Seven Months Into Open Source And Counting
Random notes about the journey so farImage from adobe.comEngineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.— Scott AdamsWhen asked why I quit a full-time job and devoted all my energy to an open-source project, I gave inconsistent answers: an intended gap period
Read moreApple M2 Ultra Mac Studio: Same shell, more firepower
“This completes the transition to Apple silicon,” Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering John Ternus noted during last week’s WWDC keynote. Apple never promised the process would happen overnight. At the 2020 event, CEO Tim Cook promised a two-year transitionary period. The company missed the deadline by a year, but
Read moreGitHub’s Magic Tools — GitHub CLI, API, and JavaScript
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Read moreInvestigating the I/O Monad in Go
From concepts to implementationPhoto by Marat Gilyadzinov on UnsplashIn this article, we will continue our investigation of applying functional programming concepts to Go. While in the previous article, we concentrated on pure functions, we will dive into the ideas and implementation behind effectful functions.Guiding PrinciplesLet’s recap some of the guiding principles.Pure
Read moreCava boosts its IPO price range, highlighting appetite for growth stories
How about we kick off the week with some good news? This morning, American fast-casual restaurant chain Cava raised its IPO price range from $17-$19 per share to $19-$20 per share. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every
Read moreMeta open sources an AI-powered music generator
Not to be outdone by Google, Meta has released its own AI-powered music generator — and, unlike Google, made it available in open source. Called MusicGen, Meta’s music-generating tool — a demo of which can be found here — can turn a text description (e.g. “An ’80s driving pop song
Read moreDevelopment Fatigue
Are you feeling drowned by the endless wave of new tech or finding it tough to log off post-work? You’re not aloneThe feeling of being a cog in a systemSo, I’ll start by stating that I will be talking about the kind of fatigue that I personally experience, though I’m hoping that
Read moreReddit goes down just as a site-wide protest against its unpopular new API policy kicks off
Just as thousands of Reddit communities went dark to protest the company’s controversial new policy that will put third-party apps out of business, the website itself has gone down. Reddit confirmed to TechCrunch a planned protest against its new policy has caused the outage. According to user reports, Reddit.com first
Read moreVCs remain confident alternative protein has a real future despite public-market woes
How well have alternative-protein companies done in the past year? It depends on who you ask. The industry has had an interesting go of it between the U.S. getting comfortable with cultivated meat production, layoffs and countries banning production. Yet, startups and investors are hanging in there. To get the
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