🌕 NASA Reconsiders SpaceX’s Role in Artemis Moon Mission
A pivotal moment for Artemis that could reshape NASA’s commercial partnerships and intensify competition in the global race back to the Moon.
NASA’s acting administrator Sean Duffy hinted that SpaceX could lose its $2.9 billion lunar lander contract for Artemis III due to Starship delays. The agency may reopen bids to include Blue Origin and other contenders as it races to land astronauts before China’s 2030 goal. NASA requested accelerated development plans from both major contractors by the end of October.
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💰 Cutting Heroku Costs: From $3000 to $55 with a Single Server
A powerful case study in pragmatic infrastructure management—showing how automation and minimalism can deliver enterprise-grade efficiency on a startup budget.
Idealist.org slashed infrastructure costs by moving from Heroku to a $55/month Hetzner server powered by Disco. By emulating Heroku’s deployment flow and consolidating Postgres instances, the team maintained developer productivity while eliminating thousands in monthly PaaS expenses.
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🛡️ Hackers Exploit SharePoint to Breach US Nuclear Facility
A stark reminder that cybersecurity frameworks must evolve alongside hybrid IT–OT systems, especially when national defense infrastructure is at stake.
Attackers leveraged Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities to infiltrate a U.S. nuclear weapons site, revealing serious gaps between IT and operational technology systems. Experts stress that inconsistent zero-trust adoption across federal infrastructure leaves critical assets exposed.
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🔗 KDE Connect: Bridging Your Devices Seamlessly
An excellent developer resource that embodies KDE’s open-source ethos and focus on seamless cross-device communication.
The KDE Connect wiki explains how to build, use, and extend the tool that links desktop and mobile devices for file sharing, notifications, remote control, and SMS management. It offers technical details for Linux, Windows, Android, macOS, and iOS, along with development and contribution guidelines.
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💻 Just Use cURL: The Command-Line Classic That Still Rules
A refreshing ode to the elegance of simplicity—a reminder that mastery of fundamental tools often beats shiny new interfaces.
This witty piece champions cURL as a faster, simpler, and more capable alternative to GUI tools like Postman for HTTP requests. It playfully mocks modern software bloat while praising the power and efficiency of traditional command-line utilities.
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⌨️ Modal Editing: A Historical Accident That Shaped Developer Culture
An insightful reflection on how software history influences modern developer workflows, revealing how much we owe to the quirks of early design choices.
Hillel Wayne explores how modal editing, born from vi and its ancestors, became widespread more by historical accident than by design. He traces its roots to early editors like Xerox Bravo and argues that vi’s dominance—not its modality—cemented its legacy.
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🪡 Six Months of Tangled: Building a Federated Git Platform
An exciting glimpse into the decentralized future of developer collaboration—where open protocols and reproducibility take precedence over centralized control.
The Tangled team recaps six months of developing their federated Git hosting service built on the AT Protocol. Key milestones include Jujutsu-based pull requests, a Nixery-powered CI system, and expanded federation capabilities designed for independence from Bluesky.
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🧠 Magit Is Amazing: A Developer’s Reflection on Git and Habits
A relatable look at how powerful developer tools like Magit influence not only productivity but also our willingness to experiment beyond comfort zones.
The author shares their experience using Magit, the Emacs interface for Git, reflecting on how it shaped their workflow and understanding of version control. They contrast Magit’s convenience with Git’s CLI and admit it might discourage exploring newer systems like Jujutsu.
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