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2023.02.03
theverge.com2 min readTLDR

ENTER THE HUNTER SATELLITES PREPARING FOR SPACE WAR

True Anomaly is a startup that was created to solve orbital warfare problems for the US Space Force. It is preparing to launch two orbital pursuit satellites to low earth orbit capable of maneuvering close to other satellites and surveilling them. The satellites will have sensors that can reveal surveillance and weapons systems and intercept communications. The mission will involve the two satellites spying on each other. There is no indication that True Anomaly is developing its own offensive weapons.

2023.02.03
archive.ph4 min readTLDR

RTX

rtx is a tool for managing programming language and tool versions. It can automatically switch shells to the correct versions for each project on a machine. rtx modifies PATH ahead of time so the runtimes are called directly.

2023.02.03
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR

SIGNS THAT A STARTUP IS GOING BAD

The tech industry is experiencing a recession. People love to talk positively about startups on the way up. This article discusses how to assess a startup and tell when it is going bad. It looks at both externally observable indicators for people who are looking to join a startup and internally observable indicators for employees thinking about leaving a startup.

2023.02.03
swyx.io7 min readTLDR

GITMOJI

Gitmoji is an initiative to standardize and explain the use of emojis on GitHub commit messages for easier identification of the purpose of a commit.

2023.02.03
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR

FLEXBOARD

Flexboard is a React component library for re-sizable sidebars.

2023.02.03
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR

FACTORY

Freeform Future Corp., a five-year-old startup based in Los Angeles, wants to turn entire buildings into automated 3D-printing factories. It has developed a technique that uses dozens of lasers to create rocket engine chambers or car parts from metal powder. The company estimates that this method could make metal parts 25 to 50 times faster than current methods at a fraction of the cost. It has raised $45 million so far from investors including Founders Fund, Threshold Ventures, and Valor Equity Partners.

2023.02.02
archive.ph8 min readTLDR

LAYOFFS BROKE BIG TECH’S ELITE COLLEGE HIRING PIPELINE

Most tech interns were not worried by the rumors of hiring freezes in the summer of 2022. They were wrong and hundreds of thousands of jobs were lost over the following months. Unlike other years, many interns were not guaranteed return offers of full-time jobs prior to going back to school. Soon-to-be graduates who assumed that they would obtain employment have had to reconsider the value of these companies, their own prospects, and what they want from their careers.

2023.02.02
archive.ph3 min readTLDR

APITABLE

APITable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps.

2023.02.02
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR

Sponsored

2023.02.01
firehydrant.comSponsorTLDR

TEXT

2023.02.01
theverge.com8 min readTLDR

Sponsored

2023.02.01
landing.deepset.aiSponsorTLDR

THE RACE OF THE AI LABS HEATS UP

ChatGPT attracted 1 million users within five days of its launch in November, making it one of the fastest consumer product launches ever. It is transforming how the tech sector thinks about innovation and its engines. Labs are now competing fiercely to gain the upper hand in the race for AI supremacy. The winner of the race will decide how quickly AI will become commonplace and who will dominate it. There is currently no clear leader as the researchers from competing labs are in close contact and many advances are made public.

2023.02.01
archive.ph10 min readTLDR

THE SPACEPORT AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

Melness is a small Scottish town along the desolate northern shoreline. The local development board, in collaboration with the UK government, suggested building a spaceport on the empty peatland behind the town. This would give the UK the opportunity to become the first European country to launch a small satellite. After careful consideration, the town held a vote to decide whether they would support it, with the majority voting in favor of the project. Construction of the spaceport is set to begin later this year.

2023.02.01
archive.ph18 min readTLDR

MARKO

Marko extends the HTML language to allow the building of modern applications in a declarative way.

2023.02.01
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR