The Death of Industrial Design, Host naming Convensions, Symbian reflections, bash timeouts, nvme vs ssds, a system to organize your life, and more.
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Headlines
The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/23/the-death-of-industrial-design-and-the-era-of-dull-electronics)
Host Naming Convention (https://vulcanridr.mataroa.blog/blog/host-naming-convention)
News Roundup
Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian (https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/symbian_forgotten_foss_phone_os/)
TIL: timeout in Bash scripts (https://heitorpb.github.io/bla/timeout/)
It seems like NVMe SSDs have overtaken SATA SSDs for high capacities (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/NVMeOvertakingSATAForSSDs)
A system to organise your life (https://johnnydecimal.com)
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