# engine (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 239 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover engine. Page: Feed: --- ## [Boeing workers reject contract offer at crucial moment for company](https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-workers-reject-contract-offer-at-crucial-moment-for-company/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_boeing-aerospace) _2026-08-21 · Lauren Rosenblatt · The Seattle Times Boeing & Aerospace – The Seattle Times_ Boeing’s engineering and technicians union voted Friday to reject the company’s contract offer and authorize its negotiating team to call for a strike. ## [Max Verstappen Signs 4-Year Contract Extension With Red Bull](https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7526075/2026/08/20/max-verstappen-red-bull-contract-extension/) _2026-08-21 · The New York Times · NYT \> Automobiles_ Earlier this year, the driver cast doubt on his Formula 1 future given his dislike of the new generation of cars. ## [SIGNAL CHANGE](https://durdenbtc.substack.com/p/signal-change-f7c) _2026-08-20 · DurdenBTC · DurdenBTC — Survival Is Alpha_ A new position is live. Here’s what changed and why. ## [How do you make a game feel good?For example, what kinds of design decisions go into making the player feels as though he/she has full control of the character’s movement, and make that movement satisfying, even if there is nothing to do at the moment other than simply move](https://askagamedev.tumblr.com/post/825468848993075200) _2026-08-20 · Ask a Game Dev_ It seems fitting to round the week out with this because I’ve been writing about brain chemistry and function recently. This is a really interesting question because you’d think that there are a lot of different factors in this, but it really just comes down to one thing. How good something feels is inversely proportional to how much time elapses between you doing something (a button pressed, a… ## [Alaska Airlines launches 2 more nonstop intercontinental routes from Seattle](https://www.seattletimes.com/business/alaska-airlines/alaska-airlines-launches-2-more-nonstop-intercontinental-routes-from-seattle/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_boeing-aerospace) _2026-08-20 · Lauren Rosenblatt · The Seattle Times Boeing & Aerospace – The Seattle Times_ Alaska Airlines will offer nonstop flights from Seattle to Paris, France and Athens, Greece starting next spring. ## [Viking 1 launched (1975)](https://glennelert.us/news/?p=2586) _2026-08-20 · elert · News and opinions from Glenn Elert_ ## [Voyager 2 launched (1977)](https://glennelert.us/news/?p=4382) _2026-08-20 · elert · News and opinions from Glenn Elert_ Voyager 2 launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket on 20 August 1977. It visited Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981, Uranus in 1986, and Neptune in 1989. It passed the termination shock (the point where the solar wind slows abruptly to subsonic speed) in 2007. Voyager 2 original mission was to explore the outer planets, but \[…\] ## [Update 26.08.19](https://sbox.game/news/update-26-08-19/) _2026-08-19 · s&box news_ Movie Maker - Create Sequences from Tracks Working with in-game recordings could be a big headache because of all the tracks a large scene can have. Now it's super easy to group up those tracks into separate nested movies (sequences) through the track list context menu. Open Video Movie Maker - Undo/Redo Rework Trying to use Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y while working on a movie has been unreliable at best,… ## [Why Devs don’t respond directly to good player feedback in a timely manner, even though we ask for it](https://askagamedev.tumblr.com/post/825377488778756096) _2026-08-19 · Ask a Game Dev_ askagamedev : It should be well-established that players providing reasonable, well-written feedback about what they (dis)like about a game and why is the best and most actionable way to see real change enacted in the game dev process. I’ve had many productive development conversations with coworkers that came about (and several actually initiated real change behind the scenes) because of useful… ## [Bitcoin Net Age Flow](https://adlerscryptoinsights.substack.com/p/bitcoin-net-age-flow) _2026-08-19 · Axel Adler Jr. · Adler 💎 Insight_ SQL of the Week 025 ## [AI News Summaries & Audio (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/MEFCVOgEoTt0) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Tap an article for an AI summary and an audio briefing. ## [Sputnik 5 launched (1960)](https://glennelert.us/news/?p=4381) _2026-08-19 · elert · News and opinions from Glenn Elert_ Sputnik 5 was launched on 19 August 1960 with the dogs Белка (Belka), which means squirrel, and Стрелка (Strelka), which means arrow, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants on board. The spacecraft returned to earth the next day and all animals were recovered safely. ## [Scipy Optimization Minimize for AEO: Prioritize Content AI Crawlers Can Cite](https://crawlproof.com/blog/scipy-optimization-minimize-aeo-content-prioritization) _2026-08-19 · CrawlProof blog_ A practical workflow for using scipy optimization minimize as an AEO prioritization model, not a math trick. Turn crawler signals, schema gaps, and content fixes into an operating system. ## [Venue Message Rate Limits: Architecting a Multi-Venue Quoting Engine Around Exchange Throttling](https://hftadvisory.substack.com/p/venue-message-rate-limits-architecting) _2026-08-18 · Ariel Silahian · HFT Tech Advisory_ How exchanges actually meter your order flow, why one rate limit across venues fails, and the governor architecture that holds the line. ## [Ask a Game Dev’s Frequently Asked Questions](https://askagamedev.tumblr.com/post/825290952485797888) _2026-08-18 · Ask a Game Dev_ askagamedev : Hey Dev! I’ve got a question for you! Sure thing. It’s what I’m here for. What kind of question is it? Keep reading Busy this week, you get the FAQ today ## [Boeing’s contract offer ‘just not enough,’ some SPEEA workers say](https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeings-contract-offer-just-not-enough-some-speea-workers-say/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_boeing-aerospace) _2026-08-18 · Lauren Rosenblatt · The Seattle Times Boeing & Aerospace – The Seattle Times_ Some members of Boeing's white-collar union say the company's offer doesn't include a high-enough guaranteed raise and falls short on a commitment to keep work in the region. ## [Foiling a Protohackers email spam bot](https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/foiling-protohackers-spam-bot.html) _2026-08-18 · jes's blog_ I've been receiving lots of "Undeliverable Mail Returned to Sender" lately for Protohackers signup attempts. Protohackers login is via a "magic link", so attempting to sign up or log in results in sending an email. But none of the email body is user-controlled, so I don't really see the logic in abusing this form to spam people. ## [ADLER MODEL ACCESS](https://adlerscryptoinsights.substack.com/p/adler-model-access) _2026-08-18 · Axel Adler Jr. · Adler 💎 Insight_ New product: Bitcoin price and timing forecasts, backed by historical backtests. ## [‘Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing’ urges pressure on aerospace company](https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/tv/freefall-a-reckoning-for-boeing-urges-pressure-on-aerospace-company/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_boeing-aerospace) _2026-08-17 · Rob Owen · The Seattle Times Boeing & Aerospace – The Seattle Times_ “Freefall,” streaming Wednesday on Netflix, examines what’s happened inside Boeing and Boeing factories from the perspective of whistleblowers. ## [Here are 10 of the best economy cabins for international flights](https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/here-are-10-of-the-best-economy-cabins-for-international-flights/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_boeing-aerospace) _2026-08-17 · John Metcalfe · The Seattle Times Boeing & Aerospace – The Seattle Times_ Conde Nast Traveler says providing better economy service on certain flights is a trend, and here are its top picks for doing so. ## [A Game Design Lesson](https://www.chapliboy.com/game_design_lesson/) _2026-08-17 · chapliboy_ Over the process of making my previous game , I thought I understood the process of making games. Step 1: you find the system. That's where all the hard work is. You poke at nature and systems and emergence until you find something that is interesting. That's the hard part. It takes a lot of time, patience and openness. But once you've found a system rich enough, then you can make the game. Ex:… ## [Follow Releases, Get Reminders (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/5Rdwi8JwxUlW) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a genre or a name and receive reminders on release day — free. ## [Quick Tour of Postgres Logical Replication - Reacting to Changes (Part 3)](https://alessandrocuzzocrea.com/postgres-logical-replication-tour-3/) _2026-08-17 · Alessandro Cuzzocrea · Alessandro Cuzzocrea_ Part 3 --\> Ok so now we have a beatiful way to 1-way table rows between two pg instances in our sleep in part 1 in part 2, we also learned what happen if there is comm issues between instances and how replication atumatically resume and catches up once those sissues are resolved. now considering that usually db rarely exists in isolation usually dbs are just way for an application using said db to… ## [Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full](https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html) _2026-08-17 · Fabien Sanglard_ ## [Geo Optimization in 2026: A Practical Architecture for Being Found and Cited by AI Answer Engines](https://crawlproof.com/blog/geo-optimization-ai-answer-engines) _2026-08-17 · CrawlProof blog_ Geo optimization is not a magic rewrite of SEO. It is an operational layer for crawler access, answer-ready content, schema, llms.txt, and citation monitoring. ## [2 planes with same call sign in Phoenix could have been ‘disastrous’](https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/2-planes-with-same-call-sign-in-phoenix-could-have-been-disastrous/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_boeing-aerospace) _2026-08-16 · Emmett Lindner · The Seattle Times Boeing & Aerospace – The Seattle Times_ American Airlines flight 2482 was attempting to land from Chicago very early on Friday at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. At the same time, to the dismay of an air traffic controller, another American Airlines flight — also with the call sign 2482 — was departing. ## [G.M.’s ‘Car Guy’ Talks Electrics, China and Nepotism](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/business/general-motors-mark-reuss.html) _2026-08-16 · Jamie Lincoln Kitman · NYT \> Automobiles_ Mark Reuss became the automaker’s president seven years ago, ascending to a role his father was fired from decades before. We got the chance to speak with him. ## [TermSurf 0.2.0: A Real Browser Inside Your Terminal](https://astrohacker.com/blog/2026-08-16-termsurf-0-2-0) _2026-08-16 · Ryan X. Charles · Astrohacker Blog_ Astrohacker TermSurf 0.2.0 is a macOS terminal that can run a real Chromium browser directly inside a terminal pane. ## [Issue #66: Everything Is Working Except Bitcoin](https://durdenbtc.substack.com/p/issue-66-everything-is-working-except) _2026-08-16 · DurdenBTC · DurdenBTC — Survival Is Alpha_ Let the good times roll.. except for crypto. ## [Weekly Engine #109](https://adlerscryptoinsights.substack.com/p/weekly-engine-109) _2026-08-16 · Axel Adler Jr. · Adler 💎 Insight_ Aug 10-16, 2026 ## [The long, lonely leap (1960)](https://glennelert.us/news/?p=4386) _2026-08-16 · elert · News and opinions from Glenn Elert_ Sixty years ago today in August… An hour and thirty-one minutes after launch, my pressure altimeter halts at 103,300 feet. At ground control the radar altimeters also have stopped on readings of 102,800 feet, the figure that we later agree upon as the more reliable. It is 7 o’clock in the morning, and I have \[…\] ## [Building Souls-Style Input Buffering on Top of GAS](https://www.quodsoler.com/blog/building-souls-style-input-buffering-on-top-of-gas/) _2026-08-15 · Quod Soler — Learn Unreal Engine Gameplay Programming_ GAS has no input buffering built in, so let's build it: gameplay events, a try-then-buffer component, a gate tag, two anim notify windows and a drain function that re-samples the stick at consume time. ## [Open directory of blogs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/1JGYBjzujRcp) _2026-08-14 · **Sponsored**_ Drop URLs or OPML — get per-blog pages plus machine-readable JSON, OPML, text ## [Northeast blackout (2003)](https://glennelert.us/news/?p=1774) _2026-08-14 · elert · News and opinions from Glenn Elert_ A widespread power outage that affected parts of Michigan, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts began at approximately 4:10 PM on 14 August 2003. By 4:13 PM 55 million people in the US and Canada were without electric power. This is sometimes thought of as the 'Third New York City Blackout'. The first was \[ \] ## [Northeast blackout (2003)](https://glennelert.us/news/?p=1774) _2026-08-14 · elert · News and opinions from Glenn Elert_ A widespread power outage that affected parts of Michigan, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts began at approximately 4:10 PM on 14 August 2003. By 4:13 PM 55 million people in the US and Canada were without electric power. This is sometimes thought of as the 'Third New York City Blackout'. The first was \[ \] ## [Jury awards $29 million to family of another MAX crash victim](https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/jury-awards-29-million-to-family-of-another-max-crash-victim/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_boeing-aerospace) _2026-08-14 · Lauren Rosenblatt · The Seattle Times Boeing & Aerospace – The Seattle Times_ The trial resolves one of the few remaining cases filed against Boeing by the families who lost loved ones in the Ethiopia crash. ## [Hiroshi Okuda, Disrupter Who Revived Toyota in the 1990s, Dies at 93](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/automobiles/hiroshi-okuda-dead.html) _2026-08-14 · Clay Risen · NYT \> Automobiles_ As the car company’s president, he made decisions quickly and shook things up, expanding overseas manufacturing and introducing the Prius, a milestone in automotive history. ## [Flying Friday: the one about airshows](https://paulrobichaux.com/2026/08/14/flying-friday-the-one-about-airshows/) _2026-08-14 · robichaux · Paul's Down-Home Page_ I m getting mighty bored sitting around waiting for my airplane to get fixed. I thought it might be fun to go see some fast jets, so I asked some AI tools to help me plan an outing. Here s the prompt Continue reading ## [Hi, Dev! Long time follower. You’ve answered a lot of my questions and I haven’t sent one in some time. Nintendo announced that they’re shutting down Pokemon Bank for 3DS. Other people ask why they simply don’t leave it up. Why do services like this get closed down exactly? Is it because someone still needs to be paid to maintain it and it’s wasteful?](https://askagamedev.tumblr.com/post/824939186948800512) _2026-08-14 · Ask a Game Dev_ You are correct that they would need to keep staff on payroll to handle maintenance and customer service in case players have problems (e.g. requests for restoring lost special pokemon through server or human error). These staff would not be free by any stretch. That's one of the bigger parts of it for sure, but not the only reason. Did you know that Standard Support for Windows 7 ended in 2020?… ## [Four stroke engine patented by Nicolaus Otto (1877)](https://glennelert.us/news/?p=1772) _2026-08-14 · elert · News and opinions from Glenn Elert_ US patent number 194047 was issued to Nikolaus August Otto of Deutz, Germany on 14 Aug 1877. Otto s engine is the type that powers most autos today. ## [Comet Swift-Tuttle closest approach to Earth (2126)](https://glennelert.us/news/?p=4378) _2026-08-14 · elert · News and opinions from Glenn Elert_ Comet Swift-Tuttle will pass very close to the earth on 14 August 2126, but it will not strike the earth or the moon as earlier calculations suggested. No dangerously close encounters are probable before the year 4479 when there is a one in a million chance (literally) the comet will collide with earth. Comet Swift-Tuttle last visited \[ \] ## [Ensim5](https://glouw.com//2026/08/14/Ensim5.html) _2026-08-14 · (untitled)_ Github Source Ensim5 explores compiler friendly SIMD expressions and cache locality for isentropic flow and kinematic equations. One can model a piston flow lane from plenum intake to exhaust as nine chambers (atmosphere, plenum, throttle, runner, piston, runner, exhaust, exhaust, atmosphere) and with eight nozzles, mapping parallel computation perfectly to floating point AVX256 or doubling point… ## [Optimization SciPy for AEO: How Technical Pages Become AI-Citable Answers](https://crawlproof.com/blog/optimization-scipy-aeo-workflow) _2026-08-14 · CrawlProof blog_ Optimization scipy is not just a Python search term. For site owners, it is a test case for whether technical content can be crawled, understood, validated, and cited by AI answer engines. ## [Harrowing Ryanair Boeing flight showed signs of a bird strike, NTSB says](https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/harrowing-ryanair-boeing-flight-showed-signs-of-a-bird-strike-ntsb-says/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_boeing-aerospace) _2026-08-13 · Lauren Rosenblatt · The Seattle Times Boeing & Aerospace – The Seattle Times_ Federal investigators found evidence of a bird strike during a harrowing Ryanair Boeing 737-8 flight in Greece last month that saw one passenger hanging out of a broken window. ## [I watched a video where huge portions for the data of Team Fortress 2 and Fallout New Vegas data was deleted. Despite being reduced to tiny file sizes, the games kept running (even if they were virtually unplayable) and only crashed if data from a few critical files was removed. Why can games run when literally most of the game by it’s files has been axed?](https://askagamedev.tumblr.com/post/824848758453993472) _2026-08-13 · Ask a Game Dev_ If you think about what the majority of files in an installed game are, this should make intuitive sense. The smallest part of the installed game is the executable that runs the game. Then you've got animations, audio, textures, level geometry, pre-rendered video, and so on. Consider - while you're playing the game, at any specific point in time, do you actually need all of those assets at the… ## [SIGNAL CHANGE](https://durdenbtc.substack.com/p/signal-change-4b8) _2026-08-13 · DurdenBTC · DurdenBTC — Survival Is Alpha_ A new position is live. Here’s what changed and why. ## [Parity Suite 3.0.0: measuring the wrong thing](https://martinhicks.dev/articles/parity-suite-300-release-notes) _2026-08-13 · Martin Hicks · Martin Hicks - Journal_ Since the board started it has published one number per emulator: a pass rate over the tests that emulator attempted. Skipped tests left the sum entirely. Which means the number could move without the engine changing a line. In July one emulator gained 8.4 points having shipped nothing at all. 3.0.0 replaces that number. Two figures instead of one, a letter grade on every target, and the suite is… ## [When a DynamoDB vector index is actually ready](https://martinhicks.dev/articles/dynamodb-vector-search-docs-get-wrong) _2026-08-13 · Martin Hicks · Martin Hicks - Journal_ AWS shipped vector search for DynamoDB on 5th August, straight to GA. I spent a couple of days pinning it down against real DynamoDB so I could add it to my conformance suite , which meant reading the docs properly and then checking whether they were true. Mostly they are. But there's one thing they get wrong three different ways, and the three stack up: knowing when a vector index is ready to… ## [What a write to an indexed DynamoDB table costs](https://martinhicks.dev/articles/what-a-write-to-an-indexed-dynamodb-table-costs) _2026-08-13 · Martin Hicks · Martin Hicks - Journal_ My conformance suite has had a per-index capacity assertion since fairly early on. It was on a Query . Which is the wrong half. Reading through an index is the cheap, obvious, well-understood part. The write side is where a secondary index actually costs you money, because every write to the base table fans out to every index the item lands in, and you pay for each one. That went unmeasured for… ## [Build System Back Up!](https://luxtorpeda.org/blog#build-system-back-up) _2026-08-13 · Luxtorpeda Updates_ Thanks to all of the supporters we are at 80% of the goal for the new build system. With that tracti... ## [Driver Sets Record for Hydrogen-Powered Vehicle at More Than 406 M.P.H.](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/us/land-speed-record-utah-andy-green.html) _2026-08-12 · Claire Moses · NYT \> Automobiles_ Andy Green, a 64-year-old retired Royal Air Force pilot from Britain, was already the only person to break the sound barrier on land. “The ground comes at you very, very quickly,” he said. ## [Razer Wolverine V3 Pro Linux Driver for Back Paddle Support](https://www.danieltperry.me/project/2026-wolverine-v3-pro-linux-driver-for-back-paddle-support/) _2026-08-12 · DanielTPerry.me_ This Linux driver for Razer’s Wolverine V3 Pro enables usage of the back four paddles (M3-M6 buttons) as independent bindable controls in Steam. Info Status : Released as open source State : Initial experimental release, SteamOS support only Source : GitHub Download For security, no direct download is available for this driver. Users must build the driver themselves from source. The GitHub… ## [Pico-to-Pico Identity Arrives](https://www.windley.com/archives/2026/08/pico-to-pico_identity_arrives.shtml) _2026-08-12 · Phil Windley's Technometria_ Summary: Version 1.6 of the Pico Engine ships the pico-to-pico identity layer I promised but hadn't built. Every pico now carries two DIDs: a portable did:webvh that says who it is, and a private did:peer for each relationship it forms. This is the piece that lets a pico move between engines and lets two meshes create a relationship without a federation agreement set up in advance. Last month I…