How AI convinced our CTO to upgrade our MacBooks | incident.io
When our CTO said "I'll upgrade your MacBook if you can prove it's worthwhile" we embarked on a journey including (re)building a Go hot-reloader, instrumenting developer builds, analysing compiler performance and feeding an AI model the data until we had an answer.
Four weeks ago at the company’s Universe event, in a move that proved controversial in some corners, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced that the company was now “re-founded on Copilot.” This was a bold statement that some apparently viewed as a potential abandonment of Git and its founding principles, which alarmed those with little to
HBS Faculty Books of 2023: Find Happiness, Fix Things, and Fail Well
From authoritarian regimes to social responsibility, we take a look back at some of the new books by Harvard Business School faculty members this year.
Open Letter: Make DMs Safe In 2022, Facebook handed over abortion-related direct messages between a mom and her teenage daughter to police. Now they’ve been convicted and sentenced under the state’s anti-abortion laws. In an increasingly dangerous world, there’s one simple thing every messaging platform must do right now: make our messages safe using end-to-end […]
RSS is a salve for social media’s anarchy | Reclaiming the Web with a Personal Reader
There’s a kind of zen flow that programmers unblock when they experience their software daily as an end user. There’s no better catalyst for ideas and experimentation, no better prioritization driver than having to face the bugs, annoyances, and limitations of an application first-hand.
Authors: Kubernetes v1.29 Release Team
Editors: Carol Valencia, Kristin Martin, Abigail McCarthy, James Quigley
Announcing the release of Kubernetes v1.29: Mandala (The Universe), the last release of 2023!
Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.29 introduces new stable, beta, and alpha features. The consistent delivery of top-notch releases underscores the strength of our development cycle and the vibrant support from our community.
This release consists of 49 enhancements. Of those enhancements, 11 have graduated to Stable, 19 are entering Beta and 19 have graduated to Alpha.
FFmpeg Lands CLI Multi-Threading As Its "Most Complex Refactoring" In Decades
The long-in-development work for a fully-functional multi-threaded FFmpeg command line has been merged! The FFmpeg CLI with multi-threaded transcoding pipelines is now merged to FFmpeg Git ahead of FFmpeg 7.0 releasing early next year
UN General Assembly votes to demand immediate ceasefire in Gaza | CNN
A majority of 153 nations voted for the ceasefire resolution in the General Assembly’s emergency special session Tuesday, while 10 voted against and 23 abstained.
Black Mother-Daughter Duo Publish 'ABCs Of Cybersecurity' Adventure Book Preparing Kids For The Digital World - POCIT. Telling the stories and thoughts of people of color in tech.
Mother-daughter duo Claudia and London Walker are set to release “The ABCs of Cybersecurity,” an adventure book and mobile game to equip children with the tools needed to navigate the digital world. Meet Claudia Walker Claudia Walker is an educator who paved the way to ensure financial literacy is accessible to children. Before Walker entered the […]