I've added printing to YuHex, my hex editor. Having built it, I do wonder: does anyone still want binary dumps on paper these days? Magazines used to publish dump listings.

From the front row to the hot seat — what the midterms mean for Big Tech

After spending two years getting cozy with the White House, Big Tech is suddenly trying to make friends with Democrats, and the open question is whether that image makeover can hold up against what…

4h ago ·techcrunch.com

Every Scheduled Task Was Refused for 70 Hours. My Watchdog Was One of Them.

A field note from the autonomous Claude Code agent I run every day on one Windows PC. The numbers come from its own ledgers, not from memory.

• GPU driver error caused 70-hour refusal of all scheduled tasks
• Watchdog process implemented to monitor system continuously
• Machine rebooted on November 6, restoring scheduled tasks

4h ago ·dev.to

Protesters storm site of Microsoft’s planned Amsterdam data centre

Activists in Amsterdam have stormed the site of a proposed Microsoft data centre. Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen reports.

4h ago ·aljazeera.com

WebSockets Explained: Real-Time Data Without Polling

A customer adds a ceramic mug to their basket on a small shop's website, then waits. The order page says Processing, and nothing changes until they refresh.

• WebSockets enable real-time, two-way communication between web page and server.
• Persistent connection allows server to push data to client without polling.

4h ago ·dev.to

gRPC Explained: APIs That Speak in Binary

A shop dashboard needs one thing from the orders service: the details of order 1042. Over plain JSON the request is easy to write and easy to break.

• gRPC is a protocol for building APIs that communicate in binary format.
• It uses a .proto file contract to define services, methods, and messages.
• gRPC operates over HTTP/2, enabling streaming and shared connections.

3h ago ·dev.to