💻 Laptops Adorned with Creative Stickers
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🧵 iPhone Pocket: A Minimalist Fashion-Tech Collaboration
A perfect example of Apple’s strategy to merge technology with high-end fashion, positioning its ecosystem as a lifestyle brand rather than just hardware.
Apple and ISSEY MIYAKE introduce the ‘iPhone Pocket’, a 3D-knitted accessory made in Japan to hold iPhones and essentials. Inspired by MIYAKE’s pleated fabrics, it combines artful design with function, available in multiple styles and colors from November 14. The product embodies both simplicity and craft in wearable tech design.
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💡 How I Fell in Love with Erlang
A heartfelt reflection on how a programming language can transform one’s way of thinking about systems, reliability, and simplicity.
The author narrates their journey from early programming struggles to discovering Erlang’s beauty and resilience. Transitioning from imperative to functional paradigms, they find inspiration in Erlang’s distributed, fault-tolerant architecture. The story celebrates functional programming as both a mindset and a craft.
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🤝 Collaboration Sucks
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💰 SoftBank Sells Its Entire Stake in Nvidia
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🐾 DotMeow: A Domain for the Queer Community
An inventive use of internet infrastructure economics to sustain queer communities—blending governance, equity, and open-source spirit.
DotMeow, a queer-led non-profit, plans to launch the ‘.meow’ top-level domain to finance LGBTQ+ and trans-centered initiatives. Modeled after Mozilla’s dual foundation-and-tech structure, it channels most registration fees into community grants. The ‘.meow’ domain uniquely mandates that profits must serve social causes.
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🦀 Just Call Clone (or Alias)
A thoughtful refinement that could make Rust’s ergonomics more approachable without sacrificing its core performance principles.
Niko Matsakis outlines a Rust proposal to simplify ownership and cloning semantics with compiler-backed transformations that remove redundant clone or alias calls. This would make closures and async functions smoother to write while maintaining performance guarantees. The approach strives to be both beginner-friendly and zero-cost for experts.
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🦊 Firefox Expands Fingerprint Protections
A strong step in Mozilla’s privacy-first strategy, likely to influence browser competition and standard-setting across the web.
Mozilla’s Firefox 145 enhances fingerprinting defenses, cutting unique user traceability by almost half. The update tightens control over subtle hardware and software identifiers, available in Private Browsing and ETP Strict modes. The move balances robust privacy with reliable site performance.
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🧠 The Terminal of the Future
A visionary rethinking of the terminal as a living workspace—bridging programming, dataflow, and automation into a seamless developer experience.
Jyn’s essay envisions next-generation terminal environments that transcend 1980s constraints through persistent sessions, transactional operations, and structured interaction. Integrating ideas from tools like Warp, tmux, and Jupyter, it proposes a staged redesign toward more interactive and intelligent shell experiences.
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🌐 Grebedoc: Static Site Hosting for Git Forges
A compelling example of open-source self-reliance, Grebedoc demonstrates how communities can reclaim hosting infrastructure from centralized providers.
Grebedoc.dev is a community-run open-source hosting service for Git forges such as Codeberg, Forgejo, Gitea, and GitHub. Similar to GitHub Pages, it emphasizes decentralization and user control, using git-pages with Caddy TLS and DNS-based verification. Managed by Catherine ‘whitequark’ and collaborators, it aims to offer a transparent, redundant, and public utility for open collaboration.
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