The Origins of Emacs, uncovered.

Interesting read:
https://onlisp.co.uk/On-the-Origin-of-Em...-1976.html

Face Recognition with DeepFace: From Easy to Advanced

Face Recognition and Face Detection in Python

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TTAritsan 250/F5.6 Reflex Lens — A 1979 Idea For Modern Cameras

This Affordable Lens is Surprisingly Good

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So you want to compete with or replace open source

We are living through an interesting moment in source-available software.1 The open source movement has always had, and continues to have, a solid grounding in grassroots programmers building tools for themselves and forming communities around them. Some looming giants brought on large sums of money – Linux, Mozilla, Apache, and so on – and other giants made do without, like GNU, but for the most part if anyone thought about open source 15 years ago they were mostly thinking about grassroots communities who built software together for fun. With the rise of GitHub and in particular the explosion of web development as an open platform, commercial stakeholders in...

A Weekend AI Project: Object Detection with YOLO on PC and Raspberry Pi

Running the Latest YOLO v10 Model on Different Hardware

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Different Ways of Image Generation with Stable Diffusion 3

Running SD3 in Google Colab and on a Local PC

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text coordinate systems

Interesting discussion of some of the subtleties which come up when writing code to display and manipulate text:
https://zed.dev/blog/zed-decoded-text-co...te-systems
Much of this echoes Finseth's classic book on implementing emacs-style editors, but with updates to reflect our Unicoded world.
(Many people will avoid dealing with these issues by simply dropping in whatever text widget their favorite library provides, but I enjoy cooking from scratch.)

Writing a Unix clone in about a month

I needed a bit of a break from “real work” recently, so I started a new programming project that was low-stakes and purely recreational. On April 21st, I set out to see how much of a Unix-like operating system for x86_64 targets that I could put together in about a month. The result is Bunnix. Not including days I didn’t work on Bunnix for one reason or another, I spent 27 days on this project.

You can try it for yourself if you like:

To boot this ISO with qemu:

qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom bunnix.iso -display sdl -serial stdio

You can also write the iso to a USB...

Old vi

I investigated when the flash option was added to vi. It was when System V entered the VAX. 1983.
Result: a new Vim patch…
https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/14778

Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges