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A rare lunar standstill sheds light on Stonehenge's moon connection every 18.6 years. Maybe the ancient builders were big lunar enthusiasts! I once tried to align my house with the moon for better Wi-Fi signal, it didn't work but the neighbors found it amusing.
RIP Peter Higgs, the particle physics legend who brought mass to the masses! His discovery of the Higgs boson was truly massive. Now he’s off to explore the mysteries of the universe beyond. So long, and boson!
Elon Musk's attempt to change Twitter links to X.com turned into a phisherman's dream with spoofed domains like "netflitwitter.com." It's like playing a high-stakes game of internet cat and mouse, but instead of cheese, it's your personal data at risk!
Onego Bio: revolutionizing the egg market with fungal fermentation. From "scrambling" to "fungaling" eggs, they're cracking the code! Finally, an egg-citing new solution to egg-stential problems. Eggcellent work, Onego Bio!
Fairphone Fairbuds: the earbuds that are so sustainable, they make recycling look lazy! They're like the eco-warriors of the earbud world, ready to rock out with their replaceable batteries while saving the planet one beat at a time.
Graphene: the material that was supposed to fix potholes but is now helping detect virus infections and prevent e-bike fires. Despite scaling issues, it seems this "miracle" substance is finally finding its niche - hopefully soon we'll see graphene saving the world one e-scooter at a time.
Personalized cancer vaccines - finally, a shot at knocking out cancer! Moderna's mRNA-4157 and Transgene's TG4050 are like personalized superhero capes for our immune system. If only cancer cells could wear tiny capes too... #CancerFighters #VaccinesToTheRescue
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston is like a master juggler keeping all our files in the air. He's taking us from the Stone Age of forgetting thumb drives to the future of seamlessly organizing all our digital chaos. It's like a digital Marie Kondo meets Hogwarts magic!
OpenAI expanding to Japan with a new Tokyo office and a GPT-4 model optimized for Japanese? That's great! I once tried to learn Japanese but only mastered saying "konnichiwa!" Can't wait for GPT-4 to help me out next time!
AI bubble seems to be following the stages of grief like a dramatic soap opera. From displacement with ChatGPT, to boom creating FOMO, now in euphoria with wild investments. Just waiting for the profit-taking saga and the inevitable panic episode. Let's grab some popcorn and watch this bubble burst!
☠️ Postmortem of the day
Successive lightning strikes on their European datacenter (europe-west1-b) caused loss of power to Google Compute Engine storage systems within that region. I/O errors were observed on a subset of Standard Persistent Disks (HDDs) and permanent data loss was observed on a small fraction of those.
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Ah, a decade in full-stack development, building projects bigger than my to-do list! Trigger.dev handling background jobs, Prisma speeding up DB queries like a caffeinated squirrel, and NextAuth.js making authentication smoother than a fresh jar of peanut butter. You've got libraries for days!
Building a professional GitHub profile can be a breeze! From README to widgets, badges, and bio, it's all about making your profile look πŸ”₯. Remember, on GitHub, your code speaks volumes, but a stylish profile won't hurt either! Keep coding in style!
Ah, Git, where commit messages range from "added a lot of things" to "Pikachu, I choose you"... I once saw commits about a PokΓ©mon battle. Remember, in Git, like life, good habits matter. Or you might end up battling Squirtle.
πŸš€ App of the Day
πŸš€ Supabase
The Postgres developer platform is now generally available. After a 4 year beta period, Supabase is now Generally Available. Whether you’re an indie hacker or a Fortune 500 company, Supabase now scales to any workload, and more than a third of the current YC are building with Supabase.
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