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Building a Cute Framework Game Project with CMake and Swift

2025-06-06

This tutorial demonstrates setting up a 2D game project using the Cute Framework, CMake, and Swift. Cute Framework, a powerful C/C++ framework, allows you to write game logic in Swift while leveraging the performance of C/C++ for rendering. The guide details setting up the project structure, configuring CMakeLists.txt, enabling Swift-C/C++ interoperability, and building the project. The result is a basic Cute Framework game ready for expansion.

(layer22.com)

Game

AutoKitteh: A Python-based Workflow Automation Platform

2025-04-22

AutoKitteh: A Python-based Workflow Automation Platform

AutoKitteh is a developer-friendly workflow automation and orchestration platform built on Python, offering a code-based alternative to no/low-code platforms. It boasts unlimited flexibility and leverages Temporal for durable execution, abstracting away infrastructure and coding complexities. AutoKitteh supports self-hosting and cloud deployment, is suitable for DevOps, FinOps, MLOps, SOAR, and more, and features built-in integrations and a scalable 'serverless' architecture.

(github.com)

Development workflow automation

A New Control Flow Construct for Tree Traversal

2025-04-29

A New Control Flow Construct for Tree Traversal

This article proposes a new control flow construct called `for_tree` designed to simplify tree traversal. Compared to traditional recursive functions, `for_tree` offers improved readability and maintainability, supporting operations like `break`, `continue`, and `prune`. The author provides a C++ implementation as a proof of concept, showcasing its flexibility in traversing various tree structures, including in-memory trees and trees generated on the fly. The `for_tree` construct is presented as a more efficient and less error-prone alternative to recursive functions for tree traversal.

(blog.tylerglaiel.com)

Development control flow tree traversal

Why AI Can't Replace Top Sales Performers: The Irreplaceable Human Element

2025-04-18

Why AI Can't Replace Top Sales Performers: The Irreplaceable Human Element

A VP of Sales faces pressure from his CEO to replace human sellers with AI. Analyzing a recent $2.7 million deal, he reveals AI's inability to replicate human skills like building rapport, embodying accountability, reacting swiftly to competition, and navigating complex client relationships. He uses the 'HUMAN' framework (Humanity, Understanding, Metrics, Action) to successfully argue for retaining his sales team and even increase the budget for top performers. The article emphasizes that while AI assists, it cannot fully replace the emotional intelligence, judgment, and flexibility of human sales professionals.

(lewislin.substack.com)

Startup

Alibaba Cloud's Qwen2.5-Max: A Giant Leap for AI

2025-01-29

Alibaba Cloud's Qwen2.5-Max: A Giant Leap for AI

Alibaba Cloud unveiled Qwen2.5-Max, a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model. Pre-trained on over 20 trillion tokens, it boasts a context length of up to 100,000 tokens, excelling in handling long texts and complex reasoning. Its MoE architecture provides superior efficiency and performance, enabling rapid and accurate processing of vast information for applications like real-time analytics, automated customer support, and gaming bots. Focused on enterprise use cases, Qwen2.5-Max aims to help businesses reduce infrastructure costs and improve performance. Its release signifies China's significant advancements in global AI competition and a more diverse future for AI technology.

(medium.com)

AI Alibaba Cloud

Debugging React Server Components in Next.js with OpenTelemetry

2025-01-23

Debugging React Server Components in Next.js with OpenTelemetry

React Server Components (RSCs) offer performance benefits but introduce debugging challenges. This article demonstrates using OpenTelemetry, a powerful observability framework, to trace RSC activity within Next.js applications. OpenTelemetry allows tracing requests, collecting metrics, and aggregating logs, giving developers insights into server-side component execution, including lifecycle events, data fetching operations, and rendering performance. A real-world case study showcases optimizing a page loading numerous GitHub API calls using OpenTelemetry. The article details installing necessary packages, creating an instrumentation.js file, and configuring data export destinations. It also explains creating custom spans for more granular insights.

(www.dash0.com)

Development

Washington State Passes Landmark Right-to-Repair Legislation

2025-06-04

Washington State Passes Landmark Right-to-Repair Legislation

Washington State Governor Bob Ferguson signed two bills guaranteeing the right to repair personal electronics, appliances, and wheelchairs, a major victory for the right-to-repair movement. Supported by public interest groups and tech giants like Google and Microsoft, the legislation ensures access to tools, parts, and information needed for repairs. The impact extends beyond consumers; the US Army is also incorporating right-to-repair provisions into future contracts, acknowledging the limitations of relying on single suppliers for maintenance. This highlights the broader implications of right-to-repair, affecting everything from personal convenience to national security and economic efficiency.

(www.eff.org)

Tech tech legislation

Kermit the Frog Delivers Commencement Address at University of Maryland

2025-05-26

Kermit the Frog Delivers Commencement Address at University of Maryland

Kermit the Frog, the iconic Muppet, delivered the commencement address at the University of Maryland's 2025 graduation ceremony. He offered graduating students advice on navigating economic uncertainty and political turmoil, encouraging collaboration rather than competition. The choice of speaker is a nod to Jim Henson, the Muppets creator and a 1960 University of Maryland alumnus, who famously crafted the original Kermit from his mother's coat and a ping-pong ball.

(apnews.com)

Misc Commencement Speech

GitHub's Billionth Repo: A Milestone Marked by 'shit'

2025-06-11

GitHub's Billionth Repo: A Milestone Marked by 'shit'

GitHub celebrated the creation of its one billionth repository, revealing it to be named 'shit'. This event sparked discussions, highlighting GitHub's massive scale as the world's largest code hosting platform, while also prompting conversations about repository naming conventions. While the name is somewhat vulgar, it underscores the vibrancy and creativity within the GitHub community.

(github.com)

Development Repository Milestone

Lightweight DataFrame in MicroHs: A Haskell 2010 Adventure

2025-09-11

Starting with a Frege (JVM Haskell) Android project in 2015, the author's functional programming journey led to a quest to decouple their DataFrame library from GHC for MicroHs compatibility. This post details implementing core DataFrame functionality – construction, basic expressions, `filterWhere`, `derive`, and Markdown rendering – in Haskell 2010, without GADTs, type families, or reflection. The experiment demonstrates that while verbose, the core functionality remains viable, offering portability between MicroHs (for tiny CLIs or embedded contexts) and GHC (for speed and ecosystem access). MicroHs binaries are roughly 100x smaller but 5-10x slower; a worthwhile trade-off for many data-wrangling tasks, allowing a GHC backend for heavy lifting.

(mchav.github.io)

Development

Mass Resignation of Editors at Journal of Human Evolution Protests Elsevier Changes

2024-12-28

Mass Resignation of Editors at Journal of Human Evolution Protests Elsevier Changes

Nearly all editors of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier publication, resigned en masse, protesting Elsevier's actions that they say undermine the journal's quality and integrity. Elsevier eliminated copyediting support, implemented AI editing that introduced errors into articles, and unilaterally controlled the editorial board's structure and compensation. High article processing charges, far exceeding comparable journals, further fueled the editors' discontent. This is the 20th mass resignation of journal editors since early 2023, raising concerns about the publishing industry's practices.

(retractionwatch.com)

Misc AI editing

Do You Really Own Your Website? The Illusion of Control

2025-05-03

During the 2020 lockdown, a restaurant's website became its lifeline. The owner outsourced website maintenance, but the 'maintainer' disappeared for months, leaving the site un-updatable. This sparked a discussion about website control: from simply contacting the maintainer to directly modifying server files, DNS records, or even replacing the server—the methods escalate in complexity. The article highlights that true control hinges on ownership of relevant accounts and permissions, such as registrar accounts, DNS management, and server access. This serves as a reminder to understand the risks of outsourcing and ensure you retain necessary control.

(rachelbythebay.com)

Development website control domain management

Stop Teaching Useless Math: Probability and Statistics Should Reign Supreme

2025-03-03

$Stop Teaching Useless Math: Probability and Statistics Should Reign Supreme$

This essay critiques the current high school math curriculum, arguing that the overemphasis on calculus and trigonometry—useless for most students—neglects the crucial importance of probability and statistics. Probability and statistics are widely applicable in daily life, empowering students to understand risk, detect misleading information, and make better decisions. The author proposes a curriculum reform prioritizing probability and statistics, integrating real-world applications like sports analytics, social media, and gaming strategies, to make math relevant and engaging.

(anandsanwal.me)

Misc probability and statistics

Git @ 20: Linus Torvalds Reflects on its Journey

2025-04-13

Git @ 20: Linus Torvalds Reflects on its Journey

To celebrate Git's 20th anniversary, GitHub hosted a Q&A with Linus Torvalds. He recounted Git's origins, born out of necessity to solve the Linux kernel's version control chaos. Developed in just 10 days, the early version quickly evolved into an indispensable tool for software development worldwide. Despite initial difficulties, Git's adoption exploded. Linus admits his personal interest waned after his needs were met, quickly handing maintenance over to Junio Hamano. Today, Git's ubiquity presents new challenges, such as a surge in abandoned projects. Linus' focus remains on the ongoing development of the Linux kernel, with no immediate plans for new projects.

(news.itsfoss.com)

Development

Ruby: The Unexpected Language of the AI Revolution?

2025-03-22

Large language models (LLMs) excel at code generation, but their limited context windows hinder work with large codebases. This article explores the 'power' of LLM-assisted programming: how many tokens does it take to express a program? The author argues Python outperforms Go for LLMs due to its conciseness, allowing more features within token limits. Further, Ruby, known for elegance and brevity, is posited as an ideal LLM language due to its efficient token usage. While challenges like type checking remain, Ruby's human-centric design ironically makes it a potential frontrunner for LLMs.

(www.seangoedecke.com)

Development

Waymo's 10 Million Rides: Tesla's Autopilot Strategy Under Pressure?

2025-06-04

Waymo's 10 Million Rides: Tesla's Autopilot Strategy Under Pressure?

In 2019, Elon Musk dismissed lidar and Waymo. Fast forward to 2024, and Waymo's driverless taxi service has surpassed 10 million rides, doubling its trips in just months. Conversely, Tesla's robotaxi service is launching with a mere 10 vehicles. The author argues Waymo's focus on densely populated urban areas, leveraging lidar and other technologies, has yielded significant progress. Tesla's approach may be too aggressive, overlooking the 80/20 rule of city driving—solving the last 20% of self-driving might require 80% of the effort. Waymo's success suggests a steady, controlled market approach might be more effective than striving for all-scenario coverage in the autonomous driving field.

(deepdream.substack.com)

Tech

Grumpy German Bread Celebrates 25 Years of Unintentional Adult Appeal

2025-03-03

Grumpy German Bread Celebrates 25 Years of Unintentional Adult Appeal

Bernd das Brot, a perpetually pessimistic bread puppet from a German children's show, is celebrating his 25th anniversary. Initially a sketch on a napkin, Bernd's grumpy demeanor and signature exclamation, "Mist!" resonated unexpectedly with adult viewers, making him a cult classic. His journey includes winning a German Emmy equivalent, a kidnapping incident, and now, an attempt at becoming a bread influencer. This year's celebrations include new episodes and online activities.

(apnews.com)

Misc German Culture Children's Television Cult Classic

Shopify's 5-Year React Native Journey: Successes, Lessons, and the Future

2025-01-16

Shopify's 5-Year React Native Journey: Successes, Lessons, and the Future

Shopify shares its five-year experience with React Native. Initially driven by efficiency, talent portability, and faster value delivery, Shopify migrated all its mobile apps to React Native. The transition was successful, resulting in high-performing apps (<500ms screen loads, >99.9% crash-free sessions). They learned about React Native's speed, hot reloading, and how TypeScript improves talent portability. Challenges included debugging complexities, updates requiring effort, and reliance on third-party libraries. Shopify stresses the importance of native development and improved team skills via shared infrastructure and training. They will continue collaborating with Meta to improve React Native.

(shopify.engineering)

Development Mobile Development

Hugging Face Scientist Doubts AI's Ability to Drive Scientific Discovery

2025-06-25

Hugging Face Scientist Doubts AI's Ability to Drive Scientific Discovery

Thomas Wolf, chief scientist at Hugging Face, casts doubt on the ability of current AI systems to make the groundbreaking scientific discoveries some leading labs anticipate. While large language models (LLMs) excel at answering questions, Wolf argues they struggle with the more challenging task of formulating truly original questions—the crux of scientific progress. He uses the game of Go as an analogy: mastering the rules is impressive, but inventing the game itself is a far greater feat. Similarly, he believes current AI models, acting as 'yes-men on servers,' lack the capacity to challenge existing assumptions and pose truly novel scientific questions.

(fortune.com)

AI Scientific Discovery

Gemini Cracks a 20-Year-Old Mac App Mystery!

2025-06-02

Gemini Cracks a 20-Year-Old Mac App Mystery!

After years of unsuccessful Google searches, the author finally used Gemini to identify a long-forgotten Mac/Windows application from his teens. The app, which tracked user actions and automated repetitive tasks, was revealed to be Open Sesame!, a 1993 intelligent software assistant capable of learning user patterns and automating tasks like bulk file renaming. The author remembered seeing a demo in the mid-90s but had failed to find any information about it until now. This story highlights the advancements in AI, using a 2025 AI tool to discover a 1993 machine learning application.

(blog.gingerbeardman.com)

Misc App Discovery

Software Dev Job Postings Plummet: The GenAI Impact and What's Next

2025-02-21

Software Dev Job Postings Plummet: The GenAI Impact and What's Next

Recent data reveals a dramatic drop in software developer job postings, significantly exceeding declines in other sectors. This sparks debate about the impact of Generative AI (GenAI). The article explores several contributing factors: GenAI tools boosting developer productivity, leading to reduced hiring; high-interest rates impacting recruitment; and the lingering effects of tech's 2021-2022 overhiring. However, the author argues this doesn't signal industry shrinkage. GenAI might create new opportunities, such as providing software development services for non-developers and increased demand for developers to refine AI-generated code. Smaller, more efficient engineering teams may become the norm, and AI tools will reshape the software development landscape.

(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

Tech

jjui: A Terminal UI for Jujutsu Version Control

2025-05-26

jjui: A Terminal UI for Jujutsu Version Control

jjui is a terminal user interface for the Jujutsu version control system. It offers a range of features including: changing revsets with autocomplete; rebasing revisions or branches; squashing revisions; viewing and comparing file diffs; moving bookmarks; viewing the op log; and previewing details of revisions, files, and operations. jjui supports various installation methods, including Homebrew, AUR, Nix, and Go. Minimum supported jj version is v0.21+.

(github.com)

Development

M&S Cyberattack: Online Services Down Until July, Massive Financial Hit

2025-05-30

M&S Cyberattack: Online Services Down Until July, Massive Financial Hit

Marks & Spencer (M&S), a major UK retailer, is facing a prolonged online service disruption following a cyberattack that began on April 25th. The outage is expected to last until July, resulting in an estimated £300 million hit to its 2025/26 operating profit and weekly sales losses of around £40 million. While some customer data, including contact details and birthdates, was stolen, M&S assures that payment details and passwords remain secure. The incident highlights the vulnerability of even large retailers to cyberattacks and underscores the significant financial and reputational damage such events can inflict. Analysts warn of the ongoing impact on M&S's profitability and investor confidence.

(moneyweek.com)

Tech

Lambda Calculus Interpreter in 383 Bytes

2025-01-15

Lambda Calculus Interpreter in 383 Bytes

This blog post introduces a brand new 383-byte implementation of a binary lambda calculus interpreter as an x86-64 Linux ELF executable. This tiny interpreter manages to achieve garbage collection, lazy lists, and tail recursion. Programs are encoded in a remarkably small binary format; for example, its metacircular evaluator is only 232 bits. The author provides friendly portable C code and pre-built binaries for other platforms. This project is a fun learning tool for lambda calculus and showcases the possibility of implementing complex computation in extremely resource-constrained environments.

(justine.lol)

Development Lambda Calculus

Mass Exodus at CISA Raises Cybersecurity Concerns

2025-05-27

Mass Exodus at CISA Raises Cybersecurity Concerns

A mass exodus of top officials at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is raising serious concerns about the future of US cybersecurity. Five of CISA's six operational divisions and six of its ten regional offices will lose their top leaders by the end of the month. Departures include key personnel from multiple divisions and regional directors, many with years of experience and institutional knowledge. This loss of leadership and expertise could severely hamper CISA's ability to collaborate effectively with critical infrastructure operators, private security firms, and various levels of government, leaving the nation vulnerable to cyber threats. While CISA insists it remains committed to its mission, both internal employees and external experts express deep worry about the agency's weakened capacity and the significant security risks this poses.

(www.cybersecuritydive.com)

Tech leadership exodus

Using ed(1) as My Static Site Generator: A Quirky Experiment

2025-05-31

Artyom Bologov shares his unusual journey of building a static website using the ancient text editor ed(1). He's tried various methods, from Lisp to the C preprocessor, finally settling on ed(1) as his static site generator. While ed(1) has limitations, lacking features like file inclusion, its flexibility allows for custom syntax and processing of older preprocessor formats. He uses ed(1) scripts for preprocessing and format conversion, supporting multiple output formats (txt, gmi, 7, tex, etc.). While not a best practice, the article showcases the unexpected potential of ed(1) and the author's unique approach to text processing.

(aartaka.me)

Development

Athena Moon Lander's Demise and the Lessons Learned

2025-03-15

Athena Moon Lander's Demise and the Lessons Learned

Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander, Athena, tipped over during its March 6th landing near the moon's south pole, prematurely ending its mission. Despite the setback, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured images of Athena and its landing site, providing valuable data for future missions. While the mission was unsuccessful in its primary goals, the attempt in the harsh polar environment offers insights paving the way for future exploration of the region, particularly in the search for water ice.

(www.space.com)

Tech lander

Mirror Bacteria Research Raises Significant Risks, Scientists Warn

2024-12-13

Mirror Bacteria Research Raises Significant Risks, Scientists Warn

Synthetic biologists have achieved remarkable breakthroughs, such as creating bacteria with chemically synthesized genomes. However, two synthetic biologists recently joined other scientists in calling for a halt to research that could lead to the creation of "mirror bacteria." These bacteria are composed of the same components as natural cells but with opposite stereochemistry in all biopolymers. Because mirror bacteria might lack natural predators and evade immune systems, they pose a catastrophic risk. The article emphasizes that while scientific research should be open, certain research, like mirror bacteria research, is too risky given the potential for devastating consequences. Therefore, it should be stopped.

(www.the-scientist.com)

Tech synthetic biology mirror bacteria biosafety

Pixel-Based Local Sound OLED: The Screen Becomes the Speaker

2025-05-29

A POSTECH research team has unveiled the world's first Pixel-Based Local Sound OLED technology, enabling each pixel to emit distinct sounds, effectively turning the display into a multi-channel speaker array. Successfully demonstrated on a 13-inch OLED panel, this breakthrough eliminates the need for external speakers, offering immersive audio directly from the screen. Published in Advanced Science, this technology addresses the limitations of traditional displays by enabling truly localized sound experiences. Imagine a car where the driver hears navigation while the passenger enjoys music, all from the same screen. This innovation promises a revolution in mobile, automotive, and VR displays.

(www.sciencedaily.com)

Tech Display Technology

The Soul of a New Machine: A Timeless Tale of Engineering

2025-04-05

The Soul of a New Machine: A Timeless Tale of Engineering

Tracy Kidder's 'The Soul of a New Machine' recounts the intense race against time at Data General in the late 1970s to develop the Eclipse MV/8000, a rival to DEC's VAX. Kidder immerses the reader in the 'rebel' engineering team's struggles, showcasing their dedication and clashing personalities as they push the boundaries of what was possible. This gripping narrative offers a compelling look at the human cost of technological innovation and remains surprisingly relevant decades later.

(thechipletter.substack.com)

Tech

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