It feels like only yesterday that the internet was abuzz with the news that Xiaomi – best known for its smartphones, watches and wearables – smashed the electric production car record at Germany’s infamous Nurburgring. The SU7 Ultra beat the formidable Porsche Taycan Turbo GT and the $2.5m Rimac Nevera, as well as shaming the…
It probably hasn’t escaped your attention that Windows 10 support expires on October 14, 2025. Given that, there’s precious little time left before those who remain on the operating system without taking any action will be left with no security updates. Those patches are vital protection for your system, and without them, an unsupported version…
Most people think Python’s built-ins are for beginners, but the truth is they secretly power faster teams, cleaner code, and decisions at scale ↓ I ignored tools like divmod, slice, and memoryview for years. Then I tested them on real work, not toy scripts. The speed and clarity gains were hard to ignore. Tiny tools…
💡 Database Isolation Levels Imagine you’re driving through a busy intersection. Cars = transactions Intersection = database Traffic lights = isolation levels If there are no rules, everyone just drives whenever they want → chaos. That’s why databases use Isolation Levels: rules that control how transactions move so data doesn’t crash into each other. 🚦…
How to Persist Tool Permissions in Amazon Q Developer CLI Background When using Amazon Q Developer CLI, permission requests appear every time tools are called, interrupting the workflow. Even after granting permission multiple times in the same project, the requests reappear when the session changes, making it tedious to repeat the same actions repeatedly. This…
This is a submission for the AI Agents Challenge powered by n8n and Bright Data What I Built I created an AI-Powered Instagram Growth Predictor that analyzes Instagram profiles and predicts which accounts will become the next viral stars. The system solves a critical problem in the $16 billion influencer marketing industry: brands and agencies…
Previously, we set up the foundational elements for our world, including a lobby where players spawn and a basic game area for our future maze. In this part, we’ll focus on implementing the core server-side logic for both the players and game controllers. We’ll handle player state management, allow players to press a button to…
Before we jump into today’s session, I want to give a big shoutout to our amazing Semester 2 instructors! We’ve got Oladapo Abimbola a brilliant computer programmer with solid experience in cloud technologies and Abubakar Siddiq Ango a Developer Education and Community Leader, and also a Developer Relations Engineer. We’re super lucky to have both…
The iconic floppy disk is reborn as a storage case for today’s terabyte-packing SD cards From 1.44MB past to terabyte present, the new design bridges eras creatively Fun artwork references glitch aesthetics and retro computing Floppy disks are unquestionably a relic from the past, although they still keep resurfacing in unusual places – most recently,…
5G phones can be silently downgraded to insecure 4G, leaving the device exposed The exploit works without setting up expensive and complex fake towers Tested smartphones include flagship models from Samsung, Google, Huawei, and OnePlus In late 2023, researchers uncovered a set of flaws in 5G modem firmware from major chipmakers, including MediaTek and Qualcomm,…
