Avoiding reflection in C# in way unsafer ways!
Steven Gieselby Steven Giesel26 May 2025
For good reasons, many folks don't want to use reflection. Since .NET 8, we have a better way of dealing with this in most of the cases (when known in advance).
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top 5%GenAI’s adoption puzzle — Benedict Evans
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans25 May 2025
GenAI’s adoption puzzle This chart is very ‘glass half-empty or half-full?’, and it’s a puzzle. You could say that this is amazingly fast adoption, and much faster than PCs, the web or smartphones.
Configuring AWS SES to allow sending emails from specific ip addresses only
mspby Madhukar Prabhakara25 May 2025
I started using AWS SES to allow my open-source application https://appsare.com to send email notifications. I enabled SES on my account. Configured my domain appsare.com with necessary settings.
Raising the Volume Quietly: A Designer’s Challenge • Slack Design
Slack Designby andyacevedo22 May 2025
You spoke, and we listened. While working in Slack, there’s always a lot going on: you may be added to a new channel, mentioned by your manager in another channel, and direct-messaged by a...
By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall
Signal Blog21 May 2025
Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows.
Crafting Digital Delight: Inside Slack’s Studio Team • Slack Design
Slack Designby andyacevedo15 May 2025
Remember when you first heard that soothing music while joining a Huddle? Or watched the catch-up animation dance across your mobile app?
Digital Randomness and AES
Matteo Stradaby Matteo Strada15 May 2025
Every time I used a random() function in Python or other programming languages, I found myself wondering how it actually produced a random value, and what it was based on.
MinorMiner: we turn your kid's maths homework into Bitcoin | Robert Heaton
Robert Heaton14 May 2025
Hello! Hello! Welcome, welcome. My name is Hobert Reaton, and I’m here in this shabby motel conference room to present you with yet another once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity.
Exosomes are everywhere in skin care — but do they actually work?
NBC Newsby Mili Godio13 May 2025
Though they’re already a popular medical-grade treatment in Korea, exosomes are quickly flooding the at-home skin care space in the United States.
Coding by Magic
Dan Lew Codesby Dan Lew13 May 2025
Most of my programming ventures begin with a single line of code I’m curious about. Who is calling the code, and how does this code fit into the larger jigsaw puzzle?
Introducing a New Way to Use Generative AI for Social Selling
eBay Tech Blogby eBay News Team13 May 2025
At eBay, we know that social media is a powerful tool for driving visibility and growing your brand.
The Tender Ache of Remembering Nothing Special
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty11 May 2025
The other afternoon, as I was having coffee and trying to focus on a very overdue deadline, my brain decided it was the perfect moment to remind me of this random shopkeeper from my childhood.
Spring in Switzerland
Centsational Styleby Kate Riley10 May 2025
Last April I had the delightful experience of traveling through Switzerland with a group of travel besties, what fun we had!
The Right Way to Use AI for Better Grades (That Doesn't Get You Expelled) - CNET
CNETby Rachel Kane8 May 2025
The temptation to use an AI chatbot to do your actual work is real and understandable, and academic institutions are spending considerable energy trying to prevent it.
Static as a Server — overreacted
overreacted8 May 2025
Static as a Server May 8, 2025 RSC means React Server Components. And yet, although this blog is built with RSC, it is statically served from a Cloudflare CDN using their free static hosting plan.
Vibe coding: My personal experience
mspby Madhukar Prabhakara7 May 2025
I decided to vibe code a feature I am building for my open-source uptime monitoring app : https://appsare.com So, since it’s an uptime monitoring tool, I wanted to give users the opportunity to...
Fan-in to a single required GitHub Action – Jake Wharton
Jake Wharton7 May 2025
07 May 2025 It doesn't take long for a project to spawn multiple jobs in their GitHub Actions. Parallelization can lead to huge speedups for PRs.
eBay Uses Agentic AI to Supercharge Personalized Ecommerce
eBay Tech Blogby eBay News Team6 May 2025
Today, we’re announcing a new AI shopping agent, representing an important next step in eBay’s AI-first customer experiences.
RSC for Astro Developers — overreacted
overreacted6 May 2025
RSC for Astro Developers May 6, 2025 Okay, so in Astro you have two things: - Astro Components: They have the .astro extension. They execute exclusively on the server or during the build.
The Present Is Quiet and Shy and Easily Hurt
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty4 May 2025
There are days that vanish like socks in a washing machine. You know you had them—you vaguely remember wearing them—but when you go looking, they’re just… gone.