Project Newsy

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:28:00 +0000

Introducing Newsy: A Newsletter Platform Powered by GitHub Issues

Newsy is a newsletter platform inspired by projects like Utterances, Giscus, and Gitalk projects that reimagined commenting on static sites by using GitHub Issues as the backend.

Newsy takes the same idea and applies it to newsletters.

Instead of relying on a traditional email marketing service, maintaining a separate mailing list, or paying for SMTP APIs, your newsletter can live alongside your code in a GitHub repository.

Newsy is built around a simple idea: creating a newsletter should never be a complicated thing.

It aims to remove much of the overhead that comes with traditional newsletter platforms while keeping everything close to the tools developers already use.

Here’s a quick demo:

https://youtu.be/sfjo6ZVgC9w?si=RMeu6YWOWwOhn8q9

QCADesigner-E is available on appimagehub

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 11:10:00 +0000

QCADesigner-E appimage

QCADesigner-E is an extension of QCADesigner 2.0.3, developed at the University of Bremen. It adds power-dissipation estimation for Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) circuits, based on the theoretical work of Timler, Lent, and others. The extension was presented in 2.

The power-estimation functionality is integrated as an additional simulation module based on the Coherence Vector Simulation Engine (CVSE). QCADesigner-E remains fully compatible with QCA designs created using QCADesigner 2.0.3.

QCADesigner is widely used by researchers working on QCA architectures for designing, simulating, and verifying cellular automata circuits. Its standardized environment makes it possible to model QCA logic gates and interconnects while performing timing analysis. QCADesigner-E extends this workflow by allowing researchers to estimate power dissipation and evaluate the energy characteristics of their designs.

Linux AppImage

I have repackaged QCADesigner-E as an AppImage, making it possible to run the application on a wide range of Linux distributions without requiring users to manually install its dependencies or build the software from source.

The resulting AppImage is portable and distribution-independent, providing a straightforward way to run QCADesigner-E on modern Linux systems.

https://appimage.github.io/QCADesigner-E/

https://portable-linux-apps.github.io/en/app/qcadesigner-e.html

Thanks to the original authors of the application fsillt.github.io/QCADesigner-E

Pratyay writes

Project Newsy

Introducing Newsy: A Newsletter Platform Powered by GitHub Issues

QCADesigner-E is available on appimagehub

QCADesigner-E appimage

Linux AppImage