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Time is my most valuable resource. Unlike most others, it can’t be replenished, and at my age, I’m acutely aware of this fact. The app I’ve been using daily for years now to manage my time is Morgen . I can’t believe this service is still such a hidden gem. Recently, Zapier published a blog post titled “The 5 best time blocking apps in 2022”, and it didn’t even mention Morgen, let alone discuss it in depth. I only found Morgen by chance myself, but it took me only a few minutes of using it u...

Back in 2023 I built an online rock paper scissors game so my friends and I could settle arguments remotely. Open a room, send the link, best of three. I figured it was a weekend project. It's been running for about three years now, there's an iOS app, a Turkish sister site, and a matchmaking queue. And along the way this three-rule game kept teaching me lessons I thought only "real" systems taught. A few of them stuck with me. You can't leak what you never send The first de...

Ask Codex, Claude or Cursor to wire a workflow library into a .NET service and you usually get code that looks right and calls a method that doesn't exist. Say the agent gets past that. It then hits the line "obtain a license key from the vendor" and stops, because that step was built for a human with a browser and an email inbox. I work on Workflow Engine at Optimajet, and we've recently rebuilt our documentation. The new primary documentation is available at docs.workflowengine.io . It is ...

Which model actually writes better TypeScript, and does it matter enough to change what you reach for? I ran Claude Fable 5 and GPT-4o through the same set of TypeScript generation tasks to find out, and the answer is more useful than a leaderboard number: each model has a different failure mode, and which one bites you depends on what you are building. I do a fair amount of AI systems architecture work, and picking the right model for codegen inside a pipeline is a decision that compounds....

Reflections from a full-stack engineer who started with small websites and ended up building systems for banking, government, and marketplaces. Ten years ago, I wrote my first lines of production code for small business websites in Tbilisi. Since then, I’ve built internal systems for a bank, worked on platforms serving hundreds of thousands of users at the Ministry of Healthcare, contributed to some of Georgia’s biggest online marketplaces, and today I develop backend solutions for an int...

I have taught hundreds of beginner developers through CTROTECH over the past few years. I expected to help them learn. I did not expect they would make me a better engineer. Here is the pattern I noticed: every time a student struggled with something, it revealed an assumption I had been making in my own code. Fixing those assumptions made my code better. This article is about five specific patterns I observed across hundreds of students and how they changed the way I write software. ...

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WIRED test-drove a preproduction version of the Luce, the storied Italian automaker’s controversial electric car, and it was remarkably surprising. Will it convert Ferrari fanatics?

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Elon Musk’s platform attacked the country’s “invasive” information-gathering powers as it demands the government drop efforts to strengthen its no-children policy.

When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his name out of curiosity. And, like a lot of artists, he found it. Essentially, his books, like The Feather Thief and The Fishermen and the Dragon - nonfiction tomes that he […]

Is this the future of foldable phones? Samsung clearly thinks so. The company has given its new wide foldable the "Z Fold 8" name, positioning the phone not as a widescreen oddity, but as the new normal, the default design for foldables going forward. Rumor has it that Apple feels the same way, with a […]

Nothing has had a strong visual identity since the Ear 1 were released in 2021 for $99 and challenged the notion that a highly featured headset requires a high price. The Ear 3A have the same transparent look as Nothing's previous earbuds, with a clear case and stem design accented by a solid-colored body - […]

DoorDash is launching a new drone delivery program called DoorDash Air. The largest food delivery app in the US said that it has approval from the Federal Aviation Administration that clears the way for drone delivery in the near future. DoorDash said it has received a Part 135 air carrier certification from the FAA that […]

A lot of us here at The Verge are fans of Remarkable’s digital note-taking tablets, and right now one of its higher-end options is much cheaper than usual. The Remarkable Paper Pro normally sells for $629 on its own, but Woot is currently offering a refurbished bundle for $449.99 through July 31st. It includes the […]

Just two months after a bumpy launch earlier this year, Ferrari has reportedly already hit its 2026 sales goal for its polarizing, Jony Ive-designed Luce EV. Ahead of Ferrari announcing its quarterly earnings on Thursday, the Financial Times reports that Ferrari was aiming to sell "just under 500" Luce units this year, and reached that […]

DoorDash has received FAA approval to operate a commercial drone delivery service in the United States.

The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.

Polar has come out with an AI-first browser aimed at knowledge workers, and it has now raised a $5.7 million seed round led by Madrona.

AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents, and an AI assistant into a single app.

X sued the WFA in 2024 for conducting what it called a "systematic illegal boycott" of the platform after it saw a decline in advertising revenue following Musk's $44 billion takeover of the social network

“Supported on iOS, Android, desktop, and web” sounds useful until you need one method on one target. Does WebSocket work on watchOS? Which Linux architectures do we build? Was the JavaScript media test green this week, or did somebody update a table six months ago and forget it? What is Codename One? Codename One is an open-source framework for building native iOS, Android, desktop, and web apps from a single Java or Kotlin codebase. Learn more at codenameone.com . PR #5389 turns thos...

When building local RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) applications, edge agents, or serverless AI pipelines, developers usually hit a wall with standard vector stores: memory overhead. Running a dedicated vector database locally often demands hundreds of megabytes—or gigabytes—of RAM just to keep indices warm. On the flip side, lightweight local options like scanning raw JSON files or querying SQLite don't scale well when vector dimensions climb into the thousands (1536d+). We built Bit...

Welcome to ForkMesh World Most developer tools start with another dashboard. We started with a beach. Not because developers desperately needed virtual sand, but because software is built by people, and people spend way too much time staring at rectangular windows. We're building ForkMesh World , a place where developers, open-source communities, and companies can actually hang out while building software. Not another Slack clone. Not another Zoom call. Something that's...

"The best software engineers don't begin by choosing data structures. They begin by understanding what the system needs to do." In the previous article, we learned that data structures never stopped being important after DSA. Their role simply changed. During coding interviews, we often ask ourselves: "Which data structure will solve this problem efficiently?" In Low-Level Design, experienced engineers ask a different question: "What behaviour should this system optimis...

Missing data is not the same thing as a convenient default. That sounds obvious, yet temporal software regularly converts an empty time field into midnight, noon, the current time, or the start of a day. The interface may look complete after that conversion, but the program has silently changed an unknown fact into a known one. This matters anywhere an hour can change the result: medical timelines, transport schedules, legal deadlines, astronomical calculations, historical records, and calend...

Legacy modernization often looks like a technical task: update old code, rewrite the system, move it to the cloud, or replace outdated dependencies. In practice, it is always work with risk. A legacy system often holds business logic, old integrations, hidden dependencies, data flows, users, security rules, downtime limits, costs, and migration constraints. AI can speed up part of this work. It can help with documentation, code analysis, dependency mapping, test generation, duplicate logic...