Debuggers and Empathy
Photo by Tyler Nix on UnsplashIn my social bubble, using debuggers regularly is popular. During development, we use it to see how the code behaves, what the call stack is, how arguments mutate, and how objects look mid-program. And I think it is a bad practice for several reasons.My stance has a
Read morePart man. Part machine. All farmer.
In order to expand, farms have historically depended on getting more land. More acreage meant bigger crop yields. Farmers embraced technologies like irrigation, fertilizer, and pest control to improve their ability to grow more food of better quality more reliably. Recently, as the amount of available arable land has grown,
Read moreMeet StoreKit SubscriptionStoreView in iOS 17
Explore how the new StoreKit views help you build in-app subscriptions with just a few lines of codeAll images by authorThe emergence of SubscriptionStoreView frees developers from tedious and complicated code. WWDC23 brought a declarative in-app purchase UI, which allows developers to use Apple’s predesigned app purchase interface. Only a few lines
Read moreOtter is introducing a meeting-oriented AI chatbot
Automatic transcription service Otter announced a new AI-powered chatbot today that will let participants ask questions during and after a meeting and help them collaborate with teammates. Otter AI Chat will help you catch up to the meeting if you ask “I’m late to the meeting! What did I miss?”
Read moreHarness releases generative AI assistant to help increase developer efficiency
It’s no secret that there aren’t enough developers for the amount of work out there, so anything that helps ease their work load is going to be welcome. Since Harness launched five years ago, it’s been focused on creating a developer toolkit to help developers operate more efficiently throughout the
Read moreDanti uses natural language processing to make searching Earth data simple
Commercial and defense organizations have an Earth data overload problem: they collect vast amounts of heavily siloed data, with few ways to quickly synthesize insights and deliver them to the people who most need it. Danti, a startup emerging from stealth today with $2.75 million in funding, wants to solve
Read moreCyber Security Today, June 21, 2023 – More MOVEit victims, more ransomware news and 100,000 stolen ChatGPT credentials up for sale
More MOVEit victims, more ransomware news and 100,000 stolen ChatGPT credentials are up for sale Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, June 21st, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. The Metro Vancouver Transit Police department is the latest organization to
Read moreBetterBrand’s new dough raises company’s valuation to over $170M
BetterBrand, a foodtech company known for creating “The Better Bagel,” closed on $6 million of Series A capital at a pre-money valuation of $170 million. The company, citing Crunchbase data, also touts that the raise puts founder Aimee Yang among just 150 solo female founders to raise a Series A
Read moreNotarize launches Proof to ensure safe online transactions
Notarize, the world’s largest online notary network, is launching Proof, a new company and platform for digital identity verifications. Beginning in August, Notarize’s business tools will be rebranded to Proof, and it is also changing its company name to Proof. Notarize will continue serving its online notary network, which is
Read moreVolt, an open banking fintech for payments and more, raises $60M at a $350M+ valuation
Open banking — where traditional banks enable payments and other new services by way of APIs that give access to financial data previously locked up in their systems — has led to a rush of startups looking to build the links to make it a reality. Today one of the
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