Photo by Claudia Raya Apple vs. Facebook is, and always was, kayfabe. In reality, Apple is Facebook's chauffeur; holding Zuck's coat while Facebook1 wantonly surveils iPhones owners.2 Facebook's gross profit over time. Facebook and Apple mugged convincingly for the cameras as "App Tracking Transpare...

I’m an audiophile, which is a nice way to describe someone who spends their children’s college fund on equipment that yields no audible improvement in sound quality. As such, I refused to use wireless headphones for the longest time. The fun thing about wired headphones is when you forget they’re on...

Unbeknownst to everybody except the involved parties and a certain unnamed multinational company,...

A few of the ideas, topics, and commonplaces that have been gaining steam on <a...

There was no contest that I wanted to mention last week. Since I am getting such empty weeks quite often now, I've decided to check unfiltered clist in case I have missed something. And indeed, there seems to be an onsite round of a competition called Wincent DragonByte coming up in September which ...

My life is not a math Olympiad

In a fast-growing company software engineering feels like spinning plates. Nothing ever stays fixed.

In this chapter, we learn how to do things repeatedly in JavaScript.

In this blog post, we’ll look at static variables defined in a function scope. We’ll see how they are implemented and how to use them. What’s more, we’ll discuss several cases where we can avoid extra thread-safety cost. Let’s start. Introduction   As you may know, C++ offers a way to define static ...

On Thursday, August 7, 2025, between approximately 1:45 PM EDT and 2:05 PM EDT, HubSpot customers experienced widespread errors when accessing CRM records. With approximately 95% of requests failing at peak impact, this resulted in “All is not lost” errors across all record pages, object previews, a...

AI has been hotly debated as a make-or-break for businesses. Can AI be used for good? Explore how AI chat moderation makes the case for better user experiences and better business with PubNub.

AI has been hotly debated as a make-or-break for businesses. Can AI be used for good? Explore how AI chat moderation makes the case for better user experiences and better business with PubNub.

Note (Oct 9, 2025): We’ve updated some content in this post to reflect our recent product terminology change from “requests” to “credits.” To learn more about this update around AI usage transparency, see our blog post on making AI usage more transparent. Whether you’re a long-time Warp fan, or you’...

Here are some ways to proxy requests to a different service using a proxy endpoint in a Next.js app.Next Config RewritesNext.js has a configuration that allows you to modify requests to its Node server and rewrite them as a request to a different host. Modify your next.config.mjs to include:export d...

“Open source maintenance fee” trialed by Wix Toolset, while the creator of uv offers paid, enterprise-only features for larger companies.

Postgres is loved not just for what it is, but for what it can become: its extension system lets you transform your database into a full-text search engine, a geospatial powerhouse, or a vector store for embeddings – all without switching tools.  With many thousands of active databases running on ou...

The Evolution of Craft: How I Embraced AI in Software DevelopmentOne Sunday morning after a church service I was enjoying a cup of tea, cake and warm conversations with fellow parishioners. One of the conversations with a particular individual shifted to work and I learned that he works in the energ...

My first time walking into Wealthfront’s office wasn’t the first day of my internship. Instead, it was 4 months prior, when I was flown out to Palo Alto for the onsite interview. Wealthfront was the only company that flew me out for an in-person interview. And it was awesome. Not just because the pe...

Here's a way to instrument async calls with performance stats.I've written previously about how I like to handle operations that may fail in result types. Often, these are async tasks, like network requests. If we're broadly using a Result type as a return value, we are very close to being able to n...

Here are a couple of newsletters I subscribe to keep up-to-date on Node.js, JavaScript, front-end development, and testing.Smashing Magazine newsletter has high-quality front-end, CSS, and design articlesWebTools weekly is a weekly round-up of apps, scripts, plugins, and other resources to help fron...

The satellite map of Prague has just been updated with brand-new aerial imagery from 2024, now available in stunning 5 cm/px resolution.

Announcing the winners of the Supabase Launch Week 15 Hackathon.