Protestors rally at Cruise HQ in San Francisco
Protestors gathered Monday outside Cruise’s headquarters in San Francisco after reports of one of its robotaxis blocking an ambulance with a patient on board who later died. The incident, which the San Francisco Fire Department reported last week, happened on August 14, when a driver hit a pedestrian in the
Read moremyZoi wants to make remittances less costly for migrant workers
Money sent home by migrant workers not only helps their families, but also enables entire economies to develop. But transferring money comes at a high cost to workers, with remittance fees averaging about 6.5%. MyZoi wants to cut fees by more than half, starting with the five million low-income migrant
Read moreElon Musk to sue ADL for accusing him, X of antisemitism
In the newest uproar you might have missed, Elon Musk says X, formerly Twitter, will file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League. Musk accused the ADL, an organization that works to combat antisemitism, extremism and bigotry, of falsely accusing him and X of being antisemitic. “To clear our platform’s
Read moreMax Q: An inside look at Astra’s Apollo Fusion acquisition
In this issue: Astra’s Apollo Fusion acquisition followed by delays and desertion, news from SpaceX and more
Read moreChris’ Corner: Web Components Don’t Need You
Dave Rupert blogged a bunch of reasons about why you probably aren’t using them yet. Some of it is technological, and more of it is historical, marketing, and psychological reasons. Then Dave, a pretty avid Web Components follower and advocate, followed up with another surprise. Should you rewrite your app
Read moreOOP in Lua
Object-Oriented Programming in Lua using AnnotationsDespite being a scripting and dynamically typed language, Lua possesses enough flexibility to do object-oriented programming effectively, especially using the power of annotations. This primer explains how core OOP concepts can be implemented. I’m sure that understanding the why behind each line, will help you
Read moreBuilding Self-Guided Engineering Teams
with a focus on alignment, ownership, and trust.Having read the article on measuring developer productivity by McKinsey & Company as well as a few follow-ups, with the most in-depth one being the two-part response by Gergely Orosz and Kent Beck, I deep-dived into what’s behind the urge of measurement — and found out
Read moreClean Architecture in Game Development
4 lessons learned on the way to adopt clean architecture in a game created from scratch.Going back to game development, I created a simple prototype using the LÖVE framework. LÖVE is a minimalistic game framework and not an engine, as e.g. Unity is. The main drawback of Unity for me was
Read moreA Collection of Docker Images To Solve All Your Debugging Needs
Whether you’re debugging networking, databases, your application code, or anything else, these images will be all you need to get it doneContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreWhy Mobx Is No Longer Fashionable
Why MobX Is No Longer FashionableMobX was one of React’s most popular state management libraries, so why is it passé now?Photo by Fredy Jacob on UnsplashMobX was a popular state management library for React that allowed you to create observable and reactive data models. However, with the introduction of React Hooks, MobX
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