14 March 2024

43 links · Thursday

The Billionaire Brainwave - Wissen ist Macht - Weiss nichts macht was.

The Billionaire Brain Wave Ancient “song” helps 18,000+ find money effortlessly A leading neuroscientist for 34 years, Dr. Summers was among the very first scientists to investigate the link between brain waves & money. Some close associates were lucky enough …

The power of lost minutes – Jelle Smeets

My life is busy. I’m a dad to twin boys who are almost two. I’m training for a half marathon, like to write, and am an Engineering Manager. A combination that eats up any free time if I’m not intentional. How do I make time for what I care about, and keep my s…

The roaming office: Don’t be *that* remote worker

I probably (most definitely) sound like an old man yelling at a cloud, but if your work consists of many online meetings, try to plan so you have a stable internet connection and quiet surroundings during the meetings.

PWA's Are Finally Looking Good

In the past, I was very dismissive of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). I felt they were slow, buggy, and provided poor user experiences compared to native apps. As an iOS developer, I'll admit I was...

Vision Pro is an over-engineered “devkit” // Hardware bleeds genius & audacity but software story is disheartening // What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right // Why Meta could finally have its Android moment

by Hugo Barra (former Head of Oculus at Meta) Friends and colleagues have been asking me to share my perspective on the Apple Vision Pro as a product. Inspired by my dear friend Matt Mullenweg&#821…

Why Databases Won't Charge for Storage in the Future by @ttunguz

The database is being unbundled. Historically, a database like Snowflake sold both data storage & a query engine (& the computing power to execute the query). That’s step 1 above. But, customers are pushing for a deeper separation of compute & storage. The rec…

NumPy vs BLAS: Losing 90% of Throughput

Downloaded over 5 Billion times, NumPy is the most popular library for numerical computing in Python. It wraps low-level HPC libraries like BLAS and LAPACK, providing a high-level interface for matrix operations. BLAS is mainly implemented in C, Fortran, or As…

What's Next for a Global Design System

I recently published an article outlining the need for a Global Design System. In my post I stated: A Global Design System would improve the quality and accessibility of the world’s web experiences, save the world’s web designers and developers millions of…

Memos

I’m fascinated by interesting memos written for an internal audience – a company, a campaign or even for the President. Raw, not smoothened over for PR departments, they help shed light…

Validate with cold email

Cold email is the best way to validate your B2B startup idea.

On Getting Discovered

I blog sometimes. I publish a good bit of music as well, and yet, no one knows me. This is fine. I happily mosey through life without internet celebrity, but candidly (and probably humanly), it would be nice to get recognition for the things that I make. So ho…

Chrome Extension Hell - Caelin Sutch

I’m Caelin, a entrepreneur based in San Francisco. I’m one of the cofounders at Cue AI, where we help companies add delightful AI features faster.

Why software projects fail

Some of you know that I work in the agency business — how that translates to my technical experience is that I used to work on many highly different

.NET MAUI Training Courses

Two new training courses containing over 10 hours of video content and code examples to help you become a successful .NET MAUI developer!

cellio | Time to delete your Glassdoor account

Recently I contacted Glassdoor for an account-related issue. This led to them sending me email that I had to respond to. Big mistake.

SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

Monsters Weekly 272 - Playwright and Azure Pipelines

Playwright and Azure Pipelines work well together. Let’s see how easy it is to run Playwright tests in an Azure Pipeline then view the test results along with attached screenshots, videos, and trace f

Debouncing in Your Framework

Debouncing is a way of skipping input garbage and waiting for things to calm before running a function. Make one debounce function and reuse it often.

Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans

Organizations should prioritize measuring developer productivity using data from humans, rather than data from systems.

Everyone should be an architect

In the world of software development, the role of the architect often looms large. Yet, what if I told you that architecture is not just the...

Salt Labs research finds security flaws within ChatGPT Ecosystem (Remediated)

Salt Labs researchers identified generative AI ecosystems as a new interesting attack vector. vulnerabilities found during this research on ChatGPT ecosystem could have granted access to accounts of users, including GitHub repositories, including 0-click attac…

Public Statement on ClickASnap's data breach

What happened: At around 05:00 (GMT) on 24th September 2022, one of ClickASnap’s databases was breached during a malicious hacking attack. What was released: User emails were stolen from one of our databases and released. No other personally identifying inform…

From Dreams to Reality: The Magic of 3D Printing | NDC Oslo 2024

In this talk, we embark on a journey from the realm of imagination to the tangible world, exploring the transformative power of 3D printing. With a blend of humour and insight, we delve into how this revolutionary technology turns mere dreams and spools of fil…