Walk into most organizations today and ask what they’re spending on SaaS. Odds are, no one can give you a confident answer. Not because they don’t want to, it’s because no one actually knows. Ask a different question: who owns SaaS spend in your company? You’ll likely hear three things: “Finance handles it,” “That’s IT’s…
With data becoming a more valuable business asset than ever, informing decision-making, enhancing operational efficiency, and enabling businesses to gain a competitive edge, hyper-personalization is transforming how businesses interact with customers. Taking data analysis to a new frontier through the deployment of AI at scale to identify hidden consumer patterns and preferences, hyper-personalization is fast…
Target SDK Updates Are Breaking Apps in 2025 — Here’s the Fix Google Won’t Tell You It was a normal Tuesday. Coffee in one hand, Android Studio in the other. I hit Build → Generate APK… and 💥 my app imploded. A rejection email from the Play Store popped up: “Your app must target API…
GitHub Home You Might Not Need WebSockets: The Simple Power of Server-Sent Events 🤫 In our toolbox, there are always a few “star” tools. 🛠️ In the realm of real-time web communication, WebSocket is undoubtedly the brightest star. It’s powerful, supports bidirectional communication, and has become the “default answer” for almost all real-time needs. So,…
Google’s NotebookLM now supports Video Overviews in dozens of languages The upgrade gives Video Overviews the same language options as the Audio Overviews NotebookLM creates its summaries from actual uploaded documents Google’s NotebookLM first debuted its AI-powered research tool with Audio Overviews capable of making AI-produced ‘podcasts’ with digital hosts. The logical extension into Video…
AI-generated music is becoming more widespread but not necessarily popular. And that’s just the publicly acknowledged AI music. Now, artists are dealing with seeing their name and voice attached to music they never performed or approved of, even if they passed away decades ago. The most recent high-profile incident occurred when English folk singer Emily…
Here is the recording from my livestream with Rafael Levi from Bright Data. In the stream, we show you how to create a daily newsletter on the topics you care about powered by real-time data from your favorite sources. In our demo, we walk you through building an agentic workflow in n8n that automates the…
If you’re running a Laravel app and want an easy way to back it up to Azure Blob Storage without Docker images or third-party SaaS tools, here’s a self-contained Bash script that does exactly that. It backs up: Your Laravel project files (with exclusions like vendor/ and logs) Your MySQL database (via mysqldump) Packages everything…
In Go, a weak pointer refers to a reference that does not prevent the garbage collector (GC) from reclaiming the target object. When an object is only referenced by weak pointers and has no strong references, the GC will still treat it as unreachable and reclaim it; afterwards, all weak pointers to it will automatically…
