google.com/goto: Google’s anti-scraping update
Google is rolling out google.com/goto redirect URLs on SERPs. Here is what changed, why it targets scrapers, and how Autom updated its SERP…
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Engineering
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Dayzlegame spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
Google reported 21 installs in a day. The admin panel said 1. What the other 20 were, how a bot farm gets paid,…
Graybeard has a theory that software drives people insane
Graybeard has a little pet theory that software drives people insane. Not in the "wash your hands every thirty minutes like Howard Hughes"…
iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
Apple announced iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, delivering an advanced pro camera system and improved battery life and performance.
A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
Every language pitches async/await as synchronous-looking code, and the same two keywords appear everywhere. But behind the shared syntax hide nine independent design…
Shopify acquires Tailwind
Tailwind is joining Shopify to give Tailwind a stable long-term home where it will be actively maintained for the millions of people who…
How to build a printer
If you're giving Nishantjosh e-paper, Nishantjosh is going to make an e-printer.
AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA
Google is introducing AlphaGenome Atlas, a database predicting the effects of every possible single nucleotide variant in the human genome.
Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice
Alternative Twitter front-end. Contribute to zedeus/nitter development by creating an account on GitHub.
Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
Your open-source personal cloud: containerised apps, unified auth, good UX. Self-hosting should feel like using a smartphone that serves webapps, not a sysadmin…
Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
Alternative Twitter front-end. Fork of zedeus/nitter on GitHub.
Pre-Release of Polars 2.0
Preview of Python Polars 2.0, bringing the streaming engine to all lazy queries