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Full-Blown Cross-Assembler…in a Bash Script https://hackaday.com/2026/02/06/full-blown-cross-assembler-in-a-bash-script/
#LinuxHacks #SoftwareHacks #Assemblylanguage #Bashscript #Bourneshell

Three Decades Of ReactOS

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/02/05/three-decades-of-reactos/

<div><img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="450" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/reactos-featured.jpg?w=800" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" width="800" /></div><p>Over the past couple of years with the <em>Jenny’s Daily Drivers</em> series, we’ve looked at a number of unusual or noteworthy operating systems. Among them has been ReactOS, an open source clone of a millennium-era Windows OS, which we tried back in November. It’s one of those slow-burn projects we know has been around for a long time, but still it’s a surprise to find we’ve reached the <a href="https://reactos.org/blogs/30yrs-of-ros/" target="_blank">30th anniversary of the first ReactOS code commit</a>.</p>
<p>The post is a run through the project’s history, and having followed it for a long time we recognize some of the milestones from the various ISOs we downloaded and tried back in the day. At the end it looks into the future with plans to support more up-to-date hardware as well as UEFI, which we hope will keep it relevant.</p>
<p>When we tried it, we found an OS which could indeed be a Daily Driver on which a Hackaday article could be written — even if it wasn’t the slickest experience on the block. It doesn’t matter that it’s taken a while, if you’re used to Windows XP this has become a usable replacement. We came to the conclusion that like FreeDOS it could find a niche in pl

Three Decades Of ReactOS https://hackaday.com/2026/02/05/three-decades-of-reactos/
#SoftwareHacks #Opensource #Reactos #Windows

Playing YouTube From The Command Line

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/01/31/playing-youtube-from-the-command-line/

<div><img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="451" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-23-092448-e1769120730786.png?w=800" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" width="800" /></div><p>Generally, one opens a web browser or an app to use YouTube. However, if you’re looking to just listen to the audio, you can actually do that right from the terminal. <a href="https://shellbeats.com/" target="_blank">You just need Shellbeats from [lalo-space].</a></p>
<p>Shellbeats is primarily intended for playing music from YouTube, and is well equipped for this task. It allows searching YouTube directly from the terminal, as well as streaming tracks or entire playlists from the command line interface. You can also make and edit playlists from within the tool, and even download the whole lot as MP3s if so desired. It’s all keyboard-operated and nicely lightweight. The overall experience isn’t dissimilar from operating a simple LCD-based MP3 player from 20 years ago.</p>
<p>There’s plenty of other fun stuff you can do in the terminal, too, <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/a-gentle-introduction-to-ncurses-for-the-terminally-impatient/">as we’ve explored previously</a>. If you’re working on your own media player hacks, be sure to notify us <a href="http://hackaday.com/submit-a-tip">on the tipsline!</a></p>

Playing YouTube From The Command Line https://hackaday.com/2026/01/31/playing-youtube-from-the-command-line/
#Digitalaudiohacks #SoftwareHacks #Commandline #Mp3player #Music #Terminal #Youtube

Running DOOM on Earbuds https://hackaday.com/2026/01/27/running-doom-on-earbuds/
#Games #SoftwareHacks #Doom #Doomport #Earbuds #Pinebuds

Running DOOM on Earbuds

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/01/27/running-doom-on-earbuds/

<div><img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="451" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/vlcsnap-2026-01-26-15h33m33s621.png?w=800" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" width="800" /></div><p>In 1993, <em>DOOM</em> was a great game to play if you had a 486 with a VGA monitor and nothing to do all weekend. In 2026, <a href="https://doombuds.com/" target="_blank">you can play it on a set of earbuds instead</a>, if for some reason that’s something you’ve always dreamed of doing.</p>
<p>The project comes to us from [Arin Sarkisian], who figured out that the Pinebuds Pro had enough processing power to run one of the seminal FPS games from the 1990s. Inside these earbuds is a Cortex-M4F, which is set to run at 100 MHz. [Arin] figured out it could easily be cranked up to 300 MHz with low power mode switched off, which would come in handy for one main reason. See, the earbuds might be able to run the <em>DOOM</em> engine, but they don’t have a display.</p>
<p>Thus, [Arin] figured the easiest way to get the video data out would be via the Cortex-M4F’s serial UART running at 2.4 mbps. Running the game at a resolution of 320 x 200 at 3 frames per second would consume this entire bandwidth. However, all those extra clock cycles allow running an MJPEG compression algorithm that allow spitting out up to 18 frames per second. Much better!</p>
<p>All that was left to do was to figure out a control scheme. To that end

Nic Barker Explains ASCII, Unicode, and UTF-8 https://hackaday.com/2026/01/22/nic-barker-explains-ascii-unicode-and-utf-8/
#SoftwareHacks #ASCII #Unicode #UTF8

STL Editing with FreeCAD https://hackaday.com/2026/01/22/stl-editing-with-freecad/
#SoftwareHacks #Cad #Freecad #Stlediting

Block Devices in User Space https://hackaday.com/2026/01/20/block-devices-in-user-space/
#LinuxHacks #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareHacks #Blockdevicedriver #Linux #Ublk

Block Devices in User Space

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/01/20/block-devices-in-user-space/

<div><img alt="" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" height="466" src="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ublk.png?w=800" style="margin: 0 auto; margin-bottom: 15px;" width="800" /></div><p>Your new project really could use a block device for Linux. File systems are easy to do with FUSE, but that’s sometimes too high-level. But a block driver can be tough to write and debug, especially since bugs in the kernel’s space can be catastrophic. [Jiri Pospisil] <a href="https://jpospisil.com/posts/2026-01-13-creating-virtual-block-devices-with-ublk" target="_blank">suggests</a> <a href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/block/ublk.html" target="_blank">Ublk</a>, a framework for writing block devices in user space. This works using the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_uring" target="_blank">io_uring</a> facility in recent kernels.</p>
<p>This opens the block device field up. You can use any language you want (we’ve seen FUSE used with some very strange languages). You can use libraries that would not work in the kernel. Debugging is simple, and crashing is a minor inconvenience.</p>
<p>Another advantage? Your driver won’t depend on the kernel code. There is a kernel driver, of course, named ublk_drv, but that’s not your code. That’s what your code talks to.</p>
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<p>The driver maintains the block devices and relays I/O and ioctl requests to your code for servicing. There a

The Windows Interface You Didn’t Like, For Linux https://hackaday.com/2026/01/20/the-windows-interface-you-didnt-like-for-linux/
#LinuxHacks #SoftwareHacks #Linux #Metro #Wayland #WIndows8

BASIC on a Calculator Again https://hackaday.com/2026/01/19/basic-on-a-calculator-again/
#Retrocomputing #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareHacks #Basic #Calculator #Hpprime

Arnis Brings the World to Minecraft: Bedrock Edition https://hackaday.com/2026/01/17/arnis-brings-the-world-to-minecraft-bedrock-edition/
#Games #SoftwareHacks #3Dmapping #Elevation #Generation #Minecraft

Arnis Brings the World to Minecraft: Bedrock Edition

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/01/17/arnis-brings-the-world-to-minecraft-bedrock-edition/

What Happens When a Bug Rears its Head at Mach Two? https://hackaday.com/2026/01/15/what-happens-when-a-bug-rears-its-head-at-mach-two/
#SoftwareHacks #Amateurrocketry #Glitch #Rocketry #Softwarebug

Windows? Linux? Browser? Same Executable https://hackaday.com/2026/01/15/windows-linux-browser-same-executable/
#SoftwareHacks #APE #Cosmopolitan #Crossplatformsoftware

Playing Factorio on a Floppy Disk Cluster https://hackaday.com/2026/01/13/playing-factorio-on-a-floppy-disk-cluster/
#Retrocomputing #SoftwareHacks #Factorio #Filesystem #Floppy #Floppydisk #Fusefilesystem

BASIC Programming With No Strings Attached https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/basic-programming-with-no-strings-attached/
#Retrocomputing #SoftwareHacks #Basic #Filography #Pinandthreadart #StringArt

HORUS Framework: A Rust Robotics Library https://hackaday.com/2026/01/09/horus-framework-a-rust-robotics-library/
#SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareHacks #Horus #Python #Realtime #Rust

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