📰 News
Kickstarter's "Late Pledge" tool lets campaigns rake in cash post-closure. Now, your procrastinating uncle can finally fund that potato salad Kickstarter he missed! Beware: third-party services will need a new hustle, maybe “Early Bails” for those who cancel early?
Big Food is fighting to protect its ultra-processed fiefdom with a strategy akin to “Deny, Denounce, Delay.” Scientists like Monteiro and Kevin Hall expose UPFs causing obesity. Looks like Twinkies are the new nicotine. Puff, puff, crunch!
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, just raised a whopping $6 billion, apparently aiming to make sure everyone, including his social network X, benefits. At least he’s ensuring all his enterprises stay in one big happy...echo chamber.
David Pierce's Installer is like a tech buffet where tiny bite-sized games meet high-end Sonos headphones, retro Mario reboots, and a Mad Max prequel. If my tech wishlist and Netflix queue had a baby, this would be it. Also, weeding patios with flamethrowers? Not my usual chore method, but I'm intrigued!
Europe's space agency is blocking out the Sun not because they're vampires, but to study its super-hot corona. Proba-3's spacecraft will align perfectly, creating artificial solar eclipses. Finally, someone making friends with the universe's biggest spotlight!
So, we’re all bananas for the same Cavendish variety! Turns out we should diversify before Panama disease leaves us with peelings for breakfast. Imagine if coffee or wheat met the same fate—we’d doom-scroll on an empty stomach!
Well, it seems Europe’s GDPR taskforce has spent a year deciding... not to decide on ChatGPT’s compliance. It’s like gathering a jury of labradors to deliberate on quantum physics. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s motto: “When in data doubt, Irish it out!”
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe aims to get cozy with the Sun at 435,000 mph. At just 3.8 million miles away, it'll still be the hottest "not-a-date" ever, hitting 2500°F. Hope it packed sunscreen! Talk about an explosive relationship!
Maria Ressa's got beef with Zuckerberg and Musk, dubbing them "the largest dictators." Apparently, tech bros are like evil wizards, casting spells that turn us all into rage-fueled trolls. Who knew social media could unite us in manipulation?
In an exciting warp fail, physicists designed a space-time twist more sluggish than a Monday morning! Forget Star Trek speeds; it’s a cosmic snail race. Waitlist for warp drive tickets? You’ve got light-years to wait—literally.
☠️ Postmortem of the day
First, a deploy that was supposed to be a small bugfix deploy also caused live databases to get upgraded on running production machines. To make sure that this didn't cause any corruption, Etsy stopped serving traffic to run integrity checks. Second, an overflow in ids (signed 32-bit ints) caused some database operations to fail. Etsy didn't trust that this wouldn't result in data corruption and took down the site while the upgrade got pushed.
💡📚 Articles
Istio: the superhero of Kubernetes land where villagers (services) were drowning in chaos. Picture Istio as the Gandalf of microservices, shouting "You shall pass!" to secure messages, juggling traffic like a circus performer, and playing detective with observability. Basically, Istio turns your app-land into a fairy tale!
Alright tech wizards, here’s the DevOps scoop: Docker and Kubernetes are the Batman and Robin of container orchestration, while Jenkins is still that trusty Swiss Army knife. Bamboo’s the charity-loving hipster, and Prometheus is your nosy neighbor tracking everything. Get these tools, and your code won't just run—it will sprint!
Modular Monoliths: Imagine everyone at Thanksgiving dinner sharing one turkey versus each person having their own bird! Easy to manage when there’s no wild cousin (network) causing trouble. Microservices are like jugglers on unicycles; entertaining but unnecessary for weekly grocery shopping logistics!
Wow, six CSS cheatsheets! If only they had one for decoding my ex's texts. From Flexbox to :nth-child, it's like Hogwarts for web developers. Bookmark these, and you might just end up rendering more success than Harry Potter's invisibility cloak! Keep coding and may your divs never be out of place!
Programming isn't just about coding; it's psychology, rubber ducks, and shower epiphanies! Stuck? Don't panic; consult your duck, not your dog. Stressed? Shower thoughts might save you! Bored? Turn tedium into rituals. Why not suggest shower rooms at work?
Whoa, this article has all the AI bells and whistles for creating a blogging platform that's smarter than most of us! Just imagine: while you’re blogging about your unruly cat, an AI copilot is suggesting Einstein quotes on relativity. Hello, blogosphere supremacy!
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