In filings, Apple acknowledges App Store regulatory changes are weighing on its $100B+ services business; US App Store spend fell 6% YoY in Q2, per Sensor Tower (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Building a real-time global leaderboard with Supabase Realtime

A leaderboard looks trivial until it has to be live, global, and correct under load: rank the world by score, push every change to every connected client, and never melt the database doing it.

• Use an append-only events table and scores aggregate table for consistency.
• Compute rank using window function without full table scan.
• Broadcast top 100 scores to clients for real-time updates.

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.NET 11 Preview 7 Adds Passkeys, Incremental XAML Hot Reload, and Shell Route Templates to MAUI

Microsoft has released .NET 11 Preview 7 with a substantial set of .NET MAUI updates, including cross-platform passkey authentication, a new incremental XAML Hot Reload implementation, Shell route…

• .NET 11 Preview 7 introduces passkeys for cross-platform authentication
• XAML Incremental Hot Reload speeds up development by modifying existing XAML pages
• Shell route templates with segment types streamline navigation development

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Worker Package Build Fix: Include Matching WASM Binary to Ensure Complete, Verifiable Deployments

Introduction: The Missing WASM Binary Imagine assembling a precision tool, meticulously tightening every screw, only to realize the core component—the blade—was left on the workbench.

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REST vs GraphQL in Practice

The Real Trade-offs After building APIs with both REST and GraphQL, I've learned that the choice isn't about which is "better" but which fits your specific constraints.

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