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GitHub Classroom sign-ups are no longer available
Starting today, new sign-ups for GitHub Classroom are no longer available as we transition to partner solutions. If you already have a GitHub Classroom account or existing classrooms, you can… The post GitHub Classroom sign-ups are no longer available appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Three TAG leads walk into the TOC
The 2026 CNCF TOC cohort has an unusual pattern: three of the incoming members; Brandt, former TAG Security, lead; Mario, former TAG Operational Resilience lead, and Mauricio Salatino, former TAG Developer Experience co-chair, came straight out of...
Saving for a Switch 2 is easier with Newegg’s gift card deal
If you foresee a bunch of Nintendo purchases in your future, Newegg’s deal on Nintendo gift cards might just help save your wallet. The retailer is offering a deal that lets gamers get $200 worth of credit towards games, consoles, and accessories for just $170. Best of all, the gift cards can stack in your account, letting you accrue enough to buy a Nintendo Switch 2 at a sweet discount. Nintendo eShop gift cards Where to Buy: $200 $170 at Newegg ($200) $100 $89.99 at Costco ($100) You don’
Rethinking Java CRUDs With Event Sourcing and CQRS Patterns
Traditional CRUD systems store only the current state of an entity. When a record is updated, the previous value is overwritten and lost forever. Event Sourcing inverts this model: instead of persisting state, the system persists the sequence of events that caused each state transition. The current state is never stored directly, but it is always derived by replaying the event history. Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) separates the write model from the read model. A command expres
Oppo’s Bubble is a thin round screen for taking rear camera selfies
Oppo launched a new smartphone accessory that makes it easier to snap selfies using your smartphone's rear cameras that typically feature better sensors than front-facing cameras. The Bubble offers similar functionality to the recently announced Insta360 Snap with a screen providing live camera previews so you can properly frame shots, plus remote camera controls and a shutter button. What sets the Bubble apart is a thinner design, wireless capabilities up to nearly 33 feet away, and, unfortunat
Govee included a book on ‘white supremacy’ in its website imagery
The sort of light reading material you’d expect to find in a child’s bedroom. | Image by Govee, compiled by The Verge Companies often include background props in their product imagery that serve as set dressing, but one of Govee's decorative choices is raising some eyebrows. An eagle-eyed Verge reader spotted that two copies of a book with "white supremacy" plastered on the spine were included in a lifestyle image on Govee's website, in a scene that seemingly depicts a child's bedroom. You'd b
Building Enterprise-Grade Real-Time IoT Dashboards with Vue 3, MQTT, and Kafka
The convergence of IoT, real-time data streaming, and modern frontend frameworks is redefining how engineers build enterprise monitoring systems. Over the course of designing and leading the Device IoT Platform — an enterprise-grade solution for real-time monitoring, configuration, and diagnostics of thousands of distributed network devices — I encountered and solved a core architectural challenge: how do you build a frontend dashboard that can handle hundreds of concurrent device telemetry stre
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