At exactly 100,000 queries per second, TikTok’s payment service stopped being an engineering problem and became an economic one. The APIs fetching user balances and transaction statistics consumed so much CPU that continuing to scale horizontally meant spending hundreds of thousands on additional servers annually. The team faced a choice: keep optimising Go code that was already well-written, or rewrite the bottlenecks in Rust and risk everything that could go wrong.| Jamie Lord
“You know, in our increasingly isolated digital age, where we spend more time scrolling apps than shaking hands, a true moment of genuine human connection can be rare,” Meyers started off his “A Closer Look” segment Monday, “which is why I deeply appreciated this thoughtful piece of fan mail I got over the weekend.” The post Seth Meyers Hits Back At Trump’s Call For NBC To Fire Him appeared first on TV News Check.| TV News Check
Streets of the Past will star real-life Dutch historical investigator Corjan Mol, who, with the help of AI, will be transported back in time on the streets of the Netherlands. The post Tilly Norwood Creator Unveils AI-Led Time Travel Series For History Channel appeared first on TV News Check.| TV News Check
CBS has unveiled its 2025-2026 midseason lineup which features the series premieres of FBI offshoot CIA, Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone sequel Y: Marshals, Harlan Coben’s Final Twist and America’s Culinary Cup, the returns of Watson, Tracker, The Neighborhood, DMV, the NCIS franchise and more. The post CBS Midseason Premiere Dates Include ‘CIA’ & ‘Y: Marshals’; ‘Watson’ Moves, ‘Tracker’ Shifts appeared first on TV News Check.| TV News Check
Saturday Night Live has set its full December lineup. NBC’s latenight show has set Josh O’Connor and Ariana Grande as hosts, along with Melissa McCarthy, who was announced during Saturday’s show. The post ‘SNL’: Josh O’Connor & Ariana Grande To Host In December, Lily Allen & Cher Set As Musical Guests appeared first on TV News Check.| TV News Check
Sky Sports has scrapped its new female-focused TikTok channel, Halo, after it faced a backlash online with its posts described as "patronising" and "sexist." In a statement posted on social media on Saturday night, the broadcaster said it "didn't get it right" and that it would be "stopping all activity" on the account. The post Sky Sports Axes ‘Sexist’ TikTok Channel Halo After Three Days appeared first on TV News Check.| TV News Check
A+E, jointly owned by Hearst and Disney, put itself on the market earlier this year and hired Wells Fargo to identify potential suitors. Starz, a premium cable network turned midsize streaming player, raised its hand, according to several people familiar with the matter. The post Starz Makes A Play for A+E, A Bid To Combine Small Networks appeared first on TV News Check.| TV News Check
John Oliver tackled the Trump Administration’s defunding of public media for his final Last Week Tonight episode of 2025, launching an auction website, John Oliver’s Junk, where 65 items are currently up for bid — including an original 1987 painting by late PBS icon Bob Ross, “Cabin at Sunset,” which at press time was fetching $51,000. The post John Oliver Launches ‘Last Week Tonight’ Auction, Including An Original Bob Ross Painting, To Support Public Broadcasting appeared f...| TV News Check
As part of a slew of creator-led programming aimed at Madison Avenue, the Julian Shapiro-Barnum-hosted latenight show Outside Tonight was unveiled as weekly series set in New York City parks and on the streets. The post Why Does YouTube Need Its Own Latenight Show? Advertisers Are Stampeding To Its Platform appeared first on TV News Check.| TV News Check
“He was viewed last night in an uncontrollable rage, likely due to the fact that his ‘show’ is a Ratings DISASTER,” the president posted to Truth Social. Then, FCC Chair Brendan Carr reposted the angry rant to his X account.| TV News Check
In part 1, we showed how we could leverage HTMX to add interactivity to our HTML elements. In other words, Javascript without Javascript. To illustrate that, we began building a simple chat that would return a simulated LLM response. In this article, we will extend the capabilities of our chatbot and add several features, among […]| Towards Data Science
Learn how to initialize dataframes from dictionaries, lists, and NumPy arrays The post The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Pandas DataFrames appeared first on Towards Data Science.| Towards Data Science
Building a chatbot (almost) without Javascript, only with Python and HTML. The post Javascript Fatigue: HTMX is all you need to build ChatGPT — Part 1 appeared first on Towards Data Science.| Towards Data Science
What I learned about vibe coding, AI tools, and getting started as a solopreneur The post I Built an IOS App in 3 Days with Literally No Prior Swift Knowledge appeared first on Towards Data Science.| Towards Data Science
Brian Eno created a collection of strategies to help artists break creative block. We can do something similar for programmers stuck on problems. Eno's strategies were designed to be drawn at random. The strategies here can be drawn at random, perhaps via script, but have a sort order, to make them easier to search.| kevinlawler.com
I’ve delivered (sometime this year) this presentation at a local meetup (ING Hubs Romania). The target was mainstream developers, with the intent to give them a taste of FP and working with I/O in Scala.| Alexandru Nedelcu
In the age of “AI” Agents generating the code, is your programming language choice still relevant? Or will we just converge on using the top 5 programming languages, because that’s what the “AI” has been trained on? You can also ask the same question for any other piece of tech from your stack.| Alexandru Nedelcu - Blog
Effective this year, they will be called The Actor Awards Presented By SAG-AFTRA. The post After Three Decades, SAG Awards Officially Change Name appeared first on TV News Check.| TV News Check
The Season 2 premiere, which aired on Sept. 16, grew to 17.23 million multi-platform viewers after 35 days across ABC, Hulu, Hulu on Disney+ and digital platforms, per Nielsen data. That’s a 17% increase over last year’s series premiere, which drew 14.71 million in 35 days, and an 11% lift over the Season 1 average audience of 15.52 million. The post ‘High Potential’ Season 2 Premiere Audience Up Nearly 300% After 35 Days appeared first on TV News Check.| TV News Check
The telecast is the network’s second-highest rated special this year, after SNL50: The Anniversary Special. The viewership is also up 64% from the 2024 special Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked. (In particular, viewership among the 18-49 demo spiked 148%.) The post ‘Wicked: One Wonderful Night’ Scores 3.6M Viewers On NBC appeared first on TV News Check.| TV News Check
TCLtv+, the flagship streaming serviceoffered by leading consumer electronics company TCL, and Viz Media, a U.S. anime and manga destination, formed a content partnership offering TCL audiences access to “some of the most … The post TCLtv+ And VIZ Media Announce Anime Content Partnership appeared first on TV News Check.| TV News Check
Gray Media signed an agreement with the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) to broadcast OVC basketball across 20 Gray markets in five states. As part of the conference’s multi-year contract with … The post Gray Media Brings Ohio Valley Conference Basketball To Free Over-the-Air TV Viewers appeared first on TV News Check.| TV News Check
curl experimented with using pthread_cancel to timeout async DNS requests and it blew up. What else can we do?Out of curiosity, I decided to review some alternatives and see how they work. My personal priorities are control over events; no background threads or signals or secret mechanisms.getaddrinfo The tried and true classic technique is to call getaddrinfo in a thread. Probably with more than one thread so you don’t get stuck behind a single slow request, but probably not boundless eith...| flak
In a garbage collected language, one needs to be cautious about leaks caused by errant references, but caution can turn to paranoia. In go, I like to make little fifo queues by appending to the tail of a slice. But does this grow forever?| flak.tedunangst.com
FX has opted not to proceed with a third season of its comedy English Teacher. The news comes a month and a half after Season 2 of the series created by Brian Jordan Alvarez was released.| TV News Check
'Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve' will add a countdown segment in the Central time zone for the first time on the top-rated live telecast on ABC.| Variety
Concordia Studio has promoted Lizzie Fox to President and Casey Meurer to Executive Vice President of Nonfiction, Deadline can report exclusively.| Deadline
This is second and final part of the story of how my career as a software developer unfolded (part 1 is here). In this half I work at four different companies in the Seattle area, make my mark, and…| Random ASCII - tech blog of Bruce Dawson
Master the fundamentals of strength and conditioning with core principles, training structure, and coaching strategies that drive long-term athletic success.| SimpliFaster
For Cal Hacks 2025, a few friends and I built Curserve, a fast and scalable server-side engine for agentic coding, which ended up placing for one of the sponsor prizes. We didn’t go to Cal Hacks to try and win, but instead to have a good excuse to work on a potential research idea. It turns out that our idea was a much better hackathon project than it was a research direction!| nathan.rs
In this post, I’ll walk through the design of a flexible stock allocation system built using pure ECS principles in C++ (with ENTT). We’ll go from problem definition to implementation details, disc…| PRDeving
The PSRAM64H is a 3.3V 8MByte RAM device that is accessed using SPI (datasheet here). It can operate at speeds of up to 133MHz (though 84MHz is a more realistic top-end value). I’m using it a…| ioprog
How co-designing a language model with its environment created a specialized AI 4x faster than its frontier-level peers. The post Why Cursor’s custom coding LLM challenges AI giants first appeared on TechTalks.| TechTalks
Previously, we looked at how to write a simple WiFi driver for the ESP32 using ESP-IDF. Now, we’ll dive into using that WiFi connection (or virtual Ethernet,| Shawn Hymel
My parents-in-law have always been in good health, especially my father-in-law, who had never been hospitalized in his more than eighty years. Yet within a short span of time, they both went through life-threatening moments — fortunately, both ended well.| Fatbobman's Blog
On October 24, the Swift Android Workgroup released the nightly preview version of the Swift SDK for Android. This marks the SDK's transition from early internal testing to official support, representing a significant step forward in Swift's cross-platform journey.| Fatbobman's Blog
My father's iPhone 16 suddenly stopped charging. After making an appointment, I took it to the Apple Store for repair. Once the staff confirmed the issue, they provided me with an iPhone 14 as a loaner and helped transfer the data. Twelve days later (which included a long holiday), the device was ready—the Type-C port had been replaced, along with a complimentary new battery. The experience was, as always, satisfying.| fatbobman.com
We go on a journey of discovery to prove my friend wrong (he has a PhD). We learn that ARM instructions are more common than DEFLATE data in random streams.| jstrieb.github.io
I pride myself on being the kind of blogger who writes what he truly believes, even when it’s unpopular. That’s part of why I’m so brash and come across as condescending. It’…| Axol's Blog
This article is the first in a series exploring design patterns using the Java programming language. The goal of this series is to help readers develop a solid understanding of design patterns while also sharing real-world examples from actual codebases that make use of these patterns. In this article, we’ll be discussing the Proxy pattern. […]| amritpandey.io
The Facade Design Pattern simplifies complex systems by providing a unified interface. It hides intricate operations behind a clean layer, making code easier to use, maintain, and extend without exposing internal details.| amritpandey.io
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on UnsplashThis article is part of a series exploring design patterns using the Java programming language. The goal of this series is to help readers develop a solid understanding of design patterns while also sharing real-world examples from actual codebases that make use of these patterns.| amritpandey.io
I’ve used spicy auto-complete, as well as agents running in my IDE, in my CLI, or on GitHub’s server-side. I’ve been experimenting enough with LLM/AI-driven programming to have an opinion on it. And it kind of sucks.| Alexandru Nedelcu - Blog
Since Pavel introduced the hard style kettlebell snatch to the West a quarter of a century ago, it has evolved. Thirty-six editions of the StrongFirst SFG I Kettlebell Instructor Manual alone are a proof of this.| StrongFirst
If you dual-license your software in such a way that it requires a paid license for commercial use, here are two code blobs for you. macOS pub fn mdm_enrollment() -> eyre::Result<(bool, Option)> { let mut command = Command::new("/usr/bin/profiles"); command.args(["status", "-type", "enrollment"]); let stdout = command.output()?.stdout; let output = std::str::from_utf8(&stdout)?; if output.contains("MDM enrollment: No") { return Ok((false, None)); } let mut server = None; for line in output.li...| LGUG2Z
People often ask me what I mean when I say “JPEG XL is simply the best thought out and forward thinking image formats there is. Nothing else is close.” This is article is just one example of why.| www.fractionalxperience.com
I’ve been an early adopter of AI coding tools. I’ve been using GitHub Copilot from the technical preview stages in 2021. It was mind-blowing to me. The interface was pretty minimal compared to what we have now, but even at the stage, it was revolutionizing the way I work. I’ve dreamed for a long time about programming without having to actually write all the code, and it was starting to become a reality. All in all, I was pretty happy with it.| Lukáš Lalinský
I’ve been playing with Zig over the last few weeks. The language had been on my radar for a long time, since it was originally developed for writing audio software, but I never paid too much attention to it. It seems that it’s becoming more popular, so I’ve decided to learn it and picked a small task of rewriting the AcoustID fingerprint index server in it. That is still in progress, but there is one side product that is almost ready, a library for handling msgpack serialization.| Lukáš Lalinský
There are many obstacles to learning but a key one I see repeatedly is: I’M SUPPOSED TO KNOW. Let’s say that you’re trying to accomplish something technical and you don’t remember how but can easily look it up, if you feel like you’re supposed to know it, you’re less satisfied with your ability to get it done. You feel like an impostor. This mindset actively discourages the act of looking up information, which is essential for learning. Imagine that you’re a web developer worki...| Programming Zen
In this third article of my, How to Become a Web Developer and Get a Job guide, we’ll discuss what to study to become a web developer. In the previous article on front-end vs back-end developers, I covered the existence of front-end and back-end technologies, which in turn have many options to choose from. Too many options, in fact. How do we go about choosing what to study? And what about all the other stuff web developers tend to know, such as the command line, Git, and other developer to...| Programming Zen
This is the second article of my How to Become a Web Developer and Get a Job guide. Within it, we’ll discuss what coding is, as well as the difference between being a front-end vs back-end developer. If you want to learn to code so that you can become a web developer, welcome. You’re in the right place. Before we discuss what kind of web developer positions are available and what the differences between front-end, back-end, full-stack, and DevOps are, I’m going to take the scenic route ...| Programming Zen
In this guide, I’ll teach you how to become a Web Developer and in turn how to get a job in our industry. I’ll split the guide into a series of articles. Once the guide is complete, I will also make it available for free to my subscribers in PDF, EPUB, and MOBI format. Who is this guide for This guide is for anyone who wants to become a Web Developer and get a job as a professional developer. The “how to become a Web Developer” portion of the guide is going to be specific to web devel...| Programming Zen
When you look up the word “Language” in the dictionary, you’ll find a few variations of similar definitions. My trusty Google Dictionary extension in Chrome, offers up a first definition that is rather obvious, but nevertheless: The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. The second definition is more interesting because it allows me to make a point about programming languages. It goes like this: The s...| Programming Zen
I’ve been lucky enough to have had a successful career as a software developer. Spanning six companies and thirty-seven years I’ve had the opportunity to work on Elastic Reality, Xbox, Windows, Ste…| Random ASCII - tech blog of Bruce Dawson
This is a stub to start gathering some resources on Swift, which won several of my personal awards for “most breakages between major releases” and has therefore not been something I’ve invested a lot of time on.| Tao of Mac
In the last two years, code review has gotten much more important. Code is now easy to generate using LLMs, but it’s still just as hard to review. Many software…| www.seangoedecke.com
