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In this week’s edition:
Loads of awesome crypto, some incredible web development, TikTok and China, nerdy Linux services and tools, and the abundance rising-tide-lifts-all-boats mindset that the internet delivers
Issue details:
Another awesome issue of the newsletter. #
I think I've figured out why most blog posts aren't showing up on the everything page. There was a bug in the data ingest code that results in some cases in data getting over-written by the next set of data, so each month only had 1 blog post visible. I fixed the bug but ran out of build minutes while deploying thr fix. Very annoying.
The build minutes reset only happens in 19 days. Until then no coding or blogging now. I'll likely continue adding content to the Github repo, so it will eventually get published, but it sort of kills the blogging vibe. #
Today’s links:
tembo-io/pgmq - Looks interesting though currently only client libraries in Rust and Python. I previously had success using mongodb-queue, similar but with a mongodb backend. You can get oretty far implementing your own queue solution ontop of your existing database. Having a queue to handle backend website tasks like for example sending emails and processing inbound webhooks is vital for most projects. A self hosted solution gives you extra portability. github.com #
Writers and publishers in Singapore reject a government plan to train AI on their work - Looks like there's push back from creators to makers of LLMs all over the globe now. This case stood out because it's the first time I've seen a government training LLMs. It's encouraging both that they asked the writers and that the writers were comfortable voicing their opinions. restofworld.org #
🚀 Latest Newsletter: Everything 7/12th’s Crypto (Issue #163) markjgsmith.com #
The End of Social Media: An Interview With Jack Dorsey - Really great interview, might even be the best Dorsey interview I've read. He had the benefit of hindsight and distance from Twitter now, still on good terms with Elon, and working on some pretty great freedom projects ontop of Nostr. It's got me wondering about integrations I could create between my static site generator and Nostr. Just wish I hadn't ran out of build minutes earlier today because no one is going to read this linkblog post for 3 sodding weeks. I'm always impressed by how calm, collected abd zen Jack is despite everything being total chaos around him. www.piratewires.com #
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