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Deep Dive: Akamai's $11.6B Anthropic Computing Acq…

Originally published at norvik.tech Introduction Analyzing the implications of Akamai's…

Four platform tools from Compound Labs

This issue carries platform tools from Compound Labs. Platform tools Each section names …

I got tired of always being three Java versions behind, so I built a little game to fix it

Java ships a new version every six months. I kept telling myself I'd read the release notes "someday…

Google's News API has been gone since 2016, and people still search for it

Search for "google news api" and a striking share of the results are people looking for something th…

Find startups the day they raise, before the press release, with 30 lines of Python

Funding announcements are old news by the time you read them. There's usually a gap of weeks between…

Microservices are organizational debt disguised as architecture.

Every time I’ve seen microservices pitched, it sounds great on paper. Independent teams, clean owner…

WHOIS is gone, RDAP replaced it, and a 404 does not mean what you think

If you last touched domain lookups a few years ago, the thing you remember is WHOIS: a plaintext pro…

10,789 American employers publish their whole job list in one HTML page

A Paylocity careers page looks like a React app: https://recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/jobs…

BrassRing has a JSON job search, and Home Depot publishes 23,982 jobs through it

Best Buy's careers site is a ServiceNow portal. Its apply links go somewhere else: sjobs.brassring.c…

Workday says the board has 2,000 jobs. Target has 12,525. Reading the rest.

Ask a Workday career site for its jobs and the first answer states a total: r = requests.post( …

Add EU VAT validation to Bubble

Introduction For developers building apps on Bubble, ensuring the validity of EU VAT numbers is cr…

Ruby vs Python: Best Books for Each in 2026

Both Ruby and Python have matured into ecosystems that power everything from startups to Fortune 500…