# tutorial (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 327 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover tutorial. Page: Feed: --- ## [Example Talk](https://notes.peter-baumgartner.net/event/example/) _2030-06-01 · Thought Splinters_ Click on the Slides button above to view the built-in slides feature. Slides can be added in a few ways: Create slides using Wowchemy’s Slides feature and link using slides parameter in the front matter of the talk file Upload an existing slide deck to static/ and link using url\_slides parameter in the front matter of the talk file Embed your slides (e.g. Google Slides) or presentation video… ## [Repurpose an old smartphone as an offline 2FA token](https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/smartphone-old-offline-2fa-token.html) _2026-08-19 · Dedoimedo RSS_ Something arcane but useful today. A tutorial on how to repurpose old smartphones as offline 2FA token generators, including overview of the TOTP concept, installation of 2FA apps, use with or without the SIM card, Airplane mode, time drift and manual clock setup, and more. Have fun. ## [I shipped 713 pages and Google shrugged for three weeks](https://www.salahadawi.com/blog/713-pages-google-shrugged/) _2026-08-18 · Salah Adawi · Salah Adawi_ A build log of Tfaddalu's how-to-say pages: what programmatic SEO looks like when every page is backed by a real corpus, and what Search Console actually shows while Google decides whether to care. ## [How I generate YouTube Shorts programmatically with Remotion](https://www.salahadawi.com/blog/arabic-shorts-remotion-pipeline/) _2026-08-18 · Salah Adawi · Salah Adawi_ The full pattern behind my Arabic learning Shorts: videos defined as JSON, audio measured into frames before render time, and the flags that make Remotion renders reliable. ## [Fixing Remotion's "Visited http://localhost but got no response"](https://www.salahadawi.com/blog/remotion-visited-localhost-no-response-fix/) _2026-08-18 · Salah Adawi · Salah Adawi_ Remotion renders dying with "Visited http://localhost:PORT/index.html but got no response"? The three flags that made my renders finish every time, and why a single frame test saves you. ## [Grok Bot Explained: Cloud AI Agents vs Open Source](https://thomas-wiegold.com/blog/grok-bot-explained/) _2026-08-18 · contact@thomas-wiegold.com (Thomas Wiegold) · Thomas Wiegold - AI & Web Development Blog_ Grok Bot lets AI teammates sign into your tools and finish real work. Here’s how it works, what it costs, where it falls short, and who it’s actually for. ## [How debug Django queryset with explain() function](https://www.mybluelinux.com/how-debug-django-queryset-with-explain-function/) _2026-08-17 · MyBlueLinux.com_ In this article, we'll explore the purpose of explain() , how to use it for debugging, and how to interpret its output for both PostgreSQL and SQLite. ## [Qwen3.8-27B: the best local LLM you probably can't run](https://thomas-wiegold.com/blog/qwen-3-8-27b-best-local-llm/) _2026-08-17 · contact@thomas-wiegold.com (Thomas Wiegold) · Thomas Wiegold - AI & Web Development Blog_ Qwen3.8-27B runs on consumer hardware under Apache 2.0. I tested it on a 24GB M4 — here's the real RAM, speed and privacy picture, minus the hype. ## [Building scalable backend apps in Swift](https://theswiftdev.com/building-scalable-backend-apps-in-swift/) _2026-08-16 · The.Swift.Dev._ Build scalable Swift backends with onion, hexagonal, and clean architecture using use cases, repositories, transactions, and database abstractions. ## [Visible Referral Friend Code 3SJGRR8 to Get $20 Off](https://aruljohn.com/blog/visible-referral-promo-code-2/) _2026-08-15 · Arul John_ If you subscribe to Visible mobile plan with my referral code 3SJGRR8, both you and I will save $20 on our next cell phone bills. ## [World's cheapest GPUs, deployed fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/T15fFwxGb3i7) _2026-08-15 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy a live GPU-backed API in minutes for under $10 ## [Making RL Work Out-of-the-Box (WIP)](/talk/rlc26-autorl-out-box/) _2026-08-15 · Antonin Raffin | Homepage_ ## [Every Cathay Employee I Met Was Improvising, and So Is Your On-Call Rotation](https://www.augusteo.com/blog/cathay-runbook/) _2026-08-15 · Victor Augusteo_ An 11-hour delay out of Surabaya turned into a full day of carrying my own case between eight people who had no shared process. That's a runbook problem, and it's the same one your production systems have. ## [Python and Pip venvs for Externally Managed Environments](https://jonathanmh.com/p/python-and-pip-venvs-for-externally-managed-environments) _2026-08-15 · Jonathan M. Hethey · JonathanMH_ ## [How We Cut Our Prometheus / VictoriaMetrics Storage Bill by 60% (Cardinality Audit Walkthrough)](https://omarghader.github.io/cardinality-audit-cut-storage-bill/) _2026-08-15 · (untitled)_ The bill that made me open a support ticket with myself Last October our VictoriaMetrics cluster crossed 340 million active time series and our monthly infra cost for the storage tier hit $4,900. Nobody had approved that number. It just… grew, the way disk usage always grows, one Helm chart install at a time until finance asks why the “monitoring” line item is bigger than the… ## [Add your Visible referral friend codes to the Coupon section.](https://aruljohn.com/coupons/) _2026-08-14 · Arul John_ Users can add their Visible by Verizon referral code to the Coupon section. ## [How to upscale low-res videos to HD with ffmpeg](https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ffmpeg-hd-upscale-guide.html) _2026-08-14 · Dedoimedo RSS_ If you have some spare brain cycles for the weekend, here's a tutorial on how to upscale low-resolution videos to HD quality using the ffmpeg media processing tool, including practical limitations, upscaling with different aspect ratios, video padding, use of motion filters and unsharpen mask, results with 720p and 1080p output, transcoding performance, use of CPU and GPU codecs, smart TV… ## [Fixing "The image manifest, config or layer media type is not supported" on Laravel Vapor](https://helgesver.re/articles/laravel-vapor-image-manifest-media-type-not-supported) _2026-08-14 · helge.sverre@gmail.com (Helge Sverre) · Helge Sverre_ A Vapor deployment built on Apple Silicon reached ECR, then failed in Lambda. Docker had pushed an ARM64 image plus a BuildKit attestation as an OCI index. Here is the fix. ## [GOG Galaxy is coming to Linux](https://www.sysjolt.com/2026/gog-galaxy-is-coming-to-linux/) _2026-08-13 · Zack · Sysjolt_ A while back I wrote about how Linux is on the rise. Its been growing in gaming and otherwise because Windows 11 has had so many issues. Now it seems some people are paying attention. GOG has announced plans to support Linux going forward! For a long time being a Linux gamer was a hard Continue Reading » The post GOG Galaxy is coming to Linux appeared first on Sysjolt . ## [not so dirt cheap refactor](https://renfoc.us/posts/1786642829-not_so_dirt_cheap_refactor) _2026-08-13 · ren focus | RSS Feed_ This post argues that AI agents haven't actually made refactoring cheaper, they've just made the same risky, all-or-nothing rewrites faster. The real fix, the author says, is doing refactors in small, incremental pieces instead of big sweeps. ## [My perfect email client was there all along](https://michaelscodingspot.com/perfect-email-client/) _2026-08-13 · Blog posts on .NET Software Development, C#, and Debugging on Michael's Coding Spot_ Let’s admit it, the popular desktop email clients suck for power users. Both Gmail and Outlook are slow, push their own (bad) AI on you, have terrible search (some more than others), and are not customizable. They are a poor common denominator that makes me upset when I use them. For years I’ve dreamt of the perfect email app, without really knowing what it is or what it would look… ## [Sync bookmarks across every browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/cJ5j4tr0ZGtJ) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync across Chrome, Firefox and Safari; built-in ad and tracker blocker. ## [RestartManager, Event ID 10010 warning demystified](https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-restartmanager-event-problem.html) _2026-08-12 · Dedoimedo RSS_ Today's piece shalt be nerdy, nerdy shalt be today's piece. This is a somewhat niche but hopefully useful tutorial on how to troubleshoot Event Log messages related to RestartManager and seemingly inexplicable Application and Conductor SID warnings for random programs in Windows 10, including deeper overview of the problem, custom event filtering and comparison to other Windows machines, MSI… ## [Fixing alert fatigue: what actually works](https://omarghader.github.io/alert-fatigue-sre/) _2026-08-12 · (untitled)_ Every noisy alert your team learns to dismiss makes the real one easier to miss too. Here’s how alert fatigue actually happens, and how to fix it. ## [The Observability Paradox: Why Your Monitoring Bill Keeps Growing While MTTR Doesn't Improve](https://omarghader.github.io/the-observability-paradox/) _2026-08-12 · (untitled)_ It’s 2:47 AM. Your phone lights up. PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Slack — take your pick. A checkout service is throwing 500s and revenue is bleeding in real time. You open the observability platform your company pays six figures a year for. Dashboards everywhere. Seventy open panels. Three different tools for logs, metrics, and traces that don’t talk to each other. Forty minutes later,… ## [Mothman Game](https://www.sysjolt.com/2026/mothman-game/) _2026-08-11 · Zack · Sysjolt_ It’s been a while since I made a game to share. Maybe even longer since my last game jam. But a while back I got inspired to make a game about Mothman. I’m using the Redot engine and its more of an old school arcade style game. I called it Mothman – The Battle of Continue Reading » The post Mothman Game appeared first on Sysjolt . ## [Remember RoomTunes?](https://www.catch22.net/blog/2026-08-11-roomtunes/) _2026-08-11 · Catch22_ RoomTunes is a native Sonos controller that I originally developed for BB10, back in 2012. It went on to become one of the most successful music apps on the platform for a while, and did considerably better than I ever expected. Up until now though, I don't think anyone knows that I wrote it ## [Remember RoomTunes?](https://www.catch22.net/blog/2026-08-11-roomtunes/) _2026-08-11 · Catch22_ RoomTunes is a native Sonos controller that I originally developed for BB10, back in 2012. It went on to become one of the most successful music apps on the platform for a while, and did considerably better than I ever expected. Up until now though, I don't think anyone knows that I wrote it ## [machine.PinInputPullup Does Not Work on Some GPIO Pins](https://navendu.me/posts/tinygo-3477/) _2026-08-11 · navendu@apache.org (Navendu Pottekkat) · Navendu Pottekkat - The Open Source Absolutist_ How I fixed a tiny issue in TinyGo. ## [Aiper Experts Duo Review: Worth the Upgrade?](https://www.davidmello.com/diy-home-upgrades/aiper-experts-duo-review) _2026-08-11 · David Mello_ I replaced my Poolvergnuegen suction-side cleaner with the Aiper Experts Duo robotic pool cleaner (Scuba V3 + EcoSurfer S2). Unboxing, first-week results. Continue reading → ## [ESP32-S3 Camera Pan-Tilt Security Tracker: Build a Smart ESP32 Weather Station](https://omarghader.github.io/esp32-s3-pan-tilt-weather-station/) _2026-08-11 · (untitled)_ I set out to build a pan-tilt security camera with an ESP32-S3 and ended up creating a fully-fledged ESP32 weather station while I was at it. The idea was simple: I wanted to keep an eye on the packages that couriers keep leaving in the rain, but also to know exactly how wet and miserable those packages were getting. Adding a cheap temperature and humidity sensor to the camera mount turned the… ## [Flashlight Review: Wurkkos T1](https://www.stephenknightphotography.com/post/flashlight-review-wurkkos-t1) _2026-08-10 · Stephen Knight · Lightart_ Detailed review of the Wurkkos T1 tactical flashlight/torch. This 21700 format light uses a Cree XFLSNA LED for 5500 max lumens, and 415m throw. There is also a red, green, blue, and white floody side light. ## [From any door to your door (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/fJaeN4vBjRZ3) _2026-08-10 · **Sponsored**_ Book rides, errands, deliveries, groceries and home help in one app ## [Shader Library - Procedural GPU Patterns](https://catlikecoding.com/godot/procedural-gpu-patterns/05-shader-library/) _2026-08-10 · Catlike Coding Godot Engine Tutorials_ Part 5 of the Procedural GPU Patterns tutorial series for Godot Engine 4. ## [Anti-Antipatterns in Elixir Library Guidelines](https://rocket-science.ru/hacking/2026/08/09/anti-antipatterns-in-elixir-libraries) _2026-08-09 · ❖ |\> 🌢_ Only a lazy person never blogged about library should not use application configuration. Even the official propaganda says so in the Elixir Library Guidelines . As all the sharp rules, this one is rotten. There are usecases when the library configuration must prevail over local parameters. In fact, the entire “Anti-patterns” section of the official library guidelines reads like a list of… ## [Pi Coding Agent: The SDK Is the Real Reason to Care](https://thomas-wiegold.com/blog/pi-coding-agent/) _2026-08-08 · contact@thomas-wiegold.com (Thomas Wiegold) · Thomas Wiegold - AI & Web Development Blog_ I spent a week with the Pi coding agent. The CLI is good, not revolutionary — the TypeScript SDK is what makes it worth switching. Setup, extensions, and a working build. ## [(untitled)](https://tidbits.tedchoward.com/2026/08/07/mark-lamster-when-i-first.html) _2026-08-07 · Ted's Tidbits_ Mark Lamster : When I first arrived in Dallas, in 2013, and began trying to make sense of the city, I found it utterly confounding, a place of seemingly endless enigmas and contradictions. This flew in the face of its reputation as a city of arch superficiality, of sleek surfaces with little behind them. To truly know Dallas, I soon gathered, meant looking behind its real and metaphorical… ## [Getting serious with /e/OS - Hurdles and obstacles](https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fairphone-6-eos-everyday-use.html) _2026-08-07 · Dedoimedo RSS_ Life in the avantgarde lane. Behold, an article about the ongoing, everyday use of the /e/OS de-Googled Android operating system, using Fairphone 6 as the test device, including significant complications related to app management due to mixed proprietary and open-source backend stores and software authenticity opaqueness, examples with VLC and Proton Authenticator, issues with a first-use SIM… ## [Python SocketServer Guide](https://www.mybluelinux.com/python-socketserver-guide/) _2026-08-07 · MyBlueLinux.com_ The socketserver module (formerly capitalized as SocketServer in Python 2) is a framework in the Python standard library designed to simplify the task of writing network servers. It abstracts away much of the boilerplate code required to set up sockets, bind to addresses, listen for incoming connections, and handle requests. At its core, socketserver decouples the server-level transport… ## [Unexpected (to me) behaviour in Lisp sub-typing](https://simondobson.org/2026/08/07/strange-behaviour-in-lisp-sub-typing/) _2026-08-07 · Simon Dobson · Simon Dobson_ Unexpected (to me) behaviour in Lisp sub-typing I just encountered some unexpected behaviour in how Common Lisp (or at least SBCL ) handles array sub-typing. Suppose you have a structure declaration like this: ( defstruct A ( a #1A () :type ( simple-array integer ))) We can create instances of this struct by providing an initial value, and it will be type-checked. ( make-a :a #1A ( 1 2 3 )) #S(A… ## [A road to Lisp -- Which Lisp?](https://simondobson.org/2026/08/07/a-road-to-lisp-which-lisp/) _2026-08-07 · Simon Dobson · Simon Dobson_ A road to Lisp: Which Lisp? A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp A blog post reviewing four dialects of Lisp that a beginner wanting to start with Lisp can choose: Common Lisp, Clojure, Racket, and ELisp. The author, Elia Scotto, interestingly doesn't include Scheme, although he does present Racket as a Scheme dialect (which of course it is). Does the choice too make initially matter? Dialect matters, but… ## [Preference tuning, from chatbots to 3D](https://www.augusteo.com/blog/preference-tuning-vision-models/) _2026-08-06 · Victor Augusteo_ How preference optimization grew up in chatbots (RLHF, DPO, GRPO) and became the data engine behind Meta's SAM 3D. One human verdict, followed from an A/B click to a 3D-shape judgment. ## [Adding the Asana MCP Server to opencode](https://helgesver.re/articles/adding-asana-mcp-to-opencode) _2026-08-06 · helge.sverre@gmail.com (Helge Sverre) · Helge Sverre_ Configure the official Asana MCP server in opencode. ## [Hidden Gems in the PHP Source Code](https://helgesver.re/articles/hidden-comments-in-php-src) _2026-08-06 · helge.sverre@gmail.com (Helge Sverre) · Helge Sverre_ Easter eggs, developer frustrations, and self-deprecating comments buried in the php-src codebase. ## [PHP Is a Printer Language](https://helgesver.re/articles/php-cups-sapi-label-printer) _2026-08-06 · helge.sverre@gmail.com (Helge Sverre) · Helge Sverre_ I added a CUPS printer filter SAPI to PHP. My label printer now runs PHP scripts at print time and spits out thermal stickers. ## [Physics](https://seanpedersen.github.io/posts/physics) _2026-08-06 · Sean Pedersen · Sean's Blog_ Physical systems naturally tend toward stable equilibrium states, generally moving toward lower free energy or greater entropy under the relevant constraints. Equations Einstein’s special relativity: describes how measurements of space and time depend on an observer’s relative motion, while the laws of physics and the speed of light remain the same for all inertial observers; it also relates mass… ## [Artificial Intelligence doing CAD: ChatGPT, Codex and FreeCAD](https://www.tspi.at/2026/08/06/llmfreecad.html) _2026-08-05 · tsp · tspi.at_ Giving large language models access to CAD is one of the most direct ways to let them step out of the purely virtual world and begin creating real objects. This article describes an MCP bridge for FreeCAD, why visual inspection turned out to be crucial, and how ChatGPT and Codex were able to generate manufacturable geometry ranging from vacuum hardware to a printable planetary gearbox. ## [Your morality filters have arrived, dear peasants](https://www.dedoimedo.com/life/morality-filters.html) _2026-08-05 · Dedoimedo RSS_ Today's piece is going to make you laugh. Or cry. Or both. Here's an article demonstrating possible and likely imposition of morality with public link preview thumbnail labeling for content shared via WhatsApp in a private chat, including specific scenario, additional testing with link previews on and off and other chat clients, morality connotations and social conditioning, implications of… ## [Open-Sourcing Resonant: What I Learned Building a Local-First Voice App](https://sourcetms.com/notes/open-sourcing-resonant) _2026-08-05 · Thomas Schlossmacher · Thomas Schlossmacher_ Resonant's core is now open source under the MIT License. Here's everything I learned about local inference, positioning, distribution, and voice UX along the way. ## [eBPF, BYOC, ClickHouse, Telemetry Pipelines: Which Ones Are Actually Worth It?](https://michaelscodingspot.com/observability-tech-worth-it/) _2026-08-05 · Blog posts on .NET Software Development, C#, and Debugging on Michael's Coding Spot_ Originally posted in Obics.io The observability world is changing in very interesting ways. In the last decade we’ve experienced the rise of the OpenTelemetry standard and the rise of open source solutions like Elastic and Grafana. Now, the observability world is experiencing a new wave of technologies: eBPF based instrumentation Bring your own Cloud (BYOC) Columnar data stores, most… ## [Fixing "folio:list is registered under multiple names" on Laravel 13](https://helgesver.re/articles/laravel-13-folio-list-command-fix) _2026-08-05 · helge.sverre@gmail.com (Helge Sverre) · Helge Sverre_ After upgrading to Laravel 13, every php artisan command dies with a Symfony error about folio:list. The cause is an inherited $signature in RouteListCommand. Here's the fix. ## [What if PHP strings had shapes?](https://helgesver.re/articles/what-if-php-strings-had-shapes) _2026-08-05 · helge.sverre@gmail.com (Helge Sverre) · Helge Sverre_ A proposal for annotating structured string DSLs in PHPDoc so IDEs and static analyzers can validate, highlight, autocomplete, and reason about them. ## [Unreal Engine 5.8 Performance Highlights](https://tomlooman.com/unreal-engine-5-8-performance-highlights/) _2026-08-05 · Tom Looman · Tom Looman_ Discover the most important Unreal Engine 5.8 performance and optimization improvements, including MegaLights, Lumen Lite, shader reductions, and rendering enhancements.