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Monday, September 28, 2026
A long-standing Rockbox TODO closes: someone swept an undocumented iPod chip's mode register through all 256 values and wrote the missing remote-button driver.
Daniel Gultsch's Conversations is now free and off Google Play, ending the store income that had paid his rent since 2014.
F-Droid ships its first full redesign in a decade — new navigation, rewritten in Kotlin Compose — while Google prepares to require every Android developer to register by 2027.
Vary support is now live in Cloudflare's Cache Rules on every plan, splitting the decision in two: the origin declares what may vary, and the rule decides how much variation actually matters.
Miri's habit of writing all environment variables into target/ turns a cached build directory into a secrets leak that any pull request can read.
Git 2.56 adds a history-rewriting drop command and quieter ref handling, but the real question is whether 3.0 can ship without GitHub's SHA-256 support.
Where a story earns an experiment — research, hands-on setup, and a verdict, not just a summary.
A tiny page offers a button and a voice with no tracking and no data collected, so I rebuilt it on my homelab and found the voice is the whole product.
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