Summary The Meridian Orrery uses an ESP32, 3D parts, magnets and motors to build a self-updating tabletop solar system. Uses an RTC ESP32C3 and DS3231 to calculate planet positions offline after a one-time calibration. A clever 1:11 transmission ratio allows a small Moon to precisely orbit Earth as the rings and planets align at night. … Read more
Summary Frequent GitHub outages disrupt work, occur almost daily and block schedules. A long-time GitHub user and creator of Ghostty will move major projects off GitHub. Personal projects remain on GitHub, but the developer will not host critical work there at this time. GitHub hasn’t made any friends lately with its stability issues. Everyone from … Read more
We didn’t have many complaints when we reviewed this processor. The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D is fast, versatile, and can handle just about anything you can throw at it. However, with something this good you already expect a high price, which is a part of the chip that we don’t like. Fortunately, some time has … Read more
LG probably isn’t the first brand you’d think of when considering a new laptop. However, the brand has been making fantastic laptops for a while and has a pretty robust lineup. Although some models can be pricey, you can get a pretty deep discount if you’re willing to wait until they go on sale. That … Read more
Valve’s Steam Machine announcement had sent the company’s fans into a tizzy as they eagerly awaited a Steam console/PC hybrid to enjoy their entire library on their TV. Valve marketed the Steam Machine as a PC six times more powerful than the Steam Deck, providing the SteamOS experience at 4K 60 FPS, although its internals … Read more
As PC gamers, many of us set out to upgrade one or two parts of our PC while leaving the rest untouched, hoping that everything would fall into place. In most cases, the part we always focus on is the GPU. After all, it is responsible for rendering visuals and increasing frame rates. Yes, a … Read more
NotebookLM is truly one of the best AI tools I use, and I’ve been working with it long enough to have a real opinion on it. The way it stays grounded in your sources, the citation behavior, the interactive mind maps are all some of the most useful features in my workflow – nothing else … Read more
Task Manager is one of those nifty Windows tools that really comes in handy when you need to see which processes are using precious system resources. But besides ending frozen processes and seeing which applications are affecting your system’s performance, there are a lot of things you might not realize Task Manager can do. Even … Read more
OLED displays may be more affordable than ever in 2026, but many users are still hesitant to invest in such a display due to burn-in issues. That’s why they prefer IPS monitors, thanks to an excellent combination of image quality, response time and refresh rate. I can understand the hesitation to buy a monitor that … Read more
VS Code is probably the most widely used code editor, although I’m not sure it’s even fair to just call it a code editor. It has become the center of gravity for many developers, and its extension model is why so many workflows end up living inside it rather than around it. Extensions can plug … Read more