Category: Software
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GitHub Home Your Error Handling is a Mess, and It’s Costing You 💸 I still remember the bug that kept me up all night. A payment callback endpoint, when handling a rare, exceptional status code from a third-party payment gateway, had a .catch() that was accidentally omitted from a Promise chain. The result? No logs,…
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JWT stands for JSON Web Token, and it’s one of those terms you’ll constantly come across in modern web development. At its core, a JWT is a JSON-based open standard format that allows you to represent specific claims securely between two parties. The exciting part is how widely JWT is used, especially in microservice architectures…
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In a video game, a single upgrade enhances your abilities, while combining multiple can create an unstoppable power-up. In the world of software development, this combined power does something similar: At GitHub, we believe it can empower developers with an incredible force to tackle any challenge, whether that’s fixing a critical bug, adding a new…
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One of our favorites, Andy Clarke, on the one thing keeping the CSS contrast-color() function from true glory: For my website design, I chose a dark blue background colour (#212E45) and light text (#d3d5da). This colour is off-white to soften the contrast between background and foreground colours, while maintaining a decent level for accessibility considerations.…
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Python is having a moment—its adoption jumped notably year-over-year, propelled by AI, data, and back-end work. Rust and Go are steadily rising too. AI is now table stakes. 8 in 10 devs report using GPT models for development tasks, with Claude and Gemini in the mix; devs also say AI causes new frictions they turn…
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Nono La Grinta | A COLORS SHOW Paris-based rapper Nono La Grinta delivers every line with razor-sharp precision and raw grit in this uncompromising COLORS performance. Catch his full set on COLORS’ YouTube channel, and follow him on TikTok and Instagram for more behind-the-scenes action. COLORS is all about minimalistic stages and showcasing fresh global…
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Dutch-born artist SABRI pours soul and vulnerability into her COLORS debut, performing her latest single “Sold Myself For Love” straight from her new EP What I Feel Now. The stripped-back approach lets her raw vocals and emotive lyrics take center stage, making it a can’t-miss moment for fans of heartfelt pop. COLORS, the minimalist music…
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Reinforcement learning (RL) is one of the most powerful paradigms in artificial intelligence. Unlike supervised learning where you train models on labeled datasets, RL agents learn through direct interaction with their environment, receiving rewards or penalties for their actions. In this tutorial, you will build a Tic-Tac-Toe AI that learns optimal strategies through Q-learning, a…
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Cairo Dock finally supports Wayland. If you’re desktop environment uses Wayland, KDE Plasma’s KWin, Labwc, Wayfire, COSMIC, Sway, or Hyprland, then you too can install and use this popular dock. The one caveat is that Cairo Dock still does not support Gnome or Ubuntu Desktop. If you are lucky enough to use Cairo, you’ll also…
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Just over a year ago, System76 released the first alpha of COSMIC desktop, with the intention of including it as the default desktop environment for Pop!_OS 24.04. With the beta release, they’ve succeeded that and more. Now available for general testing, Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta is an LTS release (as it is based on Ubuntu 24.04),…