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ExternalSoftware Engineering

DEV Community10 Jul 2026

My results for an AI building challenge on almost no budget

I've been building projects I find interesting with AI tools since the beginning of the year, and lately I've been focusing on increasingly complex software, partially just as a challenge to myself, and partially to determine at what point the AI tools start to fail in the area of software development. For a recent project, I picked an intentionally too-ambitious goal: can I recreate most of a complex business application (in this case, Excel) in a week, for less than $100? How far can I actuall

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ExternalTechnology Trends

Ars Technica10 Jul 2026

Flores Hobbits' eating habits offer clues about their evolutionary past

If Homo floresiensis wasn't a fire-using hunter, its origins could be different than we thought.

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ExternalSoftware Architecture

AWS Architecture Blog10 Jul 2026

Specification-driven composition for flexible data workflows

Specification-driven composition addresses a common scalability bottleneck in data pipelines. Data pipelines often start as simple scripts, but as they grow, you duplicate transformation logic and small changes cascade across multiple workflows. Copying and modifying data transformation logic across scripts leads to workflows that become difficult to manage at scale. Tracking what each pipeline does […]

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ExternalTechnology Trends

HN RSS Best10 Jul 2026

Why American ambulance rides are so expensive

Article URL: https://davidoks.blog/p/why-american-ambulance-rides-are Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48853091 Points: 305 # Comments: 440

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ExternalCybersecurity

BleepingComputer10 Jul 2026

OpenMandriva Linux says contributor tried to sabotage the project

The OpenMandriva Linux project announced that it was the target of an attempted act of internal sabotage after a dispute among contributors. [...]

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ExternalMobile Development

Apple Developer News10 Jul 2026

Age rating questionnaire now includes social media questions

As announced in June, new Time Allowances in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, or later, give parents more flexible ways to manage the time their kids spend in apps across categories, including Entertainment, Games, and Social Media. To support this, the age rating questionnaire in App Store Connect now includes questions about your app’s social media capabilities. A social media capability is defined as the ability to redistribute, amplify, or interact with user-generated content through a socia

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ExternalTechnology Trends

Ars Technica9 Jul 2026