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The first 400 finished production Pebble 2 Duos were packaged up today! Their next stop in a few days is our fulfillment center and then shipped to you! Full update on the blog: ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-...

Thank you very much to our manufacturing partners at @seeedstudio.com and Foxconn!

Pebble 2 Duo is in mass production!

ericmigi.com

September 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM

JF

@codingfield.com

I've just installed "generic" #Fedora 42 workstation on my #OrangePi5+ thanks to #EDK2 and it works very well out of the box (display, GPU, Ethernet, USB).

How come this thing is not more widely used? This is the user experience I would like to see on more ARM SBCs!

github.com/edk2-porting...

September 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM

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Paulus Schoutsen

@paulusschoutsen.nl

We did it. Z-Wave is back and stronger than ever 💪

For 2 years we've been working crafting the best possible Z-Wave experience. Best in class antenna, support for brand new Z-Wave Long Range (also Europe!) and seamless migration from chips as old as 2013.

Check our blog post for the full story:

Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2

The ultimate way to connect Z-Wave devices to Home Assistant.

www.home-assistant.io

August 14, 2025 at 7:45 AM

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Ross A. Baker

@rossabaker.com

Last week: "Oh no, GitHub's CEO says embrace AI or leave the profession."

This week: "Oh no, GitHub's CEO is leaving."

Next week, "Oh no, GitHub..."

Let's channel this angst into a more productive alternative: https://join.codeberg.org/

#codeberg #github

Join Codeberg e. V.

join.codeberg.org

August 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM

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Ken Shirriff

@righto.com

In 1983, Philips produced the first FM radio receiver on a chip, leading to products such as the FM radio wristwatch. Let's look at the tiny silicon die inside this chip and see how it works. 1/N

A photo of a digital watch with a tuning knob on the front and earbud headphones plugged into the side. Next to it is the wristwatch with the back removed, revealing the batteries inside, along with tiny surface-mount components and a small black integrated circuit.

August 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM

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Hackaday

@hackadayofficial.bsky.social

Vintage Plasma Display Shows Current Rad Levels

Hackaday Article

hackaday.com

July 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM

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Eric Migicovsky

@ericmigi.com

Posted a big Pebble update! ericmigi.com/blog/july-pe...

July 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM

JF

@codingfield.com

My very first computer was a 486DX4-100 with 64MB RAM and SCSI hard drives that my dad salvaged from his work
...

Memories...

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · May 9

Linux to end support for 1989’s hottest chip, the 486, with next release

Linus Torvalds sees “zero real reason for anybody to waste one second” on them.

arstechnica.com

May 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM

JF

@codingfield.com

@jetbrains.com launched their annual developer survey!
They use all the answers to generate a nice reports showing trends in the developer world.

Feel free to fill this survey as well! If you use this link, you'll give me more chance to win one of the gifts!
surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/developer...

Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025

Take our survey, shape the future, and seize the chance to win a MacBook Pro or other rewards!

surveys.jetbrains.com

May 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM

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Eric Migicovsky

@ericmigi.com

Just received the first batch of complete Core 2 Duos! We're still working on finishing drivers for all peripherals in PebbleOS. But it's wonderful to see it working, connected to my phone over Bluetooth, downloading watchfaces, etc!

April 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM

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LWN.net

@lwndotnet.bsky.social

Coverage of a great talk from SCALE 22x about the making of the OpenWrt One router. Impressive what the Software Freedom Conservancy and OpenWrt project have pulled off in just such a short time. #OpenSource #OpenWrt #FreeSoftware

Making the OpenWrt One [LWN.net]

lwn.net

April 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM

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Proton

@proton.me

New week, new major update – Proton Drive 2.0 for macOS is here:

📁 Instant menu bar access
👀 File status at a glance
🚀 Up to 2x faster uploads & downloads

We'll soon release the SDK behind the new app, laying the groundwork for Proton Drive for Linux.

1 / 2

April 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM

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Eric Migicovsky

@ericmigi.com

Ridiculously cool! Gordon from @Espruino got open source PebbleOS booting on a BangleJS watch (same chipset nRF52 as Core 2 Duo) www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_U5...

PebbleOS on Bangle.js Smartwatch demo

YouTube video by Espruino

www.youtube.com

March 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM

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Collabora

@collabora.com

Now using Mesa 25.1, Nouveau users will default to Zink+NVK instead of the old OpenGL driver, shifting towards an OpenGL on Vulkan: col.la/hellozink

#opensource @vulkan.org @khronos-opengl.bsky.social

Goodbye Nouveau GL. Hello Zink!

Using Mesa 25.1, Nouveau users will now get Zink+NVK instead of the old OpenGL driver.

col.la

March 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM

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Hackaday

@hackadayofficial.bsky.social

Espressif has made an official statement on the reports of a backdoor in the ESP32 Bluetooth stack.

www.espressif.com/en/news/Resp...

Espressif’s Response to Claimed Backdoor and Undocumented Commands in ESP32 Bluetooth Stack | Espressif Systems

Recently, some media have reported on a press release initially calling out ESP32 chips for having a “backdoor”. Espressif would like to take this opportunity to clarify this matter for our users and ...

www.espressif.com

March 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM

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Eric Migicovsky

@ericmigi.com

Just posted about my recent Pebble related trip to Shenzhen! ericmigi.com/blog/februar...

February Shenzhen Trip Update

There and back again

ericmigi.com

March 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM

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Eric Migicovsky

@ericmigi.com

New Pebble blog post is up with project updates and how developers (you!) can help contribute to Pebble software. Also, here's a picture of open source PebbleOS (thank you Google!!!) running on some actual hardware!

ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-...