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On September 3rd I launched Vesper, a cross-platform Christian prayer app for Android and iOS, as my entry in the RevenueCat 2026 Shipaton. This is not just a basic app thrown together quickly for this context, though: I have spent months building it and iterating on the features and design,
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As mentioned in the Series Introduction, Ballast is a foundational piece of the architecture of the Vesper app. Ballast is the architecture of the frontend application, and it is the Kotlin-language interface to the server-side schedules and background queue workloads. An understanding of Ballast and the problems it was designed
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Since the launch of OwlVigil, I have been contemplating a key objective: fully unlocking its capabilities for developers, enabling seamless integration of AI management functionalities and fostering the creation of innovative products built on top of these capabilities. We have developed a comprehensive set of APIs and have been developing
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During the California Gold Rush, hundreds of thousands of people showed up chasing gold. Most of them left with less money than they arrived with. The people who actually got rich weren’t panning in the river. They were named Levi Strauss and Sam Brannan, and they were selling pickaxes,
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If you have ever hurried through a major transit hub at rush hour, you probably noticed the crowd, the signs, and the train you were about to miss. You probably did not notice the security network quietly moving video, alarms, sensor data, and operator commands behind the walls. That is
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I've been tracking Solana's Alpenglow upgrade since it entered community testing, and it's one of the more unusual moves I've seen in consensus design: a live network swapping out its entire finality mechanism while it keeps settling billions of dollars in value.
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The default way schools adopt AI is to send student work to a vendor's cloud. That choice creates three problems at once, and all three land hardest on the schools with the least money. First, student data leaves the building. Minors' writing, questions, and mistakes travel to
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Payroll and HR started as separate purchases for a reason. For years, the software that paid people and the software that managed them came from different vendors and sat in different databases. That split creates the tax every growing company knows, re-keying the same employee data into two systems and
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A category-by-category look at autonomous penetration testing, from attack-chain exploitation to continuous retesting Plenty of products wear the "autonomous" label. Fewer earn it. Per the Astra's State of Pentesting research most run a scheduled scanner, match your stack against a CVE list, and hand you a
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I’ve found past Aqara products, like the multipurpose security sensor, particularly useful, but at IFA 2026, the security company is swerving in an entirely new direction: smart lighting. Entering the lighting world is a bold move for Aqara, but I’m not totally surprised. Showing off a suite of
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Being in a low-fire, low-hire economy only makes matters worse. Job postings are scarce. Scams and ghost jobs are enough of a problem that some states are looking to write new laws to combat them. Both job seekers and employers say they're experiencing a breakdown of trust. Candidates
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The new extreme sport: Windows Updates BORK!BORK!BORK! Windows 10 is lingering on after its friends have gone home, plaintively flickering out an update notification on a digital sign at London's O2 arena. The sign was advertising the venue and some of the activities available inside, including
