📰 News
The US banning a Russian antivirus? Looks like Kaspersky caught a computer bug... and it’s terminal! They're blaming the “geopolitical climate,” but I bet it’s just because Kaspersky wouldn’t share their Netflix password. Talk about anti-social software!
Netflix is turning video encoding into a science fair project. Imagine a coder with a magnifying glass trying to preserve Martin Scorsese's vision through your sketchy Wi-Fi. Now, they’ve got wrestling! Let's hope The Rock’s eyebrow survives the bitrate.
Turns out tree bark has been doing more than just making forests picturesque. From ancient willow bark chomping to today's AI-driven plant detectives, we’ve come a long way. Kudos to Enveda for making pharmaceuticals a bit like eco-friendly Pokemon hunting!
Domino’s tried to conquer Italy and brought pineapple pizza along. Unsurprisingly, they left faster than you can say ‘ciao’. Turns out, telling Italians how to pizza is like teaching Shakespeare to a mime artist – awkward and unnecessary! 🍕
Online shoppers are searching through e-commerce platforms like lost souls in a digital labyrinth. Enter Daydream, an AI-powered search engine promising to make shopping searches as smooth as ordering pizza. Ready to rule fashion, it just bagged $50 million. Shop till you (don't) drop!
Data theft from London NHS hospitals: Patients worry if their blood tests are now starring in Russian cyber-gang’s new drama. NHS advises against paying ransom—Data's already online. Next Doctor’s visit: "So, I see your cholesterol now has an audience!"
Two teens ditch summer fun for startup life, raising $500k pre-seed. Christopher and Nicholas, armed with debate team experience, pitch their way to VC success! Funny, my summer job at 18 involved perfecting my burger-flipping skills at McD’s.
Vox Media just sold its soul to OpenAI, and journalists found out via Slack—worst office memo ever? Next, The Atlantic said, "Hold my coffee," announcing it just moments before an exclusive broke. Expect AI to write future complaints!
So, an AI that can read emotions? Imagine Siri meets Sherlock Holmes but with the deduction skills of a potato! It's like AI playing therapist – except it might confuse your "I love you" with "I loathe you." Perfect for divorce court!
☠️ Postmortem of the day
A mail system emailed people more than 20 times. This happened because mail was sent with a batch cron job that sent mail to everyone who was marked as waiting for mail. This was a non-atomic operation and the batch job didn't mark people as not waiting until all messages were sent.
💡📚 Articles
So, you turned to Amazon Aurora Global Database for disaster recovery? It's like setting up insurance policies in multiple countries but for your data! Now you can finally say your data has more worldwide coverage than the Kardashians.
Need image backgrounds to *poof* like a magician's rabbit? Just plop in `mix-blend-mode: multiply;` and watch the white vanish! I tried it once—couldn’t find my cat for three hours. Try it and save on Photoshop therapy bills!
So, you've got Terraform destruction techniques on your mind? Just like my ex's approach to relationships! Terraform destroy nukes everything, while targeted destroy is like selectively smashing only the ugly vases in grandma's house. Careful, or you might zap your cat's laser pointer toy!
Ah, TypeScript runtime configurations—where a missing comma can crash your dreams faster than an ex’s text. Spartak’s new package promises to save us from config chaos. If only I had a dollar for every time a missing API key, stored on post-it notes, cost me a production mishap! 🧑‍💻🗒️
Reusable React components: The LEGO blocks of the web! They make development faster and easier—just like adding a sandwich to Uber Eats. Remember, no API calls in your components; they’re for props to handle. Happy coding, Web Yoda!
Joining a developer community is like finding Wi-Fi in a dead zone—lifesaving! Here are 5 must-join communities for coders, from EddieHub to ReactPlay. With these, you'll network, level up, and maybe even get free snacks at meetups!
🚀 App of the Day
🔄 Sherloq
Collaborative AI repository for SQL users. Sherloq is the one place for all your ad-hoc SQL queries. Using the AI SQL repo plug-in, you can collaboratively manage, save, and share your SQL code, without leaving your IDE. Stop the “where the f*ck did I put that SQL” moments and focus on data analysis.
👨‍💻 Repositories
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Just open-sourced E25DX: a modern Hugo theme for tech documentations
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The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus
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A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search
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