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Bucking Fastard Review

Bucking Fastard review: Werner Herzog casts Kate and Rooney Mara as synchronized sisters based on unusual real-life twins.

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Hundreds gather to urge Scottish government to pause datacentre boom

Opposition mounts as at least 20 projects proposed, including one in Fife billed as second largest in world Kat Jones may be the closest thing Scotland has to Erin Brockovich in 2026. Standing in the shadow of Arthur’s Seat outside Holyrood, the 52-year-old is revving up the crowd of protesters around her. “Who is here from Lammermuir?

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Taming Flutter Infinite Scroll (Part 2): Turning ScrollController into a Reactive State Machine with CubitSignalMixin

The Infinite Scroll Rite of Passage In Part 1: Taming Flutter Infinite Scroll: Why 3 Lines of async* Missed the Point, and How BlocSignal Fixes It , we explored why wrapping mutable state in async*…

  • ScrollController transformed into reactive state container with CubitSignalMixin.
  • Dart's single-inheritance constraint broken by composable mixins.
  • Pattern A: Reactive PagingScrollController separates concerns using boolean signal.

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The await That Silently Breaks navigator.clipboard.writeText()

Someone on your team ships a "Copy invite link" button. It fetches a fresh, single-use link from the API, then copies it to the clipboard so the user can paste it into Slack. Code review is clean.

  • navigator.clipboard.writeText() fails silently if interrupted
  • navigator.clipboard.write() with promise resolves clipboard issue
  • Requires secure context (HTTPS) for navigator.clipboard
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