Chris’ Corner: Useful HTML and CSS Patterns
The <table> is one of the grand enemies of responsive design. They don’t wrap (that wouldn’t make much sense) so they can “blow out” the width of a mobile device pretty easily. The overflow property also doesn’t work on them. So you gotta find a way, and it really depends
Read moreNvidia’s AI Workbench brings model fine-tuning to workstations
Timed to coincide with SIGGRAPH, the annual AI academic conference, Nvidia this morning announced a new platform designed to let users create, test and customize generative AI models on a PC or workstation before scaling them to a data center and public cloud. Dubbed AI Workbench, the service can be
Read moreThe Role of a System Architect
Unraveling growth challenges: Could a system architect be the solution?Serverless Architecture from Classic Programmer PaintingsMost startups that go through hyper-growth tend to face the inevitable Bottlenecks of Scaleups, as masterfully described by ThoughtWorks.Having navigated the hyper-growth journey myself, I’ve witnessed firsthand how these technical bottlenecks can impede business progress, causing
Read moreThe Volvo EX30’s interior is the IKEA take on Tesla’s playbook
Comparisons will inevitably be drawn between the Tesla Model 3’s sparse interior and that of the new Volvo EX30. But Volvo’s electric crossover goes big on the minimalist, space-maximizing Scandinavian charm you’d find in an IKEA store, not just ruthless cost-cutting for its own sake. Make no mistake, however: there’s
Read moreRedis Internals: Redis Processes a Command
Dictionary structure, key eviction, hash table resize and rehash, and command executionPhoto by Ryland Dean on UnsplashBy now, I’ve already considered how Redis server starts up, how clients connect to it, and how Redis reads their commands and writes responses — both in a single-threaded and I/O threaded mode. Finally, I’ve made my
Read moreNo, it’s never too early to make sure a founder is telling the truth
In the latest example of a startup getting caught while taking Silicon Valley’s “fake it until you make it” ethos far beyond the realm of ethics, events planning app IRL was recently sued by its own investor, SoftBank, after an investigation revealed that 95% of the app’s users were fake.
Read moreBringing VR to IRL classrooms with Anurupa Ganguly of Prisms
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. On this week’s episode of Found, Becca and Dom are joined by Anurupa Ganguly, the founder at CEO at Prisms, a startup designing VR math curricula for middle and high school students. Ganguly talked about how her time
Read moreSnapchat’s dark mode for Android no longer locked behind subscription
Snapchat has quietly dropped the paywall for dark mode on Android after previously requiring users to have a Snapchat+ subscription to access the feature. The company confirmed to TechCrunch on Tuesday that dark mode is now available to all users. The change was first spotted by Android Police. Dark mode
Read moreMöbius transformations over a finite field
A Möbius transformation is a function of the form where ad – bc = 1. We usually think of z as a complex number, but it doesn’t have to be. We could define Möbius transformations in any context where we can multiply, add, and divide, i.e. over any field. In
Read moreIt’s time to change how we cover Elon Musk
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images This is Platformer, a newsletter on the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy from Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer. Sign up here. Today let’s talk about a wild weekend of backtracking at the company formerly known as Twitter — and how
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