a.k.a brainstorm

Birthday Week 2025 celebrated innovation at scale: Rust-powered core systems, post-quantum upgrades, developer access for students, PlanetScale integration, and our biggest internship program ever — 1,111 interns in 2026. cfl.re/3WbYzAW #BirthdayWeek

if i wasn’t doing my current job and i was good at raising money, one of my dream moonshots that i think about from time to time is a research institute for foundational open source biology software, that’s not strongly attached to an existing prestigious uni/institute

I was curious how gzip compares to brotli and zstd for browser compression so I benchmarked Go libraries on a ~640kb javascript bundle for my Edna. zstd level 3 was the winner. Full results at blog.kowalczyk.info/a-5hum/compres…

@robin7331 CAD files please?🥺🙏

The improved version of the fume hood looks awesome in this CF reinforced black◾️😎

maiden :3

The new rustls blog post is pretty great. Shows how much they've been working on it, it now outpaces every other cryptography library doing TLS.

@nono2357 TL;DR about @signalapp backup: Full iOS backups are not possible, you'll lose all your messages if you lose your phone.

How Signal, WhatsApp, Apple, and Google Handle Encrypted Chat Backups eff.org/deeplinks/2025…

@pfreixes Mine!: github.com/brainstorm/ssh… :D

This is me thinking getting back to Rust again, just for not forgetting it forever .... any open source project looking for contributors?

@ATinyGreenCell I would recommend you SKiDL (devbisme.github.io/skidl/) or atopile (atopile.io) if you need to parametrise those amounts of components and connections, nice prototype anyway! ;)

Come with me as I try to build a modular open-source 24-well Plate Reader from scratch. I'll post updates regularly on this thread and then compile it to my open lab notebook later. Let's make some tools! 🛠️🧵 1/n

Python Enhancement Proposal: Adding Zstandard to the standard library: peps.python.org/pep-0784/ by Emma Harper Smith.

“Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request.”

@canary_earth @cnxsoft Looks indeed really cool, but: 1) Cannot easily find a "Buy Now" button on the site. 2) Where's the source code (and schematics)?

@cnxsoft It's cool that you can easily connect it to a robot, but for an actual portable device, a Canary is unmatched. canary.earth

ESP32-S3-based portable wireless air quality sensor with an e-paper touchscreen display. cnx-software.com/2025/04/26/air… It features three sensors for CO2, temperature, relative humidity, air pollutants (VOC, NOx), and atmospheric pressure. It lacks a PM2.5 sensor, but it can be added through the GPIO header. Data can be visualized on the display, transmitted via BLE or MQTT (e.g. for Home Assistant integration), and the company also offers a web-based dashboard. #smarthome

@signalapp Prioritise backups for iOS please?

Now on Signal Desktop: A brand-new selection interface that makes it easy to find an emoji, sticker, or animated GIF that’s perfect for the moment. Happy chatting!

SiP (System in Package) devices are going to eat the world. Amazing what you can do with them today and no design required. Integrated inductor + FETs + control in <0.5cm^2, 8A output.

I'm genuinely worried about Github Actions supply chain attacks. Turns out version pinning doesn't really work the way it might seem, which seems like a fatal flaw in the core design. You basically shouldn't use third party actions at all. paloaltonetworks.com/blog/cloud-sec…

⚡Embedded Rust in Production 2025 - A list of embedded Rust projects used in production, as compiled by Anthony James Munns - Includes both embedded linux as well as bare-metal/RTOS usage of Rust - Not an exhaustive list, based on public info onevariable.com/blog/embedded-…

For those saying “performance might sell, but it’s expensive to deliver”—no it isn’t. Software developers today put *extra effort* into the hundreds of unnecessary layers in their code. They are paying *more* for *slower* software. Straightforward code, written with basic knowledge of the computer, with 0 actual “optimization” is lightning fast compared to most code today.

point and click reversers just discovering AI can do RE 😂 bro we've had this shit in radare2 for 2 years now

OPKSSH (OpenPubkey SSH) is now open-sourced as part of the OpenPubkey project. cfl.re/425Xr4D

@never_released Not really WiFi: 2.4GHz proprietary PHY, but not WiFi, AFAICT?

> Wi-Fi > 12KB RAM writing a secure software stack for this is going to be hard