Hashnode·5y18 Awesome Linux Themes For Your Inspiration 🎨😍
The other day I was browsing Reddit and bookmarked some neat custom-made, one-of-a-kind interfaces from fellow Unix users. I decided to share my findings, so you can get some inspiration, too. To find out the configuration details of each setup, click on the author's username.
TechCrunch·5yFacebook changes its corporate branding to Meta – TechCrunch
After 17 years of being called Facebook, the social networking parent company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus has a new name. Facebook’s corporate entity is now Meta. Facebook had been laying the groundwork for this change for months, seemingly in an effort to move its core branding further from the negative headlines surrounding its most popular product.
The Next Web·5yFacebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger are all DOWN
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger have all gone down in a huge global outage. The issues appear to have been caused by a Domain Name Server (DNS) failure. Facebook said it was aware of the issues and was “working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.
Quastor Daily·5yPrinciples for API Design
Slack has a set of 6 design principles that can help you design better APIs. Facebook had their worst outage since 2008. The issue was related to DNS, specifically BGP routing and BGP announcements. Plus, a couple awesome tech snippets on Python 3.10 Best practices for Logging.
Quastor Daily·5yClean Code - Part 3
Facebook built a platform that all backend services can use to automatically shard their applications. Shard Manager manages tens of millions of shards hosted on hundreds of thousands of servers. It is used for hundreds of applications in production. The root cause of the Internet outage was a failure in Akamai’s Edge DNS service.
InfoQ·5yFacebook CSS-in-JS Solution Stylex Introduced at React Finland 2021
QCon Plus (November 1-12) and stay ahead of the tech that matters to keep your skills fresh. Facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in professional software development. Rosaria Silipo on Codeless Deep Learning and Visual Programming. EBPF enables high-performance tools to connect, manage and secure applications in the cloud.
TechCrunch·5yHacker leaks Twitch source code and creator payout data – TechCrunch
Leaker claims to have taken Twitch source code, creator payouts and other data. Twitch confirmed the breach in a tweet on Wednesday. The data contains payouts for each Twitch user, some of which reach into the six-figures. The leak could also represent a security risk, since it now allows practically anyone to search for security vulnerabilities.
Planet Xamarin·5yGoodbye Android Emulators, the Windows Subsystem for Android is Here!
Windows Subsystem for Android lets you develop, debug, and deploy your Android apps from your favorite IDE. There is no Android launcher because Windows is the launcher of the apps. There are a few things to be aware of with WSA. It isn't an emulator, which means you don't get to control the skin.
React Native·5yAnnouncing React Native 0.66 · React Native
React Native v0.66 for Android 12 and iOS 15 support alongside fixes and general updates. New app template now includes a CocoaPods workaround (thanks to @mikehardy!). New Bluetooth permissions on Android and we plan to update the targetSDKVersion to 31 in the next release.
Hashnode·5yHow To See Which Branch Your Teammate Is On In Android Studio
GitLive lets you see which of your teammates are working on an issue. Click the issue name to see the current version of the issue. Hover over the issue to see how long it has been in the pipeline. Use the tool to help you find your next issue.
Krebs on Security·5yWhat Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp? – Krebs on Security
Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. We don’t yet know why this happened, but the how is clear: something inside Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital records that tell computers and other Internet-enabled devices how to find these destinations.
Quastor Daily·5yPrinciples for API Design
Slack has a set of 6 design principles that can help you design better APIs. Facebook had their worst outage since 2008. The issue was related to DNS, specifically BGP routing and BGP announcements. Plus, a couple awesome tech snippets on Python 3.10 Best practices for Logging.
Hacker Noon·5yThe 10 Best PS1 Games of All Time Ranked by Sales
The PlayStation 1 was released in 1994 and helped Sony make a name for itself in the video game industry. Metal Gear Solid was released for the PlayStation in 1998 and sold 7 million copies. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is the best-selling game on the PS1.
The Hacker News·5yTwitch Suffers Massive 125GB Data and Source Code Leak Due to Server Misconfiguration
An anonymous poster on the 4chan messaging board leaked Twitch's source code. The data was exposed "due to an error in a Twitch server configuration change," Twitch said. A forum user claimed the hack is designed to "foster more disruption and competition in the online video streaming space"
Hashnode·5yTell Me About A Time You Had To Handle Pressure
Behavioral Interview Round is also known as the Jedi Interview round at Facebook. The purpose of this interview is to assess whether the candidate will thrive in Facebook's peer-to-peer, minimal process, and unstructured engineering organization. For Software Engineers, the behavioral interview is actually part behavioral and part coding.
DEV·5y3 tips from "Atomic habits" that helped me on my journey to becoming a full-stack dev at Microsoft
I joined Microsoft as a full-stack developer last month and the announcement tweet went viral. Many of the things that I talk about are mentioned in the amazing book Atomic habits by James Clear. This article is not a place for tips and tricks or a list of important questions to crack any particular interview. It was a long & gradual process for me and I'm just listing down what worked for me.