PlanePortal: A PyPortal Desk Radar That Tracks Planes Flying Ever stare out the window and wonder where that plane overhead is going? PlanePortal is a CircuitPython-powered desk gadget for plane fans! By Kevin Loeffler.

Ever look up and wonder where that plane overhead is going? Kevin Loeffler's PlanePortal is a real-time flight tracker for your desk.

PlanePortal: A PyPortal Desk Radar That Tracks Planes Flying Ever stare out the window and wonder where that plane overhead is going? PlanePortal is a CircuitPython-powered desk gadget for plane fans! By Kevin Loeffler.

I work by an airport and find myself wondering about the planes flying overhead. What are they? Where are they going? My new desk toy is a simple electronics project that tells you!

www.hackster.io/kevin-loeffl...

TossTalk: Build an Inexpensive Tossable, Rollable Wireless Microphone TossTalk: Build an Inexpensive Tossable, Rollable Wireless Microphone: Have you ever been in a classroom, meeting, or workshop where a single microphone needs to get passed around? The usual approach ...

Commercial throwable microphones can cost hundreds of dollars! My latest project shows you how you can make your own with a repurposed dog toy. These are great for encouraging engagement in classrooms and presentations!

www.instructables.com/TossTalk-Bui...

Channeling the ghost of Edward Teller

Excited that my project, which lets you browse the modern web on a 1997 Tiger Game.com, has been awarded a prize in this year's Junk Drawer Competition!

Turn Your Old Phone Into an Interactive Whiteboard for Under $30 Turn Your Old Phone Into an Interactive Whiteboard for Under $30: Remember when the Nintendo Wii came out and people realized you could use Wiimotes to create cheap interactive whiteboards? Refurboard...

If you're like 45% of Americans, you have your old cell phone in a drawer (yougov.com/en-us/articl...). My new Instructable shows you how to turn your old phone into an interactive whiteboard for classrooms using my prototype, open-source software!
www.instructables.com/Turn-Your-Ol...

Kiroween Build something wicked for Kiroween, our annual Halloween-themed hackathon where developers dare to code in dark mode

I am excited to share that BlueKai, the open-source BlueSky client for KaiOS feature phones, has been awarded an Influencer Judges Choice award as part of Kiroween 2025! Check out BlueKai and the other winners here: kiroween.devpost.com/project-gall...

I think it's a CCS Type 2

A Tiger Game.com with the text "Have you ever read the headlines on a 1997 Tiger Game.com?" above it. On screen is the text: "Page 1/4 1. Who Is Dailey Rodriguez Venezuela lead 2. Inside the operation: How the US moved t 3. Venezuela leader Nicolas Maduro defied 4. Venezuela opposition rejoiced at Maduro 5. Visualizing the US assault on Venezuela Next"

Check out how I got a 1997 Tiger Game.com connected to the internet again 2026! www.hackster.io/kevin-loeffl...

Probably the most fun I've had with a retro gaming/vintage computing project in a while.

Dialup Time Machine: Getting a Tiger Game.com Online in 2026 Browsing the 2026 web on a 1997 handheld by reverse-engineering its modem protocol and building a serial-to-HTTP gateway. By Kevin Loeffler.

Kevin Loeffler can now browse the 2026 web on a 1997 handheld by reverse engineering its modem protocol and building a serial-to-HTTP gateway.

Dialup Time Machine: Getting a Tiger Game.com Online in 2026 Browsing the 2026 web on a 1997 handheld by reverse-engineering its modem protocol and building a serial-to-HTTP gateway. By Kevin Loeffler.

Learn how I used a serial cable, Python, and AT commands to get 1997's Tiger Game.com back on the web!

www.hackster.io/kevin-loeffl...

BlueKai - BlueSky on a flip phone! YouTube video by Kevin Loeffler

BlueKai is a BlueSky client for KaiOS phones! Supporting KaiOS 2.5 and newer, you can post, like, repost, keep your profile up to date, and scroll your timeline anywhere you take your phone.

youtu.be/aQAQOIzGeAo?...

A Claude chat window with the text: "Use the forecast-skill to tell me when the best time to go skiing at Loveland is I'll read the forecast skill first to understand how to use it properly. Now I'll use the activity recommendation feature to check skiing conditions at Loveland: bash python /mnt/skills/user/forecast-skill/skills/get_weather.py activity skiing "Loveland, Colorado" Based on the 5-day forecast, Thursday, November 20th is the best day for skiing at Loveland with the highest score of 79.5/100. Here's the breakdown: Thursday, Nov 20 - Best day (score: 80) - Coldest at 8.8°C with overcast clouds Tuesday, Nov 18 - Second best (score: 77) - 13.8°C with broken clouds Monday, Nov 17 - Good (score: 75) - 14.3°C with broken clouds Wednesday, Nov 19 - Good (score: 74) - 14.8°C with overcast clouds Sunday, Nov 16 - Warmest/least ideal (score: 65) - 19.7°C with scattered clouds The cooler temperatures later in the week, especially Thursday, will provide better snow conditions. The overall period rates as "Good" for skiing with an average score of 74/100."

A Claude chat window with the text: "Use the forecast-skill to tell me what are the best days for hiking in Colorado I'll first read the forecast skill to understand how to use it properly. Now I'll use the activity recommendation feature to find the best hiking days in Colorado. Since you're in Erie, Colorado, I'll check the forecast for a nearby hiking location. bash cd /mnt/skills/user/forecast-skill && python skills/get_weather.py activity hiking "Colorado" 5 Great news! The next 5 days look excellent for hiking in Colorado with an overall score of 92/100. Best Days (ranked): Today (Saturday, Nov 15) - Score: 95/100 21°C (70°F), scattered clouds, light winds Your best bet! Sunday, Nov 16 - Score: 94/100 21°C (70°F), scattered clouds, light winds Nearly as perfect as today Wednesday, Nov 19 - Score: 93/100 11°C (52°F), overcast but light winds Tuesday, Nov 18 - Score: 92/100 12°C (53°F), scattered clouds, light winds Monday, Nov 17 - Score: 86/100 16°C (61°F), scattered clouds, light winds Still excellent, just slightly cooler The weekend offers the warmest temperatures and best conditions. All five days have light winds and no precipitation expected, making them all great choices for hitting the trails!"

Just submitted ForecastSkill to the 2025 OpenWeather Challenge, a Claude Skill that scores weather conditions for activities like skiing, hiking, and picnics as well as gets up-to-date weather forecasts from OpenWeather's API right in your Claude chats.

Code: github.com/kevinl95/ForecastSkill

A browser window displays a menu reading "LaTeX Formula Configuration", with a simple integral displayed inside. Below are controls for displaying the equation inline or block. Below that are buttons that display a quick example for the quadratic formula, an integral, a sum, and a matrix. Below that are a "Save Formula" and "Cancel" button pair.

A browser window displays a page titled "LaTeX Demo" published on Confluence. On the page is the text "Hello world" followed by the formulas e=mc^2, the quadratic formula, a simple integral, a basic matrix, the Schrodinger equation, and a simple derivative.

I’ve just published TeXBloX, a free and open-source Forge app for Confluence that renders LaTeX math natively on your pages.

No CDNs, no data collection! It runs entirely on Atlassian’s infrastructure.

Marketplace link: marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/2235854...

Flock Logins Exposed In Malware Infections, Senator Asks FTC to Investigate the Company Senator Ron Wyden says AI-camera company Flock is violating federal law by not enforcing multi-factor authentication. 404 Media previously found Flock credentials included in infostealer infections.

NEW: Senator @wyden.senate.gov says AI-camera company Flock is violating federal law by not enforcing multi-factor authentication. 404 Media previously found Flock credentials included in infostealer infections.

After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence Chrisanna Elser spent days collecting evidence, from apps on her phone to dashcam footage in her vehicle, to prove her whereabouts

Have you ever been accused of a crime that you did not commit? It can be challenging to prove your innocence, but just imagine how hard it can be when law enforcement claims they have surveillance camera footage as proof. Chrisanna Elser spent days collecting evidence to prove her whereabouts. 1/3

WindGuard, a free project I wrote that protects your inflatable holiday decorations with just a smart plug and a few minutes to deploy some code that checks your local weather to the cloud, was featured on Instructables today! #halloween #diy

www.instructables.com/Keeping-Ghos...

Kevin Loeffler / Web Check CI · GitLab Web Check CI automatically enforces Google's Baseline web compatibility standards in your GitLab pipelines. It scans your JavaScript, CSS, and HTML for unsupported features and reports issues directly...

Just shipped Web Check CI - automated browser compatibility scanning for GitLab pipelines using Google's Baseline standards.
One-line setup, scans JS/CSS/HTML against baseline years, shows issues in merge requests!

Open source of course: gitlab.com/loefflerlabs...

We basically stopped talking about nuclear winter. It hasn't been part of the popular discourse surrounding Russia, India/Pakistan, or Iran.

The inability to think about complex solutions explains so much about what's gone wrong these last few years. People crave an answer that is simple and easy but those don't exist for COVID, climate change, or any number of other problems that too many people would rather ignore.

"Quishing", or QR-code phishing, is on the rise!

www.QRTrust.fyi is a web app I made that you can use on your Android or iOS phone to scan QR codes and find out if the website they link to is suspicious. It works by checking each url against the crowd-sourced PhishTank database!

Drop It Like It’s Hot: Sending Email Attachments Straight to Google Drive using Postmark This is a submission for the Postmark Challenge: Inbox Innovators. What I Built Teachers,...

For Postmark’s Inbox Innovators hackathon I built a cool new project! EmailDrop uploads email attachments straight to your Google Drive. Great for teachers, freelancers, or anyone tired of inbox clutter or file management!

More here: dev.to/mrmemory/dro...

#Postmark #Serverless #Python

NIST Releases First 3 Finalized Post-Quantum Encryption Standards NIST is encouraging computer system administrators to begin transitioning to the new standards as soon as possible

NIST has chosen some post-quantum encryption algorithms that will replace the ones we use today: www.nist.gov/news-events/...

A red tractor in front of a carnival ride that has some non-functional sails, gears, and a brass horn glued onto it.

Just glue some gears on it and call it Steampunk...

Spotted at Six Flags America

Data Broken - Opt out of the data broker nightmare with Privotron and Amazon Q Developer This is a submission for the Amazon Q Developer "Quack The Code" Challenge: Crushing the Command...

Wrote a fun privacy tool called Privotron to help folks opt out of data broker databases (you know, the sites that trade your info likely without your knowledge or consent). It's actually a framework so the community can contribute "playbooks" to opt out of more brokers!

dev.to/mrmemory/dat...

LibreWolf Browser A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.

I have been a big fan of LibreWolf lately- it's a privacy-focused modified version of Firefox. Telemetry is disabled, cookies are cleared at the end of each session, and I really like its anti-fingerprinting features. Check it out- librewolf.net

OriginTrackr: Explore where products come from with KendoReact This is a submission for the KendoReact Free Components Challenge. What I...

Did you know that a product's barcode can tell you a lot about where a company does business? OriginTrackr is a free, offline-ready progressive web app I have built that scans barcodes and tells you in what country a product's barcode is registered.
dev.to/mrmemory/ori...

a cartoon character with the words where 's the kaboom Alt: Marvin the Martian looking into a telescope with the words "Where 's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom!"

If you were also worried that you missed the nova of T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) this week, it looks like we will be waiting until November to see if the Blaze Star will go off: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_Coron...

Create your own Censorship-Resistant Links for X and More! Are you tired of social platforms blocking important links? Whether you’re trying to share...

In light of reports that Signal links are being blocked on X, learn how to use your own domain to create censorship-resistant links for use on social media: dev.to/mrmemory/cre...