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Learning Software Architecture

In reply to an email asking about learning software design skills as a researcher physicist:

We accidentally recreated old Facebook

Background We started off with a simple idea for a product; we wanted to re-use the chat interface for everything except chat. It was supposed to be just for photos but expandable later. The idea was that most people already share their photos with others on WhatsApp or some other messaging service, which technically also ’tags’ the people who were there. So, why not turn the act of sharing into the act of organizing as well?,Background We started off with a simple idea for a product; we wanted to re-use the chat interface for everything except chat. It was supposed to be just for photos but expandable later. The idea was that most people already share their photos with others on WhatsApp or some other messaging service, which technically a

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

Last year I said I'd probably never recommend another Bambu Lab printer again. I still use my P1S, but after Bambu Lab started pushing their always-connected cloud solution as the new default: I blocked the printer from the Internet via my OPNsense Firewall I stopped updating the firmware I locked the printer into Developer mode I deleted Bambu Studio and started using OrcaSlicer I had to do that to keep it under my control, instead of Bambu's.

Snowflake Postgres, Lakebase, HorizonDB: Picking the Lock-In You Want

Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes

CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq

Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise

Why senior developers talk in terms of complexity while the rest of the business is worried about uncertainty — and what to do about it now that AI is in the picture.

The Rise of the Bullshittery

A few thoughts on how the modern economy has stopped rewarding people who know what they are doing, and started rewarding people who know how to look like they do.

The Future of Obsidian Plugins

Introducing the new Obsidian Community site and developer dashboard.

Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers

Although the monetary value of the deal is unknown, Instructure says the cybercriminals have returned the hacked personal data and offered assurance “that no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident.” Instructure has paid a ransom to a gang of cybercriminals that have twice hacked the company’s learning management system, Canvas, over the past week and a half. According to an update published by the education-technology company Monday night, the deal means that the hackers have returned the compromised data of some 275 million users across more than 8,800 institutions.

How to make your text look futuristic

We’ve already seen how Eurostile Bold Extended is spectacularly effective at establishing a movie's timeframe. But if Eurostile isn't enough, there's more you can do to clarify your movie's timeframe. I'd like to introduce you to six easy rules that are pretty much guaranteed to position your text firmly in the FUTURE. We'll start with some simple sans-serif text, such as this…

Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim

XBOW discovered CVE-2026-45185, a critical unauthenticated RCE in Exim, and used the disclosure window to test how far human and autonomous exploit development could go.

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

26m function call model that runs on incredibly small devices - cactus-compute/needle

Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable

State machine guardrails for AI agents. Contribute to statewright/statewright development by creating an account on GitHub.

Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets

This article explores how to render realistic skies and atmospheres in real time in the browser with shaders, from simple sky domes, to entire planets using shaders, raymarching, Rayleigh and Mie scattering, and ozone absorption.

Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol

DuckDB instances can now talk to each other using the Quack remote protocol. This lets you run DuckDB in a client-server setup with multiple concurrent writers. In DuckDB's spirit, Quack is simple to set up and builds on proven technologies such as HTTP. It's also fast, which allows it to support workloads ranging from bulk operations to small transactions.

When life gives you lemons, write better error messages

When life gives you lemons, write better error messages When it comes to error handling, it truly is a team sport Error messages are part of our daily lives online. Every time a server is down or we …

Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL

Hopper connects AI agents to your mainframe through Model Context Protocol — natural language operations, autonomous workflows, and an agentic development environment for z/OS.