Going Beyond The Map: Introducing Environment APIs
- Jennifer Anderson tl;dr: Google Maps Platform has introduced a new suite of Environment APIs, designed to help developers create tools that encourage sustainable practices and adapt to new environmental realities. The suite includes three APIs: Solar, Air Quality, and Pollen. The Solar API aims to accelerate solar adoption by providing precise data and insights on solar viability and design. The Air Quality API offers reliable air quality data, visualization via heatmaps, and in-depth pollutant details. The Pollen API provides real-time pollen information for common allergens worldwide, offering localized pollen count data, heatmap visualizations, and actionable tips for allergy sufferers.featured in #444
QA Wolf Exits Stealth With An End-To-End Service For Software Testing
tl;dr: QA Wolf has exited stealth, securing $20 million for its platform that automates and ostensibly streamlines the process of testing web-accessible software apps.featured in #398
Docker Is Deleting Open Source Organisations - What You Need To Know
- Alex Ellis tl;dr: “Yesterday, Docker sent an email to any Docker Hub user who had created an "organisation", telling them their account will be deleted including all images, if they do not upgrade to a paid team plan. The email contained a link to a tersely written PDF (since, silently edited) which was missing many important details which caused significant anxiety and additional work for open source maintainers.” Alex discusses the implications of this.featured in #398
Inside The Lab That’s Growing Mushroom Computers
- Charlotte Hu tl;dr: “…Researchers can use the presence or absence of a spike as their zero or one, and code the different timing and spacing of the spikes that are detected to correlate to the various gates seen in computer programming language (or, and, etc). Further, if you stimulate mycelium at two separate points, then conductivity between them increases, and they communicate faster, and more reliably, allowing memory to be established. This is like how brain cells form habits.”featured in #394
What Big Tech Layoffs Suggest For The Industry
- Gergely Orosz tl;dr: Gergely discusses rapid shifts in the engineering job market. "It’s certain we’ll see a correction of 2021-22’s hiring frenzy and it’s a given that Big Tech will hire much less this year than in 2022, while the question remains whether other large tech companies will follow suit and announce layoffs in the coming months."featured in #382
Record-Breaking Chip Can Transmit Entire Internet's Traffic Per Second
- Michael Irving tl;dr: "The speed record for data transmission using a single light source and optical chip has been shattered once again. Engineers have transmitted data at a blistering rate of 1.84 petabits per second (Pbit/s), almost twice the global internet traffic per second."featured in #363
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The Scoop: Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time
- Gergely Orosz tl;dr: Gergely covers a timeline of events, cause of the outage, what customers are saying, the impact of the outage on Atlassian’s business, learnings from this outage, and more.featured in #308
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Open Source Maintainer Pulls The Plug On Npm Packages Colors And Faker, Now What?
- Liran Tal tl;dr: "The open source maintainer of the wildly popular npm package colors intentionally introduced an offending commit that adds an infinite loop to the source code. The infinite loop is triggered and executed immediately upon initialization of the package’s source code, and would result in a DoS."featured in #281