Roblox cuts 30 on talent acquisition team as hiring slows
Roblox, the community-focused gaming platform popular amongst kids, has downsized a substantial portion of its talent acquisition team, signaling a shift in the company’s focus from expansion to the bottom line. In a statement to TechCrunch, Roblox confirmed that about 30 employees in its talent acquisition organization were let go
Read moreBuild a Serverless App Fast with Zipper: Write TypeScript, Offload Everything Else
After reminiscing about the good ‘ol days of Ruby, I discovered the Zipper platform and wanted to see how quickly I could build somethingCourtesy: PressfotoI remember the first time I saw a demonstration of Ruby on Rails. With minimal effort, demonstrators created a full-stack web application that could be used
Read moreTurn Any API Into An Event-Driven Engine
Is your API defined with an Open API Spec? Good news! You can turn that into an event-driven engine in your CI pipelineImage from freepikThere’s no doubt that the world has gone async. People no longer wait at loading screens for 30 minutes while their task completes behind the scenes. We’ve figured
Read moreAdd AI Chat Dialog to Your VitePress Documentation Site
Photo by Alexander Shatov on UnsplashThis article will guide you on quickly empowering your VitePress documentation site with AI conversational capabilities using an open-source tool Documate. This will allow it to answer your users' questions based on the content of your documentation, supporting streaming outputs.The complete source code of the project
Read moreMastering Python Code Quality: A Holistic Journey
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Read moreMGM Resorts are operating ‘normally’ after hacks, sort of
MGM says its computers are back up after a hack, pictured above. | Image: K.M. Cannon / Las Vegas Review-Journal / Tribune News Service via Getty Images Everything is fine and back to normal at the MGM Resorts, MGM Resorts announced on X / Twitter. I still couldn’t book a
Read moreSnapchat now has over 5 million paying users for Snapchat+
Snapchat announced today its subscription service for power users, Snapchat+ has now topped 5 million subscribers — a figure that’s up from 4 million in late June and 3 million in mid-April. Now over a year old, the $3.99 per month subscription offering provides access to a sizable handful of
Read moreUnraveling Computational Thinking: Beyond Just Code
Harnessing the power of computation to transform our approach to real-world challengesContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreThe Reports of TypeScript’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
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Read moreEncrypted email provider Proton has built its own CAPTCHA service
Proton, the Swiss company that develops privacy-focused online services such as email, has developed its very own CAPTCHA service to help discern between genuine login attempts and bots — and it touts the new system as the world’s first CAPTCHA that is “censorship resistant.” The company said it has already
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