The built in macOS tool, named `networkQuality`, measures your network's uplink and downlink capacity. It also determines the network's responsiveness, that is, its ability to effectively handle multiple devices and apps sharing the connection simultaneously /multitasking especially when connect via the WiFi. Give it a try if you are macOS user.
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Anti bloat IDEs. The good old days when you didn't need an internet connection, an API key/LLM subscription to write more bloat. People still built awesome games, apps, and solved real life scientific problems.
Spent an entire day writing a complex Bash script with nested loops, conditional logic, and error handling, only to realize the one line awk would've done it faster. Anyway, I'm a professional Linux sysadmin ๐ค
AI bots and summaries are stealing Wikipedia's traffic. Wikipedia, one of the last places, started feeling the heat of Google and other search engines' AI summary recently. They have lost 8% of human traffic while AI bot activities increased which increased its bandwidth costs by 50%. The Wikipedia blog warns that the decline in human traffic poses an existential risk to the Wikipedia ecosystem especially creation of new wiki article or updating older ones.
> While the majority of developers run with dark mode and syntax highlighting, a few just refuse to enable either ๐ฑ
I think it's a personal choice, and as long as they're productive and code pushed to prod works, that's what matters ๐
