Undb is a self-hosted, private-first, no-code database that is both lightweight and highly customizable. With multiple built-in field types and variants, developers can easily deploy it with different adapters and view types, including grid, kanban, tree, and calendar. Undb is also developer-friendly and provides openapi, webhooks, realtime subscriptions, and SDKs. The platform is built using […]
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Rivian has announced that it will adopt Tesla’s charging standard, enabling its customers to use Tesla’s Supercharger network across North America from Spring 2024 via adaptive cables. Rivian is also set to introduce Tesla-style charging ports as a standard feature on its vehicles from 2025. This move comes as Tesla seeks to establish its charging […]
Recent research has found that historians have underestimated the number of underage soldiers who fought for the Union during the American Civil War, as well as the significance of the legal, political, and administrative battles these youths provoked. While some historians have reinforced the notion that the Confederacy employed young soldiers more willingly and extensively […]
RSS feeds may not be mainstream, but they are still popular among tech users. However, many users don’t know how to use RSS feeds, which are usually rendered as raw XML files in browsers. The solution is to include an xml-stylesheet processing instruction within the RSS feed, which provides styling information and transforms the XML […]
The author explains why they prefer using Tcl as their scripting language of choice. They discuss Ousterhout’s dichotomy, which claims that programming languages fall into two categories: low-level, statically-typed systems languages and high-level, dynamic scripting languages. Tcl was designed with this dichotomy in mind and allows users to easily drop down into C or C++ […]
Online privacy is more than just using a VPN. Mullvad Browser offers Mullvad Leta, an alternative search engine only accessible with a paid Mullvad VPN account. Mullvad Leta uses the Google Search API to cache results, share them amongst users and improve privacy. Mullvad Leta’s services are user-supported, without ads or data selling. A browser […]
A new study published in the Journal of Happiness Studies, ‘Alone in a Crowd: Is Social Contact Associated with Less Psychological Pain of Loneliness in Everyday Life?’, questions the notion that social contact can reduce feelings of loneliness. The study, which analysed 3,035 participants’ daily lives using ecological momentary assessments, found that social contact amplifies […]
Pg_easy_replicate is a CLI tool that makes it easy to establish logical replication between two PostgreSQL databases and supports switchover. Once replication is complete, the tool puts the primary database into read-only mode and flushes all data to the new target database via logical replication, resulting in zero data loss and minimal application downtime. Users […]
In a recent thread on the TUHS mailing list, members discussed the discovery of a compiler Trojan horse by researchers in the 1980s. The Trojan horse, which was originally developed by Ken Thompson, was designed to insert backdoor vulnerabilities into software without being detected. The researchers at PWB discovered the Trojan horse accidentally, even though […]
Federated applications face several challenges to mass adoption, including a steep learning curve and a lack of user intuitiveness. Users must understand that federation involves not just one server, but many different servers that can read content from each other. This poses a problem for search engine optimization, as multiple instances hosting the exact same […]