Learn how we implemented and open-sourced a noise filter for real-time audio chat without compromising performance. Better yet, try the demo and add it to your own project today.
24 Jun 2025
23 game showcases in June, and just as many recommendations! We’re talking about all the big announcements and big summer vibes with Alex, Armando, Matt, and… Matt???
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.
23 Jun 2025
Dependable always beats the brilliant; if people can't count on you, nothing else matters.
Learn how we built Datadog’s Log Forwarding system for low-latency, high-throughput delivery to thousands of unreliable third-party endpoints.
20 Jun 2025
“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…
How We Built Canva's IMPACT App with Streamlit in Snowflake
There’s a LOT of Role permissions to comb through for your Discord server, and every community has its own needs. In this article, we’ll give some general guidance on each permission to help you decide what works best.
19 Jun 2025
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…
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.
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,…
🎬 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
This short webinar is a great opportunity for clubs to discover how our payment system can help. Our team will guide you through every step, so you’re set up and collecting payments in no time.
We study how training on incorrect responses can cause broader misalignment in language models and identify an internal feature driving this behavior—one that can be reversed with minimal fine-tuning.
Advanced AI can transform biology and medicine—but also raises biosecurity risks. We’re proactively assessing capabilities and implementing safeguards to prevent misuse.
Master collecting money from customers for healthy cash flow and growth.
Hostinger – a leading global web hosting provider – has fully integrated its Indonesian branch, Niagahoster, into one unified brand. The move follows a technical migration last ye… The post Niagahoster becomes Hostinger: Local expertise meets global innovation under one brand appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
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
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…
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…
After using nix in my dotfiles for over 2 years, I’m now moving away from it. Here’s why.
Learn how Datadog engineered a highly reliable, low-latency system to distribute per-tenant configuration data across thousands of containers, enabling real-time log processing at scale.
Learn how Datadog is breaking up a shared production database at scale—defining clear ownership boundaries, minimizing migration risk, and building the tooling to make decoupling safe, automated, and sustainable.
16 Jun 2025
Securing in modern IT systems means more than firewalls—this guide shows how to embed trust, visibility, and control at every layer
The June 2025 release includes Copilot chat tools in the Python extension, project creation from a template, language server based terminal suggest, and more! The post Python in Visual Studio Code – June 2025 Release appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.
If you are known for owning outcomes and driving results, leadership will trust you with higher-stakes work because the most important projects go to those who get things done.
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.
🎬 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…
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.
15 Jun 2025
Free your engineers from infra toil. Scale faster, optimize performance, and boost uptime with managed IT services for modern DevOps teams.
Since 2002, I have been keeping track of all the tricky bugs I have come across. Nine years ago, I wrote a blog post with the lessons learned from the bugs up till then. Now I have reviewed all the … Continue reading →
Faced with customer service issues at his previous hosting providers, Jake, a brand designer, began searching for a new web host. Hostinger’s live chat function was one of the mai… The post How Jake’s Migration to Agency Hosting Made Multi-Site Management Easy appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
14 Jun 2025
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
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…
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…
Between now and June 20, if you treat your friend to either a monthly or annual Nitro membership, you’ll earn the Freshly Picked Avatar Decoration to splash across your profile pic!
12 Jun 2025
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.
VPS Kodee, your AI assistant, is now powered by Model Context Protocol (MCP). From security tweaks to system snapshots, it can now manage almost everything on your virtual private… The post Manage your VPS by chatting with AI: Kodee now handles the tough stuff appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
Build a Chat app in Go using PubNub with real-time messaging and presence
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.
OpenAI and Mattel are partnering to integrate AI into iconic brands such as Barbie and Hot Wheels, aiming to enhance creative development, streamline workflows, and create new ways for fans to engage.
11 Jun 2025
Lean, resilient, and scalable cloud systems—optimize costs and performance with smart architecture, automation, and real-time observability.
Say Aye (AI)! How Data Tagging & Labeling Makes Virtual Assistants & Virtual Chatbots - SMART?
HaptikWe live in a world where communicating or talking to machines has become super normal. You ask your phone for the weather forecast, chat with a bot to know your food delivery status or even command Alexa to play one of your favorite songs — and boom, it just works.
How We Redesigned Technical Interviews for the AI Era
10 Jun 2025
Read our guide to learn how to navigate current energy sector challenges
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…
Meet Hostinger Reach, our AI-powered email marketing tool built for creators, solo entrepreneurs, and small business owners. Design inbox-ready newsletters in minutes, grow your a… The post Prompt, send, grow: Email marketing just got a Hostinger makeover appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
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…
A few years back, I proposed a "brilliant" idea to my leadership, and it got rejected. That day, I learnt what turns an idea into a funded project.
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
Update 6/10: Based on a short conversation with an engineering lead at X, some of the devices used at X are claimed to be using HSMs. See more further below. Matthew Garrett has a nice post about Twitter (uh, X)’s new end-to-end encryption messaging protocol, which is now called XChat. The TL;DR of Matthew’s post … Continue reading A bit…
OpenAI introduces its Outbound Coordinated Disclosure Policy to guide how it responsibly reports vulnerabilities in third-party software—emphasizing integrity, collaboration, and proactive security at scale.
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…
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
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…
This version introduces the new Homebrew Casks feature, an experimental MCP server, plus many other small improvements.
6 Jun 2025
5 Jun 2025
How we’re responding to The New York Times’ data demands in order to protect user privacy
OpenAI EngineeringOpenAI is fighting a court order at the demands of The New York Times and plaintiffs, which involves retention of consumer ChatGPT and API user data indefinitely. Learn how we’re working to uphold user privacy, address legal requirements, and stay true to our data protection commitments.
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…
Avoid common startup tech mistakes that slow growth. Build a stack that scales from day one. The post Avoiding Common Startup Tech Mistakes appeared first on Erlang Solutions.
Our latest report featuring case studies of how we’re detecting and preventing malicious uses of AI.
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.
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…
Serverless Container Framework v2 (SCF v2) makes it easy to deploy powerful AI agents on your own AWS infrastructure—integrating seamlessly with APIs, events, and Slack. Skip the PaaS limitations and build agents that actually fit your stack.
4 Jun 2025
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
Since its release in March, hundreds of thousands of people have already tried to vibe code with the help of Hostinger Horizons, an all-in-one AI partner-designer, developer, and … The post Hundreds of thousands have already tried Hostinger Horizons: what did they build? appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
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…
Learn how we developed Datadog Automatic Faulty Deployment Detection and improved precision, recall, and time to detection along the way.
Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.
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
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…
Say you have an idea, something that could change your company's or product's trajectory and fast-track your career growth. What do you do?
29 May 2025
Commercial Variable Recurring Payments are coming later this year but what will they mean for the way you collect payments?
Understand what's next in the roadmap for Variable Recurring Payments
Are you looking at open banking payments? Take a look at what to look out for.
Discord’s Soundboard lets you instantly react to the call with quick custom soundbites. Where do you use it? How do you add more sounds, and how long can they be? Listen closely as we lay it all down!
Wix’s AI Website Builder, powered by OpenAI, lets anyone create a full website in minutes—just by describing their idea in a conversation.
28 May 2025
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…
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…
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.
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…
It’s now or never, AI coding fans! Hostinger invites you to participate in our Hostinger Horizons Challenge and show the world your most unique website. This is your chance to win… The post Win $5,000 worth of Apple dev gear by competing in our challenge appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
We're expanding our Quests advertising product with a new reward for users: Discord Orbs. We’re also introducing a new partnership with Kantar, which will further enhance the return on investment measurement and analytics capabilities of Quests for advertisers.
27 May 2025
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…
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?
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…
26 May 2025
Beyond a point, your reputation determines how high you will go in the career ladder. And it takes months, sometimes years, to build one that truly matters.
25 May 2025
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 […]
23 May 2025
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…
Multi-Stage Compositing and new EEVEE features.
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…
How to distribute and manage symmetric keys for use with PubNub message encryption
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…