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The author shares their conflicting emotions about leaving their job at Twilio after four years of employment. They clarify that it was their own decision to leave and not due to a layoff. The author reminisces about the famous Twilio billboard on the 101 freeway in San Francisco that symbolized the company’s focus on and […]
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Answer Overflow is an open source project that helps discord channel users to easily find the information they need. The project boasts several features including the ability to index content into Google, automate answering repeat questions, gain insights into community needs, and host on your own domain. By using Answer Overflow, community support can be […]
UNESCO has announced the discovery of three new shipwrecks, including two that are thousands of years old. However, there are plenty of submerged treasures that remain undiscovered, with an estimate from UNESCO suggesting that there are over three million wrecks resting undiscovered in the world’s oceans. The wrecks that have been documented are thought to […]
The ISO C++ committee has finished its meeting in Varna, Bulgaria, where it started to adopt features into C++26. The committee adopted 40 proposed change papers for C++26, including new features like hazard pointers and Read-Copy-Update (RCU) for deferred cleanup. The library evolution subgroup (LEWG) has design consensus on P1928 SIMD, P0876 Fibers, and P0843 […]
The Console newsletter showcases various open-source projects, including Sandstorm, an easy-to-use and secure self-hostable web productivity suite, and Keycloak, an identity and access management solution for modern applications and services. In an interview with a Keycloak developer, Michal Hajas, he discusses his background, favorite software tools, and current goals for the project. He also notes […]
Swing VPN has been using its user base to conduct DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks on websites, treating them as an attack botnet. The app sends repeated requests containing specific data to a website in Turkmenistan, every 10 seconds. The author inspected the app’s functionality and found that it downloads configurations from Github, Google […]
The article discusses the reasons behind the financial underperformance of Toto Temple Deluxe, a local multiplayer game developed by Juicy Beast. They thought that the game’s complexity was the reason for it not performing well, even though it had pretty great visuals. The post-mortem indicated that the market for such games was limited, and a […]
A bug that was randomly hanging nbdkit tests was fixed after an extensive and frustrating investigation. At first, developers suspected a QEMU bug, but it was eventually concluded that the problem was likely in the Linux guest kernel. However, tracking down the kernel bug required a slow process of bisecting the kernel with a large […]
The author has noticed a troubling pattern among developers who tend to consume technical content without questioning or analyzing it, relying on authority and copy-pasting without skepticism. Much of the technical content on the internet is flawed and may contain conceptual mistakes or harmful patterns. The author emphasizes the need for skepticism, adapting solutions to […]
LIFT, a notable company for providing electric multi-rotor flying experience, has introduced its new product HEXA which facilitates personal, vertical flight without the usage of runway or pilot’s license. HEXA’s uniqueness lies in its creation of a brand new aircraft that provides an unparalleled flying sensation. LIFT aims to provide everyone with the pleasure and […]