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The Craziest Hack You’ve Never Heard Of: QR Codes as a Font

📅 July 7, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

One developer turned a font into a QR code generator—no libraries, no dependencies, just text. This is the kind of lateral thinking that redefines what everyday tools can do. A must-read for anyone who loves clever hacks.

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Throttling Is a Consensus Problem. Here’s How GitHub Prevented a Cascade of Failures.

📅 July 6, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

Throttling isn’t a local problem—it’s a distributed consensus nightmare. GitHub’s Freno shows that effective rate limiting requires global agreement, not local control. Most engineers get this wrong, leading to cascading failures. Here’s how to fix it before your system collapses.

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