Fitbit Air Pokémon Sleep Edition Gives Sleep Tracking a More Playful Reason to Exist

Safaricom responds after customer questions why My OneApp needs internet to work

Safaricom has explained why its My OneApp requires an internet connection to function after a customer questioned the company’s messaging around data usage.

• My OneApp needs internet to communicate with Safaricom's servers
• App provides real-time info like balances and bundles
• Internet connection required for current account details

2h ago ·peopledaily.digital

Accelerating JVM startup on GKE: How VPA CPU startup boost eliminates ongoing resource waste

Running Java and other JVM-based workloads in Kubernetes has long presented an infrastructure sizing challenge. During initialization, JVM applications require substantial CPU capacity to perform…

• GKE's VerticalPodAutoscaler (VPA) introduces CPU Startup Boost to reduce initialization overhead.
• Startup phase provisions higher CPU allocation to avoid CFS throttling during JVM initialization.

2h ago ·dev.to

I Built a Free, All-in-One Image Tool Because I Was Tired of Ad-Ridden Web Converters

The problem If you've ever needed to quickly edit, convert, or compress an image, you know the drill: open a website, dodge three ads, upload your file, wait, download, and hope it didn't watermark…

• APIC is a free, local-first desktop app for image processing
• Features include editing, converting, compressing, searching, and batch processing
• Developed with Python 3 and PyQt6 for fast, native performance

1h ago ·dev.to

8 Pitfalls I Hit Auto-Repairing 'Plugin directory does not exist' — and the 3-Layer Guard That Stopped a 22 8 Wipeout

Liquid syntax error: Unknown tag 'endraw'

1h ago ·dev.to

I built a daily debugging puzzle to stop getting rusty

I kept noticing I was faster at writing new code than at finding bugs in code I already had. That skill atrophies if you only ship features.

1h ago ·dev.to