shots fired:
> it’s abundantly clear that the talented folks who used to work on the product have moved on to bigger and better things, with the remaining rookies eager to inflict some kind of bloated, buggy JavaScript framework on us in the name of progress. Stuff that used to be snappy is now sluggish and often entirely broken.
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Amazon Leo,
formerly Project Kuiper,
is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network,
aiming to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities beyond the reach of existing networks.
Our initial satellite constellation will include more than 3,000 spacecraft,
which we began deploying in April 2025 when we sent our first 27 satellites into space.
That mission was the first of more than 80 to deploy our constellation
China's MiniMax releases M2.1, an upgrade to its open-source M2 model that it says has "significantly enhanced" coding capabilities in Rust, Java, and others (MiniMax)
https://www.minimax.io/news/minimax-m21
Falls jemand von Euch am 25.11. in Rio de Janeiro weilt, gehet hin und hört Sara Zlanabitnig spielen! #sound
https://www.instagram.com/p/DRXnpoXD7l3/?u
Wow, just noticed #ThingUmbrella reached 3700 stars on GitHub — I'm celebrating... 🤩🫠
Heartfelt thanks to all of you who've been helping along the way (in any shape & form) and been supporting this work for all these years and across different programming languages/camps! Merci beaucoup!!! Esp. big Thank You's to fellow fediverse people/supporters from various stages…
Fray Detects #Concurrency Issues in #JVM Languages
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/fray-de
This was an interesting problem to work on (back in 2017): A visualization of a path planner for 3D printing (FDM) a single layer/mesh structure of a multi-layer textile. Two setups of the same path strategy which optimized for longest continuous sub-paths and minimum rapids (distance without filament extrusion) between sub-paths. The planner supported six strategies in total, incl. optimizing for straight sub-paths and minimum amounts of "recent" crossings (to allow filament to co…
Utah launches a pilot program with health-tech startup Doctronic to let AI systems handle routine prescription renewals for patients with chronic conditions (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/06/artificial-intelligence-pres…