I was scrolling through Twitter a moment ago when I saw a headline from Mashable that caught my attention. It claimed the iconic Netflix ‘ta-dum’ intro sound involved a goat and the article told the story of how this sound came to be. This is a sound I hear anywhere from 5 to 10 times a day. That

There is arguably no technology in modern times that has evolved as quickly and splendidly as televisions. It seems like just yesterday TVs built like middle linebackers clogged up our living rooms, the dim picture limping toward our pupils. Today’s TVs are a marvel—bigger, thinner, brighter, and

I don’t know what my girlfriend does for a living. I thought I had a good handle on it: software sales. But in the past month, as our “space” has become “co-working space,” I’ve learned that I don’t know what she does. It certainly sounds like she’s a telemarketer. I didn’t know we had those in

Author: Lewin Day / Source: Hackaday Pickups are a key part of an electric guitar’s sound. You can spend a king’s ransom on tracking down just the right Vintage American Original 1950s Whatevers (TM) to put in your Spudocaster, but it’s not the only way. [Keith Decent] decided to make a pickup

Author: Brian Benchoff / Source: Hackaday Audio systems in Linux are terrible. You’ve never known true pain until you’ve tried to set up a recording or broadcasting workstation running Linux. I did, twenty years ago, and nothing has changed since. This wasn’t really a problem when Linux was