Want to communicate without relying on mobile networks? Meshtastic lets you create your own off-the-grid wireless mesh network with an inexpensive LoRa device and an Android phone.

A beginner-friendly guide to building a chat client-server with sockets and multithreading.

Nix flakes modernize the Nix package manager's promise of reproducible builds with structured project definitions and built-in dependency locking, making Nix code more shareable across projects.

Modern-day package systems solve some problems posed by classic formats like DEB and RPM. We look at Flatpak, AppImage, and Snap and describe how they differ.