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My Brilliant Career has cured my period drama-hating past by being the best TV show I've seen on Netflix this year — but don't expect it to be a Bridgerton bonkbuster
In the mid 2000s, I was fascinated with the reality TV show Aussie Ladette to Lady. It branded a "new breed" of Australian woman as loud, vulgar, and unfit for any self-respecting society, thrusting them into weeks-long sophistication training that, of course, never lasted. In a nutshell, this is also the premise for the new Netflix series My Brilliant Career.In hindsight, the former TV show was nothing but an excuse to vilify a new kind of 'modern woman' for the sake
Most UK tech leaders say network outages are becoming a critical business problem
Tech leaders are finding complexities with contacts, vendors, and platforms are restricting transformationNetwork resilience is increasingly an issue for leaders, rather than just ITBusinesses are relying on too much technologyNew research has lifted the lid on how small business tech leaders are finding it increasingly difficult to ensure technology can drive change, citing network issues, increased complexity, and a lack of buy-in from other departments.A rsurvey by
How I structure React Next.js patterns across every client project
Every new Next.js project I start has the same skeleton. Not because I copy-paste a boilerplate, but because I've converged on a set of React Next.js patterns that solve the same class of problems every time — server-first rendering, predictable data flow, typed boundaries, and consistent error handling. This post documents those patterns so I can point clients and collaborators at something concrete. Server components by default, client components by exceptionThe App Router made server com
Tweetstorm: F. Scott Frazier on Writing Action Set-Pieces
A series of tweets delving into what goes into crafting action scenarios.Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
Solving Hydration Failures and Tree-Shaking in React: Announcing react-hook-lab v1.13.0
If you have ever built a server-rendered React application (using Next.js or Remix), you know the nightmare of client-server hydration mismatch errors. One of the most common offenders is state synchronization with browser storage—especially cookies.Today, we are excited to release react-hook-lab v1.13.0, which addresses this exact headache. This update introduces the brand new useCookie hook, standardizes our asynchronous useResource module, and completely overhauls our library's export structu
On Writing
“I don’t know of a greater privilege than being allowed to tell a story, except perhaps to listen to one.”Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
The 6 Types of Jobs Mark Cuban Says AI Will Gut First - Is Yours on the List?
Billionaire Mark Cuban has strong opinions about generative AI. Read about jobs he thinks AI threatens and human skills he's positive are here to stay.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1713947505871-01e74aca3015?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MjR8fFRlY2glMjBKb2JzfGVufDB8fDJ8fDE3MTQ3ODAwNzh8MA&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080' />
Marc Benioff says experts are dead wrong about the death of software jobs to AI, but backs new startup replacing humans with the tech
For some tech icons, issuing labor criticism while expanding an AI agent job-killing strategy is just another day at the office.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1654170317211-3c5cec289870?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8NHx8VGVjaCUyMEpvYnN8ZW58MHx8Mnx8MTY1NDIwNDA3NQ&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=1080' />
AI is Hollowing Out Tech Sector Jobs: Oracle and Microsoft Help Push Layoff Rate to 20-Year High
Tech giants are pouring hundreds of billions into AI while quietly gutting the workforces that built them, and the labor data ...<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1665672629999-0994c3f052a9?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MTB8fFRlY2glMjBKb2JzfGVufDB8fDJ8fDE2NjYwNTc2OTM&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=1080' />
Stable employment figures not what they seem as tech industry loses 35,000 jobs in a year
Steady employment figures have masked the loss of 35,000 high-tech jobs over the past year, with warnings that workers losing what have been some of the best paid roles in the economy are becoming ...<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1686984096026-23d6e82f9749?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8N3x8VGVjaCUyMEpvYnN8ZW58MHx8Mnx8MTY4NzQwOTI2NXww&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080' />
SpaceX And Palantir Lead Tech Stock Rally After Underwhelming Jobs Report
SpaceX rebounded from an all-time low, though shares of the Musk-owned company are still down 16% since it went public.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1734543298156-846940321aad?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8Mjd8fFRlY2glMjBKb2JzfGVufDB8fDJ8fDE3Mzc1NzA1MTR8MA&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080' />
I Tried an AI Tool That Turns a Prompt Into a Real Mobile App
Building a mobile app used to mean learning a programming language, setting up a development environment, and figuring out how to get everything working together. AI app builders are starting to change that.One tool I recently came across is RapidNative. It lets you describe the mobile app you want in plain English and uses AI to generate a React Native app.What caught my attention is that it focuses on actual mobile apps rather than just website mockups. According to RapidNative, you can start
‘The best Shark vacuum cleaner overall’ is now down 48% — just in time for spring cleaning
The term spring cleaning exists for a reason, and the new season is right around the corner, officially kicking off in Australia on Tuesday, September 1. That means you don’t have long to get your cleaning tools in order, specifically a vacuum cleaner. If your current model could do with an upgrade, this perfectly timed deal of nearly 50% off the Shark PowerDetect Cordless could be just the thing you’re looking for.And while it might be tempting to opt for a Dyson — e
11X cheaper than ChatGPT: Tiny 150M model just proved AI doesn't need to "think out loud" to be smart
A 150M model reached 29.5% while costing just $0.0007 per taskChatGPT scored higher, yet its comparable reasoning runs cost substantially moreBDH-CQ performs reasoning internally instead of generating lengthy intermediate textPathway, an AI lab focused on building Post-Transformer architectures, has released new benchmark results for its BDH-CQ reasoning model.According to the researchers, their 150M-parameter model scored 29.5% pass@2 on the public ARC-AGI-1 evaluati
Show HN: Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API
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Roku's new AI channel is top of the slops: is this an important AI milestone or just "the cutting edge of AI slop"?
Channel 300 brings you Fairground AI, 24/7 AI videoCritics have been harsh, calling the channel "slop"Could this be a lawsuit waiting to happen?Roku has added four new channels to its Roku Channel collection: Mad TV, Retro Black Laughs, Whose Line Is It Anyway, and Fairground AI. That last one is a world first: it's the first free, ad-supported streaming TV channel dedicated exclusively to AI-generated content. Or as Futurism calls it, "an unending conveyor belt of AI
Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT
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Build Wide, Ship Narrow
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Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful
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Job Openings Fall More Than Expected In February
Job openings fell more than expected in February, settling at 6.882 million vacancies, according to the latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS). In February, there were 7.571 million ...<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1676917824872-83f2fa04898b?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MjZ8fEpvYiUyME9wZW5pbmdzfGVufDB8fDJ8fDE3NjQ2MzY0NTJ8MA&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&q=80&w=1080' />
