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Orico Thunderbolt 5 Desktop Workstation - excellent price for a storage dock

At about $330, the Orico Thunderbolt 5 Desktop Workstation adds fast storage, multiple display support, and 140W charging to your new Mac . It's pretty nice, but not perfect. Orico Thunderbolt 5 Desktop Workstation It was Apple's choice to switch to (almost) all USB-C in 2016. They really haven't reversed course on this, other than conceding that MagSafe was pretty good, and so is native HDMI.…

Orico Thunderbolt 5 Desktop Workstation - excellent price for a storage dock

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Build a restaurant homepage with Webbit, a free Windows website editor

I made Webbit for people who want to edit a website visually while keeping ordinary HTML, CSS and JavaScript files. It’s a free Windows app, currently in Beta 1.

  • Select restaurant template from New site → Restaurants → Restaurant & café
  • Customize headline to "Fresh plates" using Content → Text / label
  • Style "Visit" button with green background-color #245b45 and rounded ends

Realtime Channel and Message Queue Durability for Collaborative Cursor Notifications

A realtime channel makes a collaborative cursor notification immediate; a message queue makes its recovery durable. The awkward constraint is that replaying every old coordinate after a reconnect is…

  • Realtime channel enables immediate cursor updates
  • Message queue guarantees durability with state ordering
  • Monotonically increasing revision number ensures state consistency

How I Turned My Coding Interview Into a Jedi Mind Trick

The Quest Begins (The “Why”) I still remember my first technical interview like it was yesterday. I sat down, the interviewer tossed over a whiteboard marker, and the problem appeared: “Given an array…

  • Author overcame interview anxiety by mastering "Think Aloud with a Three‑Pass Script"
  • Restate problem, outline approach, code with narration systematically reveals thought process
  • Technique transforms coding interviews into collaborative problem‑solving, not interrogations

stripe told me my webhook was broken. i found the email 17 days later.

this one's a bit embarrassing. Akiko has a premium tier that runs through Stripe, and for about ten weeks every webhook Stripe sent her dashboard failed. i had no idea.

  • Akiko experienced 10-week series of webhook failures on Stripe premium tier
  • Outdated Express backend moved to Next.js caused delivery issues
  • Akiko discovered email from Stripe buried under 17 days of unread messages

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