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24 Jun 2025

1 min read

Unify, an AI-powered GTM platform, uses OpenAI’s o3, GPT-4.1, and CUA to automate prospecting, research, and outreach. With hyper-personalized messaging and an always-on workflow, Unify helps teams generate pipeline at scale while focusing on high-impact customer interactions.

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23 Jun 2025

20 Jun 2025

Ruslan Spivak 4 min read

“Where there is life, there is change; where there is change, there is calculus.” — Seth Braver I recently went back to studying math to rebuild my foundations for AI and machine learning. I didn’t expect to enjoy a calculus book this much. Shocking, I know. But that’s exactly what happened with Full Frontal Calculus. Can calculus feel intuitive? Even…

19 Jun 2025

somesh sharma 5 min read

Optimistic locking is a concurrency control mechanism where we assume that multiple transactions can safely access data without conflict, allowing them to proceed without locking the data upfront. Unlike pessimistic locking, where resources are locked to avoid conflicts, optimistic locking allows transactions to proceed without locks and checks for conflicts only when updating the data. If a conflict is detected…

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Gediminas G 3 min read

Starting your own affiliate marketing website just got a lot faster and easier, thanks to the Hostinger Affiliate Marketing Tools plugin and theme for WordPress. With the… The post Launch your affiliate website easier with Hostinger appeared first on Hostinger Blog.

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Vishnupriya Varadarajan 7 min read

In the fast-paced world of engineering, the dream of easy infrastructure management and provisioning is a common aspiration. At Zendesk, this sentiment resonates deeply among our engineers. When we talk about infrastructure, we refer to a wide range of tools such as MySQL, S3, DynamoDB, Kafka topics, compute resources, network and routing configurations, security groups, secrets, credentials, configuration settings, dashboards,…

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blog.muffn.io (muffn_) 1 min read

🎬 Intro # vSAN is something I’ve been pretty enamored with for a long time, since it was first becoming a thing. Hyperconverged was the buzzword at the time and as someone just coming up in the industry, I knew it was something I wanted to mess with, and I did.

18 Jun 2025

Michelle Krasniak 1 min read

Real-time EMR and EHR synchronization closes care gaps by enabling fast, secure access to up-to-date patient data. This improves outcomes, reduces errors, and enhances provider efficiency and patient engagement.

17 Jun 2025

1 min read

Bootstrap v5.3.7 was just released with some follow-up fixes from our migration to Astro, plus a handful of small fixes. We expect to have another patch release shortly due to at least one recent regression, so stay tuned for that. In the mean time, here are some highlights! Docs Fixed broken “View on GitHub” URLs Corrected HTML <head> content generated…

Rob 1 min read

I'm a member of a number of groups that publish a magazine, either paper-based or PDF. I prefer the PDF version, so download from the website and then move to the relevant directory. Recently, I realised that I could use Hazel to do this for me. To take one example, the filename of the PDF that I download is of…

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16 Jun 2025

1 min read

We're bringing you new ways to customize your server with additional perks that delight members, along with a new way to spend available Boosts on these additional server perks — no level required.

blog.muffn.io (muffn_) 1 min read

🎬 Intro # Look, cheap and mini are subjective so this may not be what you might imagine when you read the title, but, subjectively, this build is mini for an 8 bay NAS with this kind of hardware and objectively, it’s cheap. An off the shelf NAS with this many bays can’t even be found close to this price…

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We’re launching OpenAI for Government, a new initiative focused on bringing our most advanced AI tools to public servants across the United States. We're supporting the U.S. government's efforts in adopting best-in-class technology and deploying these tools in service of the public good.

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15 Jun 2025

PubNub Labs Team 1 min read

Free your engineers from infra toil. Scale faster, optimize performance, and boost uptime with managed IT services for modern DevOps teams.

14 Jun 2025

1 min read

At Jane Street, we’ve been actively making improvements to OCaml for a long time. Over the last few years, we’ve started to build some fairly ambitious extensions to the language. Our aim is to make OCaml a great language for performance engineering. This work has always been open source, and our hope is to contribute these extensions to upstream OCaml,…

13 Jun 2025

RisingStack Engineering 5 min read

LLMs can write code, answer questions, and automate workflows – but without proper guardrails, they can also generate biased, harmful, or outright dangerous content. This is where external safety layers come in. These are tools or systems that sit outside the model, filtering or moderating content either before it goes in, after it comes out, […] The post Keeping LLMs…

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3 min read

At Apple's annual developer marketing conference, the Safari team announced a sizeable set of features that will be available in a few months. Substantially all of them are already shipped in leading-edge browsers. Here's the list, prefixed by the year that these features shipped to stable in Chromium: 2023: WebGPU 2020: SVG Favicons 2023: HDR Images 2024: CSS Anchor Positioning…

12 Jun 2025

Stephen Blum 1 min read

After building the PubNub MCP server and putting it through its paces, I've learned a thing or two about testing these beasts. Let me walk you through what I've discovered.

Gediminas G 2 min read

AI assistants are quickly becoming the go-to source for answers and advice, and even Google is highlighting AI-generated search results. That means your website needs to speak the… The post Make your WordPress website AI-ready with just one click appeared first on Hostinger Blog.

product updates

11 Jun 2025

10 Jun 2025

Fabian Aguilar Gomez 6 min read

In my spare time I enjoy building Gundam models, which are model kits to build iconic mechas from the Gundam universe. You might be wondering what this has to do with software engineering. Product engineers can be seen as the engineers who take these kits and build the Gundam itself. They are able to utilize all pieces and build a…

Rob 1 min read

On a server that I help to maintain, it has postfix installed for emailing results of cron jobs and other status updates. This was set up to relay through SendGrid as they had a 100 email per month plan and we send out significantly fewer than that. Unfortunately, SendGrid are retiring their free plan, so I had to move to…

computingsysadmin

9 min read

I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source. This has been kind of a struggle for me: for a long time, my approach was basically “install the dependencies, run make, if it doesn’t work, either try to find a binary someone has compiled or give up”. “Hope someone…

9 Jun 2025

17 min read

Tech workers have long resisted the suggestion that we should be organized into unions. The topic is consistently met with a cold reception by tech workers when it is raised, and no big tech workforce is meaningfully organized. This is a fatal mistake – and I don’t mean “fatal” in the figurative sense. Tech workers, it’s time for you to…

Stanko 2 min read

This is a simple origami frog that jumps when you press on it. I was taught to make it by my parents when I was really young, so it holds a very dear place in my heart. There are other versions on the internet, but I think this one jumps better. It is actually simpler than the ones on the…

8 Jun 2025

Jeffrey Theobald 6 min read

Are you ready for more self-service datastore adventures? If you haven’t already, have a look at our previous entries in this series: Unlocking Efficiency: A New Era for Datastore Provisioning Simplifying Datastore Provisioning with Kubernetes Operators Resolving Incidents With The Remote Incident Console They’re a fun read. The story so far Last time, in Simplifying Datastore Provisioning with Kubernetes Operators…

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6 Jun 2025

5 Jun 2025

RisingStack Engineering 2 min read

AI video and image generation just made a serious jump. Google introduced Veo 3, its most advanced text-to-video model yet, and Flux released Kontext, a new multimodal tool built for real editing work. Both show clear progress. Here’s what matters. Video That Looks and Sounds Real Veo 3 is more than just text-to-video. It’s one […] The post Google Veo…

ai

1 min read

Dig into the latest news about the Discord Social SDK! Learn how Facepunch Studios implemented the SDK directly in their game Rust to enhance their player’s social experience, and how you can do the same.

blog.muffn.io (muffn_) 1 min read

Below are some of the projects I have been working on that I am most proud of. Awesome Mini PC # My attempt to create a catalog of mini PCs and similar systems. Built to be simple and usable, with data being the focus Awesome Mini PC is something new for me which I continue to spend too much time…

4 Jun 2025

8 min read

POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025 is back for its 4th year—free, virtual, and packed with deep expertise. No travel needed, just your laptop, internet, and curiosity. This year’s 45 speakers are smart, capable Postgres practitioners—core contributors, performance experts, application developers, Azure engineers, extension maintainers—and their talks are as interesting as they are useful. The four livestreams (42 talks total)…

3 Jun 2025

Rob 1 min read

I've had a few cases recently when I wanted to know the number of words that I had written. To do this, I've copied the text to BBEdit which displays the word count in its status bar, but this is a bit of a faff. I finally sat down and created a Shortcut for it that took 10 mins. This…

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Stanko 4 min read

SVGs support non-scaling strokes using the vector-effect attribute, which we can even use to draw non-scaling rectangles and circles. For example, in graphs and charts, text can become too small or too large, so it would be really nice to make it non-scaling. But unfortunately, there is no native solution - text will always scale together with the SVG. We…

2 Jun 2025

Karen Fehmer 3 min read

At Kogan.com, our data needs have grown alongside the business. As more teams relied on insights to move quickly, it became clear our request-based BI model couldn’t scale. We needed a platform that empowered teams to answer their own questions, trust the numbers, and move independently. That journey led us to build a self-service platform grounded in governance, transparency, and…

29 May 2025

28 May 2025

Alistair Forrester Burrowes 5 min read

Supporting developers to debug and resolve issues with datastores in the Self-Service ecosystem. Welcome to the third blog post of our Self-Service Datastore series, where we share our journey towards creating a more efficient and reliable way to manage datastores at Zendesk. Previous blog posts: Unlocking Efficiency: A New Era for Datastore Provisioning Simplifying Datastore Provisioning with Kubernetes Operators We…

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John Riccardi 5 min read

Bottom Line Up Front The goal isn't to replace human developers but to offload repetitive tasks so we can focus on creativity and architecture—where human expertise is irreplaceable. Start your next feature by writing tests first, then let AI help implement the solution. You'll deliver higher quality code faster, with greater confidence. Large Language Models Aren't as Simple as They…

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Erlang Solutions Team 6 min read

Digital wallet security is essential as mobile payments grow. Understand the risks and how to keep your business and customers safe. The post The Importance of Digital Wallet Security appeared first on Erlang Solutions.

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Abhinav Dubey 5 min read

When building systems that process large volumes of messages synchronously, performance bottlenecks can quickly become a challenge specially with single-threaded designs. In this post, we’ll look at how leveraging worker threads in a Clojure-based Kafka consumer can significantly boost throughput & reduce total processing time. Using simple concurrency primitives, it’s possible to achieve parallelism & scale gracefully, all while keeping…

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27 May 2025

RisingStack Engineering 3 min read

Anthropic just dropped Claude 4, and it’s making waves – especially if you write code for a living. There are two models to know: Claude 4 Opus and Claude 4 Sonnet. Here’s what matters. Opus vs Sonnet Opus is the powerhouse. It’s the most advanced Claude model yet, designed for deep problem solving and long-running […] The post Claude 4…

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Darryn Campbell 1 min read

PubNub requires a user ID to work with our SDKs, but how can you create and manage guest users who do not have a permanent ID?

Rob 1 min read

On one of my servers here, I run a local Perforce P4 server for my son. He's a game developer and as they use P4 at work, he wanted to learn it in a sandbox and to have somewhere familiar to put his own work. Installation onto Ubuntu was easy enough and I provided access outside of our local network…

software

26 May 2025

25 May 2025

kevin 1 min read

One of the first ever Redis libraries for Go was hosted at github.com/garyburd/redigo. It has been deprecated for some time and has now been finally removed altogether from Github. If you still have a dependency on this project, this means that will be broken now. github.com/gomodule/redigo should be a drop-in replacement for github.com/garyburd/redigo. If you […]

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23 May 2025

Tinder 8 min read

Authored by: Maxwell Elliott and Connor Wybranowski Have you ever worked in a section of a codebase that is slow to build, has no ownership, no tests, and is edited constantly? If so, you have experienced a monolith. Monoliths are frustrating for developers, and they can have a profound effect on your organization; they slow down your team and your…

RisingStack Engineering 4 min read

Google I/O 2025 was packed with major AI news, especially around the Gemini AI platform. In partnership with DeepMind, Google unveiled new model upgrades, developer tools, and multimodal AI capabilities aimed at helping developers build smarter products. Here’s a breakdown of the most important announcements for developers – from the latest Gemini 2.5 models and […] The post What Google…

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2 min read

tl;dr: I’m offering coaching sessions where I teach professional engineers a smooth, stay-in-flow technique for AI-augmented programming. All the nitty gritty tips and setup were very helpful. — Andrew J. Email me to sign up!. Let the computer make you more productive My first job after university was working at a software company on their huge Java desktop application. The…