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Textile artist Rianne Aarts, who creates stunning woven wall hangings using only natural materials such as hand-spun wool, cotton cords, and non-toxic dyes and pigments, has a new fiber wall hangings collection called REFRAMED that continues her previous work, which used hand-dyed and placed strings to create beautiful gradients and geometric patterns.
Atari is having a renaissance in 2024, returning to being both a publisher and a game developer, even building new hardware like the Atari 2600+ console.
About half of Gen Alphas (ages 10 and younger) stream video content daily. By age 8, most of them are on social media for up to 3 hours a day. 30% of parents said Disney+ is the streaming platform their children use most. 50% said YouTube tops the list of social platforms. 60% of the generation has watched a pro sports event on TV. 47% have watched college sports on TV. The NFL, NBA, MLB, and men’s soccer are the most popular sports among Alphas.
As people are increasingly turning to LLMs to search for product information, companies are becoming more concerned about how these LLMs perceive their brand. While companies can’t change what the models already “know” about the brand, they can put out new content in hopes of ensuring positive associations of their brand names within AI language models. Right now, that exposure happens mainly when a model is trained using a huge compressed version of all the content on the internet.
Sherpany, a meeting management platform, found in user research that its target audience saw the product as “just another meeting solution.” To better communicate its unique value proposition, the company repurposed some of its expert content into a Digital Transformation strategy guide and offered it as a lead magnet. Sherpany used this to test a completely new lead funnel, which resulted in a 58% increase in platform demo requests.
As consumer habits evolve amidst economic uncertainty, businesses are exploring innovative approaches to drive growth and improve retention. Loyalty programs that integrate pricing strategies such as memberships through price-based benefits are very promising avenues. However, challenges such as organizational coordination and analytical complexities pose obstacles to fully integrating the approach. This article discusses the main hurdles and the suggested approaches.
Companies often have their case studies tucked away on a tab on their site and wait for prospects to navigate their way to them. A better practice is to put SEO power behind case studies and turn them into an “always-on” asset. First, determine a category keyword by describing what your product is or does. Next, decide on the use case you’ll discuss for the article. Then gather case studies that match the use case and start creating case studies. Each case study should include the current situation/plan, how you’ve helped them, and numbers to back up your claims.
Understanding customer acquisition cost payback time is crucial for SaaS companies, especially those without long-term retention data. This article explores the nuances and challenges of calculating CAC payback, addressing specific questions on what costs to include, churn, the impact of long sales cycles, and more. It emphasizes the importance of aligning sales and marketing spend with future CAC projections and debunks myths surrounding industry benchmarks.
Screaming Frog is effective for finding pages without anchor text, pages that are linking to a specific response code, and pages with a higher crawl depth. Google Search Console is useful for finding pages with high volumes of external and internal links pointing toward them. You can use these URLs as a base to link out to other pages. Ahrefs is more user-friendly when it comes to finding broken internal links, redirect issues, and orphaned pages.
Amplitude, a digital analytics platform, is in the business of making its customers more money. The company built its product to be able to attribute revenue to specific product investments, making it a transformative tool for product-led growth. Its go-to-market strategy initially focused on a subset of its TAM to maintain focus. In doing so, the team honed in on effective sales to purchase experience. Content has also been a central pillar of Amplitude’s customer acquisition strategy, as it drives traffic, creates awareness, feeds its funnel, and builds its authoritative brand.
Mental accounting describes why we treat money differently based on how we label it. This explains why we tend to spend more when we pay with a credit card instead of cash, as well as why we are willing to purchase currency in video games. Brands can apply this knowledge by offering installment payment options, emphasizing long-term savings in subscription pricing tiers, and enticing customers to return with cash vouchers.
Monetization calls-to-action should be a different color than functional calls-to-action in freemium products - special monetization colors make it easier for customers to understand what they can unlock in a paid plan and helps products sell themselves.
Facebook rolled out a vertical-first video player in a move to attract younger users while positioning itself as a potential alternative in case of a TikTok ban in the US.
An infographic that shows 70 blogging tips categorized by SEO, attitude, content, target, layout, and network.
The MMO Palia has a complex architecture, using Unreal Engine for its game engine and a microservice approach with services for specific player features. The game uses ScyllaDB (column store) for its main database along with PostgreSQL for specific use cases where a relational model is necessary. This article goes into deep detail about the architecture of the MMO and the reasoning behind each decision.
Netflix heavily uses Java for its backend apps. It started with a microservice architecture that evolved over time to incorporate new technologies. Initially, the company employed Groovy scripts and reactive programming for tailored API responses. It has since migrated to GraphQL Federation for a unified API, removing the need for custom backend layers. Netflix uses recent Java versions for performance gains and actively uses Spring Boot.
When we build layouts in CSS, we always wanted a way to change a specific UI based on the width of its container, not the viewport. CSS container queries help us to write truly fluid components that change based on their container size. This is a deep-dive tutorial into container queries.
GitHub Copilot is more effective if you provide it with more context. This means giving Copilot full visibility into projects, adding top-level comments, having meaningful names, and providing example code. Devs should also take advantage of Copilot’s built-in features, such as its inline chat.
Text expanders are a smarter alternative to learning to type faster. You define short abbreviations for frequently used text and the tool automatically expands them as you type. This saves time and lets you “type faster” without actually increasing your typing speed.
Developers shouldn’t let ego get in the way of asking for help. Asking for help shows a commitment to success, both for themselves and the product. Furthermore, getting stuck shows that there’s something to learn. Experienced teammates can offer valuable insights and techniques beyond just solving the immediate problem.
LLocalSearch is a locally-running meta search engine that uses LLM Agents. Users can ask it questions and the system will use a chain of LLMs to find the answer. Users can see the progress of the agents and the final answer.
Fx is a terminal JSON viewer and processor.
Borp is a test runner optimized for Node.js with built-in TypeScript support and code coverage capabilities via c8.
This article discusses how and why pair programming is so effective, how you can treat your AI assistant as a paired programmer, and the best ways to make this pairing work (as well as the methods that don’t). A good working paradigm is for the AI to focus on the syntax and implementation, while the human focuses on the big picture and provides instant code review. This can reduce the feedback window between code and code review to minutes, allowing you to iterate and elaborate on ideas without futzing about with semicolons and type definitions.
The Generative AI bubble might be unsustainable. Despite significant advancements in the space, there are still core issues like hallucinations and security risks, and revenue generation remains disproportionately low. If no groundbreaking solution emerges to address these problems and justify the high costs by the end of 2024, the bubble may begin to burst.
Jpegli is a new JPEG coding library by Google that can compress high-quality images 35% more than traditional JPEG codecs.
A research report by Microsoft about what makes a great software engineer.
A funny classification of programming languages as P-languages (scripting), C-languages (prone to undefined behavior), J-languages (object-oriented focus), and others.
Intl.Segmenter, a native way to split strings into words, sentences, and even graphemes, will reach cross-browser support with Firefox 125 (out on April 16).
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The Apple Vision Pro's new Spatial Personas feature creates floating animated portraits in users' session spaces, using AI to sync the avatar to match users' head, mouth, and hand movements. It uses real-time movement tracking to create a more personal sensation of the other user being in the room. 2D tiles are still the default. The feature works with up to five users on a FaceTime call. Spatial Personas is still in beta.
Tesla reported a drop in vehicle deliveries in the first quarter. Deliveries are the closest approximation of sales reported by Tesla. The numbers for the quarter fell far below even the most bearish of analysts' expectations. Tesla faced numerous challenges in the first quarter. The company has scheduled an earnings call on April 23 to discuss quarterly results.
A team from the University of Utah has developed an all-in-one hybrid energy-generation unit designed specifically for eye-based tech. The device combines a flexible silicon solar cell with a device that converts electrolytes within tears into energy. It can reliably supply enough electricity to operate smart contacts and other ocular devices. The system is an exciting development in the realm of smart contact lenses as the field has been held back by a lack of a sustainable power source.
Researchers have created a wearable brain-computer interface (BCI) that allows wearers to play games using their minds. The cap can be used without extensive calibration or the invasive surgical procedures required by other BCIs. It has been tested on healthy people with no motor impairments who were able to use it to control robots within minutes. The technology has yet to be proven on people with disabilities.
Bun is an all-in-one toolkit for running, building, testing, and debugging JavaScript and TypeScript. Its 1.1 update contains thousands of bug fixes, tons of new features and APIs, and Windows support. This post details the changes in Bun 1.1. The Bun team is currently hiring for its in-person team in San Francisco.
Lightning Whisper MLX is an incredibly fast implementation of Whisper optimized for Apple Silicon. It features batched decoding for higher throughput, distilled models for faster decoding, and quantized models for faster memory movement. Lightning Whisper MLX is 10 times faster than Whisper CPP and four times faster than the current MLX Whisper implementation.
Malware can hijack login sessions by accessing browser cookies. Google is trying to mitigate this threat with a new system called Device Bound Session Credentials, which uses encryption to prevent hijacking attempts. It will develop the system openly on GitHub as a public coding project. There is already a prototype of the system running as an experiment for some users on Chrome Beta. Google plans to kick off more trials of the system with website developers and users by the end of the year.
A new 'right to disconnect' proposition introduced in California, if passed, would make employers in California lay out exactly what a person's hours are and ensure that they aren't required to respond to work-related communications while off the clock. There are exceptions for emergencies and salaried employees may have periods in which they may have to work longer hours. Companies would be fined a minimum of $100 for wrongdoing. It is unclear how much support exists for the bill, which follows similar legislation in other countries.
Yahoo is acquiring Artifact’s tech rather than its team - Artifact's co-founders will be 'special advisors' for Yahoo but won't be joining the company and the company's five remaining employees have either gotten other jobs or are planning to take some time off.
At least three high-level Meta AI employees, including senior director of engineering Erik Meijer, senior director of generative AI Devi Parikh, and research scientist Abhishek Das, have departed from the company in the past few weeks to strike out on their own.
Amazon is switching its 'Just Walk Out' system to 'Dash Carts', where customers scan products as they put them into carts.
This post explains how Cloudflare integrated a Python implementation into workerd, an open-source Workers runtime, going into how Python Workers work, what its team learned in the process, and what's next for the company.
'Jia Tan', the attacker who implemented the first serious known supply chain attack on widely used open source software, worked as a diligent, effective contributor to the xz compression library for over two years.
We live on the edge of experiencing historic global catastrophes every day - the solution is to have many people working on a large number of solutions to make these catastrophes even less likely.
A wallet thought to belong to the US government transferred 30,175 Bitcoins on Tuesday morning. According to Arkham Intelligence, the destination of the transfer is Coinbase, suggesting that the government may be planning to sell the coins. The Department of Justice seized 50,000 Bitcoins from the Silk Road website in 2022. The last sale of these coins was in 2023.
Trading volume for Bitcoin ETFs exploded in March, almost tripling February’s $42.2 billion total. BlackRock and Fidelity’s products remain the most popular, with $18 billion and $10 billion in assets under management respectively. Grayscale’s trust-turned-ETF has seen $15 billion in total outflows, declining from about 619,000 BTC to
ERC721-C is a standard that enables creators to implement programmable and enforceable creator earnings on-chain. Now using Hooks in Seaport v.16, creators can set conditions that need to be fulfilled before NFTs in their collections can be transferred.
Gasp is a new cross-rollup protocol that addresses liquidity fragmentation among Layer 2s. It plans to enable gas-free, MEV-protected cross-rollup swaps at near-instant speeds using ZK proofs and decentralized sequencers. Gasp will leverage EigenLayer for transaction facilitation and finality. The project was previously called Mangata and pivoted from its initial plans to be a Polkadot DEX.
This Coinbase Institutional report provides an overview of restaking, as popularized by EigenLayer and Ethereum. It highlights the potential for restaking to become a core part of Ethereum’s infrastructure, enabling validators to earn additional rewards by securing actively validated services (AVS). The market is pricing in extremely high yields from AVSs, which may return to more reasonable values as the ecosystem matures. There are also complexities and risks associated with liquid restaking tokens (LRTs) that might be hidden from users.
This article provides a thorough overview of the cryptocurrency market for Q2, covering major coins, altcoins, NFTs, airdrops, and key narratives. In particular, it discusses bullish catalysts for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, gives a view of the state of the NFT market, and highlights anticipated airdrops and new token launches. It also outlines narratives surrounding the Bitcoin halving, ETH ETFs, SocialFi, AI coins, and modular blockchains.