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The Dutch Data Protection Authority is fining Uber €825 million in the second largest penalty issued under Europe’s GDPR.

Shared vs VPS vs Cloud Hosting: Which Do You Actually Need? We've deployed 50+ websites across different hosting providers. The most common mistake: paying for a dedicated server when shared hosting would work, or using cheap shared hosting when the site needs VPS. Here's how to choose correctly — with real prices and benchmarks. The Four Types (Simplified) Type Price Best For Performance Shared $3–5/mo Blogs, landing pages, small busine...

10 Website Mistakes That Are Killing Your Conversion Rate We build websites for small businesses. After auditing hundreds of them, we see the same problems everywhere. The good news: most fixes take under an hour. Here are the 10 mistakes, ranked by impact, with exact solutions. 1. Slow Loading Speed (The #1 Killer) 53% of mobile users abandon a site that takes longer than 3 seconds to load. Every additional second reduces conversions by 7%. Common causes: Unc...

Hey everyone! 👋 I recently launched RubricCheck (rubriccheck.org), a free web tool built to solve a problem every student and teacher deals with: submission anxiety and grading against vague or complex rubrics. Instead of guessing what grade you'll get or digging through multiple LMS dropdowns on Canvas or Blackboard, you drop in the assignment rubric (or raw prompt) and your work (essay, slides, project, or math steps). It automatically parses the criteria and gives you an instant, crite...

Hola Amigos 👋 Welcome to the world of Cloud and Automation! AWS launched ECS Express Mode in late 2025, and in today’s blog, we will understand how it compares to traditional AWS ECS. We will use a basic Flask portfolio website with three versions to illustrate how both approaches handle infrastructure operations with Terraform. Prerequisites Before we start, make sure you have the following requirements met on your system: Terraform: Installed and configur...

Estimated reading time: 5 min One small change since the last article: the project is no longer called Breadcrumb. I've renamed it to Pomniter, inspired by the Russian word помнить (pomnit), meaning "to remember"—which fits the core idea of the project much better. Designing Pomniter: From Screenshots to Searchable Memories In the first part of this series, I talked about a problem I kept noticing with screenshots. We save them because we think they'll be useful later, b...

I've been coding for about 8years now, professionally about half that time. I've always enjoyed it, or I think I have(it's the only thing i've been good at), but through that time I never found/understood the reason behind opensource contributions. I know the theory about going the distance together, but never gave it some thought, at least until my boss thought it'd put me on a better position professionally(same with this article being public) I worked on 2 first time issues over this wee...

Name: Mohamed Shams El-Deen ( @moshams272 ) Organization: Webpack Mentors: Aviv Keller ( @avivkeller ), Claudio Wunder ( @ovflowd ), Sebastian Beltran ( @bjohansebas ) GSoC Teammates: Nikhil Kumar Rajak ( @ryzrr ), Tushar Thakur ( @TusharThakur04 ) Introduction As part of Google Summer of Code 2026, I worked on redesigning Webpack's documentation. Historically in webpack.js.org , every time an API changed in Webpack, a team member had to manually u...

If you have to go through seven interview rounds, it's not thorough process - it's a hostage situation. A company that needs seven conversations to decide on you is telling you it can't read a signal. So they're going to wear you down until you're the only one left. What long loops actually measure I heard about a person who completed seven interview rounds and then suddenly stopped hearing from them. Not declined. Ignored. Seven rounds of someone's life, and the reward was silen...

There's a gap between software that works and software that survives being read by a security engineer. A stack can pass every test, boot cleanly, and demo flawlessly while quietly carrying the exact patterns a reviewer is trained to grep for in the first five minutes. For a security product especially, the reader is the user — the person deciding whether to trust you is going to open the repo, not just click the buttons. So I did a pass over the suite with one question: if an AppSec engi...

It doesn't matter if it's SQL Server, IIS, a background agent, or a custom app — when a Windows service goes down, the investigation is always the same five moves. Learn the pattern once, apply it to anything. 🚫 Don't restart first. Restarting a service without knowing why it stopped can hide a real problem — a failing update, an exhausted host, or an automation script that will stop it again in the next cycle. Spend 5 minutes on the evidence first. Step 01 — Confirm Curr...

This article provides a step by step guide for running a Strands agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, and serving it over the A2A protocol to callers on Google Cloud and Azure. The code is here: github.com/xbill9/multicloud-a2a-subagent What is this project trying to Do? This project aims to answer one research brief with three agents on three clouds, over one protocol, with no stored credentials between them. Google runs an ADK agent on Cloud Run. Azure runs an ...

A few years ago, I was working on a backend service that looked completely healthy. Tests were green. CPU usage was normal. Memory looked fine. No obvious exceptions were showing up in the logs. And yet, every few hours, requests would suddenly slow down. Not fail. Just become painfully slow. The API normally responded in around 80–120 ms. During the problem, some requests were taking 8–12 seconds. Then everything would recover by itself. Those are the bugs I dislike the mos...

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The Asus PG27UCWM brings a new sub-pixel layout to the world of OLED gaming monitors, and in my testing, I appreciated the improvements it brings to the table.

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Jane Schoenbrun's latest film, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, is making a splash in theaters right now. So it seems like the perfect time to revisit their first film, We're All Going to the World's Fair. I fell in love with this film when I first saw it at Sundance in 2021. We […]

Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools that threaten to undermine their livelihoods. That seems illegal, right?

Flock Safety faces a growing public outcry over concerns that its surveillance technology could be misused.

Crumbongo started from a pretty stupid little question: What if the number of accessible cookies on the website you're visiting could become game currency? So I built it. Crumbongo is a tiny local Chrome game where you choose a website, let the extension count the accessible cookie records for that site, and turn only that number into game rewards. No cookie names or values are used for gameplay. From a tiny experiment to an actual little game The first version was ...

If/else statements - We all know and love them. While they are incredibly powerful, there comes a point where a long chain of conditions only makes your code look messy. Choosing between if/else and switch depends on readability, but there's a hidden pro tip that makes switch much more powerful than many people think at first. Traditional Approach: If/Else Normally, we use if/else when our logic depends on complex ranges and multiple variables: // Hard to scan,...

The single biggest operational risk for early-stage founders remains hiring traditional hourly dev shops. Before partnering with any external dev team, I've learned to run them through this 5-point evaluation framework: The 5-Point Evaluation (co-founder approved) 1. Quality of Questions If a team asks zero questions, it’s an immediate red flag. It's impossible to deeply understand a project without asking anything. But quality matters. Weak devs ask easily googled questions about bas...

Imagine working on a project for several weeks. You make hundreds of changes across dozens of files. Then your computer crashes. Which version of your project was working yesterday? What did you change? Which changes did your colleague make? And how do you combine everyone's work without overwriting each other's changes? This is where Git comes in. What is Git? Git is an open-source system that enables users to manage their projects, from a single file to large projects. Git i...

How do you usually build a login page in an application? The first project Imagine you are working on a project that needs a login page. Let's call it Aurora (Project A). The login page is the entry point to the application. Users who have access can log in to the application with the permissions they have. We are not going to talk about the details of the login method yet, such as email + password, username + password, phone + password, social login, magic link, or others. L...