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At least 36 people are dead and 279 were missing after Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in three decades ripped through high-rise residential towers. DETAILS: bit.ly/482Akfs
Ed Chick retweeted
This is a big reason why passing and battles barely exist in F1 today. Clearing a car that long and having a worse turning radius has killed the funnest part of racing.
Ed Chick retweeted
The right thing for Oracle to do would be this for MySQL
xitter.cf/fb_engineering/status/…
Over 10 years ago, we open-sourced React. And now, we’re excited to announce the next chapter: React & React Native are transitioning to the React Foundation under the Linux Foundation.
Meta is committing $3M+ and a 5-year partnership to support this next chapter of innovation.
Learn more: engineering.fb.com/2025/10/0…
Ed Chick retweeted
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Ed Chick retweeted
Look, say what you will about it, but right click editing a PHP file in an FTP client with upload-on-save is still the tightest and fastest feedback loop I've ever had in my life. We actually don't know how to do this anymore as an industry.
Ed Chick retweeted
It's brutal going back to the MacBook keyboard after a year+ of using the @FrameworkPuter 13 and the Lofree Flow84. The short travel never bothered me when I was all-in on the Mac, but now that I've lived with 1.5mm+ of key travel, I can't help think "how was this ever okay??" 😂
Ed Chick retweeted
Here's what the first 30 mins of using Writebook have cooked up!
Loving the calm simplicity of the user experience.
Roll on the writing process.
You guys have made something very intimidating feel very exciting and enjoyable.
Thank you.
Ed Chick retweeted
I want to hire someone to create an open source project that has potential commercial upside. You can own it fully and I will pay your hourly rate for you to build it.
You must have strong infrastructure orchestration skills.
[email protected]
RTs appreciated.
Ed Chick retweeted
there are Vitess clusters that are 100PB in size doing over 50 million QPS. We have achieved linear scalability planetscale.com/blog/one-mil… so the constraining factor is compute availability. the largest Vitess cluster i know of has 70,000 servers in it.
Ed Chick retweeted
JPEG XL: Industry-leading image compression and fidelity jpegxl.info/ (news.ycombinator.com/item?id…)
Ed Chick retweeted
Wow, the jxl-in-chrome bugtracker exploded after Chrome tries to explain why they want to remove jxl: bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium…
Ed Chick retweeted
Speaking of languages…
Cantonese livestreamers say Douyin, China’s most popular video app, is cutting them off for speaking an “unrecognizable language,” and making them switch to Mandarin restofworld.org/2022/douyin-… via @restofworld
Ed Chick retweeted
New Podcast episode: China Makes Their Own x86 Processors, But Does It Matter?
Link: zpr.io/F6qtYi2kbHmj
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This is a shocking failure, driven by deaths among the Hong Kong's under-vaccinated elderly. It was clear to see coming, along with the mobile morgues that are now rolling in. Hong Kong's fatality rate is the highest in the developed world. @Lindadalew bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Ed Chick retweeted
Mark Yim, UPenn: Is Cost-Effective Robotics Interesting? - Northeastern Robotics - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=33RBJ67w…
Ed Chick retweeted
Live your life on your own terms little one.
The ending is so worth it. xitter.cf/uzunkokcan/status/1005…