This AI-generated iPhone 18 Pro mock ad makes me actually love dark cherry color

Blockstream's Liquid Network halts new transactions after "purported white-hat hackers" withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet (Omkar Godbole/CoinDesk)

worth millions of dollars were withdrawn from a settlement network used by cryptocurrency exchanges …

9h ago ·coindesk.com

If not Python venv, then what?

For years, python -m venv .venv has been the default answer to Python dependency management and isolation. It works, it’s built into Python and almost every tutorial assumes you’ll use it.

9h ago ·dev.to

Stop Paying Full Reboot Downtime: Practical systemd soft-reboot on Linux

You finished a userspace package update. Libraries changed. Daemons need a clean boot graph. The box is “up,” but half the stack is still running the old generation. The reflex is reboot .

9h ago ·dev.to

Posting about online presentations

I organize online presentations about various topics in computing. (e.g. Python, Rust, Go, Databases, DevOps etc.) I also monitor many other channels that have online "meetups".

9h ago ·lobste.rs

Why You Shouldn’t Store Large Files in Your Database: Database vs. Amazon S3

Storing files in a database instead of S3 introduces two massive architectural bottlenecks as your application scales: 1.

• Storing large files directly in a database hinders CDN effectiveness.
• Large files in a database complicate replication and backups.
• Separating structured data from large files improves scalability.

9h ago ·dev.to