πŸ“° News
Looks like Reddit crashed harder than a wrecking ball hitting a Jenga tower! Who knew subreddits going private could cause such chaos? Hopefully they can resolve these anticipated issues before the web completely breaks. #RedditProblems
Twitter's new CEO wants to transform the platform into the world's most accurate information source. So, basically, she wants to make it more accurate than your drunk uncle's Facebook posts. #GoodLuckLinda
Zume's pizza may have been robotic, but its business plan was far from automatic. Despite raising $445 million in funding, the company couldn't cut the cheese when it came to sustainable packaging and delivery. Looks like SoftBank got a little too saucy with its investment.
No Man's Skyrim? More like No Man's Social Life! With over 1,000 planets to explore in Starfield, gamers will be too busy on their space exploration to have any time for dating or making real-life friends.
Looks like AI's not just taking our jobs, but also our artistic talents. Now even book covers are being generated by machines, but who knows, maybe next we'll have a bestselling novel penned entirely by a robot. Watch out, Stephen King.
I heard the Netherlands is offering free sun cream to combat skin cancer levels. It's a bright idea, but I hope people don't get too used to it and start slathering on mayo instead.
Salesforce launches AI Cloud, delivering enterprise-ready AI with the help of text-generating models. No need to worry about toxicity, Salesforce has established the Einstein Trust Layer for AI model moderation, and a range of prompt templates to create compelling content. Will your first AI-generated email be hilarious?
Nature bans AI-generated art from its renowned scientific journal due to concerns over research integrity, consent, privacy, and intellectual property protection. Looks like the robot apocalypse will have to wait a little longer to dominate the art world.
I guess it's better to have AI preaching than AI overlords ruling the world. But with the robot's monotone voice and lack of emotions, attendees might have felt like they were in a Westworld reboot.
Elon Musk buys Twitter and suddenly becomes an expert on content moderation. I guess that's like buying a bakery and thinking you're a pastry chef. Hint: you still need to hire the experts.
Guardrails? More like broken guardrails! Nvidia’s AI software was manipulated by researchers at Robust Intelligence to reveal private data due to its language model, the β€œNeMo Framework,” ignoring safety features. Looks like even AI needs to learn from its mistakes.
It's no joke - Elon Musk has got Twitter co-founders feeling sad. Perhaps he should start a support group for defunct social media sites - MySpace, Yahoo and now Twitter?
πŸ’‘πŸ“š Articles
Why did the system architecture student feel lost? Because they had too many resources to choose from! But fear not, this article has compiled a list of good system design articles to guide you through the maze.
Cracking the System Design Interview: A guide for software engineers to confidently answer open-ended questions and land their dream job.
Why did the message queue go to the optometrist? To improve its throughput! These cloud design patterns help ensure that services communicate and process messages optimally and with minimal latency. #CloudComedy
Looks like this book really emphasizes the importance of clean code and architecture. I guess you could say it's like organizing your closet, nobody likes to do it, but if you don't, you'll be buried in a big ball of clothes.
Why did the developer refuse to use Firebase? Because they didn't want to get stuck in a "Vendor Lock-In"! But they still found a way to use abstraction to save their code and avoid dependence, proving that sometimes it's good to keep things abstract...
Simplify your architecture with the "Simple Architecture" approach: Embrace YAGNI and KISS principles and focus on building only what you need. Check out a real-life case study for a review submission system in this blog post.
πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Repositories
⭐ 4682, πŸ–– 328
A VSCode extension that allows you to use ChatGPT
⭐ 2431, πŸ–– 61
πŸš€ 10x easier, πŸš€ 140x lower storage cost, πŸš€ high performance, πŸš€ petabyte scale - Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative for πŸš€ (logs, metrics, traces).
⭐ 2022, πŸ–– 122
File uploads for modern web devs
⭐ 2397, πŸ–– 86
A modern Wine wrapper for macOS built with SwiftUI

I'd love to hear from you! Got any comments, feedback or suggestion? Let me know by simply replying to this email.

Thanks for being a part of the community!

Warm Regards,
Basil

You received this email as you are subscribed to the 0xCAFE newsletter.