David Heinemeier Hansson·3yX celebrates 60% savings from cloud exit
X celebrates a 60% reduction in monthly cloud costs by moving work out of the cloud and onto their own servers. They are on track to save $60 million per year from the cloud exit achievements so far, and they have achieved this with a team a quarter of the size of what it was. The success of X's strategy may inspire other large corporations to explore the savings potential of leaving the cloud.
Dhole Moments·3yReturn to Office Is Bullshit And Everyone Knows It
The article discusses the author's experience with forced relocation and returning to the office. They provide advice on dealing with ultimatums and make a prediction about the consequences for companies that implement forced relocation policies. The author also highlights the negative impact on H-1B visa employees.
Pointer·3ytwentyhq/twenty: Building a modern alternative to Salesforce, powered by the community.
Twenty CRM is a modern open-source CRM that offers full control and freedom to users. It allows users to shape the CRM according to their business objectives and provides powerful features. Users can add, filter, sort, edit, and track customers, create opportunities for each company, see rich notes tasks displayed in a timeline, create tasks on records, and navigate quickly using keyboard shortcuts and search. Frequent updates and extensibility are also promised. Joining the movement and getting started with Twenty CRM is encouraged.
Hacker News·3yI Accidentally Saved Half A Million Dollars — Ludicity
The author saved their company half a million dollars by optimizing costs in the Advanced Analytics Platform (AAP). The platform had numerous technical debt issues and inefficient processes. By making a simple change, the projected bill dropped from a million to half a million dollars.
Venture Beat·3yMeet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to ‘poison’ AI models with corrupted training data
A new open source tool called Nightshade allows artists to 'poison' AI models with corrupted training data by altering pixels in a way that is invisible to the human eye. Developed by University of Chicago researchers, Nightshade can cause AI models to learn the wrong names of objects and scenery they are looking at.
Laravel News·3yConfigure and Display a Schedule of Opening Hours in PHP
A PHP package called Opening Hours by Spatie allows users to query and format business operating hours, including exceptions for holidays and other specific dates. The package offers extensive configuration options and can be used in any PHP project.