Happy Tuesday! Let's take it step by step!
Geek Gossip
#Spotify - Spotify briefly went down for many users on Monday. It seems to have been resolved at the time of publishing this story.
#OrbitWars - A newly deployed Chinese satellite came within a few hundred meters of one of the roughly 9,000 Starlink satellites currently operating in low Earth orbit. SpaceX is laying the blame on the satellite operator for not sharing location data.
Latest Updates
Ola Electric Launches Same Day Registration And Delivery
Ola electrics have announced that they have launched same-day registration and delivery of their Bharat Cell-powered vehicles in Bengaluru, with 4680 units available.
Changelog
No other updates. Tis a slow Monday
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Dembrandt | Extract any website’s design system into tokens in seconds: logo, colors, typography, borders & more. One command.
Devalue | Like JSON stringify, but handles other edge cases where JSON stringify fails
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Miscellaneous
How Pinterest Built A Real Time Radar For Violative Content
In this article, you will learn about Pinterest's approach to measuring online safety, specifically the concept of prevalence, which is the percentage of views on the platform that go to content that violates a policy. You will understand how Pinterest uses prevalence to complement user reports, uncover under-reported harms, and track trends. You will also learn about the challenges of measuring prevalence historically and how Pinterest addressed them by building an AI-assisted workflow.
Claude Agent Skills Deep Dive
Claude’s prompt-based meta-tool architecture extends LLM capabilities through specialized instruction injection. Unlike traditional function calling or code execution, skills operate through prompt expansion and context modification to modify how Claude processes subsequent requests. The decision-making happens entirely within the skill descriptions provided.
Making Complex Web Apps Faster
Microsoft proposes Delayed Message Timing API to diagnose and address slowdowns in web app performance, particularly when exchanging messages between multiple contexts, iframes, or worker threads.
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