When designing APIs, using web links rather than exposing database keys has several advantages.

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Guidance for designing humane digital products and services focused around digital well-being.

Running network services inside AWS Lambda Functions

And scientists in Illinois have recreated it.

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First 60 @SpaceX Starlink satellites loaded into Falcon fairing. Tight fit.

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Credentialed authorities are comically bad at predicting the future. But reliable forecasting is possible.

Instead of disappearing, the pesky rodents proliferated.

Data has long been lauded as a competitive moat for companies, and that narrative’s been further hyped with the recent wave of AI startups. Network effects have been similarly promoted as a defensible force in building software businesses. So of …