📰 News
Spotify adding video learning courses? Soon we'll have degrees in "Advanced Playlist Curation" and "Mastering the Air Guitar"! Don't be surprised when your next job interview asks for your Spotify course transcript!
Microsoft is finally making Chrome text rendering better on Windows. It's like when your friend helps his rival in a game - there's some shady motivation there! Maybe Microsoft is just angling for a cameo appearance in Chrome next.
Bluesky CEO believes in a decentralized future for social media, making Jack Dorsey's dreams come true. AT Protocol gives users control and flexibility. I once tried to decentralize dinner decisions but ended up ordering pizza 5 different ways. Decentralization is a pizza with extra challenges!
Nigerian fintech Zone is really making it rain with $8.5M in seed funding - must be using blockchain technology to make it rain digital currencies! They're on a payment infrastructure quest, which means no more "Sorry, I'm short on cash" excuses from now on in Africa!
Spotify's new venture into e-learning might be music to users' ears. Who knew you could go from jamming out to mastering Excel in one platform? This might be the only way to finally learn music production while creating your own educational masterpiece playlist!
Microsoft leaving the Format drive dialog unchanged for 30 years is like keeping that one shirt in your closet for decades, thinking it's a classic. But really, it's just clinging to the past like a nostalgic hoarder.
Microsoft playing the "Buy a Startup and Make it Disappear" game with Inflection is just OpenAI playbook on repeat. It's like buying a plant and suddenly it's a part of your garden department. Satya Nadella's acquisitions are starting to feel like a sci-fi AI plot twist!
Well, looks like moon real estate is getting crowded! Astronomers are like, "Hey, save our spots for cosmic snooping!" Who knew the moon would become the next hot property market? Bet there's a bidding war for the best telescope locations! Keep your eyes on the lunar prize, folks!
Nvidia and AWS are like two peas in a pod, both born from happy accidents. Nvidia's revenue growth is a wild ride, set to hit $24 billion next quarter. But can they keep up with AWS? Only time will tell in this high-stakes tech rollercoaster.
The Financial Times is testing an AI chatbot trained on their own articles. Hopefully, it won't mix up news with dad jokes. "Why did the AI break up with the robot? It found someone byte-ier." 🤖 #AIcomedy
☠️ Postmortem of the day
The Google Meet Livestream feature experienced disruptions that caused intermittent degraded quality of experience for a small subset of viewers, starting 25 October 2021 0400 PT and ending 26 October 2021 1000 PT. Quality was degraded for a total duration of 4 hours (3 hours on 25 October and 1 hour on 26 October). During this time, no more than 15% of livestream viewers experienced higher rebuffer rates and latency in livestream video playback. We sincerely apologize for the disruption that may have affected your business-critical events. We have identified the cause of the issue and have taken steps to improve our service.
💡📚 Articles
Who knew setting up your own VPN could be so cost-effective and easy? It's like DIY but for tech wizards! Just don't accidentally send all your internet traffic through the wrong pipe - nobody wants their cat videos leaked to the dark web!
IntelliJ IDEA shortcuts are like secret passcodes to the coding kingdom. Remember, with great shortcuts come great responsibility...and less wrist strain. Keep your hands on the keyboard, your eyes on the prize, and your code on point! #VirtuosoOfTheKeyboard
Whoa, that was a marathon read! It's like the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy but for tech enthusiasts! Good thing LocalStack and Docker are here to save the day - they're like the dynamic duo of cloud app development, making AWS magic happen locally.
Looks like the software for hardware scene is heating up faster than my laptop during a Zoom call! These startups are disrupting the industry so much, even my old CAD software is considering early retirement. The only question left is: can they handle the pressure?
Looks like C++ memory safety got called out by the White House - sparking debate in the programming world. Rust might have to hustle against the old-schoolers now! Don't worry, I once coded in C++ and accidentally created a virtual black hole. Good times.
Hexagonal Architecture or should I say "Ports and Adapters"? It's like a game of telephone, but with software architecture! Who knew hexagons weren't involved? Just make sure your code doesn't get tangled up like a phone cord from the 90s.
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Flatito, grep for YAML and JSON files
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Jampack – Optimizes static websites as a post-processing step
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Auto-generate an OpenAPI spec by listening to localhost
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A one stop repository for generative AI research updates, interview resources, notebooks and much more!
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Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler
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Detecting adblock, without JavaScript, by abusing HTTP 103 responses
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Nano-web – a low latency one binary webserver designed for serving SPAs
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🥷 Run AI-agents with an API
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A terminal application to view, tail, merge, and search log files (plus JSONL).
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