Most AI short-form video demos skip the boring part. They show a finished TikTok, Reel, or YouTube Short. Maybe they show the prompt. Maybe they show the generated script or the final render. But the hard part is not making one video. The hard part is making the fifteenth video without the whole system turning into a pile of one-off scripts, half-remembered FFmpeg commands, broken captions, inconsistent hooks, and manual upload steps. That is where I think the conversation around AI video automation gets more interesting. Not: Can an AI generate a Short? But: What workflow does an AI agent need to generate Shorts repeatedly? I was looking at a Terminal Skills use case for building an AI short video generator, and the useful part is not the fantasy of "push one button, print infinite content." The useful part is the stack. The real job is a pipeline A short-form video generator sounds like one tool. In practice, it is a pipeline: topic research -> script -> voiceover -> footage or visual generation -> subtitles -> assembly -> platform formatting -> upload -> analytics Each step has different failure modes. Topic research can produce generic ideas. Scripts can be too long. Voice can drift from the brand. Footage can mismatch the narration. Subtitles can land under platform UI. FFmpeg can export a technically valid file that a platform still hates. Uploads can succeed in the API but fail the actual publishing workflow. If you try to solve all of that with one giant prompt, the agent has to keep too much operational knowledge in its head. That is fragile. The better pattern is to split the workflow into skills. What a skill gives the agent A skill is not just a code snippet. For this kind of workflow, a useful skill tells the agent: when to use this capability what inputs are expected what output should exist afterward what validation is required when to stop instead of pretending success That last point matters. For media automation, "the command ran" is not enough. Th

A post titled "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years" hit the front page of r/programming this week (307 points, 48 comments). The claim sounds like the kind of thing a database vendor would put on a billboard, so I went looking for the part that holds up. It turns out the longevity is not marketing. It is a property of how the language was designed, and it is the reason SQL is one of the few skills on a developer's resume that does not quietly expire. I run a site that compares developer tools, which means I spend a lot of time watching technologies rise, peak, and get replaced. Most of what you learn in this field has a half-life measured in single-digit years. The framework you mastered in 2019 is legacy by 2024. SQL is the strange exception, and the reasons are worth understanding before you decide where to spend your next month of learning. Where the staying power comes from SQL did not start as a language. It started as a math paper. In 1970, Edgar Codd published "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks," which proposed organizing data into tables of rows and columns with formal rules for combining them. IBM built a query language on top of that model in the mid-1970s, called it SEQUEL, and later renamed it SQL after a trademark conflict. The important detail is the order: the model came first, the language second. SQL is a surface over a mathematical foundation that has not needed to change. That foundation is why the skill compounds instead of decaying. When you learn SQL, you are not memorizing one vendor's API. You are learning the relational model, and the model is the same whether the data sits in Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, or SQL Server. A join is a join everywhere. Move from one database to another and the syntax shifts at the edges, but the way you think about the problem carries over intact. Compare that to a frontend framework, where moving stacks means relearning how to think, not just how to type. Declarative is the whole trick

Hi everyone, I've been working on building my own website for my upcoming small business in the pest control. My set up is cloudflare for domain, Hostinger for hosting, and WordPress for CMS. I have a fair amount of coding and tech knowledge (Code simple things in a different languages and understand enough abouting coding to understand most non robust code; have also built a couple simple websites in wordpress) and really want to do things right. My question is what tools, choices, or practices are there that someone trying to research the space wouldn't be able to easily find that provide high value? Things deeper in scope than just building pages with custom blocks, using plug ins, and tweaking settings. Essentially, of the millions of tools and implementations existing in this space, where should a person looking to move from amateur to advanced but not career web dev look? And what is the value in those tools or choices? Additionally. outside of page speed insights, what audits are actually worth running to ensure everything is secure and running as smooth as possible without costing an arm and leg cumulatively? If you were a single person looking to build as professional of a website as possible, in a reasonable timeline (a month or two), what things would you really be focused on? My overall goal is to build everything as close to professional as a single person realistically could, so if you guys could help, I'd really appreciate it! Thanks in advance submitted by /u/ChestnetR [link] [留言]

The deadline to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is coming up a week from now on June 12th, and legislators seem no closer to reaching a deal. If this sounds like deja vu, it's because we've been here before. Congress reauthorized Section 702 in late April - but only for 45 […]

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Key Use Cases Power BI Visual Monitoring can be used for: power bi visual monitoring power bi report visual monitoring visual regression testing for Power BI power bi screenshot monitoring monitoring Power BI visuals visual monitoring for Power BI Report Server automated Power BI dashboard validation visual correctness control for BI reports Power BI Visual Monitoring: Automatically Detecting Broken Visuals in Power BI Reports In large Power BI environments, analytics teams often face the problem of silent regressions : even minor changes in data or models can break individual visuals without any obvious errors. Report owners frequently don’t notice that a visual has stopped rendering or is showing incorrect data — this can happen due to changes in data source structure, access rights, deleted fields, broken measures, or refresh failures. Manually checking hundreds of report pages across multiple dashboards in such conditions is extremely inefficient and nearly impossible. We, a team of BI developers and analysts, encountered this pain point during a large analytics implementation project and decided to create a solution for automated Power BI visual monitoring . Project Source Code: GitHub: https://github.com/svergio/Power-bi-report-visual-monitoring Documentation: https://svergio.github.io/Power-bi-report-visual-monitoring/ Wiki: https://github.com/svergio/Power-bi-report-visual-monitoring/wiki Why Standard Power BI Tools Don’t Solve the Problem Standard Power BI tools such as Usage Metrics and Performance Analyzer help analyze report usage and performance but do not detect visual issues. For example, built-in usage metrics show “how those dashboards and reports are being used” — number of views, popular reports, and who is viewing them. These metrics are important for assessing analytics adoption, but they say nothing about whether the visuals themselves are displaying correctly. Similarly, Performance Analyzer shows load times for each visual, helping identify s

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Geoff Keighley’s annual June celebration of games is here. Summer Game Fest Live, the big live show that will feature a whole bunch of gaming news and announcements, begins at 5PM ET and is set to run for two hours. The event itself will take place in person at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, […]

IBM and two of its subsidiary companies were allegedly breached during the mid-2010s, which a lawsuit filed by a former cybersecurity executive accuses IBM of not disclosing and actively covering up.

One thing I've been wondering lately: We often talk about larger context windows as if they're equivalent to better understanding. But in practice those feel like different problems. Access to information keeps improving. Understanding relationships between pieces of information still feels much harder. I notice this most when working with larger software projects. You can give a model access to a huge amount of code, but that doesn't necessarily mean it understands how the system evolved, which components are tightly coupled, or where risk actually lives. Curious whether others think these are fundamentally different problems or if larger context eventually solves both. Been exploring this while working on RepoWise: https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise submitted by /u/Icy-Roll-4044 [link] [留言]

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Hello everyone, PHP comes up here from time to time, and I've noticed the discussion is usually based on what the language looked like 5+ years ago. Since I work with it every day and have genuinely come to enjoy it, I wrote a short article recapping where it actually stands today. It covers modern deployment (FrankenPHP, Docker), software architecture (modular monoliths, the Symfony kernel, agents), the type system and its tooling (PHPStan, PHP CS Fixer), and the state of concurrency (ReactPHP, Swoole, the True Async RFC). Full article: https://morice.live/posts/your-next-project-will-run-on-php/ Let me know if I missed anything, or if you'd like me to go deeper on a specific topic! submitted by /u/andre_ange_marcel [link] [留言]

Most explanations of TPUs and systolic arrays are either hand-wavy diagrams or papers. I wanted to see the thing actually run, so I built it. TinyTPU is a 4×4 weight-stationary systolic array in real SystemVerilog, compiled to WebAssembly, with a step-by-step browser visualization. You enter two matrices, hit run, and watch the actual hardware execute: weights loading into PEs, matrix A streaming in diagonally (the "skew" that makes systolic arrays work), partial sums accumulating down the grid, results draining from the bottom. It has three levels: L1 - isolate a single MAC cell, watch one multiply-accumulate happen L2 - the full 4×4 array executing a real matmul L3 - tiling: what happens when your matrix is bigger than the hardware Nothing on screen is faked. The visualization reads state directly from compiled RTL. If you're trying to understand how matrix multiply maps to hardware why TPUs are efficient, what "weight-stationary" actually means, why the diagonal stagger exists this might click it for you in a way papers don't. Repo: tiny-tpu Live demo: Live If this project interests you please do star the repo, if you find something needs improving open a PR, I hope ya'll check this out and give me some feedback 🙏 submitted by /u/Horror-Flamingo-2150 [link] [留言]