# object (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 125 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover object. Page: Feed: --- ## [Modular Monoliths: Creating Real Boundaries Before Reaching for Microservices](https://wendelladriel.com/blog/modular-monoliths-creating-real-boundaries-before-reaching-for-microservices) _2026-08-20 · Wendell Adriel \ · Wendell Adriel's Blog_ A deep dive into modular monoliths, from module APIs and database ownership to cross-module communication, architecture tests, incremental migration, and the signals that justify microservices. ## [The Design Year Starts Now](https://thedesignrelease.substack.com/p/the-design-year-starts-now) _2026-08-19 · The Design Release · The Design Release_ Seoul, Paris, Copenhagen, and a newly ambitious Shoreditch Design Week kick off the design calendar. ## [How PHP executes bytecode](https://phpunit.expert/articles/how-php-executes-bytecode.html) _2026-08-19 · sebastian@thephp.cc · Software Development, Testing & Open Source_ The Zend Engine ships five different bytecode executors, three of which are actually used. I look at how they differ, why they exist, and what all of this has to do with branch prediction in your processor. ## [Showcase Relaunch August 2026](https://theshowcase.substack.com/p/showcase-relaunch-august-2026) _2026-08-18 · Showcase_ Object & Idea ## [(untitled)](https://uninomicon.com/unity_build_information_detection?rev=1787060277&do=diff) _2026-08-18 · Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) · Uninomicon_ Друзья, хочу порекомендовать вам замечательный сервис по базам для Xrumer и GSA Search Engine Ranker. Там всё честно: один раз оплачиваете подписку и получаете полный эксклюзив на скачивание обновлений в течение года. И цена меня очень порадовала — она равна стоимости дешевого обеда в маленькой пельменной. К тому же скажу по секрету: я немного сместил фокус и начал перепродавать эти же базы для… ## [Deciphering Date Differences with DATEDIFF](https://connor-mcdonald.com/2026/08/17/deciphering-date-differences-with-datediff/) _2026-08-17 · Connor McDonald · Learning is not a spectator sport_ (Try saying that 5 times quickly in a row) 🙂 There’s an old saying that’s gone around for years in IT circles which is “If you have a text parsing problem you can use a regular expression…now you have two problems“. I’d like to steal that phrase and manipulate it for the sake of today’s \[…\] ## [A language has non-functional requirements, too](https://phpunit.expert/articles/a-language-has-non-functional-requirements-too.html) _2026-08-17 · sebastian@thephp.cc · Software Development, Testing & Open Source_ Nobody decides whether a language is modern. What gets decided is whether you can bet a decade on it: who owns it, how upgrades arrive, how it scales, and whether you can still hire for it in year six. This article holds PHP to the criteria an architecture decision is actually made on. ## [Introducing Emoji Anywhere 😀](https://attacomsian.com/blog/emoji-anywhere/) _2026-08-16 · Atta Ur Rehman Shah_ A free Chrome extension that brings Slack-style :shortcode: emoji to every text field on the web, plus a searchable picker in the toolbar. ## [Utility Types Part 1: Partial and Required](https://joshlehman.ca/blog/utility-types-partial-and-required) _2026-08-16 · Joshua R. Lehman · Joshua R. Lehman's Blog - Software Development Insights_ TypeScript's Partial and Required utility types toggle property optionality across an entire object type, with implementations and practical patterns. ## [A gift for you from The Encouragement Express: "Four Stories Worth Passing Down"](https://howellbigham.substack.com/p/a-gift-for-you-from-the-encouragement-cc3) _2026-08-16 · Howell Bigham · The Encouragement Express_ Your greatest gift to your grandchildren won’t be something you leave for them. It will be what you leave in them. ## [Meet Claude, an AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/VsXNic4jo9zF) _2026-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Chat with Claude at claude.ai — a conversational AI assistant. ## [A Design-filled Day in Red Hook](https://designdigestnyc.substack.com/p/a-design-filled-day-in-red-hook) _2026-08-14 · Design Digest: NYC · Design Digest: NYC_ My neighborhood guide for design lovers ## [(untitled)](https://uninomicon.com/unity_build_information_detection?rev=1786724083&do=diff) _2026-08-14 · Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) · Uninomicon_ Братья-серферы, ловите инсайд. Для автоматизации нужен свежий донор? Есть сервис баз для Xrumer и GSA. Оплачиваешь один раз, качаешь обновления все 12 месяцев. Цена уровня «студенческая столовая». Скажу прямо: брал для слива трафа, но быстро смекнул, что на реселле заработать проще. Продал первому встречному вебмастеру, окупил за сутки.… ## [The Man Who Saved Football (And What He Can Teach Your Grandchild)](https://howellbigham.substack.com/p/the-man-who-saved-football-and-what) _2026-08-14 · Howell Bigham · The Encouragement Express_ The scoreboard goes dark. The game of life continues. ## [the task isn't the job](https://sunilpai.dev/posts/the-task-isnt-the-job/) _2026-08-14 · Solving the decision problem_ a new role, and some questions I want to build my way through ## [I started at the worst time](https://www.reddit.com/r/storj/comments/1vnbzto/i_started_at_the_worst_time/) _2026-08-13 · /u/Blarghargin123 · Storj_ 3 months ago I decided to dedicate a couple tb to a node because I had the space, but I found out recently that Storj filed for bankruptcy. I want to commit anyway since I'll only be out half a dollar right now, but without any real news coming out of our Storj I dont know if its really worth the commitment. submitted by /u/Blarghargin123 \[link\] \[comments\] ## [“Where are my patches?!?!”](https://connor-mcdonald.com/2026/08/13/where-are-my-patches/) _2026-08-13 · Connor McDonald · Learning is not a spectator sport_ Anyone that follows me on the socials knows that I m pretty keen on security. Whilst all those other day-to-day things like performance and uptime etc etc are all important, rest assured; people will generally forgive you for being down for a while; they will forgive you for being slow for a while, but they will \[ \] ## [How LLMs actually call functions (they don't)](https://tahazsh.com/blog/llm-tools-explained/) _2026-08-12 · Taha Shashtari's Blog_ ## [Stories Made Us Human](https://interfaces.com/blog/2026/08/stories-made-us-human/) _2026-08-12 · Olga Werby · Interfaces.com_ Language allowed us to meet people we never came face to face with, to learn about events that happened far away in time and space. Written stories expanded that capacity exponentially. Stories made us human. ## [Reading List](https://shayansm2.github.io/reading-list/) _2026-08-12 · Shayan Shafiee Moghadam_ A curated list of talks, blogs, courses, and books I’ve found genuinely insightful and want to share. Blogs and Talks Mitigating Geopolitical Risks with Local-First Software and atproto Talk Compiling Workflows into Databases: the Architecture That Shouldn’t Work (But Does) Talk Conditional Writes Without a Compare-and-Swap Store in SeaweedFS Blog Software in the era of AI Talk… ## [Four out of five](https://phpunit.expert/articles/four-out-of-five.html) _2026-08-12 · sebastian@thephp.cc · Software Development, Testing & Open Source_ How does PHP in 2026 compare with the current ideas about designing modern languages? This article takes stock of the criteria of closures, objects, pattern matching, generics, and an unconventional answer to the question of extensibility. ## [Crypto Payments, No Custody (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Xoi9AN28W5Lb) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Send crypto to merchant wallets via API with real-time updates and automatic fees. ## [startups need an asymmetry](https://sunilpai.dev/posts/startups-need-an-asymmetry/) _2026-08-12 · Solving the decision problem_ A quick note on startups ## [Nyc Trip](https://bgporter.net/posts/insta/nyc-trip/) _2026-08-11 · Brett g Porter · bgporter dot net_ Annual summer city/museum trip with Kiley ## [Birdkeeping](https://ohrg.org/birdkeeping.html) _2026-08-11 · one long token soup_ Birdkeeping We need new ways of talking about large language models. The artificial intelligentsia at frontier labs have beguiled us (and themselves) into using an exclusively calamitous tone of voice. If we are to take the Silicon Valley oracles at their word, the latest models are effectively sentient and thus pose existential risk , open weights models are as or more dangerous than nuclear or… ## [Estimating branch probabilities](https://maskray.me/blog/2026-08-09-estimating-branch-probabilities) _2026-08-09 · MaskRay_ LLVM's BranchProbabilityInfo assigns every multi-successor terminator a probability distribution over its successors. This post describes the estimation used when no profile is available and reimplements it as a standalone program. ## [Recursive Types in TypeScript](https://joshlehman.ca/blog/recursive-types) _2026-08-09 · Joshua R. Lehman · Joshua R. Lehman's Blog - Software Development Insights_ Recursive types let a TypeScript type reference itself, enabling JSON values, tree structures, and nested data models with full compile-time accuracy. ## [More Hard Drives or BIGGER Hard Drives](https://www.reddit.com/r/storj/comments/1vjfxo8/more_hard_drives_or_bigger_hard_drives/) _2026-08-09 · /u/Slime\_Scientist · Storj_ I’m upgrading my home server to a 24-bay 4U case and have some extra drives sitting unused. I’m thinking of utilizing them to make a small amount of money. I can either use 3 × 4 TB drives or 2 × 6 TB drives . Which setup would you recommend, and how should I configure them? From what I understand, 3 separate nodes may be better than 2, but I’m not sure why. How does this affect Storj payouts?… ## [every company needs a cassandra](https://sunilpai.dev/posts/every-company-needs-a-cassandra/) _2026-08-09 · Solving the decision problem_ an ai agent for the socially expensive work of organizational dissent ## [I tested if system prompts actually matter, here's what I found](https://tahazsh.com/blog/does-system-prompt-matter/) _2026-08-08 · Taha Shashtari's Blog_ ## [Here’s How To Get Your Curtains Right](https://designdigestnyc.substack.com/p/heres-how-to-get-your-curtains-right) _2026-08-07 · Design Digest: NYC · Design Digest: NYC_ A Step-By-Step Guide For A Smooth Curtain Project ## [Tsonnet #47 - The devil in the details #3](https://bitmaybewise.substack.com/p/tsonnet-47-the-devil-in-the-details) _2026-08-07 · Hercules Merscher · Bit Maybe Wise_ Making the type checker manifest every lazy type so cycles can't slip through to the interpreter. ## [Licensed Dispensaries, Pay with Crypto (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/q50XwczlW1zo) _2026-08-07 · **Sponsored**_ Search verified licensed dispensaries and pay with Bitcoin, Lightning, or stablecoins. ## [The Envelope That Changed My Life](https://howellbigham.substack.com/p/the-envelope-that-changed-my-life) _2026-08-07 · Howell Bigham · The Encouragement Express_ The day a former president taught me what greatness really looks like ## [Annoyed](https://www.reddit.com/r/storj/comments/1vh0afc/annoyed/) _2026-08-06 · /u/DellR610 · Storj_ I deleted all data in my bucket and unbeknownst to me it was all recovered without my intervention or consent - and I received yet another bill. I'm not going to fight over $5 but it's pretty shady to restore my data and bill me for it. Maybe I should have completely deleted my account back then but I certainly did today. submitted by /u/DellR610 \[link\] \[comments\] ## [More Gooey-ness from GUIDs](https://connor-mcdonald.com/2026/08/05/more-gooey-ness-from-guids/) _2026-08-05 · Connor McDonald · Learning is not a spectator sport_ I wrote a post a few years back (well, actually it was 2018!) but I ll paraphrase briefly. There are two common schools of thought when it comes to automatic generation of values for a surrogate key in the Oracle database. The first one is using a SEQUENCE, referencing it either directly in your table definition/SQL, \[ \] ## [Your composer.lock knows what a carmaker only guesses](https://phpunit.expert/articles/your-composer-lock-knows-what-a-carmaker-only-guesses.html) _2026-08-05 · sebastian@thephp.cc · Software Development, Testing & Open Source_ A car manufacturer lists an Android botnet in its open source attribution. The entry gives away how the list was made: by scanning instead of by declaring. Why a declared dependency list is worth more than a scanned one, and how the PHPUnit PHAR discloses its own contents. ## [APEX Collections – Taking More Control](https://connor-mcdonald.com/2026/08/03/apex-collections-taking-more-control/) _2026-08-03 · Connor McDonald · Learning is not a spectator sport_ I posted recently about the usage of APEX collections, a generic structure in APEX that lets you easily store a set of results without having to create a table in advance. It s easy to use and useful but I think it may have fallen into overuse. Good friend Jon Dixon replied on my post saying \[ \] ## [31 August: Named storms](https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/08/31-august-named-storms.html) _2026-08-03 · Julie Howlin · Topical Tens_ On this date in 1954 Hurricane Carol, the first major named storm, hit New England, killing 70. 10 facts about named storms in the UK . The Met Office in the UK has been naming storms since 2015. The practice has been around since the 1950s in America. In order to be given a name, a storm must be big and liable to cause a lot of damage. If it doesn’t merit an amber or red warning, it doesn’t get a… ## [30 August: Bigfoot](https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/08/30-august-bigfoot.html) _2026-08-03 · Julie Howlin · Topical Tens_ On this date in 1990, an episode of Northern Exposure first aired, in which Bigfoot was discovered. Here are 10 things you might not know about the mythical monster, Bigfoot. What does Bigfoot look like? Bigfoot is said to be 7 to 9 feet (about 2 to 2.75 meters) tall and covered in Brown , Black , Red , or sometimes even White fur or Hair . Its feet are about 13 inches long (0.3 meters). Hence the… ## [30 August: Bigfoot](https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/08/30-august-bigfoot.html) _2026-08-03 · Julie Howlin · Topical Tens_ On this date in 1990, an episode of Northern Exposure first aired, in which Bigfoot was discovered. Here are 10 things you might not know about the mythical monster, Bigfoot. What does Bigfoot look like? Bigfoot is said to be 7 to 9 feet (about 2 to 2.75 meters) tall and covered in Brown , Black , Red , or sometimes even White fur or Hair . Its feet are about 13 inches long (0.3 meters). Hence the… ## [29 August: John Locke Quotes](https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/08/29-august-john-locke-quotes.html) _2026-08-03 · Julie Howlin · Topical Tens_ John Locke, philosopher, founder of the school of empiricism, was born on this date in 1632. Some quotes: The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves. What worries you, masters you. Who lies for you will lie against you. Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins. Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have. There is frequently more to be learned from the… ## [28 August: Jack Vance Quotes](https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/08/28-august-jack-vance-quotes.html) _2026-08-03 · Julie Howlin · Topical Tens_ Jack Vance, US sci-fi author who wrote The Dying Earth was born on this date in 1916. 10 Jack Vance Quotes: I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted. Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic! Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Good music always defeats bad luck. While we are… ## [27 August: Lyndon B Johnson Quotes](https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/08/27-august-lyndon-b-johnson-quotes.html) _2026-08-03 · Julie Howlin · Topical Tens_ This date in 1908 was the birthdate of Lyndon B Johnson. 10 quotes from him. Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. Until justice is blind to colour, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the colour of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time.… ## [26 August: Hydrogen](https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/08/26-august-hydrogen.html) _2026-08-03 · Julie Howlin · Topical Tens_ This date in 1743 saw the birth of Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, French chemist and nobleman who stated the first version of the law of conservation of mass, recognised and named hydrogen. 10 things you might not know about hydrogen. Its symbol is H and its atomic number is 1 . It is described as a colourless, odourless, tasteless, flammable gaseous substance. Its melting point is −259.16 °C,… ## [26 August: Hydrogen](https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/08/26-august-hydrogen.html) _2026-08-03 · Julie Howlin · Topical Tens_ This date in 1743 saw the birth of Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, French chemist and nobleman who stated the first version of the law of conservation of mass, recognised and named hydrogen. 10 things you might not know about hydrogen. Its symbol is H and its atomic number is 1 . It is described as a colourless, odourless, tasteless, flammable gaseous substance. Its melting point is −259.16 °C,… ## [25 August: 237](https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/08/25-august-237.html) _2026-08-03 · Julie Howlin · Topical Tens_ Today is the 237 th day of the year. 10 fun facts about that number. 237 Coelestina is a main belt asteroid discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa in 1884 in Vienna and named after Coelestine, wife of astronomer Theodor von Oppolzer. London bus number 237 runs from Frampton Road to White City Bus Station. + 237 is the telephone dialling code for Cameroon . Biggy 237 is a TV show in… ## [25 August: 237](https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/08/25-august-237.html) _2026-08-03 · Julie Howlin · Topical Tens_ Today is the 237 th day of the year. 10 fun facts about that number. 237 Coelestina is a main belt asteroid discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa in 1884 in Vienna and named after Coelestine, wife of astronomer Theodor von Oppolzer. London bus number 237 runs from Frampton Road to White City Bus Station. + 237 is the telephone dialling code for Cameroon . Biggy 237 is a TV show in… ## [24 August: Saint Bartholomew](https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/08/24-august-saint-bartholomew.html) _2026-08-03 · Julie Howlin · Topical Tens_ 24 August is the Feast Day of St Bartholomew. Here’s all you need to know. Bartholomew was one of the twelve disciples who followed Jesus after the Baptism in the Jordan River. He was originally from Cana in Galilee and is sometimes equated with a disciple John mentions in his gospel, Nathaniel. The name Bartholomew comes from the Aramaic, "son of Tolmai" or "son of the furrows". After the… ## [23 August: King Louis XVI](https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/08/23-august-king-louis-xvi.html) _2026-08-03 · Julie Howlin · Topical Tens_ This date in 1754 was the birthdate of King Louis XVI of France , who reigned from 1774 to 1793 and was married to Marie Antoinette . 10 facts about him. He was never supposed to be king. Like Henry VIII , he had an older brother who died young. Because he wasn’t first in line to the throne, the young Louis was virtually ignored by his parents and grandfather while his older brother was with… ## [22 August: Mohave Desert](https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/08/22-august-mohave-desert.html) _2026-08-03 · Julie Howlin · Topical Tens_ On this date in 1826 the American explorer Jedediah Smith and his crew set out from the Great Salt Lake, Utah , to cross the Mohave Desert, the first Europeans to do so. They arrived in San Diego the following November. 10 things you might not know about the Mohave Desert. It is named after the indigenous Mohave people, and is sometimes spelled Mojave, which is the Spanish version of the name. It… ## [Thomas Gazagnaire :: Cascade: A Typed CSS Toolkit in OCaml](/bookmarks/bookmark-cbfe403b0cb4b2228674626ce2257e5f6003d1d039b9fb242df0e45d45e9ad92/) _2026-08-02 · Unknown · semarie's site_ Porting Tailwind to OCaml needed a CSS parser. The parser grew a typed AST, and a structural diff and a minifier fell out of it. Cascade 1.0.0 is that toolkit, and it turns out to be competitive with the minifiers people actually use. ## [Template Literal Types in TypeScript](https://joshlehman.ca/blog/template-literal-types) _2026-08-02 · Joshua R. Lehman · Joshua R. Lehman's Blog - Software Development Insights_ Learn how TypeScript's template literal types manipulate string types at the type level, enabling type-safe event names, CSS properties, and API routes.