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TL;DR Tech has taught me many things over the years. It taught me how to learn new technologies, build projects, apply for opportunities, and keep growing. What it didn't teach me was something that turned out to be just as important: how to take care of myself while doing all of those things. For a long time, I believed I would slow down later. Later, when life became less busy. Later, after the next project. Later, after the next opportunity. The problem was that "later" never seemed to arrive. It took an unexpected pause in my own life to realize that building a successful career means very little if we forget to take care of the person trying to build it. Looking back, I don't see that experience only as a difficult chapter. It changed the way I think about success, growth, and what it means to build a career that's sustainable. Today, I still love learning, building, writing, and chasing opportunities. None of that has changed. What has changed is the realization that taking care of myself isn't something separate from my career. It's one of the reasons I'll be able to keep building it for years to come. Along the way, I also realized that many of the things that truly support us are easy to overlook. Rest, movement, nourishing ourselves well, meaningful relationships, and simply checking in on the people around us often receive far less attention than the next framework, project, or milestone, even though they make everything else possible. More than anything, I wanted to write this because I care deeply about this community. I hope none of us have to wait until life forces us to slow down before remembering to take care of ourselves. I hope we build careers we're proud of, but I hope we also build lives we're able to enjoy. This isn't an article about productivity or health advice. It's simply a reflection on something I wish I had understood earlier. Your career matters. So does the person building it. I'd also love to hear your story. Has there been a momen

Netflix engineers introduced dynamic partition splitting for Cassandra to address wide partitions in time series workloads. The metadata-driven approach detects oversized partitions, splits them smaller units, and routes reads across child partitions. Netflix reported lower read latency from seconds to milliseconds, reduced timeouts, and improved cluster stability while maintaining transparency. By Leela Kumili

WhatsApp now lets users reserve usernames ahead of the feature’s full rollout, making it possible to connect without sharing a phone number once usernames go live.

One hundred dollars will buy you 8 pounds of glitter; 10 Domino's pizzas; 406 miniature disco balls from Temu; or 100 cans of Coors Light. For a friend's birthday party one year, Ayla D'Silva spent $100 on sour candy and made a "sour candy salad." Even sweeter was that she didn't have to foot the […]

GitHub热门项目 | git worktrees + tmux windows for zero-friction parallel dev | Stars: 1,708 | 62 stars this week | 语言: Rust

GitHub热门项目 | Open-source desktop app for downloading, organizing and studying media. Native cross-platform (Tauri + Rust + Svelte). PDF/EPUB reader with focus mode, timestamped notes and spaced repetition. Media downloads via yt-dlp (1.800+ sites). Extensible plugin system. | Stars: 6,293 | 96 stars today | 语言: Rust

The Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE employees.

Your Terminal Has Amnesia. I Fixed it. Every terminal I've ever used has the same problem. You close it. You open it again. It has no idea what happened yesterday. It doesn't remember the command that finally fixed that weird Cargo error after two hours of debugging. It doesn't remember that you always use pnpm instead of npm . It doesn't remember the project you spent all week working on. Every session starts from zero. After a while I realized something strange. My terminal forgot everything. I was the memory. So I started building Luna. It didn't start as an AI project. It started as a frustration. I'm a Computer Science student, and like most developers, I spend a huge part of my day inside a terminal. Not because terminals are exciting. Because that's where software gets built. After a few months I noticed I wasn't struggling with commands. I was struggling with remembering everything around them. Google the same error. Copy the solution. Paste it. Forget it. Repeat three weeks later. Or I'd switch to another project for a few days, come back, and think: "How did I solve this last time?" The terminal had no answer. It never does. History only tells you what you typed. It never tells you why . So I asked a simple question. What if the terminal remembered? Not just command history. Actually remembered. Projects. Errors. Directories. Commands that worked. Commands that failed. Patterns in how I work. That question eventually became Luna. Before writing any AI code, I had to answer another question. What exactly is Luna? A shell? A wrapper? A plugin? A chatbot? I realized pretty quickly I didn't want another tool sitting on top of Bash. I wanted something that actually felt like its own terminal. So Luna became its own shell. Not a plugin. Not an extension. A standalone binary written in Rust. How Luna actually works At a very high level, Luna is surprisingly simple. You │ ▼ Natural Language Input │ ▼ AI Provider (Groq • Gemini • Claude • OpenAI • Ollama...) │ ▼ Sa

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Andy Brinkmeyer shares how engineering leaders and architects can use Rust to build failure-proof systems. Moving beyond memory safety, he explains how ownership, enums, and the typestate pattern embed complex runtime protocols into compile-time checks. Learn to eliminate entire classes of bugs, manage real-world resources safely, and maximize codebase robustness effortlessly. By Andy Brinkmeyer

After stumbling by on an old machine for too long I finally got a new Macbook. I am now on current...

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在《南方公园》（South Park）长达二十余年的播映史中，观众们见证了无数荒诞的奇迹。我们曾以为这群四年级的孩子会永远停留在那个没有手机、只有雪地的虚构小镇里。然而，随着特辑《后新冠时代》（Post Covid）的推出，观众们终于看到了主角四人组人到中年的模样——斯坦变成了自私的中年危机男，凯尔成了秃顶的心理咨询师，卡特曼甚至讽刺地皈依了犹太教，而肯尼则成为了伟大的科学家。 “长大”这一曾经被视为不可触碰的禁忌剧情，最终还是真切地呈现在了我们面前。 那么，顺着这个逻辑，下一个尚未开拓、但 注定会到来 的剧情处女地是什么？ 答案只有一个： 现任父母一代（兰迪、杰拉德、史蒂芬、谢拉等）在南方公园度过的童年往事。 这不仅仅是一个粉丝的狂想，而是《南方公园》在叙事结构、商业逻辑以及核心主题演变下， 必定会发生且正在酝酿的终极剧情。 以下我们将从四个维度，深度解析为什么“父母辈童年篇”的出现是历史的必然。 一、 角色重心的位移：兰迪·马什已经成为事实上的“男主角” 要理解为什么父母的童年很重要，首先要看《南方公园》现在的核心是谁。 在早期的节目中，家长的功能非常单一——他们是孩子闯祸后的惩罚者，或者是荒谬社会现象的背景板。但随着创作者特雷·帕克（Trey Parker）和马特·斯通（Matt Stone）步入中年，他们的视角不可避免地发生了偏移。 斯坦的爸爸——兰迪·马什（Randy Marsh），已经从一个功能性配角，逐渐篡位成为了本剧事实上的第一男主角。 从种植大麻的“特种大麻（Tegridy Farms）”主线，到他各种中年危机的狂欢，兰迪的戏份和角色深度甚至超越了孩子们。观众不仅想看斯坦和凯尔，更想看兰迪又作了什么新死。 既然兰迪已经成为了灵魂人物，那么探索他的“前传”就具有了极高的叙事价值。兰迪是如何从一个地质学家变成如今的疯癫模样的？他和杰拉德（凯尔的爸爸）在童年时期有着怎样相爱相杀的关系？史蒂芬（巴特斯的爸爸）那近乎病态的严厉性格，是不是源于他自己童年时遭受的更可怕的“禁足”？ 给头牌角色写前传，是所有长寿美剧在后期挖掘角色深度、延长生命周期的必经之路。 二、 历史的镜像：南方公园是一个“代际宿命”的闭环 《南方公园》最核心的喜剧和讽刺张力，往往来源于 “历史的重复” 。 在《后新冠时代》中，我们看到长大的孩子们不可避免地活成了他们父母的样子：斯坦和兰迪一样酗酒、焦虑、与世界妥协。这种“长大后我就成了你”的幻灭感，是本剧最深刻的黑色幽默。 如果这个闭环要完整，我们就必须看到父母辈的童年。 我们可以预见到这样一幅充满讽刺艺术的画面： 在1980年代的南方公园，小兰迪、小杰拉德、小史蒂芬和小斯图尔特（肯尼的爸爸）也曾组成过一个“四人组”。 他们当时可能也面临着和今天的斯坦、凯尔一模一样的困境——愚蠢的父母、荒诞的镇长、莫名其妙的末日危机。 小兰迪可能曾是一个像斯坦一样理智、对世界充满正义感的孩子，他发誓“我以后绝对不要成为我爸那样无聊的中年人”；而小杰拉德可能比凯尔更具道德洁癖。 这种“屠龙少年终成恶龙”的跨时空对比，将产生无与伦比的戏剧冲击力。 它能将《南方公园》的荒诞主义升华为一种关于“宿命”和“时间”的哲学思考：每一个愚蠢的中年人，都曾是那个试图拯救世界的孩子。 三、 终极的情怀武器：80年代的怀旧经济学 从商业和流行文化的角度来看，主打“80年代怀旧”是当今影视圈的财富密码（想想《怪奇物语》的爆火）。 《南方公园》的创作者特雷和马特出生于60年代末、70年代初，他们的童年恰好度过在70年代末到80年代。对于这两个天才创作者来说， 解构并重塑自己的童年，是他们创作生涯中迟早要交出的一张答卷。 在“父母辈童年篇”中，他们可以肆无忌惮地致敬和讽刺他们自己成长年代的产物： 雅达利游戏机、卡式录音带、初代的MTV。 冷战时期的恐慌、里根时代的保守主义。 经典的80年代怪兽电影和校园青春片范式。 这不仅能吸引那些看着《南方公园》长大的老观众（他们现在也为人父母，有着强烈的怀旧需求），还能为剧集提供源源不断的全新文化素材，避免现代科技（AI、短视频）题材带来的创作疲劳。 四、 尚未填补的巨大剧情坑（Canon） 在现有的剧情碎片中，创作者其实已经有意无意地暗示了父母辈丰富的童年/青年往事，这些“坑”都在等待着被填满： 兰迪与杰拉德的大学基情 ：他们曾提到在大学时期探索过性取向，这段荒唐的青春期是如何过渡的？ 兰迪的男孩天团梦 ：兰迪年轻时曾是男子组合“Ghetto Avenue Boys”的成员，大红大紫后迅速过气，这段经历如何塑造了他渴望关注的性格？ 镇上大人们的恩怨 ：为什么卡特曼的妈妈莱安娜年轻时是全镇的交际花？莫普斯托博士的小白鼠实验在几十年前给小镇带来了什么灾难？ 这些零散的设定就像一颗颗散落的珍珠，急需一根名为“童年

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Week 16 shipped the AI background remover: Rust-native, ort + ISNet + libvips, no Python. That was the feature. Week 17 was not about writing more of it. It was about the boring, high-leverage part that most side projects skip: turning one working feature into pages that can actually rank, and wiring those pages together so search engines can find them. No new engine code this week. Just leverage on what already existed. Here is what that actually looked like. The problem: a hub with nothing pointing at it The background remover lives at /remove-background . That is the hub. The plan was classic hub-and-spoke: one general tool page, then use-case spokes that each target a specific intent (removing a signature background, prepping an Amazon product photo, and so on). I built two spokes this week. But halfway through, I looked at how internal links actually worked on the site and found the real problem: nothing linked from the hub to the spokes. The spokes linked back to the hub in their body text, but the hub had no idea they existed. Neither did the ~180 converter pages. Tool links on the site were hardcoded in a frontend constant, roughly: export const IMAGE_TOOLS = [ { label : " Compress JPG " , href : " /compress/jpg " , tool : " compress " }, { label : " Resize Image " , href : " /resize-image " , tool : " resize " }, { label : " Crop Image " , href : " /crop-image " , tool : " crop " }, { label : " Images to PDF " , href : " /images-to-pdf " , tool : " convert " }, ] as const ; That list covered the converter tools. It did not include the background remover or its spokes at all. So the new pages were orphans: reachable only through the sitemap, with no internal links carrying any signal to them. For a domain that is still young and still earning Google's trust, orphan pages get discovered slowly and rank even slower. The fix: one constant as the source of truth Instead of hardcoding links in three different places, I made a single constant describe the whole cl

There was a period in the early aughts when Definitive Jux (nee: Def Jux) seemed like it was going to be the future of hip hop. While the label featured plenty of experimental, boundary-pushing, and politically minded acts, Lif stood out as the most "conscious rapper" in the traditional sense. It was clear though, that […]

GitHub热门项目 | Macro is a unified interface for email, messages, tasks, calls, agents, pull requests, docs, crm — linked together with shared AI memory. | Stars: 366 | 67 stars this week | 语言: Rust

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Chemicals from accidents that injured or killed people increased by nearly 50 percent in recent years.

We have all been there. You walk into a room full of tech enthusiasts, the ambient noise is humming...