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Spring Office Hours Podcast: S5E21 - Pro Spring Boot 4 with Felipe Gutierrez

How one connection kills a database

Think you could land a DBA job at GitHub? You've just been paged. Every query is failing to execute. Find out why. Years ago at GitHub, this was a question Sam Lambert would ask in interviews. The solution involved a downed database that started with a MySQL schema change needing an exclusive lock on a table, but it couldn't get one. Another session had already touched that table and never committed. That open transaction blocked the schema change. Once the schema change was waiting, new queri

Browser Run - Crawl endpoint now respects the Content Signals `use` directive

The /crawl endpoint now respects the use directive of the Content Signals ↗ standard, letting site owners express the maximum level at which their content may be used. You can declare your intended level with the new contentUse parameter. Allowed values, from least to most permissive, are reference and full, and the default is full. If a target site's robots.txt sets a use level that is more restrictive than your declared contentUse, the crawl request is rejected with a 400 error. curl -X POST '

Vercel Sandbox now calculates snapshot storage costs daily

Vercel now calculates charges for from each day’s average usage and adds them to your monthly invoice. Previously, billing used one average across the entire monthly billing period. Sandbox snapshot storage You can track these daily charges on the team’s and see how changes in storage affect your cost.Usage page The rate remains $0.08 per GB-month; only how usage is calculated has changed. The update takes effect automatically at the start of the next billing period for Pro and Enterprise team

Matrox: Graphics for Professionals

Article URL: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/matrox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503934 Points: 178 # Comments: 75

Can You Get Your Data Out of an AI Tool? The Right Exists on Paper, the Button Usually Doesn't

Sooner or later an AI tool will take something back. A feature you used gets retired on a deadline, a plan you were on gets restructured, or you simply decide to leave — and you go looking for the export button so you can carry your history, your chats, the reports and images the thing made for you, somewhere else. Often, there isn’t one. And when you reach for the law instead, you find something stranger than a flat “no”: a right that half-fits, written for a world before chatbots. Answer first

Sampling rate is a correctness property, not a performance knob

In 1997 a Pokémon episode aired in Japan with a four-second red-and-blue strobe. 685 children went to hospital that night. The regulations that followed — Ofcom Broadcasting Code 2.12, ITU-R BT.1702 — are why UK and Japanese broadcast deliveries have to clear a photosensitive-epilepsy check before transmission. I built a screening tool for that check. Live at flashframe-production.up.railway.app, code at github.com/edycutjong/flashframe. Three synthetic test clips ship with it, so you can click

Why Senior Developers Burn Out Faster Than Junior Devs

It shouldn't work this way. Seniors have more experience handling pressure. Better coping strategies. Clearer boundaries. More career capital to protect themselves with. By every reasonable measure, they should be more resilient to burnout than juniors. And yet the pattern is consistent: senior developers burn out harder, recover slower, and accumulate damage that takes longer to reverse than their junior counterparts hitting the same environmental pressure. The reason isn't psychological. It's