Insomniac Games and Its Writing Problem
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Insomniac Games and Its Writing Problem

I've said for a long time that Insomniac Games' writing needs work. Now, it seems as if this is a recurring problem. Let's talk about it.
The Secrets of the US Spyware King
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The Secrets of the US Spyware King

In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Paragon Solutions CEO Andrew Boyd reveals the limits of the company’s promise to keep bad actors from abusing its powerful espionage tool.
Tractive Cat 6 Mini Review: A Fitbit for Your Cat
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Tractive Cat 6 Mini Review: A Fitbit for Your Cat

Cats are finally getting the dog treatment. This smart cat collar features GPS location, activity, and sleep tracking, plus all-new heart and respiratory rate monitoring.
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Noise from Universal’s latest ride made rich locals furious, fast

Universal Studios Hollywood has pledged to erect another sound barrier around its latest attraction after local residents complained about the bloodcurdling screams from riders. In a meeting attended by at least 350 people yesterday, park execs also promised that Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift won't operate between 8AM and 9AM for the rest of the […]
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The People of Utah vs. Kevin O’Leary

On the morning of May 11th, the celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary appeared on Fox Business and announced that he was under attack by Chinese agents.  For weeks, he had been going on TV and posting online to tout his project, called Wonder Valley, after his nickname from the reality show Shark Tank, Mr. Wonderful. It […]
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This very fancy e-bike is one of the first to go semi-solid state

The Lemmo 3 is the first cargo bike from the respected German e-bike maker. This premium, step-through longtail is a slightly less insane take on Rivian's Also TM-B, with one major advantage: It's one of the first electric bikes to feature a semi-solid state battery. Semi-solid state batteries are far safer than traditional lithium-ion batteries. […]
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Huawei made a whole camera to attach to its latest phone

Over the last few years, Chinese Android manufacturers have followed Vivo's example of launching add-on "teleconverter" lenses for their flagship phones, enabling long-distance photography that the phones on their own could never match. Today, Huawei one-upped everybody with the add-on lens for its Mate 90 Pro Max flagship, which is not only a comically huge […]
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I Built a Production-Ready Job Queue in Go from Scratch - Goroutines, Postgres and Clean Architecture published: true

-- I'm Pires Aurélio , a Go Backend Engineer from Luanda, Angola. I build production systems in public. For 2 years I built scrapers and REST APIs. I got tired of tutorials that only show "Hello World" with Gin. No jobs, no retries, no real problems. So I built a real one: A Production-Ready Background Job Queue in Go. My Public Work: Main Scraper Framework (Python AsyncIO): https://github.com/Aureliopires186/py-websites-scraper Go Production Examples: https://github.co...
Your Angular Test Passed. Could the User Click the Button?
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Your Angular Test Passed. Could the User Click the Button?

A visible Angular button was covered by a decorative layer. The handler still worked. Our test clicked the button, observed the expected status, and passed. A pointer could not reach the button's center. Running the same synthetic test in Chromium did not change the result. The missing observation was whether the pointer could actually reach its target. We examined six component scenarios, with expected behavior and one isolated mutation defined before writing each test. We chose the mutat...
Moving focus and cursor between monitors with head pose on macOS
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Moving focus and cursor between monitors with head pose on macOS

I have two monitors, and I kept typing into the window on the screen I'd just looked away from. Focus stays where it was, but my eyes have moved on. I made a menu bar app to fix it. It moves cursor and focus to the display you're facing. The code is at https://github.com/arefbhrn/FocusFollow (MIT). This post is about how it works and what didn't. Why head pose and not eye tracking Proper eye tracking needs hardware a Mac doesn't have. But to tell two monitors apart yo...
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A "3% fee" that's really 27% APR — I built a vanilla JS calculator to prove it

A friend who runs a small delivery business got a factoring quote last month: "just a 3% fee on your invoices." He was ready to sign — his credit card charges more than that monthly. I asked him one question: 3% compared to what? His bank had offered a business credit line at 9% APR. The factoring company quoted 3%. Those numbers aren't in the same unit — one is charged once per invoice, the other is charged per year. So I did what developers do: I built a calculator to convert one int...
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Running a Multi-Tenant Platform on EC2: Node.js, PostgreSQL, SES and the AWS Cost Bug We Almost Missed

description: Real architecture notes from FundsWeb and FundsAudit: Express, Sequelize, PM2, Nginx, SES, S3 and a cross-region data transfer bill that taught us to read AWS cost reports. tags: aws, node, postgres, architecture canonical_url: https://fundsroomprojects.com/blog/multi-tenant-platform-ec2-node-postgres cover_image: We build and run FundsWeb , a multi-tenant web platform, along with [FundsAudit] and an internal email validation service. This post covers the stack,...