Automating mundane tasks keeps your attention focused on the work that matters.

There may be times when you are working in the Linux terminal and suddenly see the “can’t set the locale” error and see some mysterious characters like ...

Henny, a 4-year-old pet python, was reunited with her owners in San Bernardino, California on October 2 after going missing 7 weeks ago. The snake somehow travelled 50 miles to an In-N-Out in Monrovia ...

It’s likely that many Hackaday readers will be aware of UTF-8, the mechanism for incorporating diverse alphabets and other characters such as 💩 emojis. It takes the long-established 7-bit ASCII ...

Abstract: This article introduces a low-power spintronic rotary encoder capable of 8-bit analog-to-digital conversion. The proposed encoder leverages spin-Hall effect-driven domain wall motion ...

The gpt-4o agent encodes the str argument to a tool call in latin-1 encoding instead of utf-8 whenever smart / curly quotes are involved. If another tool uses the same text, the memory of the argument ...

Imagine if you could hide a secret message within a photo, and no one could tell by just looking at it. This is the magic of steganography—a powerful technique that allows us to embed secret ...

uv is failing to install packages, reporting UTF-8 encoding errors. The root cause is likely non-ASCII characters in the Windows username, which uv may not be handling correctly. error: Failed to run ...