- A veteran DIY-bio advocate announced the first dedicated lab space after two decades of transhumanist work and invited collaborators for cryobiology or related open-source biology projects.  
- An anti-aging blogger is distributing a $35 DVD that bundles open-source tools—Genome Workbench, NanoEngineer-1, TinkerCell, and Python—for at-home nano-robotics, DNA origami, and cell-reprogramming experiments, though participants questioned the currency of some bundled software.  
- Participants debated SSD-based write-caching (bcache) versus battery-backed RAM cache; HEx1 promoted SSDs for latency reduction, while jrayhawk argued RAM is cheaper, faster, and avoids SSD wear in high-write workloads.  
- kanzure proposed turning Chrome DevTools’ remote-debugging protocol into Unix-style shell utilities: a stateful server plus JSON-piping clients enabling command chains like `debug dom xpath … | debug dom remove` without losing network-recording state.  
- A new “gnusha” IRC bot was deployed to automatically announce commits and link to cgit repositories, providing real-time visibility for open-source projects discussed in the channel.  
- Hackaday coverage and an accompanying PDF demonstrated a DVD-burner laser method to convert graphite oxide films into graphene, yielding flexible, high-performance electrochemical capacitors with minimal equipment.  
- A PubMed reference (PMID 17909264) was shared to caution that a proposed “natto plan” (DIY cardiovascular or longevity experiment using Bacillus subtilis natto) may require deeper research before human use.  
- Browser workflow pain points were analyzed: members weighed distributed/cloud bookmarking against local caching and proxy solutions to keep thousands of tabs accessible offline without exhausting RAM, and considered writing a custom Chrome extension or proxy to improve offline page reuse.