Today's outages, hacks, phones, gadgets and fixes, plus the tech you grew up with, picked daily by Chris Pirillo for the pros everybody calls.https://lockergnome.com/en-ushttps://lockergnome.com/borland-c-2-0-compiler-rebuilt-byte-for-byte/https://lockergnome.com/borland-c-2-0-compiler-rebuilt-byte-for-byte/The author, who goes by abedegno, matched 298 files against the shipped 1991 executable, and the notes list the bugs Borland left in, including a string function that peeks before an empty string.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 21:10:00 GMTRetroBorland C++Turbo CDOSreverse engineeringsoftware preservationhttps://lockergnome.com/free-open-source-app-turns-old-android-phone-into-pc-desk-panel-and-control-deck/https://lockergnome.com/free-open-source-app-turns-old-android-phone-into-pc-desk-panel-and-control-deck/The agent only listens on 127.0.0.1 and the phone can send nothing but shortcut IDs, so a retired handset gets widgets and Stream Deck-style keys without root on the phone or admin rights on the PC.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 21:10:00 GMTSoftwareandroiddesk panelstream deckopen sourcedotnethttps://lockergnome.com/ios-26-27-file-browser-app-data-cache-cleaner-no-jailbreak/https://lockergnome.com/ios-26-27-file-browser-app-data-cache-cleaner-no-jailbreak/It is a sideloaded GPL-3.0 project that reimplements a technique by Taj C, covers 12 languages, and checks for updates at most twice a day. iOS 26 gets a cut-down version, with no System Data, no crash-log section and placeholder icons.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 21:10:00 GMTSoftwareiossideloadingfile managercache cleaneropen sourcealtstorehttps://lockergnome.com/kernarium-runs-native-linux-kernel-and-android-on-ios/https://lockergnome.com/kernarium-runs-native-linux-kernel-and-android-on-ios/The kernel is compiled to native arm64 code, graphics go through Vulkan on top of Metal, and only the Android app is open to testers, in a beta whose 10,000 slots the README says fill up quickly.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 21:10:00 GMTSoftwareKernariumAndariumLinuxiOSUser-mode LinuxTestFlighthttps://lockergnome.com/open-source-firmware-gives-2011-zeppelin-air-speaker-airplay-2-over-usb/https://lockergnome.com/open-source-firmware-gives-2011-zeppelin-air-speaker-airplay-2-over-usb/It replaces the firmware on both of the speaker's boards, falls back to the old version if an update fails, and ships under the MIT license with no tie to B&W, Apple or Spotify.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 21:10:00 GMTHacks & BuildsZeppelin AirAirPlay 2Snapcastfirmwarereverse engineeringhttps://lockergnome.com/surface-laptop-ultra-nvidia-rtx-spark-13-hours-25-minutes-battery-but-7-5-hours-real-use/https://lockergnome.com/surface-laptop-ultra-nvidia-rtx-spark-13-hours-25-minutes-battery-but-7-5-hours-real-use/Engadget's review unit cost $3,700, the top configuration lists at $5,900, and the one thing it does that no MacBook can is boot Windows and Linux on Arm.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 21:10:00 GMTHardwareSurface Laptop UltraNvidia RTX SparkArm laptopsMacBook Probattery lifehttps://lockergnome.com/adm-3a-terminal-manual-ctrl-h-j-k-l-cursor-keys-vi-hjkl/https://lockergnome.com/adm-3a-terminal-manual-ctrl-h-j-k-l-cursor-keys-vi-hjkl/Bill Joy wrote vi on ADM-3A terminals at Berkeley, and Vim still answers to two of the manual's four control codes, though no source I read has Joy explaining his choice.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:09:46 GMTRetroADM-3AviVimBill Joyterminalshttps://lockergnome.com/agent-roast-catches-coding-agents-weakening-tests/https://lockergnome.com/agent-roast-catches-coding-agents-weakening-tests/Nariman Abdukarimov's MIT-licensed tool runs with no model and no network, and its own replay of 166 public repositories found AI-signed commits and everyone else's weaken checks at the same rate.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:09:46 GMTSoftwaretestingCIcoding agentshttps://lockergnome.com/api-man-5mb-native-macos-ios-postman-alternative/https://lockergnome.com/api-man-5mb-native-macos-ios-postman-alternative/It is in public beta on TestFlight, lacks gRPC, and the post names no price. Imports run from Postman, OpenAPI, Swagger, Bruno, HAR and cURL, and sync is optional.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:09:46 GMTSoftwareAPI clientPostmanMCPmacOSiOShttps://lockergnome.com/apple-silicon-macos-x86-pc-nvidia-stela/https://lockergnome.com/apple-silicon-macos-x86-pc-nvidia-stela/It ships under the GPL, carries no Apple code, and needs a wired network connection, because Wi-Fi and sound are still missing. Its own README says it may not boot at all.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:09:46 GMTSoftwareStelaApple SiliconmacOSUEFINvidiahttps://lockergnome.com/billing-system-wiped-january-invoices-the-day-after-its-developer-left/https://lockergnome.com/billing-system-wiped-january-invoices-the-day-after-its-developer-left/The Daily WTF's code-horror series ran the reader story under the title Next Month. Nobody was blamed, the dates could be rebuilt, and some customers still lost billing periods.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:09:46 GMTSoftwarebillingdatesbugshttps://lockergnome.com/casa-browser-macos-tiling-web-terminal-panes/https://lockergnome.com/casa-browser-macos-tiling-web-terminal-panes/It needs Apple Silicon and macOS 26, ships unnotarized, and its README says it was built for two particular setups, key-swapped Macs and AeroSpace users, which it can be told to ignore.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:09:46 GMTSoftwaremacOSbrowserterminaltiling window managerGhosttyhttps://lockergnome.com/compromised-ca-key-replaces-samsung-tv-ads-with-family-photos/https://lockergnome.com/compromised-ca-key-replaces-samsung-tv-ads-with-family-photos/Daniel Vrátil's Rust server only works because his 2022 TV still trusts keys that eMudhra revoked on October 18, so the photos stay up as long as he never updates it.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:09:46 GMTHacks & BuildsSamsungsmart TVmitmproxyeMudhraRusthttps://lockergnome.com/dd-takes-operands-not-flags-because-it-copied-ibm-os-360-jcl-dd-statements/https://lockergnome.com/dd-takes-operands-not-flags-because-it-copied-ibm-os-360-jcl-dd-statements/Dennis Ritchie said dd was always named for the JCL DD card, which is why one command in the toolbox looks nothing like the others.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:09:46 GMTSoftwareUnixddIBMJCLhistoryhttps://lockergnome.com/free-open-source-embroidery-editor-svg-bluetooth-mcp/https://lockergnome.com/free-open-source-embroidery-editor-svg-bluetooth-mcp/Built in Rust under the Apache-2.0 license, it leaves out fill that later shapes would cover and routes travel stitches where nobody sees them, so a design drawn in Illustrator comes out of the machine without the usual cleanup.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:09:46 GMTSoftwareembroiderysvgbluetoothrustopen sourcehttps://lockergnome.com/free-open-source-terminal-browser-renders-real-chrome-pages-as-pixels/https://lockergnome.com/free-open-source-terminal-browser-renders-real-chrome-pages-as-pixels/It is early, version 0.1, and was built to sit next to a coding agent while both of you watch a dev server load, but it also takes mouse clicks and copies text over SSH, which makes it a stranger kind of tab than the text browsers terminals usually get.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:09:46 GMTSoftwareterminalbrowserchromerustopen sourcehttps://lockergnome.com/gaggia-classic-pro-custom-machined-stainless-steel-boiler/https://lockergnome.com/gaggia-classic-pro-custom-machined-stainless-steel-boiler/Hans Gaensbauer's build took five months, four 375 W cartridge heaters and a relay board, and his theory about why the thermostat died is a suspicion, not a finding.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:09:46 GMTHacks & BuildsGaggia Classic ProespressoCNC machiningrepairhttps://lockergnome.com/miyamoto-tajiri-iwata-1997-gunpei-yokoi-interview/https://lockergnome.com/miyamoto-tajiri-iwata-1997-gunpei-yokoi-interview/Game Hihyou printed it after Yokoi died in a road accident at 56, and the people talking are the ones who worked under him, from Miyamoto to Game Freak's Satoshi Tajiri.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:09:46 GMTGamingGunpei YokoiGame BoyNintendoMario Bros.https://lockergnome.com/nes-super-mario-bros-amiga-port-verified-5-million-frames/https://lockergnome.com/nes-super-mario-bros-amiga-port-verified-5-million-frames/The author, who posts as Agnus Copperfield, translated the game's own code to the Amiga's 68000 processor, which makes this a different animal from the Amiga Mario demos that came before.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:09:46 GMTGamingAmigaSuper Mario Bros.NESporthttps://lockergnome.com/shimmer-macos-picture-in-picture-pc-game-streaming-moonlight/https://lockergnome.com/shimmer-macos-picture-in-picture-pc-game-streaming-moonlight/Kevin Patel forked the Mac Moonlight client Glimmer for it, but the repo has no installer yet, so a Mac on macOS 26 and Xcode 26 has to build it.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:09:46 GMTGamingShimmerMoonlightSunshinePicture-in-PictureDualSensemacOShttps://lockergnome.com/uxzview-open-source-irfanview-image-viewer-offline-ocr/https://lockergnome.com/uxzview-open-source-irfanview-image-viewer-offline-ocr/An early-stage Qt 6 viewer in the IrfanView mold, it ships prebuilt for Windows x64 only and keeps its recognition tools in a folder beside the app, while Linux and macOS builds are still untested.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:09:46 GMTSoftwareuxzViewOCRTesseractZXing-C++jpegliQt 6image viewerhttps://lockergnome.com/voyager-1-reaches-one-light-day-from-earth-morse-code-salute/https://lockergnome.com/voyager-1-reaches-one-light-day-from-earth-morse-code-salute/Launched September 5, 1977, the probe is still talking back, and the Morse salute is a gesture for the people on the ground, since nothing aboard can see it.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:09:46 GMTHardwareVoyager 1NASAlight-dayMorse codePale Blue Dotdeep spacehttps://lockergnome.com/zip-file-is-read-from-the-back-and-every-entry-starts-with-phil-katz-initials/https://lockergnome.com/zip-file-is-read-from-the-back-and-every-entry-starts-with-phil-katz-initials/PKWARE's own spec puts the directory at the end, which is why you can append to an archive, bolt it onto an .exe, and lose all of it by cutting the tail.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:09:46 GMTSoftwareZIPPhil Katzfile formatsPKWAREhttps://lockergnome.com/zune-wireless-song-sharing-wiped-songs-after-three-days-or-three-plays/https://lockergnome.com/zune-wireless-song-sharing-wiped-songs-after-three-days-or-three-plays/Microsoft's 2006 launch release promised Zune-to-Zune sharing and never mentioned the clock. Reviewers found it, the record-label deal behind it, and an objection from artists who wanted their music shared freely.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 15:09:46 GMTRetrozunemicrosoftdrmretroanniversaryhttps://lockergnome.com/1990s-ms-dos-antivirus-apps-shipped-with-live-virus-zoos/https://lockergnome.com/1990s-ms-dos-antivirus-apps-shipped-with-live-virus-zoos/Wichary filmed the tricks in emulation, from falling letters to a Friday screen flip. Mikko Hypponen's Internet Archive museum keeps 87 more running in emulation.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTRetroDOSantivirusmalware museumretro computingemulationhttps://lockergnome.com/56k-rip-browser-1997-dial-up-simulator-modem-never-connects-at-56k/https://lockergnome.com/56k-rip-browser-1997-dial-up-simulator-modem-never-connects-at-56k/The maker says a pure function turns a page's declared byte size and your line speed into timed load events, with a real handshake recording and a seed that changes every day.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTRetro56k.ripdial-upmodembrowsernostalgiahttps://lockergnome.com/autocad-hid-lisp-name-variables-and-expressions/https://lockergnome.com/autocad-hid-lisp-name-variables-and-expressions/John Walker's February 5, 1985 position paper made the case for Lisp in AutoCAD, and the Autodesk team's preface to it explains the earlier disguise. The name AutoLisp came a release later.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTSoftwareAutoCADAutoLISPLispAutodesktech historyhttps://lockergnome.com/chrome-capture-native-4k-120fps-tab-recorder-no-ffmpeg/https://lockergnome.com/chrome-capture-native-4k-120fps-tab-recorder-no-ffmpeg/The Apache-2.0 repo wraps Chrome 153's new startScreenRecording call, and its own benchmark has Playwright's built-in recorder taking 3,800 ms to finish the same clip.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTSoftwareChromeopen sourcevideodeveloper toolshttps://lockergnome.com/developer-replaced-2650-lines-of-c-with-six-line-ftp-script/https://lockergnome.com/developer-replaced-2650-lines-of-c-with-six-line-ftp-script/Set before the web and Linux, The Register's reader column has the rewrite taking eight hours, mostly spent hunting FTP's source through WAIS, and a coworker who kept leaving the pager behind.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTSoftwarewar storiesUnixFTPon-callhttps://lockergnome.com/faa-ground-stop-copper-wire-router-flood/https://lockergnome.com/faa-ground-stop-copper-wire-router-flood/Officials say a contractor's router upgrade at a remote site spread instability to 17 facilities and grounded flights for more than four hours. The site is still unnamed.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTHardwareFAAair traffic controlL3Harrisroutersground stopfiberhttps://lockergnome.com/face-value-press-turns-family-and-pet-photos-into-woodcut-playing-card-decks/https://lockergnome.com/face-value-press-turns-family-and-pet-photos-into-woodcut-playing-card-decks/Preview one card free with no sign-up; the site warns likenesses vary, sends photos to an unnamed outside image service, and quotes four to six weeks for standard delivery.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTSoftwareAI artprint on demandgift ideasplaying cardshttps://lockergnome.com/flipbook-foundry-animates-stick-figures-by-swapping-font-characters/https://lockergnome.com/flipbook-foundry-animates-stick-figures-by-swapping-font-characters/A one-star GitHub project from a maker called arbourtrary ships 93 actions, 2,614 hand-timed drawings and an MIT license, plus a font that gives any letter arms and legs.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTSoftwareFlipbook Foundrystick figuresweb fontsanimationnpmSvelteReacthttps://lockergnome.com/free-chrome-extension-saves-x-posts-that-scrolled-past-with-offline-image-text-search/https://lockergnome.com/free-chrome-extension-saves-x-posts-that-scrolled-past-with-offline-image-text-search/It counts a post only once more than half of it was on screen, keeps at most 3,000 entries in Chrome's local storage, and opens a clicked post in a new tab so the feed you were reading never reloads.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTSoftwarechrome extensionxocrtesseractopen sourcehttps://lockergnome.com/free-open-source-tool-scrubs-airplane-doppler-audio-geolocation/https://lockergnome.com/free-open-source-tool-scrubs-airplane-doppler-audio-geolocation/The MIT-licensed Python tool comes from lizTheDeveloper, who built it after seeing a demo of the attack by colsto. It was tested on real iPhone clips and simulated ones, and its README says plainly that the results are not a guarantee.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTSecurityprivacygeolocationADS-Baudioopen sourcepythonhttps://lockergnome.com/free-web-tool-serves-websites-straight-from-your-browser-tab/https://lockergnome.com/free-web-tool-serves-websites-straight-from-your-browser-tab/The site's footer credits bytekite.dev. Each visitor pulls the pages from the owner's browser at roughly 1 to 2.5 Mbps, so home upload speed sets the audience size, and an experimental backend answers requests for 30 seconds each.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTSoftwarewebrtcpeer-to-peerweb hostinglive streamingbrowser toolshttps://lockergnome.com/free-windows-pdf-reader-dark-mode-keeps-diagrams-and-photos-in-color/https://lockergnome.com/free-windows-pdf-reader-dark-mode-keeps-diagrams-and-photos-in-color/The beta has six reading themes plus a custom one, remembers a file by its contents instead of its name, and runs with no servers behind it. Its pages name no maker.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTSoftwareLampkaPDF readerdark modeWindowsreadinghttps://lockergnome.com/fuzzer-beats-nethack-in-two-minutes-three-character-freeze/https://lockergnome.com/fuzzer-beats-nethack-in-two-minutes-three-character-freeze/The testing company's post, written by Will Wilson, Paul Ryan and Mikail Khan, says its stock-RNG runs ascended 79.0% of 480 trials, and that its first win leaned on hidden game state it is still working to remove.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTGamingnethackfuzzingtestingroguelikeantithesisbugshttps://lockergnome.com/isometric-sf-bay-area-pixel-art-map/https://lockergnome.com/isometric-sf-bay-area-pixel-art-map/Justin Chavez trained a small open model on a bigger one's paintings to dodge a roughly $7,000 bill, and the finished tiles are free to reuse for non-commercial projects.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTHacks & BuildsIsometric SFJustin ChavezFLUX.2 Kleinpixel artmapshttps://lockergnome.com/mario-kart-world-switch-2-static-recompilation-native-pc-port/https://lockergnome.com/mario-kart-world-switch-2-static-recompilation-native-pc-port/The recompiler rebuilds Nintendo's NVN2 graphics API on Vulkan, wants about 30 GB free, and the README's own frame-rate table runs from 60 fps at 2160p down to 22 to 24 fps on a GTX 1050 Ti.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTGamingmkw-recompMario Kart WorldNintendo Switch 2static recompilationVulkanPC portshttps://lockergnome.com/mechanical-pendulum-clock-built-from-empty-milk-cartons/https://lockergnome.com/mechanical-pendulum-clock-built-from-empty-milk-cartons/It follows his earlier Glashütte Trash Clock, which cheated with PVC conduit axles and welding rods, and the carton version leans on a lot of glue because glue barely sticks to the plastic coating.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTHacks & BuildsNiklas RoyCarton Clockpendulum clockescapementrecyclingmakerhttps://lockergnome.com/microcontroller-jit-compiles-text-strings-into-arm-code-on-the-fly/https://lockergnome.com/microcontroller-jit-compiles-text-strings-into-arm-code-on-the-fly/The renderer belongs to vic-2350, his re-envisioned 1980s home computer. It sends DVI through the HSTX block, keeps the font in SRAM and settles kerning before the beam starts.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTHacks & BuildsRP2350ARMJITbitmap fontsRaph Levienhttps://lockergnome.com/microsoft-1987-employee-price-list-windows-10-dollars-flight-simulator-excel-for-mac/https://lockergnome.com/microsoft-1987-employee-price-list-windows-10-dollars-flight-simulator-excel-for-mac/The scan also prices Fortran, COBOL and LISP, a $185 Mach 10 board bundled with Windows and a $40 Bus Mouse, and Chen leaves the inflation math to you.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTRetroMicrosoftWindowsFlight SimulatorExcelRaymond Chen1987https://lockergnome.com/nintendo-hiring-contract-digital-archivist-35-to-55-hour/https://lockergnome.com/nintendo-hiring-contract-digital-archivist-35-to-55-hour/The job is hybrid, runs through a staffing agency and wants someone who knows Dublin Core and PREMIS. The role is to turn what veteran staff remember into a searchable repository.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTGamingNintendoarchivesNESjob listingpreservationhttps://lockergnome.com/reverse-engineering-score-perfect-sheet-music-files/https://lockergnome.com/reverse-engineering-score-perfect-sheet-music-files/Maarten Tromp's free Python converter turns Score Perfect songs into MusicXML that MuseScore opens, after the program's own export dropped chords and lyrics.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTRetroScore Perfectreverse engineeringMusicXMLMuseScoreVisual Basic 6Atarihttps://lockergnome.com/sonic-toothbrush-nfc-chip-unlocks-macbook/https://lockergnome.com/sonic-toothbrush-nfc-chip-unlocks-macbook/Cyrill Künzi, an electrical engineer in Zurich, sniffed the handle's radio chatter in 2023 and found a plain-text password and a timer counting seconds of use.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTHacks & BuildsPhilips SonicareNFCNTAG213reverse engineeringsoftware-defined radiohttps://lockergnome.com/super-mario-odyssey-native-pc-port-recompiler/https://lockergnome.com/super-mario-odyssey-native-pc-port-recompiler/It needs about 12 GB of disk and a Vulkan 1.3 GPU, ships no game files, and the maker calls it an early preview with Linux and Steam Deck builds still experimental.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTGamingSuper Mario Odysseystatic recompilationPC portopen sourceNintendo Switchhttps://lockergnome.com/tailscale-tailcat-encrypted-netcat-no-account/https://lockergnome.com/tailscale-tailcat-encrypted-netcat-no-account/Open-sourced in August 2026 at Tailscale's conference, it is BSD-licensed, ships no stability promises, and relays through public servers that come with no uptime guarantee.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTSoftwareTailscaleTailcatWireGuardnetcatSSHopen sourcehttps://lockergnome.com/unix-mv-command-beta-give-rise-to-dom-error/https://lockergnome.com/unix-mv-command-beta-give-rise-to-dom-error/Dennis Ritchie's own account of a diagnostic in Sixth Edition Unix explains where the line came from: the lab's typists, the ed editor and an early text-to-voice experiment.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTRetroUnixBell LabsDennis RitchieSixth Edition UnixmvTeletypeDoug McIlroyhttps://lockergnome.com/10-dollar-usb-3-logic-analyzer-serial-debugger/https://lockergnome.com/10-dollar-usb-3-logic-analyzer-serial-debugger/WeAct Studio's Logic Analyzer V2 splits its flash into three firmware slots you swap with a two-second button hold or a magic baud rate. The catches are closed-source firmware, a desktop app for Windows and Linux only, and a shipping bill that can double the price.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 15:09:33 GMTHardwarelogic-analyzerusb-cdebuggingweactsigrokhttps://lockergnome.com/1984-space-game-elite-ported-to-commodore-pet-block-graphics/https://lockergnome.com/1984-space-game-elite-ported-to-commodore-pet-block-graphics/The PET build starts from Mark Moxon's annotated 6502 source, ships as a disk image for a 2031 drive or an emulator, and its author is upfront that it plays slowly.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 15:09:33 GMTGamingEliteCommodore PETBBC Microretro computing6502