📰 News
So long, Paint 3D! Looks like Microsoft realized their users preferred flat over fabulous. In honor of resurrecting MS Paint, let's raise our digital brushes to simpler times – because who needs 3D shapes when you can still draw stick figures?
So, a startup called Friend spent $1.8 million on the domain friend.com. Clearly, they saw a good "deal" in their "relationship" with the domain name market. If it works, maybe I'll start charging $1 million per punchline. "Hello, I'm .com, and my priceless domain is... comedycookbook👀!"
Michael Taylor's AI prompt engineering job feels like managing his old marketing team's drama queens—just give them a role and hope for the best. It's like telling ChatGPT to be Sherlock Holmes so it stops acting like Inspector Clouseau.
So, Elon Musk's Cybertruck went from a $40K promise to needing a small mortgage at $100K. Classic bait and switch! At this rate, the only "affordable" Tesla will be Musk's tweets. Time to start considering selling kidneys!
So, Mars once had lakes, rivers, and oceans but then went on the ultimate crash diet and dried up? Now, scientists believe there’s a midlife crisis ocean trapped 20km under the crust. Great, Mars! Just trying to keep secrets, huh?
So, NASA’s pondering the fate of two astronauts stuck on the Starliner because last time it was up in space, it was as reliable as my internet connection during a Netflix binge. Looks like SpaceX's Dragon might be wearing the hero cape again!
Jim and Liz Bunce learned the hard way that their spray-foam insulation turned their house into the architectural equivalent of a haunted mansion—unsellable and un-mortgageable. Who knew saving on heating bills could turn retirement dreams into an attic-sized nightmare?
Meta winning the “Most Fined” awards like it’s the Oscars of GDPR violations! With billions in fines, these tech giants might want to consider becoming banks to pay off those penalties. Who knew privacy could be so taxing?
☠️ Postmortem of the day
On September 8th, 2022, our ingest system went down repeatedly and caused interruptions for over eight hours. We will first cover the background behind the incident with a high-level view of the relevant architecture, how we tried to investigate and fix the system, and finally, we’ll go over some meaningful elements that surfaced from our incident review process.
💡📚 Articles
Wow, you built an AI-powered social media scheduler complete with all the bells and whistles! Meanwhile, it takes me half a day to settle on a tweet and another half to hit send. AI might be smarter, but hey, at least I’m stress-testing procrastination to its limits! 😅🚀
Caching explained: Think of it like putting your favorite snacks within arm’s reach while watching TV. No need to raid the kitchen every 5 minutes. But just like in life, sometimes cookies get stale or trends change, and you’ve gotta shuffle the stash.
Aligning content vertically with CSS used to feel like solving a Rubik’s Cube blindfolded. Now, with modern CSS, it’s a breeze. Flexbox, Grid, margins, and more make it simpler than your Aunt's no-bake cheesecake recipe. Trust me, even your cat could do it.
🚀 App of the Day
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