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Tower of Time is a jam-made tower defense game where players rewind time to adjust their strategies.

The game offers multiple tower types, an energy system, and wave-based enemy spawning.

Players can use keyboard or gamepad controls for movement, actions, and time rewind.

Larry is a British tabby cat born around January 2007 who has served as Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office at 10 Downing Street since 2011.

He has lived and worked under six UK prime ministers from David Cameron through Keir Starmer.

Larry’s duties include greeting visitors, inspecting security, testing furniture for napping, and controlling mice, with his care funded by Downing Street staff.

Intel N100 mini PCs deliver around 1.5–2× raw performance compared to a Raspberry Pi 5 when thermal and power constraints are optimized.

Raspberry Pi 5 achieves better energy efficiency per watt despite using an older 16 nm process, challenging the notion that newer process nodes always improve efficiency.

Used Tiny PCs on the secondary market can be very inexpensive, but new Intel N100/N150 systems with comparable specs to a Pi 5 often cost more when fully equipped.

Author endured four years of shifting chronic pains that disrupted exercise, work, and identity, leading to deep curiosity about the mind’s role in pain.

Recovery involved introspection and understanding of mind-body interactions, motivating the author to help others with chronic pain.

They left a tech job and sold their home to launch a Substack series that demystifies chronic pain for sufferers and practitioners.

The PR replaces Zig’s generic std.io readers and writers with new non-generic std.io.Reader and std.io.Writer interfaces that keep the buffer in the interface rather than in implementations.

New Reader and Writer still perform efficiently by operating directly on the buffer and only invoking vtable calls when the buffer is full.

An upgrade guide maps deprecated APIs (like std.fs.File.reader) to new names and provides an adaptToNewApi helper for migrating old streams.

CAMLBOY is a Game Boy emulator written in OCaml that runs in the browser at 60 FPS even on mobile devices.

The emulator uses OCaml’s module system, functors, GADTs, and first-class modules for clean structure, testability, and runtime cartridge selection.

The architecture comprises CPU, timer, and GPU modules synchronized via a bus that routes 8-bit and 16-bit reads/writes through shared interfaces.

Wasm agents blueprint enables running AI agents as standalone HTML files directly in the browser without extra dependencies.

Agents leverage WebAssembly and Pyodide to run Python code and the openai-agents library in a sandboxed environment.

Users can connect to OpenAI API models by default or self-hosted OpenAI-compatible models through HuggingFace TGI, vLLM, or Ollama.

Early hopes for peer-to-peer technologies like Bitcoin were high but were overtaken by speculation and pump-and-dump cultures.

The open Web’s decentralized creativity has been replaced by a few ad-driven platforms optimizing engagement over user empowerment.

Large language models and generative AI often produce plausible-sounding but incorrect or meaningless content, adding noise rather than real value.

Scientists detected a reversal of the Southern Hemisphere ocean circulation since 2016.

Rising surface salinity shows deep water is upwelling instead of sinking.

Upwelling brings heat and CO₂ to the surface, speeding sea ice melt.

Wind Knitting Factory is a wind-powered knitting machine mounted on a building facade.

It features blades over one meter in diameter that capture wind to drive the knitting mechanism.

The machine continuously knits a long scarf downward along the building.