defeating git rigour fatigue with jujutsu

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: This post assumes a basic level of familiarity with the jujutsu version control system. If you haven't used jujutsu, you'll still get the gist of the idea, but I recommend reading Steve's Jujutsu tutorial after.When developing a large feature, writing Good Commits is hard.And by Good Commits, I mean something like:define types add DB functions server CRUD client API client UIThis allows reviewers to step through your pull request in small bites, with each set of changes scoped to a single aspect of the…
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Everyone is navigating real-time AI security, even Google

Everyone is navigating real-time AI security, even Google

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,TC ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Francis De Souza, COO of Google Cloud, behind the scenes at an event in Los Angeles. Amid the noise around us, De Souza, who speaks in the calm, measured manner of a university professor, offered helpful advice for companies navigating the AI โ€‹โ€‹security moment we're all in, noting that "there will be a transition period, and then I think we'll get to that better place." He wasn't talking about Google at that moment, but apparently even…
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Australia Just Proved the Four-Day Work Week Works. Here Is What the Data Actually Says.

Australia Just Proved the Four-Day Work Week Works. Here Is What the Data Actually Says.

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A new study published in Natureโ€™s Humanities and Social Sciences Communications journal has confirmed what many workers have quietly hoped for: companies can switch to a four-day work week and not only survive, but thrive.The research tracked 15 Australian companies that trialled the 100:80:100 model between 2022 and 2024.The model is simple: workers receive 100% of their pay, work 80% of their previous hours, and commit to maintaining 100% of their previous output.The results were striking.14 of the 15 companies chose to continue with the…
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All the fancy measuring devices used in science are based on two Stone Age technologies

All the fancy measuring devices used in science are based on two Stone Age technologies

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this insightful post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Science,Science / Physics and Math,Dot Physics โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Humans are animals That measures things. Contact us Homo minsura. We are hardwired to quantify, and for thousands of years we have been inventing new ways to do so. For anything you can think of, there's a device to measure it โ€” from sphygmomanometers to fluorescence spectrophotometers. Of course nowhere is this more true than in science. Well, science and baseball.Physicists build models to explain how the world works. It may be an equation such as the ideal gas law:…
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The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA

The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA

๐Ÿš€ Discover this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Health dataTo explore the relationship between politics and health, we draw on the Add Health survey. Add Health is an ongoing survey tracking a nationally representative cohort in the USA, first interviewed while in grades 7โ€“12 in 1994. So far, this cohort has been interviewed five times.Add Health interviews include survey questions on demographic and health attributes and measurements of โ€˜biomarkersโ€™ collected in survey takersโ€™ homes by trained interviewers. Five biomarkers are measured in both waves 4 and 5, which are our focus here: body…
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The universe is full of ‘impossible’ black holes and now scientists know why

The universe is full of ‘impossible’ black holes and now scientists know why

๐Ÿš€ Explore this awesome post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Science,Science / Space,Defying Gravity ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: International team Astrophysicists have found evidence that the universe recycles black holes, merging them to form larger ones. Gravitational waves recorded in recent years show that some of the heaviest black holes within star clusters show clear signs of being โ€œsecond generationโ€ black holes โ€“ the product of previous collisions โ€“ and therefore could not have arisen from the collapse of a massive star.Impossible black holesThe evolutionary theory of stars explains that at the end of the life of the most massive…
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Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend. โ€” HollandTech

Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend. โ€” HollandTech

๐Ÿš€ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Iโ€™ve seen it three times in the last month. Three different organisations, three different tech stacks, the same pattern.Someone has an idea. Maybe a product manager, maybe a team lead, maybe the CTO after a conference. They open Claude, or ChatGPT, or Copilot โ€” doesnโ€™t matter which โ€” and ask it what they should build. The AI does what it always does: validates the idea enthusiastically, suggests an architecture, and starts sketching components. Itโ€™s articulate. Itโ€™s confident. It sounds like a very senior engineer whoโ€™s…
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Xreal, Google’s partner in smart glasses, believes it has finally mastered this notoriously difficult industry

Xreal, Google’s partner in smart glasses, believes it has finally mastered this notoriously difficult industry

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Hardware,Google,Google I/O,AI,SMART Glasses,XReal ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Making smart glasses has long been a pipe dream for Silicon Valley. The premise is attractive enough: What if, to enjoy the benefits of mobile computing, people didn't have to stare at their phones all day and could, instead, simply wear a lightweight computing device on their face? Science fiction fans (a powerful demographic in the tech industry) can see this vision perfectly. Yet for much of the past decade, the industry has been a financial black hole into which huge investments…
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FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop

FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: With FreeBSD having worked on improving its laptop support over the past two years with some big changes and ongoing efforts for making a nice KDE desktop experience on FreeBSD, FreeBSD Foundation's Executive Director has been trying to daily drive FreeBSD on laptops. Similar to the Linux Foundation Executive Director at least in the past being seen at conferences running Apple macOS, it turns out FreeBSD Executive Director Deb Goodkin until recently hasn't been running FreeBSD as the daily OS on her laptop/desktop hardware. Deb…
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Why does garlic repel mosquitoes and prevent them from breeding?

Why does garlic repel mosquitoes and prevent them from breeding?

๐Ÿš€ Discover this insightful post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Science,Bitter Truth ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: It was garlic It has been considered a natural mosquito repellent for centuries. It is believed in popular culture that its pungent smell repel these insects, which, in addition to causing sleepless nights, transmit diseases such as dengue fever or malaria. Now, this belief has a scientific explanation.A group of scientists from Yale University conducted a phytochemical analysis of 43 types of fruits and vegetables to identify natural compounds capable of interfering with the reproductive behavior of flying insects. To do this, the team…
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