Updated 7/25/2025. Originally published 12/10/2024 Ambiguity in design isn’t a roadblock — it’s an opportunity. Design ingenuity thrives in the gray area where rules haven’t been written, and solutions are waiting to be discovered. So how do you turn “I have no idea where to start” into breakthrough ideas that actually work? At 8th Light, our approach is anchored in…
25 Jul 2025
24 Jul 2025
How a developer built an email-controlled Game Boy emulator with Postmark (because why not?)
PostmarkMeet Rens Wolters from PartyRens, who decided that controlling a Game Boy Advance emulator through email wasn't just possible but absolutely necessary. PostmarkGBA is what happens when a developer's weekend project meets genuine ingenuity, and we had to know more. We caught up with Rens to understand how this beautiful chaos came to life. This is the actual setup that’s…
Summary of what was discussed at the Geometry Nodes workshop in July 2025.
Get ready for blending on-the-go.
🤦 Intro - The rantings of a muffn # As usual, I’m doing substantial yapping before the guide, if you don’t like reading and/or know what you’re doing, jump to the guide Here we are again. Politicians making laws about technology they fundamentally don’t understand, wrapped up in the classic “think of the children” rhetoric that’s become the defacto justification…
Discover how Outtake uses GPT-4.1 and OpenAI o3 to power AI agents that detect and resolve digital threats 100x faster than before.
23 Jul 2025
Meta has developed Privacy Aware Infrastructure (PAI) and Policy Zones to enforce purpose limitations on data, especially in large-scale batch processing systems. Policy Zones integrates with Meta’s exabyte-scale data warehouse and processing systems, using runtime enforcement and SQL parsing to propagate and enforce privacy annotations across millions of daily data flows per day, performing trillions [...] Read More... The post…
We’re hosting our third annual OpenAI DevDay on October 6, 2025 at Fort Mason in San Francisco.
As part of our Executive Function series, Model ML CEO Chaz Englander discusses how AI-native infrastructure and autonomous agents are transforming financial services workflows.
22 Jul 2025
Engineering at the Edge of Impossibility: How We Delivered 973 Million Requests Per Minute During a Global Sporting Event
PubNubDuring a global sports event, PubNub handled a record 973 million requests per minute, enabling real-time interactions like chat, reactions, and synchronized live stats for millions of fans worldwide. Discover how our scalable infrastructure ensured zero downtime and seamless experiences at unprecedented scale.
Hardware faults can have a significant impact on AI training and inference. Silent data corruptions (SDCs), undetected data errors caused by hardware, can be particularly harmful for AI systems that rely on accurate data for training as well as providing useful outputs. We are sharing methodologies we deploy at various scales for detecting SDC across [...] Read More... The post…
AI in healthcare is no longer theory. It’s showing up in real hospitals, solving specific problems. Not just in research papers or flashy demos, but in production. This post walks through five recent examples where AI made a real difference. No hype, just what was built, what problem it tackled, and how it fit into […] The post AI in…
A year ago we renamed the Talking Postgres podcast—and just published our 29th episode. Since it’s a monthly thing, that means 13 new conversations in the past year. So this feels like a good moment to pause, reflect, and share a few highlights. If you’re already a listener, this post might help you find an episode you missed. If you’re…
OpenAI and Penda Health debut an AI clinical copilot that cuts diagnostic errors by 16% in real-world use—offering a new path for safe, effective AI in healthcare.
Back in 2016, I wrote about using QuickGrab to take a screenshot of the active window via a single key press with no mouse use required. It's now 2025 and I'm still using this and Apple has announced that Rosetta 2 will be phased out in a couple of years. As QuickGrab is one of the few Intel-only apps I…
Oracle and OpenAI have entered an agreement to develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional Stargate data center capacity in the U.S. This investment will create new jobs, accelerate America’s reindustrialization, and help advance U.S. AI leadership. It also marks a major milestone for Stargate, OpenAI’s AI infrastructure platform and long-term vision to deliver the benefits of AI to everyone.
Analysis provides insights into ChatGPT’s impact on the economy. OpenAI also launches new research collaboration to study AI’s broader effects on the labor market and productivity.
21 Jul 2025
OpenAI and UK Government announce strategic partnership to deliver AI-driven growth
OpenAI EngineeringOpenAI partners with the UK Government to boost AI adoption, drive economic growth, and enhance public services for a thriving AI ecosystem in the UK.
Mentoring someone is one of the most satisfying ways to share what you've learned and see someone grow because of it, but doing it well is what makes the difference.
ROOST Announces “Coop” and “Osprey”: Free, Open-Source Trust and Safety Infrastructure for the AI Era
DiscordOpen-sourced tools put enterprise-grade content safety and threat investigation capabilities within reach of organizations of all sizes
I’ve always considered myself a pragmatic technologist—someone who loves technology not for its own sake, but for the direct impact it can have on people’s lives. That’s what makes this job so exciting, since I believe AI will unlock more opportunities for more people than any other technology in history. If we get this right, AI can give everyone more…
It’s mind-boggling how many in the general public don’t understand this, so let me rant about it for a bit: many companies are designed to lose money this year. That’s the fucking point. Today’s main character energy is the news of WNBA players wearing Pay Us What You Owe Us shirts during the All-Star game. The knuckle-draggers on social media…
19 Jul 2025
Unexpected inconsistency in records The other day, I was trying to figure out a bug in my code, and it turned out to be a misunderstanding on my part as to how C# records work. It’s entirely possible that I’m the only one who expected them to work in the way that I did, but … Continue reading Unexpected inconsistency…
In this post, I want to share the history behind GoReleaser, how we got here, lessons I’ve learned along the way, and what’s ahead.
I’ve talked about how GoReleaser came to be, shared some lessons learned, and more.
18 Jul 2025
Why It Matters At 8th Light, we help enterprise teams remove friction, foster alignment, and build tools that scale with confidence. This project exemplifies what happens when human-driven design meets technical rigor: major time and cost savings. By focusing on systems thinking, user needs, and resilient architecture, the organization created a path forward that supports both immediate impact and long-term…
I work on homomorphic encryption (HE or FHE for “fully” homomorphic encryption) and I have written a lot about it on this blog (see the relevant tag). This article is a collection of short answers to questions I see on various threads and news aggregators discussing FHE. Facts If a service uses FHE and can respond to encrypted queries, can’t…
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing how medical images are acquired, analyzed, and interpreted. The transformation ushers in a new era of data-driven diagnostics and faster, more personalized patient care.
OpenAI is launching an initial $50 million fund that supports nonprofit and community organizations, informed by the independent OpenAI Nonprofit Commission report.
17 Jul 2025
Introducing ChatGPT agent: it thinks and acts, using tools to complete tasks like research, bookings, and slideshows—all with your guidance.
ChatGPT agent System Card: OpenAI’s agentic model unites research, browser automation, and code tools with safeguards under the Preparedness Framework.
Go 1.24’s Swiss Tables cut our map memory usage by up to 70% in high-traffic workloads. Here’s how we profiled the savings and improved performance.
We rolled out Go 1.24 and saw a memory regression. Here’s how we dug into system metrics, uncovered a bug in the runtime allocator, and worked with the Go team to help fix it.
The Board of Directors thanks the members of the independent OpenAI Nonprofit Commission for their extensive work and engagement.
Invideo AI uses OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, gpt-image-1, and text-to-speech models to transform creative ideas into professional videos in minutes.
At OpenAI, we build tools to help people solve hard problems—including nonprofits working on the frontlines of their communities. The OpenAI Academy is teaming up with the Walton Family Foundation, Emerson Collective, and a network of local nonprofit organizations to host the Nonprofit Jam—a one-day, nationwide event bringing together more than 1,000 nonprofit leaders across 10 locations.
16 Jul 2025
Meta has developed an open-source AI tool to design concrete mixes that are stronger, more sustainable, and ready to build with faster—speeding up construction while reducing environmental impact. The AI tool leverages Bayesian optimization, powered by Meta’s BoTorch and Ax frameworks, and was developed with Amrize and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I) [...] Read More... The post…
How does a human quality assurance engineer (QA) test a web application? If I ask you to look at this TodoMVC web app, how do you know what features it has? From your life experience, you might guess that this app lets the user enter new Todo items and should show them in the list somewhere below the input element.…
Frances has urged me for years to collect resources for folks getting into performance and platform-oriented web development. The effort has always seemed daunting, but the lack of such a list came up again at work, prompting me to take on the side-quest amidst a different performance yak-shave. If that sounds like procrastination, well, you might very well think that.…
Built-in rewards, brand lift analytics, mobile Quests… and our Cannes highlights!
15 Jul 2025
“Mathematics is the art of reducing any problem to linear algebra.” — William Stein If you’ve ever looked at a vector and thought, “Just a column of numbers, right?”, this chapter will change that. The Dark Art of Linear Algebra (aka DALA) by Seth Braver opens with one of the clearest intros I’ve read. Not every part clicks on the…
I've been writing a simple Swift command line tool called QuickSS. It's a single file swift file, that I compile to a standalone binaryusing: swiftc quickss.swift -o quickss To distribute it on modern Macs, I need to sign it and then get Apple to notarise it. Signing the binary To sign the binary, you need a "Developer ID Application" certificate…
ChatGPT is designed to be useful, trustworthy, and adaptable—so you can make it your own.
14 Jul 2025
Remote Patient Monitoring is helping healthcare leaders manage demand, improve outcomes, and shift care closer to home, without clinical pressure. The post What is Remote Patient Monitoring? appeared first on Erlang Solutions.
After the successful release of Public Preview of mssql-python driver, we’re thrilled to announce a major milestone for the mssql-python driver: full support for all three major operating systems—Windows, macOS, and Linux. This release marks a significant leap forward in our mission to provide seamless, performant, and Pythonic connectivity to Microsoft SQL Server and the […] The post Announcing Full…
If you have more than 5 years of experience, always keep a few small projects ready on the back burner. These are ideas you can pick up and run with at any time.
Introducing a new type of Quest reward: Discord Orbs! Earn them by completing Quests and redeem them in the Shop for hundreds of different items — including Discord Nitro credit. Available on desktop and mobile.
13 Jul 2025
Discover how network automation eliminates bottlenecks and human error to unlock the speed, scale, and security your infrastructure needs—a must-have for modern DevOps success.
11 Jul 2025
Congratulations to Rani Zilpelwar, the recipient of 8th Light’s Quarterly Beacon Award, a peer-nominated honor that celebrates team members who shine light on our core values. Rani is a Software Delivery Lead with over a decade of experience building high-quality software and high-trust teams. This quarter, Rani’s leadership and influence grew significantly beyond her original role with one of the…
The July 2025 release includes TBA and more! The post Python in Visual Studio Code – July 2025 Release appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.
OpenAI joins the EU Code of Practice, advancing responsible AI while partnering with European governments to drive innovation, infrastructure, and economic growth.
10 Jul 2025
Scalable systems run on smart data communication. Explore how real-time protocols, messaging patterns, and observability tools shape modern, resilient infrastructures
Upgrade your customer support chat with real-time messaging, AI moderation, and chatbot automation—built for scale with cross-platform SDKs
As MCP gains traction across industries, business and technical leaders seek proof that it delivers its promise.
9 Jul 2025
Layout shifts, oversized assets, bloated JSON, synchronous publish loops, and unthrottled real-time updates can crush UX—even when your APIs are fast
Add Customer and Agent Presence to your Call Center Solution using PubNub Presence and App Context
8 Jul 2025
I'm currently writing a script that notarises a macOS CLI app which needs to access a password. Rather than put it in an environment variable, I thought I'd use the 1Password CLI. This is the first time I've used it, so these are my notes. The 1Password CLI tool is call op. I installed it via Homebrew with: brew install…
OpenAI partners with the American Federation of Teachers to launch a 5-year initiative equipping 400,000 K-12 educators to lead AI innovation in classrooms.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as the universal standard for AI integrations, changing how AI systems connect with external data sources. But what does it mean in practical business terms, and why has it become a boardroom priority?
This version consists mostly of improvements to the Homebrew Cask feature introduced in the last release, and in other features.
NITRO, NITRO, NITRO! From now until July 15th, 2025, if qualifying users start a new monthly Nitro membership, they’ll get a SECOND month of Discord Nitro to top ‘em off!
Search for places on maps and reverse geocode in your offline or self-hosted environments with MapTiler Server 4.7
7 Jul 2025
Sub-10ms latency sounds great, until you look closer. Unpacking real sources of delay and what’s possible in today’s hardware, networks, and real-world setups
How to avoid the hidden costs of managing multiple payment systems
In today’s dynamic enterprise landscape, Customer Experience (CX) is no longer just a service function, it is a strategic advantage. Enterprises are seeking innovative ways to engage customers, personalize interactions, and create seamless, scalable journeys.
Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.
Learn about what exactly this new popover feature does and how it relates to interest invokers.
6 Jul 2025
Modern development starts with managed backends—streamline your stack, focus on features, and deliver real-time experiences effortlessly
One morning, my son woke up and came downstairs, deep in thought. He looked up at me and said, “Can we make a game, Mummy?” He’s seven and he’s called Jacob. He told me his game was called Exploding Kitties. He described the mechanics. Bad guys patrol up and down. If they see the player - a kitty - they…
4 Jul 2025
While investigating the performance of the new Python 3.14 tail-calling interpreter, I learned (via this very informative comment from Sam Gross) new (to me) piece of performance trivia: Modern CPUs mostly no longer struggle to predict the bytecode-dispatch indirect jump inside a “conventional” bytecode interpreter loop. In steady-state, assuming the bytecode itself is reasonable stable, modern CPUs achieve very high…
What does it mean to “jailbreak” an AI? In short, it’s when someone finds a way to make an AI system ignore its safety rules and do something it’s not supposed to. Think of it like tricking a chatbot into telling you how to build a bomb, or getting an image model to generate violent […] The post How People…
2 Jul 2025
Effective latency optimization starts by decomposing end-to-end RTT into DNS, TLS, TTFB, payload, and render time—each layer reveals leverage
Enter Deliveroo’s ML Platform For the past three years, we have been building Deliveroo’s Machine Learning Platform, or the ML Platform as we like to call it. The ML Platform boosts our model-building and deployment capabilities by standardising ML workflows, streamlining the end-to-end development process and simplifying model deployment. Besides saving software engineering effort through centralising tooling, the ML Platform…
We recently ran across a strange higgs-bugson that manifested itself in a critical system that stores and distributes the firm’s trading activity data, called Gord. (A higgs-bugson is a bug that is reported in practice but difficult to reproduce, named for the Higgs boson, a particle which was theorized in the 1960s but only found in 2013.) In this post…
1 Jul 2025
Don't just monitor—act. Learn how PubNub powers real-time, automated workflows that turn engineering insights into instant action.
When we launched the Postmark Challenge: Inbox Innovators on DEV Community, we expected clever solutions. What we got were projects that completely reimagined what email could do. Developers didn't just parse emails, they turned inboxes into gaming platforms, AI transcription services, environmental monitoring systems, podcast distribution channels, and automated code review systems. Each submission reminded us why email remains one…
Have you ever worked is legacy code? Are you curious what it takes to modernize systems at a massive scale? Pascal Hartig is joined on the latest Meta Tech Podcast by Elaine and Buping, two software engineers working on a bold project to rewrite the decades-old C code in one of Meta’s core messaging libraries [...] Read More... The post…
Learn how Genspark built a $36M ARR AI product in 45 days—with no-code agents powered by GPT-4.1 and OpenAI Realtime API.
We have an HP all-in-one scanner and printer that is on our local network. Recently, I was away from home and needed to reconfigure the scanning settings for unimportant reasons. Usually, when I'm not in the office, I use Tailscale to connect back to machines as required, but the printer isn't running Tailscale, so its built-in web app isn't directly…
30 Jun 2025
You may be new to this series; and if so welcome! If so, I encourage you to start at the beginning of our datastore journey and see the blog post “ Unlocking Efficiency: A New Era for Datastore Provisioning ”. Already up to date in our series? MAGICAL — then let’s continue with a quick re-cap. Where are we? We…
We are proud to announce that Meta has officially joined the Kotlin Foundation as a gold member, marking a significant milestone in our ongoing commitment to Kotlin and the broader Android development ecosystem. Over the past several years, Meta engineers have been actively migrating our extensive Android codebase—comprising tens of millions of lines—from Java to [...] Read More... The post…
Today, OpenAI, in partnership with Mandala Partners, is sharing the OpenAI AI Economic Blueprint for Australia. At a time when boosting productivity has emerged as a national priority for Australia, the Blueprint provides a clear, actionable plan for how Australia can unlock the full economic and social potential of artificial intelligence.
When participating in conversations, meetings, or discussions, we're often very confident in what we're saying and the points we're putting forward. But pause for a moment and ask yourself - do you truly know, or are you assuming, vaguely remembering, or guessing with confidence?
Here's the Discord Changelog from June 30, 2025, so you can stay informed on what’s new in recent app updates!
Today, we’re looking at two case studies in how to respond when reactionaries appear in your free software community. Exhibit A It is a technical decision. The technical reason is that the security team does not have the bandwidth to provide lifecycle maintenance for multiple X server implementations. Part of the reason for moving X from main to community was…
27 Jun 2025
Before saying anything else, I'd like to thank the organisers of JSNation for inviting me to speak in Amsterdam. I particularly appreciate the folks who were brave enough to disagree at the Q&A sessions afterwards. Engaged debate about problems we can see and evidence we can measure makes our work better. The conference venue was lovely, and speakers were more…
This June, our PRIDE ERG came together to celebrate the meaningful act of simply being who you are and bringing your whole self to work.
26 Jun 2025
Search is changing. Instead of ten blue links, we now get AI-powered summaries, conversational responses, and sometimes… no need to click at all. For content creators, SEOs, and product owners, the game hasn’t ended – but it’s definitely shifted. Google and ChatGPT are both surfacing content in new ways. The rules are still evolving, but […] The post AI SEO…
Retell AI is transforming the call center with AI voice automation powered by GPT-4o and GPT-4.1. Its no-code platform enables businesses to launch natural, real-time voice agents that cut call costs, boost CSAT, and automate customer conversations—without scripts or hold times.
How Blinkit Cracked Android's Performance Puzzle with Droid Dex Adaptive real-time performance tuning — fewer ANRs, smoother UX, and smarter device-specific optimization Picture this: Your app runs buttery-smooth on Pixel 7 Pro while throwing ANRs on a Redmi Note 4. Users on a Fold 6 have to experience the same janky transitions as those on a ₹6,000 device. Sounds familiar?…
Business-to-business SaaS companies are turning to part-time CMOs to boost growth while cutting costs. This advice from successful founders and CMOs will help your organization do the same.
The CMO’s Guide to Agile Marketing Transformation: Driving Performance With Limited Resources
ToptalForward-thinking marketing executives are adopting Agile principles to boost speed, collaboration, and performance. Two Toptal Marketing Agency leaders share the key components of Agile marketing and how your team can implement them.
Hello! After many months of writing deep dive blog posts about the terminal, on Tuesday I released a new zine called “The Secret Rules of the Terminal”! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal, or get an 15-pack of all my zines here. Here’s the cover: the table of contents Here’s the table of contents: why the terminal? I’ve…
Germany’s satellite map has been updated with crisp, high-resolution aerial imagery from recent years.
24 Jun 2025
Márton Veres shares his journey and what he’s looking forward to in his new role as London Business Unit Leader. The post Meet the Team: Márton Veres appeared first on Erlang Solutions.
I run a Tailscale network so that remote computers can access local services. I also have a Linux box at home on that network that advertises itself as an exit node and recently noticed that it wasn't working. I had some time recently to sit down and work out what was going on. My initial suspicion was that it was…
The Adaptive Talent Imperative: How CPG and Retail Companies Can Transform With Cross-functional Experts
ToptalThe biggest obstacle consumer packaged goods (CPG) and retail companies face isn’t technology or capital. It’s finding talent that can bridge the gap between business strategy and technical execution in real time.