Month: December 2025

Alan Dye, the man who has spent the last decade shaping how Apple’s software looks and feels, is heading to Meta. On December 3, Meta confirmed that it has hired Dye, Apple’s longtime head of human interface design, as chief design officer, effective December 31, 2025. Reuters notes that Dye joined Apple in 2006 and … Read more

How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Code Review Anti-Patterns: How to Stop Nitpicking Syntax and Start Improving Architecture By @nikitakothari [ 5 Min read ] Code reviews … Read more

Swift’s new #Predicate macro turns query filtering into a type-safe, compile-time-checked process for SwiftData, but it requires comparing scalar identifiers—not whole objects—to generate valid database expressions. This guide explains how it works, why object comparisons fail, and the correct pattern for writing robust SwiftData filters.

This guide walks you through enabling IIS Client Certificate Mapping Authentication on Windows 11 via Windows Features, explains how One-to-One and Many-to-One mappings work, and answers key questions about certificate-based authentication and CA trust requirements.

In 2024, a senior data scientist in Lagos applied for a remote role with a European fintech company. His credentials were strong, his references solid, and the team interviewing him seemed enthusiastic. Then the calls stopped. Only later did he learn why. n When the company’s internal search tools tried to build a background profile, … Read more

I closed another tab today. A $49-a-month “neuroscience-based mind training” app promises to “improve your focus span” through gamified, focused sessions. I’m tired. Not because my attention span has waned, but because the entire genre of productivity wellness has become exhausting. Somewhere along the line, “doing good work” has morphed into a performance identity and … Read more

What Is Authorization, Really? Let’s start with the fundamentals. Authorization is the process of determining what you’re allowed to do after the system knows who you are. Think of it this way: authentication is showing your ID at the door, proving you are who you say you are. Authorization is what happens next: the bouncer … Read more

Windows 11 can bypass the legacy 260-character file path limit by enabling Long Paths through either the Settings menu or the Registry Editor. This guide walks through both methods, explains common errors like 0x80010135, and covers how to troubleshoot apps or cloud services that still enforce old path restrictions.

What if you could produce a 10-minute animated sitcom episode just by typing text into a box? No drawing, no voice acting, no keyframing. Just a script and a button. Welcome to Flatopia, an open-source animation engine built on Python. Using the power of Manim (the math animation library) and Streamlit, Flatopia generates fully voiced, 2D animated episodes where … Read more

Launched in March, 2025, Kilo Code is an open source coding agent that can be configured for a range of tasks.

I’m a senior full-stack developer who still cringes at AI-generated code in production. But tools like Copilot, Cursor, and Claude already save me hours every week – not by writing code for me, but by reading code, exploring messy open-source projects, and filling gaps where documentation is missing.

Windows 11 updates can sometimes slow your system or cause apps to malfunction. This guide walks through every safe method—Settings, Control Panel, CMD, PowerShell, and troubleshooters—to uninstall or hide troublesome updates and restore stability.

When Common Sense Media—the organisation with 1.2 million teachers on its roster—put Google’s kid-friendly AI through its paces, they found a system that talks the safety talk but stumbles when it comes to protecting actual children.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Block, and other major tech players have united to launch the Agentic AI Foundation.

Explore Structured Concurrency in Swift: parent/child relationship, automatic cancellation, task groups, and more.

This article explains how the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) works in Windows 11, how to manage it via Services, CMD, PowerShell, and BITSadmin, and how to troubleshoot common issues using the built-in BITS troubleshooter.

Setting up development environments takes time. Doing this more than once is a time sink and prone to error. So how can we reduce setup complexity and quickly get to productively writing code ? I’ve been looking at this problem and applying it to my own apps for AI with Google ADK and Python. We … Read more

It’s been 6 months since the first release of Postgresus. During this time, the project received 247 commits, new features, as well as ~2.8k stars on GitHub and ~42k downloads from Docker Hub. The project community has also grown, there are now 13 contributors and 90 people in the Telegram group. In this article I’ll … Read more

The global financial order is built on trust, treaties, and the unspoken agreement that the United States Dollar is the ultimate store of value. For eighty years, this consensus has held firm. But in December 2025, the bedrock is cracking—not because of war or famine, but because of a mathematical inevitability known in game theory … Read more