Best of TwitterAugust 2022

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    Mark Zuckerberg spent $10B on the metaverse and all he got was this stupid selfie

    Mark Zuckerberg's latest "metaverse" selfie looks so bad, he's already owned himself harder than I possibly could. Zuckerberg posted a screenshot from Meta's Horizon Worlds (opens in new tab) on Facebook earlier this week. The screenshot is not just bad: it is exquisitely bad.

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    Why Developers Are Building So Many Side Projects

    A side project is usually a hobby programming project that a developer builds alongside their job. Instead of building one side project, developers are increasingly building lots of smaller projects.

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    How do database indexes work?

    Every month I send out a newsletter containing lots of interesting stuff for the modern PHP developer. Expect quick tips & tricks, interesting tutorials, opinions and packages.

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    How to Automate Your Linux Desktop

    In this tutorial, we will write a shell script and use X11 utilities to automate our Linux desktop. The objective of the article is to automatically set up our daily work environment with a single command. When I run the script, it will open the mail client in one workspace and open Reddit and Twitter websites in the chrome browser.

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    The Workflow Behind Changing AI-Generated Outfits in Motion

    The Workflow Behind Changing AI-Generated Outfits in Motion was created by Karen X. Cheng. She used DALL-E to generate clothes by erasing parts of her existing outfit and inpainting over it.

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    Docusaurus 2.0 🥳️: Meta's static site generator to build beautiful documentation websites

    Docusaurus 2.0 is a documentation static-site-generator, based on Node.js and React. It allows you to focus on content: just write Markdown files. It is already powering many great docs sites you know: React-Native, Redux, Tauri, Electron, Courier, Figma.

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    HTML fallback images on error

    The first image loads, and the second one is broken. We can use the onerror attribute on the image to set a fallback. You ideally want to have the fallback image locally in the file system.

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    Is COUNT(*) slow in MySQL?

    Every month I send out a newsletter containing lots of interesting stuff for the modern PHP developer. Expect quick tips & tricks, interesting tutorials, opinions and packages.

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    Stable Diffusion is a really big deal

    Stable Diffusion is a new ‘text-to-image diffusion model’ that was released to the public by Stability.ai six days ago. You can download and run the model on your own computer (if you have a powerful enough graphics card) You can use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes, I’m personally more concerned with the morality.

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    Don't Tell Me You Don't Know About These Online Tools Self-Developers Use!

    There is no arguing about how important the internet has helped and is still helping self-developers. There are basic tools that would get you started and help you improve your tech journey and make it a pleasant one. Here is a list of sites to check for the courses you wish to take on your journey.

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    When Billionaires And The Government Work Together To Control Information

    Facebook restricted visibility of the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story in the lead-up to the 2020 election. Facebook/Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said a decision was made to restrict that information on Facebook's multibillion-user platform. Facebook opted for the somewhat subtler option of censorship by The best way to see the stuff I publish is to subscribe to the mailing list.

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    A Big References Database Is Available for Free

    The images are taken from Character Design References' Pinterest, Frame by Frame's Tumblr, and FramebyFrame's Twitter and then sorted. You can find all kinds of references there, including cartoon and anime ones. There is also a folder containing animation frames as a backup for animators.

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    Open-source rival for OpenAI’s DALL-E runs on your graphics card

    Stable Diffusion is already expected to run on a single graphics card with 5.1 gigabytes of VRAM – bringing AI technology to the edge that until now has only been available through cloud services. The code and a trained model will be published as open source. There will be a hosted version with a web interface August 7, 2022 Stable diffusion. The model is also supposed to running on MacBooks with Apple's M1 chip.

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    Scaling Laravel to 100M+ jobs and 30,000 requests/minute

    Every month I send out a newsletter containing lots of interesting stuff for the modern PHP developer. Expect quick tips & tricks, interesting tutorials, opinions and packages.

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    Build a landing page for your SaaS app using React, Chakra UI and Typescript

    Chakra UI Chakra UI is a fantastic UI kit that comes with easy-to-use Front-end components. The hero section of your landing page is the most important above-the-fold item you can have. The Hero section will have a title, description, and a strong CTA to get the readers salivating.