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Four years ago, overlooking a canal in Amsterdam, the smart home industry collectively launched Matter, the one interoperability standard to rule them all. Heralded as the solution to the industry's struggles, Matter was built on open standards and existing technologies and is the result of years of collaboration between traditional rivals, including Apple, Google, Amazon, […]

NASA is testing a 'cryocoupler' developed by L3Harris for in-orbit refueling.

Time zones are one of those topics that look simple until you ship something and a user in another country sees the wrong time. Here are the traps I keep seeing, and how to reason about them in 2026. UTC is not a time zone, and GMT is not UTC UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) is a time standard, not a region. GMT is a time zone that happens to share the same offset as UTC most of the year. For storage and math, always think in UTC. Treat GMT as just another named zone. Rule 1: store timestamps in UTC Store every instant as UTC (or an epoch value). Convert to a local zone only at the edges, when you display to a user. If you store local times, you will eventually lose the offset and never recover the true instant. Rule 2: an offset is not a zone +09:00 tells you the offset right now. It does not tell you the zone, because zones change offset across the year due to daylight saving time. Store the IANA zone name (like America/New_York ), not just the offset. The offset is derived from the zone plus the date. Rule 3: DST is where it hurts The same wall-clock time can happen twice (fall back) or never (spring forward). Scheduling "9am every day" is a zone-aware operation, not an offset-aware one. Libraries like the built-in Intl.DateTimeFormat and Temporal (now widely available) handle this correctly if you give them a zone name. new Intl . DateTimeFormat ( ' en-US ' , { timeZone : ' Asia/Tokyo ' , dateStyle : ' short ' , timeStyle : ' short ' , }). format ( new Date ()); Rule 4: scheduling across teams is an overlap problem For a distributed team, the useful question is not "what time is it there" but "when do our working hours overlap". That is a set-intersection over each person's 9-to-5 expressed in UTC. A tool for the human side When I just need to eyeball overlaps and pick a meeting time without writing code, I use the free tool I built: ZonePlan , a time zone meeting planner and live world clock. If you want the practical playbook for picking meeting times, I wrote

One of the biggest realizations I've had over the last year wasn't about software. It was about focus. When I first started building KiwiEngine, I wanted it to power everything. Business software. CRMs. Inventory systems. Scheduling platforms. Accounting tools. SaaS products. If someone could build it, I wanted KiwiEngine to support it. Technically, I still do. But something changed. I realized there is a difference between building software that can solve every problem and trying to solve every problem yourself. Those aren't the same thing. The Architecture Never Changed KiwiEngine is still designed to power business applications. Nothing about the architecture changed. The modules. The APIs. The philosophy. The engine remains general-purpose. What changed was my focus. Build What You Understand I started asking myself a simple question. Who do I actually understand? Not as a developer. As a creator. The answer wasn't accountants. It wasn't HR departments. It wasn't inventory managers. The answer was musicians. Artists. Game developers. Creators. Builders. Those are the people whose problems I experience every day. Those are the workflows I naturally understand. Open Source Changes The Equation One of the beautiful things about open source is that I don't have to build every application. I can build the engine. I can document it. I can share the philosophy. Someone else can build the CRM. Someone else can build the scheduling platform. Someone else can build the accounting software. Meanwhile, I can focus on building the creative tools I genuinely want to use. The Best Proving Ground Today, KiwiEngine's proving ground is becoming: Artist websites EPKs Music production tools Digital storefronts Creative workflows Game development Media platforms Not because they're the only things KiwiEngine can build. Because they're the things I care deeply enough to refine every day. And I think that creates better software than chasing every possible market ever could.

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The main website of the language https://mojolang.org/ displays an announcement bar that says "Mojo will be open source soon! Join us at ModCon '26 for an update." submitted by /u/baldierot [link] [留言]

Hey DEV community! 👋 I've been building web apps for a while, and I noticed there was no good place to discover and rate web-based OS projects — those cool browser-based operating systems you can run without installing anything. So I built Web OS Community 🎉 What is it? A platform where you can: 🔍 Browse web-based OS projects (Windows XP, Ubuntu, macOS clones, and more) ⭐ Rate your favorites with a global rating system 🏷️ Filter by tags (webos, demo, linux, macos, windows...) 📤 Submit your own web OS project via GitHub PR Why I built this The existing resources were scattered — some projects on GitHub, some on random personal pages. I wanted a central hub where developers could showcase their work and users could find these cool experiments easily. Tech stack Frontend: Vanilla JS / HTML / CSS (no frameworks, keeping it lightweight) Backend: Supabase (PostgreSQL + RLS policies) Auth: Custom RPC-based authentication Hosting: GitHub Pages + Cloudflare Workers Some features Global rating system (one vote per user per project) Admin panel for managing submissions Tag-based filtering Dark mode UI 🌙 Check it out! 🔗 web-os-community.tfhy5321.workers.dev If you have a web OS project, feel free to submit it! PRs are welcome 🙌 What web-based OS have you seen that blew your mind? Drop it in the comments!

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Legacy ETL modernization is often described as a conversion exercise: Informatica mapping in. Snowflake SQL out. That framing is incomplete. A real migration is not only about translating expressions. It is about preserving transformation intent, identifying what is missing, documenting assumptions, validating target behavior, and ensuring that someone is accountable for decisions before generated artifacts are released. I have been building a prototype called Data Engineering Copilot around that idea. The latest capability starts from an Informatica PowerCenter XML export and produces a governed Snowflake migration delivery packet. The workflow is: Informatica PowerCenter XML ↓ Metadata and Lineage Extraction ↓ Canonical Metadata Model ↓ Snowflake Artifact Generation ↓ Validation and Migration Risk Assessment ↓ Human Review and Approval ↓ Governed Release Package The problem with simple code conversion An Informatica mapping can contain far more than a direct field-to-field relationship. A typical mapping may include: source definitions and target definitions source qualifiers and filters expression transformations reusable transformations lookups constants and default values mapping parameters target load order connector-level lineage update strategy or sequence-generation behavior target fields with no visible incoming connector A generator that only reads source and target columns may produce SQL that looks valid but does not preserve the original delivery intent. That is risky. For example, imagine a target field that has no visible source column. It may still be populated through: a constant such as 'SOURCE_A' a default such as 'XNA' a surrogate-key lookup a runtime parameter a load timestamp a sequence generator a business decision that was never documented in the mapping If the tool silently inserts NULL , the SQL may compile while the migration is functionally wrong. The prototype approach The Data Engineering Copilot prototype accepts two starting points:

A few years back I was a junior dev on a car financing product, and I got handed the deal jacket. A deal jacket is the full picture of a deal. How much the buyer puts down, what the car is worth, the terms, all of it packaged up and sent to a bank so the bank can come back with a yes or a no. The flow I had to build would send that package to one bank, wait about a minute for an answer, check whether the offer that came back was any good, and if it wasn't, send the whole thing to the next bank. A pipeline. Under the hood it was a recursive call with state managed in between, talking to Route One on the other side. It kept breaking. I wrote it, tested it, read the logs, fixed one thing, watched it break somewhere else. Day three, day four, still broken. Then on the fourth day I hit send in Postman one more time, watched the logs roll past, and it just worked. The approval came back clean. I jumped out of my chair. I was loud enough that the whole room looked over, and the two guys who knew what I'd been stuck on for four days were already grinning, because they knew exactly what had just happened. That feeling is the whole reason I'm writing this. Not the code. The feeling. The joy had two parts, and I only saw the second one once it was gone The first part is obvious. It's the problem solving. The thing fought back for four days and then it didn't, and I had beaten it. You chase a bug through the logs, you argue with it, and at some point it gives. That is a real high and every engineer knows it. The second part is quieter. I built that. Me. Back then if I shipped something, even a plain HTML page, it was mine end to end. I had to learn HTML before I could build the page, so the page was proof that I had learned. You could point at the thing and say that came out of my head and my hands, and nobody could take that from you. So the joy was solving the problem, and it was owning what you solved. That second part is the one that broke. Same problem, four years apart Ta

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New models are launching in Asia that promise Mythos-like capabilities without fear of an export ban. U.S. AI labs may never recover this enormous market.

Uber is adopting a more stringent background check process for drivers and couriers in the US.

Package managers aren't as interchangeable as they seem. This post digs into the real differences in how npm, Yarn, pnpm, Bun, and Deno handle dependencies under the hood and why that matters when things break in practice. submitted by /u/OtherwisePush6424 [link] [留言]

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AWS has recently announced the AWS Workload Credentials Provider to automatically deliver and refresh certificates and secrets for applications. The open source tool reduces the need for custom automation, helps prevent outages caused by expired certificates, and works in both AWS and non-AWS environments. un By Renato Losio

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