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The Old Guard vs. The New Way: Traditional Infrastructure Management vs. Modern DevOps
2+ min ago (569+ words) How we went from "don't touch the server" to "let's destroy it and rebuild it in 30 seconds" If you've been in software long enough, you remember it. The sacred server room. The deployment checklist that was 47 steps long. The one…...
Stop Writing Slow SQL: 7 Query Optimization Tricks Every Developer Should Know
2+ min ago (670+ words) You pushed a feature last week. Everything looked fine in staging. Then production blew up. The culprit? A single SQL query that took 3 milliseconds on your laptop with 500 rows " and 14 seconds on production with 2 million rows. Sound familiar? SQL is…...
Building a Production-Grade Table Editor with React and XState — Adding Rows & Columns
4+ min ago (681+ words) In the previous blogpost, we build a table editor that used xstate's state machine. We managed to build a schema driven architecture where schema was the source of truth for rendering things on the table-editor. This blog post continues the…...
New video may offer glimpse of secret F-47 fighter
4+ min ago (306+ words) In what may be a hint of things to come or a subtle act of disinformation, Pratt & Whitney has released a video possibly featuring a tantalizing new image of the Boeing F-47 sixth-generation fighter plane being developed for the US Air…...
How much snow will we get in Connecticut on Sunday?
5+ min ago (327+ words) Connecticut is'getting some snow on Sunday, but the amounts will be nowhere near what last week's major blizzard dumped on'the state, according to forecasters. The northern part of the state could receive up to 2 inches of snow during the snowfall…...
Turning A Cast-Iron Radiator Into A Water-Cooled PC
6+ min ago (245+ words) [caption id="attachment_921784" align="alignright" width="400"] Bottom of the cast-iron radiator gaming PC during plumbing. (Credit: Billet Labs, YouTube)[/caption] Water-cooled PCs generally have in... Bottom of the cast-iron radiator gaming PC during plumbing (Credit: Billet Labs, YouTube) Water-cooled PCs generally…...
Total Lunar Eclipse Of The Heart: ‘Blood Moon’ Coming March 3
7+ min ago (484+ words) A total lunar eclipse will cast Earth's shadow across the full moon on March 3, creating a reddish "blood moon" visible in the early morning hours across much of North America, with no special gear required for viewing. The event coincides…...
The areas where hidden devices are set to listen into your daily life
7+ min ago (1081+ words) Two London boroughs are among places using the devices to detect sounds such as screams and noisy vehicles in public streets Five councils have installed or are considering using controversial listening devices in CCTV systems to detect sounds such as…...
How AI Designs Sudoku Games and Puzzle Apps That Keep You Hooked
9+ min ago (1692+ words) Sudoku games have evolved a lot since they first appeared in newspapers. Now, puzzle apps use artificial intelligence to create puzzles just for you. They adjust to your skill level and how you play." AI has changed how puzzle apps…...
How I Built an API That Turns JSON Into Beautiful HTML Forms
12+ min ago (115+ words) Tags: webdev, javascript, api, forms Forms are one of the most tedious parts of web development. Every project needs them, and every time you build one from scratch " labels, validation, accessibility, styling " you lose hours on boilerplate. So I built…...