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1951

USB-C Easy Bake Oven (2017)

I modified an Easy Bake Oven to run off USB-C. The obvious question is "Why?", but I prefer to ask, "Why Not?". The USB-C spec allows for 100 Watts of power to be transferred through the connector, and that is the power rating for the oven, so it should work.

1952

Programming at the REPL: Data Visualization

Each time we evaluate an expression, the REPL shows us a textual representation of the result: that’s the Print part of Read-Eval-Print-Loop . Most of the time, this textual representation is clear enough for the programmer, but sometimes it becomes difficult to read - especially when dealing with big or deeply nested…

1954

Graphtage: A New Semantic Diffing Tool

Graphtage is a command line utility and underlying library for semantically comparing and merging tree-like structures such as JSON, JSON5, XML, HTML, YAML, and TOML files. Its name is a portmanteau of “graph” and “graftage” (i.e., the horticultural practice of joining two trees together so they grow as one). Read on…

1979

Zorin OS 16

We’re thrilled to finally share our next giant leap with the release of the Zorin OS 16 Beta today. We paid close attention to your feedback when …