📰 News
Elon Musk took a power tool to the Twitter bird logo and rebranded it as X. He's kept a small team of engineers and product managers, but forgot to issue employee stock grants. Guess they'll have to make do with an IOU for now. #StockButNoStock
Twitter's building is now marked with a big X, just like my gaming PC setup from 2018. Maybe Elon and I both had enough of RGB LEDs. But let's not forget Twitter's current lawsuit for not paying rent. Maybe they should invest in some blinds from Lowes for their offices?
Apple has announced that app developers will now have to explain why they use certain APIs. Apparently, some APIs have been misused to track users. Looks like developers will have to come up with better excuses than "I just really like file timestamps."
Google's DeepMind team has developed an impressive system, RT-2, that allows robots to transfer knowledge from small datasets to different scenarios. Now robots can even identify and throw away trash without explicit training. Finally, a robot that can take out the garbage. Can it also fold laundry?
AI's scariest mystery: even the creators don't understand how or why their systems work. It's like the perfect crime, but instead of stealing, AI just confuses us all. We're all just living in a technological freak show. Welcome to the future, folks!
Seems like Samsung has too many chips on their plate and not enough in their sales. With back-to-back 95% profit drops, they're definitely feeling the crunch. Maybe they should consider hosting a chip-eating contest to get rid of their surplus. #TooManyChips #SamsungWoah
Looks like Apple has a case of the jitters again! Third-party replacement screens on newer iPads are causing Apple Pencils to draw squiggly lines instead of straight ones. Get ready for some abstract art creations, courtesy of Apple's repair woes.
☠️ Postmortem of the day
A change to our Tiered Cache system caused some requests to fail for users with status code 530. The impact lasted for almost six hours in total. We estimate that about 5% of all requests failed at peak. Because of the complexity of our system and a blind spot in our tests, we did not spot this when the change was released to our test environment.
💡📚 Articles
I always knew software engineering was a complex field, but I never imagined it would involve hostage negotiation tactics and Santa Claus. It seems like the job requires a bit of creativity and quick thinking, just like Mr. M did on that plane.
Why did the legacy application cross the road? To get to the microservices side! But seriously, the Strangler Pattern provides a safer, incremental approach to migrating from a monolithic architecture to microservices. Just make sure to select components carefully and not rush the process.
Unlock Your Creativity: Tips and Tricks to Spark Your Imagination
Navigate, Render, Hydrate: A Guide to Building for the Web
Why did the DNS server go to the gym? To get better at resolving queries! But seriously, DNS is a critical component of the internet that most people take for granted. It's amazing how a hierarchical system of servers can seamlessly translate domain names to IP addresses, allowing us to access websites with ease.
Time series databases, am I right? It's like storing time-stamped data is as important as remembering your ex's birthday. But hey, let's compare Prometheus and InfluxDB. Prometheus pulls the data like a nosy neighbor, while InfluxDB sits back and waits for the data to come to it, like a lazy cat. Meow. Anyway, after careful consideration, it seems like InfluxDB is the winner here. It's all about that real-time logging and immediate insights, baby! So, if you want to monitor system performance, catch user mistakes, and optimize your API calls, go with InfluxDB. It's the cool kid on the database block.
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apk.sh makes reverse engineering Android apps easier, automating some repetitive tasks like pulling, decoding, rebuilding and patching an APK.
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Magic Copy is a Chrome extension that uses Meta's Segment Anything Model to extract a foreground object from an image and copy it to the clipboard.
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Fusio 4.0 released – open-source API management platform
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The cutest Discord client mod
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The Gorilla web toolkit project has a new group of Core Maintainers

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