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That Cloudflare Outage

The massive Cloudflare outage this week was caused by an SQL query that didn't filter its results sufficiently, which led to an input file with too many configuration records, which led to processing overload. Hackaday point out that input verification and error handling are basics of software development for reasons like this.

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Hosting A Website On A Vape

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Bogdan The Geek posted a blog on how to repurpose a disposable vape chip into a webserver.

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Grid Aware Website Constraints Case Study

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Branch magazine published an interesting case study of a grid aware website with feature constraints selectable by users, and surveyed the users of their awareness and preferences for feature reductions. Grey scaling images and removing images were the last options users implemented.

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EcoWeb Report 2025

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Climate Action Tech released their EcoWeb report, showing that there is a 30x gap in the emissions from websites that optimise for emissions reduction versus those that do not. The ICT sector accounts for 4% of global emissions, and every visit to every website contributes to these emissions.

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The First Website

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The first website created is still live. Learn more about it from CERN.

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Software Development Methods In The Age Of AI

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Yoko Li at a16z published an interesting list of development patterns and methods that are now changing to meet the new expectations of an AI tech landscape, such as dashboards being now designed to be consumed by AI agents, documentation becoming interactive via AI chatbots, and ho version control needs to change when developing with AI.

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Software Productivity Tips Better Than AI

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Codemanship published a list of software development team productivity tips that are still more effective than using AI coding assistants, such as smaller teams, more frequent releases, and cross-functional teams.

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Clinate UX Case Study At Intel

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Rosenfeld Media published an interesting case study about how Intel’s Software and Technology started to implement Climate UX in their projects, and how they found that measurement, tools, embedding in workflows, and user empowerment helped them successfully implement sustainability in their projects.

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Make Your Terminal Look Busy

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rust-stakeholder is a fun project that makes your terminal look very busy to anyone who happens to be looking over your shoulder.

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Undergraduate Invents New Hash Table Method

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Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate student at Rutgers University disproved a 40-year-old conjecture about the efficiency of hash tables and invented a more efficient way of accessing hash tables, partly because "Krapivin was not held back by the conventional wisdom for the simple reason that he was unaware of it."

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