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Stop Letting ChatGPT Kill Your Management Career

2025-05-26

Stop Letting ChatGPT Kill Your Management Career

It's performance review season, and many managers are using ChatGPT to write performance assessments – a shortcut that will hinder their growth. The article argues that AI is a tool, not an abstraction layer; over-reliance on AI restricts managers from developing essential skills. True management requires precision, empathy, and strategic thinking. AI cannot replace face-to-face interactions crucial for learning and improving management abilities. The author suggests using AI for repetitive tasks or those with absolute answers, but for ambiguous situations involving human behavior, manual work is essential for learning and growth in management.

(staysaasy.com)

Misc Management Skills

Toyota and Waymo Partner to Accelerate Autonomous Driving

2025-04-29

Toyota and Waymo Partner to Accelerate Autonomous Driving

Toyota and Waymo have reached a preliminary agreement to collaborate on accelerating the development and deployment of autonomous driving technologies. The partnership aims to combine Waymo's autonomous driving expertise with Toyota's vehicle manufacturing prowess to create a new autonomous vehicle platform and enhance next-generation personally owned vehicles (POVs). This collaboration underscores both companies' commitment to improving road safety and increasing mobility for all.

(waymo.com)

Tech

A Hacker's Guide to Practical C Programming

2025-04-14

A Hacker's Guide to Practical C Programming

This book, dedicated to Dennis Ritchie, offers a practical hacker's guide to the C programming language. The author, a seasoned hacker, shares practical techniques gleaned from years of experience, emphasizing C's power and flexibility. It champions the freedom C offers, arguing that choosing the right tool is the programmer's prerogative, not a matter of imposed preferences. The book includes code examples and discussions on using GNU extensions.

(github.com)

Development Practical Guide

Bitwarden's Schrödinger Registration Flow: A Security UX Fail

2025-05-15

Bitwarden's Schrödinger Registration Flow: A Security UX Fail

A security architect, “Юленька”, uncovered a logical flaw in Bitwarden's registration process. Users could start registration on Device A, but complete it (including setting the master password) on Device B, resulting in account creation failure and unusable apps. After a dismissive response from Bitwarden, “Юленька” creatively reported the issue using a humorous stand-up routine. The issue appears resolved, but Bitwarden offered no acknowledgement or changelog. This highlights the need for better UX design in security products and emphasizes the importance of clear communication in resolving security issues.

(github.com)

Development

Gleam v1.7.0 Released: Performance Boosts and Publishing Enhancements

2025-01-10

Gleam v1.7.0 Released: Performance Boosts and Publishing Enhancements

Gleam, a type-safe and scalable language for the Erlang VM and JavaScript runtimes, has released version 1.7.0. This release boasts a range of performance improvements, including monomorphisation of record updates, significantly boosting performance and allowing changes to the parameterized types of generic records. Other enhancements include improved package manager credential handling, added code actions for generating dynamic decoders, and stricter checks on package namespaces and semantic versioning. The language server also received enhancements, featuring new code actions, improved hover information, and better error messages.

(gleam.run)

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Caffeine's Age-Dependent Effects on Brain Complexity and Criticality During Sleep

2025-05-30

Caffeine's Age-Dependent Effects on Brain Complexity and Criticality During Sleep

A new study reveals that caffeine affects brain complexity and criticality in an age-dependent manner. Analyzing sleep EEG data, researchers found that caffeine induced increases in complexity and criticality of brain activity in young and middle-aged adults, but not in older adults. This study provides novel insights into the effects of caffeine on the brain and age-related neurodegenerative diseases.

(www.nature.com)

AI caffeine brain complexity criticality

Five Ways to Model Polymorphic Data in Relational Databases

2025-07-09

Five Ways to Model Polymorphic Data in Relational Databases

This article explores five approaches to modeling polymorphic data in relational databases: single table, nullable foreign keys, tagged union, child-to-parent foreign keys, and JSON. Each method has its pros and cons; for example, the single table approach is simple but can be slow, while JSON is easily extensible but lacks data validation. The author suggests choosing the method that's easiest to read, maintain, and debug, and avoiding premature optimization.

(www.dolthub.com)

Development polymorphic data relational databases

Grima: A Colombian Martial Art Fights for Survival

2025-04-29

Grima: A Colombian Martial Art Fights for Survival

In Puerto Tejada, Colombia, a handful of masters are preserving Grima, a traditional Afro-Colombian martial art using machetes and sticks. Rooted in colonial-era resistance, Grima faces an uncertain future as younger generations migrate to urban centers. Masters are seeking national and international recognition to safeguard this cultural heritage, hoping for the funding and publicity that come with it. However, they also worry about potential commercialization harming the tradition. Despite the challenges, Grima remains a vibrant expression of Afro-Colombian identity, its practitioners dedicated to passing it on to future generations.

(globalvoices.org)

Misc martial arts Afro-Colombian culture

Chrome 135 Simplifies Web Button Interactions with `command` and `commandfor`

2025-03-07

Chrome 135 Simplifies Web Button Interactions with `command` and `commandfor`

Chrome 135 introduces the new `command` and `commandfor` attributes, revolutionizing web button interactions. Previously, developers needed complex JavaScript to handle interactions between buttons and other elements (menus, modals, etc.). Now, these attributes simplify this process significantly. The article details the shortcomings of traditional approaches, compares `command` and `commandfor` with older attributes (`popovertargetaction` and `popovertarget`), and explains the use of built-in commands (`show-popover`, `hide-popover`, etc.) and custom commands, boosting web development efficiency and accessibility.

(developer.chrome.com)

Development Accessibility

wtfis: A Powerful Open-Source Domain/IP Information Gathering Tool

2025-05-12

wtfis: A Powerful Open-Source Domain/IP Information Gathering Tool

wtfis is a command-line tool that gathers information about a domain, FQDN, or IP address using various OSINT services. Designed for ease of use, it presents results in a human-readable format and minimizes API calls to avoid exceeding quotas. It integrates multiple sources like VirusTotal, IP2Whois, Shodan, Greynoise, URLhaus, and AbuseIPDB, providing rich information such as reputation scores, popularity rankings, categories, resolutions, Whois data, open ports, and malware URL associations. Users can configure API keys for advanced features and customize arguments, with Docker deployment also supported.

(github.com)

Tech Information Gathering

LLM-Assisted Coding: Productivity Gains at the Cost of Intelligence?

2025-03-16

The author shares their experience with using LLM-assisted coding tools like GitHub Copilot, revealing that while they boost productivity, they can also lead to forgetting fundamental knowledge and over-reliance on the tool, ultimately hindering problem-solving abilities. The author suggests treating LLMs as learning aids rather than code generators, critically evaluating their output and focusing on understanding underlying principles to truly benefit.

(eli.cx)

Development programmer skills

Pulitzer Winner Quits Washington Post After Bezos-Trump Cartoon Rejected

2025-01-05

Pulitzer Winner Quits Washington Post After Bezos-Trump Cartoon Rejected

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned from the Washington Post after the newspaper refused to publish her cartoon satirizing owner Jeff Bezos bowing to Donald Trump alongside other tech CEOs. The Post cited prior coverage of the topic as the reason for rejection, but Telnaes viewed it as censorship and a threat to press freedom. The incident sparked controversy, with the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists accusing the Post of 'political cowardice'.

(www.abc.net.au)

Misc cartoon censorship Jeff Bezos

Durable Execution Engines: From Distributed Transactions to Temporal

2025-05-23

This article explores the evolution of durable execution engines (like Temporal), starting with early database transactions, distributed transactions, and fault-tolerant RPC/microservice architectures. The author analyzes Jimmy Bogard's "Six Little Lines of Fail" example, highlighting challenges in handling cross-service function calls, such as transaction rollback and retry mechanisms. The article reviews the limitations of distributed transactions (like two-phase commit), and explores attempts in the Java world with JSR-95 (Activity Service) and web service standards (like WS-AtomicTransaction), ultimately noting their limited adoption. The author further analyzes the recent rise of microservice architectures and corresponding fault-tolerance mechanisms, along with event sourcing, orchestration and choreography. Finally, the article compares modern durable execution engines such as Temporal, Restate, and DBOS, including their operational modes, data storage methods, and integration with serverless architectures, highlighting their importance in addressing reliability issues in distributed systems.

(www.pramodb.com)

Development

How an AI Code Review Bot Learned to Shut Up

2024-12-21

How an AI Code Review Bot Learned to Shut Up

Greptile's AI code review bot initially faced criticism for generating excessive comments. To address this, they experimented with prompt engineering and having the LLM evaluate its own comments, but these methods proved ineffective. Their breakthrough came from vectorizing past comments, clustering them in a vector database, and filtering out new comments similar to those previously downvoted. This approach boosted the developer address rate from 19% to over 55%, significantly reducing LLM noise.

(www.greptile.com)

Development Code Review

Microsoft Makes Copilot Chat Free for Business Users

2025-09-16

Microsoft Makes Copilot Chat Free for Business Users

Microsoft is bringing its AI-powered Copilot Chat and agents to all Microsoft 365 business users for free. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote now include a Copilot Chat sidebar for drafting documents, analyzing spreadsheets, and more. While this free version offers helpful features, a $30/month per-user license unlocks premium capabilities such as file uploads, image generation, and access to the latest technology like GPT-5, ensuring faster responses and higher availability. Microsoft will also integrate sales, service, and finance Copilots into the Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription in October, potentially lowering costs for some businesses.

(www.theverge.com)

Tech

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Multi-AZ Clusters Fail Snapshot Isolation

2025-04-29

Jepsen's testing reveals that Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL multi-AZ clusters don't fully guarantee snapshot isolation. Anomalies like G-nonadjacent cycles, violating snapshot isolation rules, were observed. These included Long Fork, suggesting RDS for PostgreSQL might offer the weaker Parallel Snapshot Isolation. This means read transactions may disagree on execution order under high concurrency. Users should be mindful of transaction structures, avoid Long Fork, or use only the writer endpoint to recover snapshot isolation.

(jepsen.io)

Development Amazon RDS snapshot isolation

Google's AI Overviews: A New Way to Find Information or a Traffic Thief?

2025-07-24

Google's AI Overviews: A New Way to Find Information or a Traffic Thief?

Google's integrated AI Overviews in search results are becoming increasingly prevalent, but research suggests users are more likely to end their browsing sessions after seeing AI-generated summaries, raising concerns. AI summaries are prone to inaccuracies, leading users to potentially receive misinformation. While Google disputes the study's findings, claiming AI features increase user engagement with websites, the research indicates AI Overviews are changing how people gather information, negatively impacting web publishers while Google's profits soar.

(arstechnica.com)

Tech

The Rise and Fall of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

2025-02-10

The Rise and Fall of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

This article chronicles the remarkable history of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Starting with Ken Olsen's post-WWII creation of the TX-0 in a MIT basement, DEC revolutionized the computing industry with its PDP series of minicomputers, emphasizing low cost, ease of use, and user interaction. The PDP-1 heralded the dawn of the personal computing era. However, facing the onslaught of the IBM PC and strategic missteps, DEC was ultimately acquired by Compaq in 1998. This history showcases the power of technological innovation and the ruthlessness of market competition, offering valuable insights into management decisions and technological direction.

(www.abortretry.fail)

Tech Computer History

Google's UI/UX: A Bad Design Example

2025-04-24

While Google is often criticized for its data collection practices, less attention is paid to its influence on UI/UX design. As a dominant tech company, its design choices set standards, leading developers to mimic its style. However, Google's own interfaces are frequently criticized for being chaotic and confusing. This "do it like Google" effect results in a homogenization of design, stifling innovation and harming user experience. The author argues that Google's poor design not only impacts users but also sets a bad precedent for the industry, contrasting it with Apple's generally better user experience design. This extends beyond tech, affecting even household appliances, illustrating the broader impact of a dominant company's design choices.

(rakhim.exotext.com)

Design UI/UX design

Instagram Co-founder Slams AI for Prioritizing Engagement Over Useful Insights

2025-05-07

Instagram Co-founder Slams AI for Prioritizing Engagement Over Useful Insights

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom criticized AI companies for prioritizing user engagement over providing genuinely helpful information. He likened these tactics to those used by social media companies for aggressive growth, arguing they harm user experience. Systrom noted that some AI companies sacrifice answer quality to boost metrics like usage time and daily active users. He urged AI companies to focus on high-quality responses instead of easily manipulated metrics. OpenAI responded by citing its user specs, acknowledging that its AI model might lack sufficient information and require clarification.

(techcrunch.com)

AI engagement

Google's Secret Weapon Against Samsung DeX: Android's Desktop View

2025-05-13

Google's Secret Weapon Against Samsung DeX: Android's Desktop View

Google is quietly testing "Desktop View," a new desktop mode for Android that transforms your phone into a PC when connected to an external monitor. Featuring a taskbar, resizable windows, and drag-and-drop multitasking, it directly challenges Samsung DeX's dominance in mobile desktops. Currently hidden in developer settings of Android beta versions, its rapid development suggests an imminent public release. This represents a significant step towards Android becoming a fully-fledged PC operating system, potentially revolutionizing how people use their phones.

(www.squaredtech.co)

Tech Desktop Mode Samsung DeX

Adobe Fonts Gets a Massive Update: 1500+ New Fonts Added!

2025-04-13

Adobe Fonts Gets a Massive Update: 1500+ New Fonts Added!

Adobe Fonts just received its biggest update in five years, adding over 1,500 new fonts, including iconic classics like Helvetica, Arial, and Times New Roman. This expansive library now supports numerous languages, from Arabic to Korean, ensuring designers have the perfect typeface for any project. The update is free for all paid Creative Cloud subscribers and seamlessly integrates with Adobe's creative suite, eliminating missing font issues and ensuring consistent branding across all platforms.

(blog.adobe.com)

Design Font Update

Chicago Parking Ticket Data Battle: Lessons from a FOIA Lawsuit

2025-03-03

This article recounts the author's experience battling the City of Chicago in a FOIA lawsuit over access to the schema of its parking ticket database (table and column names). Initially, the author requested the data using an SQL query, but the city refused, citing security concerns. Despite winning at trial, the Illinois Supreme Court overturned the decision, significantly broadening the ability of public agencies to deny FOIA requests. The case highlights the difficulties of government data transparency and the importance of data dictionaries in simplifying access. The author also notes Chicago's failed attempt at a data dictionary, "Metalicious," further complicating data access.

(mchap.io)

Misc government lawsuit

Zach Attack!: A Nostalgic Scratch-Off Puzzle Game

2025-06-02

Zach Attack! Scratch 'n Solve Puzzle Pack is a collection of six unique scratch-off games blending the deductive reasoning of logic puzzles with the risk assessment of push-your-luck games. Inspired by Scratchees, a similar product from the 90s game company Decipher (known for their Star Wars and Star Trek CCGs), Zach Attack! offers a nostalgic and engaging gameplay experience. Get ready to scratch off some serious fun!

(coincidence.games)

Game scratch-off

ChompSaw: A Safe Power Tool for Kids

2025-07-11

ChompSaw: A Safe Power Tool for Kids

Designed by Kausi Raman and Max Liechty, the ChompSaw is a safe power tool for kids, specifically designed to cut cardboard. Unlike dangerous jigsaws, the ChompSaw uses an oscillating cutter hidden beneath a protective cover, preventing finger contact. Waste cardboard is collected in a built-in bin, promoting recycling. While priced at $250, it offers a safe and fun way for children to explore power tools, transforming Amazon boxes into creative projects.

(www.core77.com)

Hardware power tools cardboard cutting

Crossing the Chasm: From Strong-Link to Weak-Link Problems in Startups

2025-07-26

Crossing the Chasm: From Strong-Link to Weak-Link Problems in Startups

This article explores how startups navigate evolving customer needs. Using the framework of 'strong-link problems' (focused on single-dimension excellence) and 'weak-link problems' (focused on eliminating failures across all dimensions), the author argues that early-stage startups should prioritize product advantages to attract early adopters. As they mature, however, they must address stability, security, and other 'weak-link' issues to satisfy later adopters. Many companies fail because they don't adapt to this shift. The author uses Segment as an example, explaining how to balance new product development with maintaining existing products and using the McKinsey horizon framework. Finally, the author applies this to AI products, noting most are still in the 'strong-link' phase, lacking robustness and reliability. Only a few have successfully crossed the chasm into mass adoption.

(calv.info)

Startup

Penny-1.7B: A 19th-Century Irish Prose Style Language Model

2025-06-02

Penny-1.7B: A 19th-Century Irish Prose Style Language Model

Penny-1.7B is a 1.7 billion parameter causal language model fine-tuned with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to mimic the 19th-century prose style of the 1840 Irish Penny Journal. A reward model distinguishes original journal text from modern translations, maximizing authenticity. Ideal for creative writing, educational content, or stylistic pastiche in Victorian-era Irish English, but not recommended for contemporary fact-checking.

(huggingface.co)

AI

Writing Great Programming Documentation: A Teaching Guide

2025-03-16

This post uses engaging metaphors and storytelling to illustrate the philosophy of writing high-quality technical documentation. The author argues that the core of documentation is 'teaching', not simply providing information. The post critiques the inadequacy of relying solely on source code, tests, or literate programming tools, emphasizing that documentation should be viewed as a gradual learning process, guiding users from initial contact and quick start to in-depth learning and finally to advanced reference. Each stage should be carefully designed to help users become experts. The author also shares personal teaching experiences and suggests treating documentation writing as a teaching process, focusing on user experience and the gradual acquisition of knowledge.

(stevelosh.com)

Development technical documentation programming documentation

Dart Macros Project Abandoned: Focusing on Data Handling and Build Performance

2025-01-29

The Dart team announced the cancellation of its long-running macros project due to high compile-time costs impacting developer experience, particularly hot reload. The team acknowledged insurmountable technical hurdles, deciding to prioritize improving data handling capabilities and build speeds over continuing to invest in macros. Future efforts will focus on better data serialization/deserialization support, enhancements to the `build_runner` tool, and the independent release of augmentations—a feature initially prototyped as part of the macros project—to improve developer workflow.

(medium.com)

Development

arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaborators

2025-02-08

arXivLabs is a framework enabling collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Individuals and organizations involved share arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only partners with those who adhere to them. Have an idea to enhance the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

(arxiv.org)

Development

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