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Monday, 24 February 2025
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Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Beyond Docker Compose: An Alternative for Deploying Postgres for Testing
Testing applications with Postgres presents a common challenge: how do you provide each developer and CI pipeline with isolated, consistent databases to test against? Docker Compose has emerged as the standard solution, offering containerized Postgres instances that can be spun u...
Podcasts: Practical AI / TWIML / No Priors / Dwarkesh
GenAI hot takes and bad use cases
It seems like all we hear about are the great use cases for GenAI, but where should you NOT be using the technology? On this episode Chris and Daniel share their hot takes and bad use cases. Some may surprise you! Sponsors: Domo – The AI and data products platform. Strengthen your entire data…
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
What Starship can, and can't, do
SpaceX is set to conduct another Starship test flight as soon as the end of this week. Jeff Foust reports that, as the giant vehicle gets closer to operations, more people are thinking about both the potential uses of the vehicle and those where it may not be as competitive.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Space literacy: Environmental education for a spacefaring civilization
More than a century ago, the conservation movement sought to educate the public on the benefits of preserving the environment. Beverly and Robert Bachelder describe how similar education is needed to show the public the importance of preserving the space environment.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Remote sensing and the international law of space
The commercial remote sensing industry has grown significantly as more companies offer high-resolution images of the Earth taken from space. Richard Carson examines some unresolved international space law issues of the field.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Review: Space to Grow
The growth of the space industry has generated plenty of hype, but far less rational analysis. Jeff Foust reviews a book that examines the industry's rise rooted in the fundamentals of economics.
Martin Fowler / Overreacted / Kent C. Dodds / Josh Comeau
A Million Little Secrets
I spent the past few weeks packing as many easter eggs as I could into my latest project, and in this blog post, I want to dig into some of the more interesting details! If you’re interested in animations/interactions, you’ll want to check this one out; I share a bunch of my favourite secrets and…
Hugging Face Blog
Remote VAEs for decoding with Inference Endpoints 🤗