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How we transformed stressful manual releases into a dependable, one-click process using GitOps and automation. 50+ modules, auditors and regulators—in a single template that scaled across more than 30 services. No magic, an engineering discipline.

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Anyone who designs multilayer printed circuit boards in KiCad has faced the need, during routing, to leave large areas free of copper polygons (whether connected to nets or not) for schematic or other reasons. On outer layers, this isn't a big problem. On inner layers, it's a bit different. While it might be fine from a topology perspective, it's not ideal from a manufacturing point of view.

Today, we want to share a plugin we developed to solve this problem. It's a tool for automatically filling free areas on a PCB with non-current-carrying copper elements, either square or round, of a configurable size.

Why is this needed?

At first glance, an empty area on a board is just bare laminate without copper. But for the manufacturer and the end-user of the device, this has two important consequences.

Your service has just published a message to RabbitMQ — and then, right at commit time, the database transaction rolls back. The classic distributed-systems nightmare: ghost data, broken consistency, and hours lost to debugging. Usually you fight this with tricky custom code, two-phase commits, or just… crossing your fingers. But what if a PostgreSQL rollback could automatically “roll back” the message too, putting it back into the queue without you writing a single extra line? Here’s how that works.

Every prompt is a gamble. Your AI writes code that compiles, looks right, and silently breaks things you already built. Tests catch it before your users do. The best part? Your AI can write the tests for you.

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Design documentation is a crucial part of the UX workflow that unfortunately often gets looked upon as something not worthy of wasting time and effort on. Meanwhile, it is the most trustworthy way of bringing order to the process and sharing all the details about the product development with everyone involved. Basically, it is a set of documents that record all the steps, details, descriptions and explanations of every action and decision taken and performed while creating the product. 

Let’s discuss its goals, components and ways of effective integration into the typical UX design workflow.

Before creating our future messenger, we need to decide on the technology we'll use for its development. Among web development tools for single-page applications (SPAs), Angular and React are clear favorites. I won't dwell on the advantages of each of these tools, but will focus on Angular, as I've previously conducted research on non-classical virtualized lists and found that it handles this task better than React.

In this article, our team shares how artificial intelligence and modern analytics tools have shaped the way our projects are built, tested, and optimized — from code to player experience.

Artificial intelligence isn’t just hype for us — it’s a practical, everyday part of how we build and improve our projects. AI empowers us to accelerate development, improve reliability, personalize experiences, and make smarter decisions based on real player behavior. Below, we walk through how AI is integrated into key parts of our platform.

We continue our series of articles reviewing changes in PostgreSQL 19. This time we'll look at what emerged from the September 2025 CommitFest.

The highlights from the first July CommitFest are available here: 2025-07.

GROUP BY ALL
Window functions: NULL value handling
Event triggers in PL/Python
More precise error message for incorrect routine parameter names
random: random date/time within a specified range
base64url format for encode and decode functions
New debug_print_raw_parse parameter
The log_lock_waits parameter is now enabled by default
pg_stat_progress_basebackup: backup type
vacuumdb: collecting statistics on partitioned tables
Buffer cache: using clock-sweep algorithm to find free buffers
Fake table aliases in queries

We're launching a new series of articles covering the changes coming up in PostgreSQL 19. This first article focuses on the events from last summer's July CommitFest.

Connection service file in libpq parameter and psql variable
regdatabase: a type for database identifiers
pg_stat_statements: counters for generic and custom plans
pg_stat_statements: FETCH command normalization
pg_stat_statements: normalizing commands with parameter lists in IN clauses
EXPLAIN: Memoize node estimates
btree_gin: comparison operators for integer types
pg_upgrade: optimized migration of large objects
Optimized temporary table truncation
Planner: incremental sort in Append and MergeAppend nodes
Domain constraint validation no longer blocks DML operations
CHECKPOINT command parameters
COPY FROM: skipping initial rows
pg_dsm_registry_allocations: dynamic shared memory (DSM) usage

Build the project as follows:

This command is for downloading from GitHub: https://github.com/rexglue/rexglue-sdk

Warning: You can download a pre-built .exe file, which will allow you to decompile the game in C++ (but building it is unlikely). Furthermore, versions are updated frequently, and the latest versions (with more instructions) are worth building.

Prepare the necessary directory.
Specify it as REXSDK in the global variables.

Sometimes the project won't compile in x64, so it's worth adding these lines to CMakeList.txt.

Enable Windows developer mode to download the necessary packages.

And in the /thirdparty/libsmpack folder, enter the following commands.

Then the necessary updates for the package will be downloaded.

Try adding additional parameters here. If it doesn't compile, then:

And finish the build:

Testing

To test the tool, use the following commands:

Add it to the assets/default.xex folder (you'll need to create it and add it to the project that rexglue will create).

This video can be useful for installing clang-cl and preparing default.xex from an Xbox 360 ISO image (which was dumped).

The program will display all missing instructions and replace them with placeholders (but it's best to create an issue with the required instructions, and once they're implemented, return to the project).

Don't forget to support the developers with well-deserved stars and share with your friends. Also, subscribe so you don't miss the next part, which will explain how to run the recompiled project.

Mandelbrot set. 32-bit TrueColor. 60 FPS. 80-bit long double. OpenMP. Supersampling 2x2 (4 passes). Color rotation. I want to say. This is the most necessary thing in the Universe. The most profound. And now, in my entire life, I finally started writing code and did it. Quite complex. And the most beautiful. Download and see! It's an executable file, on GitHub.

github: Download Latest Version Windows And Source code

Временем управлять нельзя - это не ресурс и почему у меня внутри умирает один инженер? Предлагаю это проверить, получится ли прийти к чему-то общему.

A new project called ReXGlue has been released online. It's a software development kit (SDK) designed for static recompilation of Xbox 360 console software. The utility's primary purpose is to convert native PowerPC code into portable C++ code, which can then be compiled for native execution on modern computers running Windows, Linux, or macOS https://github.com/rexglue/rexglue-sdk

I like AI and have been working with the technology for over a decade. It’s been exciting, interesting, and inspiring — until recently.

As I write this in mid-February of 2026, software stocks are in freefall and social media is inundated with videos of AI company CEOs predicting the looming collapse of the software industry.

They tell us the story we’ve heard on loop for two years:

LLMs fail at elementary math. Corporations spend billions, but ultimately are forced to attach calculators to computing machines of incredible power. All attempts to fix this via Chain-of-Thought, fine-tuning on arithmetic tasks, or context expansion have failed.

I conducted a series of experiments to understand why, and came to the conclusion that neural networks are simply not meant for discrete arithmetic. Their true purpose is continuous transformations.

This article describes the implementation of a novel neural network architecture that combines the precision of symbolic AI with the generalization capabilities of LLMs. As always, experiments and code are included.

Windows 11 is a modern and beautiful operating system, but sometimes it can run slower than you'd like. This is especially noticeable on older or less powerful PCs. The good news is that there are several simple and effective ways to improve system performance, making it faster and more convenient to use.

In this article, we'll look at how to properly configure Windows 11, get rid of unnecessary processes, and optimize its performance so that your computer runs smoothly and stably.

By the way, if you're interested in IT and useful tools, check out my Telegram channel. I regularly post fresh news, life hacks, and other useful things there. And now, to the heart of the article.

A major package of amendments to the Tax Code of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the Tax Code), draft federal law No. 1026190-8, may come into force on January 1, 2026. The law passed its first reading on October 22, 2025, and on November 10, revised amendments for the second reading were published, and it is these current changes that I have taken into account in this article.