Web Roulette is an addictive, ‘swipeable’ web browser for the TikTok era
If mindlessly browsing the internet is your preferred way to combat boredom and waste time, the indie app makers behind to-do list app Clear and game Heads Up! have a new product you’ll want to try: Web Roulette, a mobile web browser app for iOS built for the short attention
Read moreMaking an Orchestrator From Scratch With Rust
Building a way to handle queries and searches in multiple servers while also being able to turn the servers onIn the context of microservices, an orchestrator is the brain of the system, which distributes the task between every microservice by some rule. When a transaction has to happen, it is the
Read moreAre We Doing Our Best on Frontend Development? This Data Perspective May Help Answer This Question
An overview of the comprehensive state of the web reportThe sum of transfer size kilobytes of all external scripts requested by the page. Source: httparchive.orgIf your expression changed after seeing this chart, keep reading this article.We will review together last year’s Web Almanac report by httparchive and see what’s happening on the web.The
Read moreAntimatter uses memes to turn C students into C+ students
Antimatter is an edtech company that operates under a simple, enticing premise: if a student really understands a topic, then they’ll be able to make a meme about it. “To be able to shitpost, you have to understand the subject matter really well,” Antimatter founder and CEO Jonathan Libov told
Read moreQflow raises $9.1M to track construction receipts, making it easier to de-carbonize
In the same way that we now take pictures of receipts to expense that ‘important lunch’, construction tech startup Qflow allows the teams running construction sites to do the same for building materials. Sounds like a no-brainer, right? However, it’s more innovative and less trivial than it sounds. To date,
Read moreKlarna’s Q1 results show that the fintech unicorn’s turnaround is in full swing
Last year wasn’t an easy one for European fintech giant Klarna. The company saw its valuation being truncated in an $800 million funding round, and coverage of its 2022 results focused on contrasting its stiff losses against a more conservative market. This column argued at the time of its earnings
Read moreAdventureGPT: Using LLM Backed Agents to Play Text-Based Adventure Games
AdventureGPT: Using LLM-Backed Agents to Play Text-Based Adventure GamesUnlocking the magic of text-based adventure games with the power of language modelsPhoto by Holly Mandarich on UnsplashRecently, I decided to take some time to learn how to utilize ChatGPT and other OpenAI models. Like much of the world, I had played with OpenAI’s
Read moreUpCodes launches Copilot, an AI-based research assistant for building codes
For more than seven years, UpCodes has been making the complicated world of building codes easier to understand for people like industry professionals and homeowners. Its platform includes a searchable database covering regulations in all states and features like a “spellcheck” that flags code errors. Today, the startup is announcing
Read moreReviewing a thousand things
Suppose you’ve learned a thousand of something, maybe a thousand kanji or a thousand chemicals or a thousand species of beetles. Now you want to review them to retain what you’ve learned. Now suppose you have a program to quiz you, drawing items from your list at random with replacement.
Read more5 Important Reasons Why IT Must Upgrade Remote Work Solutions
Sponsored by Verizon Recent reports show that companies continue to embrace hybrid working and fully remote employees to drive productivity and improve work-life balance. Gartner forecasts that 51% of U.S. knowledge workers (39% globally) will work in hybrid mode by the end of 2023, and 20% will be fully remote.
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