TLDR 2023-02-03

If you’re building a fintech product, you’re building a ledger database. In this tech talk, Modern Treasury discuss best practices for ledger design with Tom Taubkin, current CEO at Boosted Technologies and former engineer at Coinbase:

• Where ledgers fall in the broader architecture of a fintech application

• The major challenges in building a financial ledger and how to address them

• Red flags to avoid, and advice on how to scale internal ledger databases

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Mark Zuckerberg said he wants to make 2023 the 'year of efficiency' during Meta's fourth-quarter earnings call with investors. This will mean a flattening of Meta's organizational structure and removing some layers of middle management. Meta will be more proactive about cutting underperforming or non-critical projects. Its stock price went up nearly 20 percent after the earnings call.

A Tesla Cybertruck has been spotted in Palo Alto, California. The Cybertruck is due to start production in a few months. Tesla plans to ramp up volume production of the vehicle in 2024. The company recently built a fleet of Cybertruck Beta prototypes. A picture of the Cybertruck spotted in Palo Alto is available in the article.

True Anomaly is a startup that was created to solve orbital warfare problems for the US Space Force. It is preparing to launch two orbital pursuit satellites to low earth orbit capable of maneuvering close to other satellites and surveilling them. The satellites will have sensors that can reveal surveillance and weapons systems and intercept communications. The mission will involve the two satellites spying on each other. There is no indication that True Anomaly is developing its own offensive weapons.

Scientists have discovered a new type of amorphous ice. Amorphous ice is ice with water molecules that aren't arranged in a neat pattern. The new ice was created by mashing up normal ice using a technique called ball milling. It could be a glass state of water. Glasses are made by cooling liquids quickly enough so that the molecules are unable to arrange into crystal structures.

Penpot is the first open-source design and prototyping tool that allows full collaboration between designers and developers, thanks to features like Flex Layout and Code Inspect. It’s the only one that can be web based or self-hosted. Furthermore, the tool works with open web standards (SVG) avoiding vendor lock-in and giving teams absolute freedom in their designs.  

Penpot is free, check it out now

Despite being critical for the functioning of the Internet, virtually all open source maintainers are either volunteers or full-time employees of large companies. This article tells the story of how an ex-Google developer left their role to explore sustainable paths for open-source maintainers. It is possible to be a professional maintainer earning rates competitive with the adjacent market for senior software engineers. The developer ended up with six clients that pay them the money equivalent of the total compensation package they received from Google.

rtx is a tool for managing programming language and tool versions. It can automatically switch shells to the correct versions for each project on a machine. rtx modifies PATH ahead of time so the runtimes are called directly.

Current stock price swings indicate the presence of an AI bubble. AI is likely the most exciting paradigm since the personal computer. While it promises new opportunities, its returns are unlikely to be distributed equally. Some companies are capitalizing on the bubble by labeling themselves as AI companies, but not all of them will last in the long run.

The tech industry is experiencing a recession. People love to talk positively about startups on the way up. This article discusses how to assess a startup and tell when it is going bad. It looks at both externally observable indicators for people who are looking to join a startup and internally observable indicators for employees thinking about leaving a startup.

QA Wolf will write, run, and maintain your end-to-end test suite — with 80% end-to-end coverage guaranteed within 4 months. Start with a risk-free pilot

Gitmoji is an initiative to standardize and explain the use of emojis on GitHub commit messages for easier identification of the purpose of a commit.

Twitter will no longer support free access to its API from February 9.

Flexboard is a React component library for re-sizable sidebars.

Apple is managing costs very tightly due to broader economic conditions but it will avoid laying off employees.

DB Webhooks is a utility for Postgres that triggers webhooks when rows are inserted, updated, or deleted.

The code request was related to LaMDA, Google's natural language chatbot.

Viz.ai is hiring a Solutions Engineer to build, manage, and improve critical infrastructure and components for a company that uses AI algorithms and machine learning to increase the speed of diagnosis and care in more than 1,200 hospitals and health systems in the US and Europe.

Futurex is hiring a Firmware Engineer to develop innovative, software-based solutions for a globally recognized provider of hardened, enterprise-class data security solutions.

saas.group is a third-party recruiter hiring for a Senior Developer to support the creation of concepts, architectures, and ongoing development of products for a company that optimizes websites and online shops for long-term online success.