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How could I live till now without knowing this clip: The Expert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch)

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Jorge Sanchez Dec 29

Paris Marx Dec 20

🚨 THE RESULTS ARE IN 🚨

After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner!

The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is…

🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉

Jorge Sanchez Dec 29

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Paris Marx Dec 19

Here’s the full bracket to see how we got here! Plus, you can also cast a vote for third place this year, between Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg.

Vote now: https://twsu.forms.app/wpit25-final

Jorge Sanchez Dec 29

A lot of interesting angles in this new, should we prevent chinese technology? should we trust other that come from monopolies? Can bad choices on technology providers impact on our democracy quality? We definitely should embrace EU technology, but it has a cost.
https://militarnyi.com/en/articles/millions-of-eyes-and-ears-how-chinese-electric-cars-and-devices-threaten-ukraine-and-the-west/

Jorge Sanchez Dec 17

Charles Oliver Nutter Dec 4

Why not use Java's instanceof patterns to null-check values in the middle of an `if` statement?

https://blog.headius.com/2025/12/inline-null-check-with-instanceof.html

Non-null variable declaration in Java using instanceof patterns

Ever since JRuby 10 upgraded to Java 21, I’ve been re-learning Java with all the excellent language enhancements of the past decade. One of my favorites has to be the instanceof pattern matching features added in Java 16. Today I also realized I can use an instanceof pattern to null-check and assign a variable at the same time.

Jorge Sanchez Dec 5

Charles Oliver Nutter Dec 4

Somebody tell me why I shouldn't use instanceof pattern matching in Java to perform a null check plus variable declaration and assignment all at once:

if (obj.getValue() instanceof Value value) {
// use value
} else {
// it's null
}

Jorge Sanchez Dec 5

Global Museum Dec 5

Speaking of the #Hermitage, the Peacock Clock is one of the most extraordinary surviving 18th‑century #automata. Created in the late 1770s by James Cox, it was bought by Prince Grigory Potemkin for Catherine the Great, shipped to Russia in pieces, and reassembled there.
@xmuse_ #globalmuseum #museums #clocks

Jorge Sanchez Dec 5

Global Museum Dec 5

For those who've never seen film of Ernst Udet's unpowered landing at the 1933 Chicago International Air Race, here's a re-post.
@ron_eisele #globalmuseum #aviationhistory #history #flying

Jorge Sanchez Dec 3

Nicolas Fränkel 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪Dec 3

When #Documentation Lies: Detecting Drift Between Code and Reality

https://hackernoon.com/when-documentation-lies-detecting-drift-between-code-and-reality

When Documentation Lies: Detecting Drift Between Code and Reality | HackerNoon

Discovering the problem of outdated documentation and considering modern tools to works with it

Jorge Sanchez Dec 3

World Wide Web Consortium Dec 3

The CSS Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of CSS Backgrounds Module Level 4. This module contains the features of CSS relating to the backgrounds of boxes on the page.

CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, etc.

https://www.w3.org/news/2025/first-public-working-draft-css-backgrounds-module-level-4/