you can picture some cavemen and cavewomen sitting around a fire beating on sticks for rhythm, we think they’d be impressed if the fire danced along with the music. Through the power of …read more

It might seem like electronic games and tabletop games are somewhat at odds. But there are always places where the lines are cleverly blurred as with this stat tracker beautifully constructed from a sandwich of circuit boards.

The nature of role playing games is one of deep imagination, putting yourself …read more

WordPress co-creator Mike Little will appear on the rebooted Genesis Community Livecast on August 25 at 11 am EST. Little will be joined by Genesis community members, Anita Carter and Sandee Jackson. The conversation will center around issues Black WordPress and Genesis community members face. According to the release, “The issues of injustice and under-representation facing the Black community are of course felt on the macro level, but make no mistake, these are issues that are real and present in the WordPress and Genesis communities today.” The episode will premiere on YouTube Live on August 25th.

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We would be preaching to the choir if we told you that fear is the action killer when it comes to the challenge of new projects in uncharted territory. Everyone who reads Hackaday knows that it takes mettle to forge through the self-doubt as we push ourselves to new engineering …read more

How the domestic aesthetics of Instagram repackage QAnon for the masses  

Like bubble wrap or the corkscrew, plenty of everyday objects have lost almost all ties to their original purpose. It could be that the original product had no market but was able to find one in an unexpected place, or simply that the original use case disappeared. We think that …read more

Why millions of students still can’t get online

Working on heavy mechanical machines at awkward heights can be a real back breaker. [Workshop From Scratch] knows this all to well, so he built himself a very clean hydraulic lifting workbench to use around the workshop.

As we’ve come to expect from this aptly named channel, everything on the …read more