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The 99.9999999% Uptime Weapon: How Erlang/OTP Powers The World's Most Reliable Systems

What do WhatsApp, telecom networks, and banking systems have in common? They use a 30-year-old 'secret weapon' called Erlang/OTP to achieve near-perfect reliability. This is the story of a technology designed to never fail.

August 25, 2025

#Development #Technology
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The Unsung Hero of the Internet: The Story of FFmpeg

Every time you watch a YouTube video, use VLC, or even see images from the Mars Rover, you're using FFmpeg. It's the invisible backbone of all multimedia, a project started by one brilliant programmer that has become a cornerstone of the internet.

August 25, 2025

#Development #Open Source
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The Tool That's on Every Senior Dev's Machine (And Why It's Not 'top')

For decades, 'top' was the standard for monitoring your system. Then a developer named Hisham Muhammad got frustrated and decided to build something better. This is the story of htop, the tool that's a beloved 'known secret' of the Linux world.

August 25, 2025

#Linux #Development #Open Source
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The Four-Day Workweek: Fad or Future? A Data-Driven Analysis

The idea of a four-day workweek is gaining momentum, but is it a sustainable model for the future of work or just a passing trend? We dive into the data.

August 25, 2025

#Future of Work #Labor #Mindset #Opinion
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The Silent Conquest: How ARM Chips Went From Your Phone to Ruling the Tech World

ARM architecture was known for low-power mobile chips. Now, it's at the heart of the most powerful devices from Apple and Amazon, challenging Intel's long-standing dominance. This is the story of a silent revolution in silicon.

August 25, 2025

#Hardware #Development #Technology
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The Cosmic Crisis: Why Astronomers Can't Agree on the Universe's Expansion

Two different, highly precise methods of measuring the expansion of the universe give two different answers. This discrepancy, known as the Hubble Tension, has become a genuine crisis in cosmology, and it might hint at a completely new kind of physics.

August 24, 2025

#Astronomy #Science
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The Data Deluge from the Heavens: How AI is Saving Astronomy

Modern telescopes are collecting more data in a single night than Hubble did in its entire lifetime. This data deluge is overwhelming, but AI is emerging as the unsung hero, allowing astronomers to find needles in a cosmic haystack.

August 24, 2025

#Astronomy #Science #AI
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Beyond the Glass Slab: Is This the Future We Were Promised?

The smartphone is a marvel of engineering, but its form factor has stagnated. As AI-native devices emerge, are we seeing the next evolution or just a weird transitional phase?

August 24, 2025

#Mobile #AI #Future #Hardware
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The New Financial Weapon: Are We All at Risk of Being Debanked?

Debanking used to be for criminals. Now, it's being used as a political tool to silence dissent. How secure is your financial access when your beliefs can make you a target?

August 24, 2025

#Debanking #Politics #Finance #Freedom