Tootfinder

The Custom #Tenant Code Nightmare (And How to Wake Up) 🏗️
🔥 Managing dozens of customer branches wastes 40% of development time on merges instead of features
🎨 Custom Views: Use fallback patterns
or customer-specific directories for branding without logic changes
⚙️ Custom Services: Swap implementations via dependency injection - same interface, different providers
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Apple CEO Cook isn’t pulling an iger and being a coward, is he?
Of course he is.
The Real Reason Apple Postponed New Jessica Chastain Series 'The Savant'
https://parade.com/tv/the-real-reasonjessica-chastain-apple-show-the-savant-p…

Improving After-sales Service: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Time Slot Assignment with Commitments and Customer Preferences
Xiao Mao, Albert H. Schrotenboer, Guohua Wu, Willem van Jaarsveld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17870

Improving After-sales Service: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Time Slot Assignment with Commitments and Customer Preferences
Problem definition: For original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), high-tech maintenance is a strategic component in after-sales services, involving close coordination between customers and service engineers. Each customer suggests several time slots for their maintenance task, from which the OEM must select one. This decision needs to be made promptly to support customers' planning. At the end of each day, routes for service engineers are planned to fulfill the tasks scheduled for the following …

EU-Kommission verlangt Auskunft von US-Tech-Riesen zu Betrug
Apple, Google, Microsoft und Booking müssen der EU-Kommission offenlegen, wie sie Nutzer vor Betrug schützen. Folgen die nächsten Verfahren gegen Tech-Riesen?

Intel says it may exit cutting-edge manufacturing if it can't secure customers for its 14A process, a major shift for the long-time steward of Moore's Law (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Apples Update-Kalender: Wann mit den nächsten Versionen gerechnet wird
Apple liebt bekanntlich wiederkehrende Muster. Der Blick auf die letzten Jahre lässt erahnen, wie es für iOS 26, macOS 26 & Co. weitergehen könnte.

“Carefully managing electric vehicle demand could cut all U.S. electric bills by 10% annually, regardless of whether a customer owns an EV, according to new research from Brattle and ev. energy.”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/managed-e

Managed EV charging could generate $30B in annual savings by 2035: report
Carefully managing electric vehicle demand could cut all U.S. electric bills by 10% annually, regardless of whether a customer owns an EV, according to new research from ev.energy and The Brattle Group.

T-Mobile's Starlink-powered satellite service T-Satellite is now generally available as a standalone subscription for US users, not just T-Mobile customers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/712546/starlink-powered-t-sate…

Starlink-powered ‘T-Satellite’ service is now live on T-Mobile
T-Mobile is rolling out its Starlink-powered satellite service, T-Satellite, which will let customers with supported devices send text messages and share their location without cellular service.

Feuerprobe für Liquid Glass: Public Beta von iOS, iPadOS und macOS 26 verfügbar
Später als gewöhnlich bietet Apple öffentliche Vorabversionen seiner nächsten Systeme an. Das viel diskutierte neue Design stellt sich einem Millionenpublikum.

I chose a new home for my blogging and articles:
#DigitalMigration

Migrating Stuff
changing the place I blog, post articles and...stuff So I've chosen stuff.davidaugust.com as my new custom domain for this site. Setting up a custom domain with ghost, the software running this site, is pretty straightforward. I did it a few minutes ago and already can now access