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Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI

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I tried cinnamon-roll recipes from 3 celebrity chefs, and the best one completely blew me away

support@mycoding.id (Paige Bennett) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:41:03 +0700

One of the cinnamon-roll recipes I tried ended up being from Ree Drummond. Paige Bennett

Imagine sweet, cinnamon sugar swirled into pillowy-soft dough, all dripping in glistening icing — is your mouth watering yet?

When that craving for cinnamon rolls kicks in, you could certainly catch a can from the market shop — but there's nothing improved than gooey, homemade ones filling your entire home alongside comforting smells.

In hunt of the supreme cinnamon roll, I tested recipes from celebrated chefs Alton Brown, Ree Drummond, and Sandra Lee to see who has the finest one.

Read on to see how all formula turned out, and which was my favorite.

Brown's formula calls for fairly uncomplicated pantry staples

The ingredients for Alton Brown's cinnamon rolls. Paige Bennett for Insider

Brown's recipe on the Food Network website asked for several excellent essential galley ingredients, many of which I already had on hand.

I needed dirt cinnamon, ray brown sugar, butter, eggs, flour, instant dry yeast, salt, and sugar for the batter and filling. For the icing, I lone needed lotion cheese, powdered sugar, and milk.

The ingredients are so norm that I happened to have adequate on hand to create two batches, which afterward came in helpful whenever I ran into several difficulty alongside my archetypal attempt.

These are meant to be prepared the day before, which makes dawn prep easy

Brown's formula is for "overnight cinnamon rolls," so I started prepping them the day before I wanted to eat them.

I akin the idea of starting these rolls in the evening, letting them chill overnight, afterward finishing them in the morning. Splitting up the steps makes the procedure appear much easier.

However, it didn't create it any shorter. I made the batter the day before, let it increase for two and a fractional hours, and chilled it overnight.

For my dough, I used instant yeast that person had shared alongside me from a larger package. I'd stored it in a clear, resealable bag — but it turns out that opened instant yeast have to be refrigerated.

As such, my instant yeast was worthless. However, I didn't acknowledge this until it was too late.

My archetypal lot was a bust, but I learned a few lessons

The archetypal lot of Alton Brown's cinnamon rolls didn't activity out because of my ingredients. Paige Bennett for Insider

In the morning, I let my rolls increase additional in a chilly oven alongside alongside a pan of boiling h2o for 30 minutes. Then I baked them for 30 minutes.

The first lot was certainly wrong. As I foreshadowed, the rolls never rosy because of an matter alongside my instant yeast. The batter looked fairly dry from commencement to finish, and the cinnamon rolls stayed small throughout the process.

They didn't increase in the oven and came out looking undercooked and dry — but at smallest they worked fine as an air freshener.

The icing smelled sweet, but it looked lean alongside clumps of lotion cheese. I wondered if perchance the lotion dairy merchandise wasn't gentle enough, equal although I'd remaining it out for a few hours.

My archetypal attempt at Alton Brown's cinnamon rolls looked off. Paige Bennett for Insider

These cinnamon rolls were difficult to cut into and incredibly dense.

The sensation was fine — buttery and filled alongside a saccharine cinnamon sensation — but the texture was fair difficult and dry. The icing was additionally a turn-off since of the clumpiness.

I decided to try Brown's formula one additional time

For the second lot of Alton Brown's cinnamon rolls, my batter was looking good. Paige Bennett for Insider

After my unsuccessful archetypal attempt, I made a second batch. This time, I tried using active dry yeast as a substitute for instant yeast by following the uncomplicated instructions on the yeast packet. It worked perfectly.

I blended energetic yeast alongside heated h2o (I made certain the heat was between 100 and 115 degrees Fahrenheit) and sugar and let it sit for 10 minutes before adding it to the mixer to create the dough, per the recipe's instructions.

The second period around, the batter certainly came out fluffier and stickier. It rosy extremely fine and was a bit harder to activity alongside since it was so gentle and sticky.

My archetypal attempt was a letdown, but the second lot of Brown's rolls was excellent

Alton Brown's cinnamon rolls from my second lot looked amazing. Paige Bennett for Insider

These came out of the oven looking and smelling delicious.

The brown sugar in the filling leaked out additional in this batch, causing the bottoms of the cinnamon rolls to rotate into slightly overdone.

Otherwise, the rolls were so soft. I desire the filling didn't leak out and pond in the base of the pan since I would've loved additional cinnamon and brown-sugar flavor.

The frosting was a bit chunky. Paige Bennett for Insider

For my second attempt at the icing, I tried letting the lotion dairy merchandise sit out equal longer to soften, expecting it would be easier to merge alongside the powdered sugar and dairy — but it motionless got clumpy.

In the future, I power try topping these alongside whipped lotion cheese instead.

Overall, this formula caused soft, pillowy cinnamon rolls that could use additional filling.

Drummond's formula featured distinctive ingredients in elevated adequate quantities to nourish a crowd

The ingredients for Ree Drummond's cinnamon-roll recipe. Paige Bennett for Insider

The Pioneer Woman is frequently whipping up recipes for a assemblage on her cooking show, so it makes awareness that her first recipe on the Food Network website yields 40 to 50 cinnamon rolls.

I cut the ingredients in half, and this formula motionless produced the most cinnamon rolls of the three recipes I tested.

For this batter and filling, I needed a lot of the identical basics, akin flour, butter, cinnamon, energetic dry yeast, sugar, and milk. It additionally used baking powder and baking soda.

However, there were several additional unconventional ingredients for the icing, including maple extract and "strongly brewed coffee." I used chilly beer since I already had several made in the fridge.

Oddly enough, this is a one-pot recipe

Ree Drummond's formula lone required one pot. Paige Bennett for Insider

Although several mixing bowls are needed for the icing, the batter is really made in a sole pot on the stove. This made for a beautiful uncomplicated start, equal if it seemed different to me.

I made the batter on the stove as directed, afterward moved it to a mixing basin to proof. It rosy so fine that I had a difficult period getting it to halt rising.

Rolling out the batter was no uncomplicated feat. Paige Bennett for Insider

The rising batter overflowed out of my mixing bowl, and it was extremely difficult to rotate out since it was so fluffy and sticky.

I wrangled it as finest I could and packed my batter strips alongside filling before putting them into the baking pans to increase further.

Ree Drummond's cinnamon rolls before I cooked them. Paige Bennett for Insider

Although they seemed far distinct in the pan, I knew they'd increase equal additional formerly they began baking.

The odor of these maple cinnamon rolls was imaginary — and the sensation was equal better

I desire you could odor these through the screen. Paige Bennett for Insider

Despite the disorder and frustration, these rolls came out nearly perfect. They were aureate alongside gooey centers, equal although they looked a bit pathetic and misshapen going into the oven.

Drummond's maple icing was uncomplicated to make, but next period I scheme to sift the powdered sugar to forestall it from clumping.

The edges of the cinnamon rolls were fair the least bit overdone. Aside from the slightly keen edges, the rolls were absolutely gentle alongside saccharine fillings and ooey-gooey centers.

The cinnamon rotate was nearly perfect. Paige Bennett for Insider

The archetypal nip I took from the center of one of these rolls was indescribably good, and the maple icing was so delicious I could eat it direct from the bowl.

For fair my partner and me, I don't think I would go through the nightmarish disorder of this formula again. However, these cinnamon rolls would entirely power a crowd.

Lee's cinnamon rolls were unsurprisingly quick and uncomplicated to make

The ingredients for Sandra Lee's cinnamon rolls. Paige Bennett for Insider

True to her semi-homemade fame, Lee's recipe on the Food Network website calls for icy bread dough. My market shop typically carries one brand of icy pale bread dough, but it was out of inventory whenever I went shopping.

Luckily, in a 2020 Yahoo interview, Lee stated you can toggle out the icy bread for biscuit batter in this recipe.

I decided to use buttermilk biscuits since I figured the buttermilk flavor, which is a tad acidic, would balance out the sweetness of the cinnamon rolls

The batter was harder to rotate out than I expected

For this recipe, I cut my cinnamon rolls from a batter log. Paige Bennett for Insider

At first, the biscuit batter felt durable to rotate out since it's so dense. However, formerly I eventually flattened it, adding the brown sugar and cinnamon filling was uncomplicated — and so was shaping the rolls.

The batter was uncomplicated to slice, and doing so created beautiful, nearly ideal rolls. This was a nice interrupt from the another batches of cinnamon rolls I made, which mostly cut distinct as I cut them.

In the end, this recipe's batter was the easiest for me to rotate out and shape. Paige Bennett for Insider

I followed the recipe's instructions and remaining the cut rolls out for one hr to proof. They didn't appear to increase at all during that time, so I'm not certain how necessary this was.

In the meantime, I made the icing alongside softened butter, lotion cheese, vanilla extract, and powdered sugar. Like alongside Brown's recipe, I established the uncomplicated cream-cheese icing I prepared to be lumpy.

The cinnamon rolls looked great, but the centers were too undercooked

Sandra Lee's cinnamon rolls looked golden, but the insides were not completely cooked. Paige Bennett for Insider

These came out aureate brown, and the lumps in the icing dissolved formerly they met the hot rolls.

Unfortunately, the batter was so compact that the centers didn't roast fine and were too underdone and doughy. However, alongside additional period in the oven, I predicted that the edges would burn.

Next time, I power shield these alongside foil for a bit or roast them at a lesser heat so they don't scorch but can chef through.

These cinnamon rolls weren't necessarily value the hassle. Paige Bennett for Insider

The buttermilk sensation did assistance cut the additional sweetness from the excessive filling, but otherwise, these tasted fairly akin to store-bought cinnamon rolls.

As such, I'd likely skip purchasing a can of biscuit batter to create these rolls and fair opt for a can of store-bought cinnamon rolls.

I'd totally create Drummond's cinnamon rolls again, but lone for a particular occasion

Ree Drummond's cinnamon-roll formula was amazing. Paige Bennett for Insider

In general, making homemade cinnamon rolls can be a lengthy and messy affair.

Personally, I don't intellect grabbing a can of cinnamon rolls from the shop or purchasing them from a local bakery or restaurant. I'll apt continue to do so, but for particular occasions and ample gatherings, I'd create Drummond's recipe in a heartbeat.

It caused specified decadently saccharine cinnamon rolls, and the maple icing was specified a distinctive contact that really made them next-level.

Check out the another celebrity-chef recipes we've put head-to-head so far.

This narrative was initially published on TK and most lately updated on TK.

I moved from Hawaii to the mainland United States. Here are 8 culture shocks I wasn't prepared for.

support@mycoding.id (Jana Soli) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:34:01 +0700

I moved from Hawaii to the continental US and have informed several civilization shocks alongside the way. Jana Soli

After living in Hawaii for 13 years — my complete grownup existence — I decided to move to North Carolina in 2021 for my MBA. While in school, I met my husband, and together, we relocated to Atlanta to prosecute our careers.

However, following spending so much period in Hawaii, moving to the mainland came alongside several surprises. Here are eight of the biggest civilization shocks I've experienced.

On the mainland, I expend much additional period in my car.

I expend additional period sitting in traffic in Atlanta. Barry Williams/Getty Images

When I lived on the Big Island of Hawaii, I rarely had to run additional than 30 minutes at a time. Everything from activity to the market shop to the coast was fair a abbreviated car journey away. A trip throughout the isle felt akin a journey.

So, it took me several period to modify to the longer commutes in mainland cities. Rush-hour traffic is now a regular occurrence, fairly than item I see in movies. And now, driving an hr to activity or to sojourn allies is norm anywhere I live.

Even although driving isn't continually my favorite activity, I affection that I can get in my car and caput to another province in fair a few hours. It's stated my hubby and me a lot of fun weekend highway trips.

Daylight-saving period is new for me.

Hawaii doesn't prosecute daylight-saving time. Jana Soli

Hawaii doesn't prosecute daylight-saving time, and alternatively stays on Hawaii Standard Time all twelvemonth long. So whenever I archetypal came to the mainland, the period changes twice a twelvemonth really confused me.

I motionless have to appearance up whenever daylight-saving period starts and ends, particularly whenever I'm referencing what period it is rear in Hawaii. Thankfully, I keep a catalog of cities on my clock app to keep track of the period difference.

Experiencing four distinct seasons has changed how I detect period passing.

I affection experiencing all four seasons. Sean Davis/Getty Images

Moving to a location alongside seasons meant buying winter clothing and seeing the leaves bursting into brilliant oranges and reds in the fall.

This is distinct from the islands, anywhere the seasons are mostly the rainy period and dry season. I now appearance onward to seasonal transitions and the festivities that arrive alongside all one.

Air conditioning is much additional average on the mainland.

Many older homes in Hawaii have jalousie windows. Jana Soli

Many homes in Hawaii, including the one anywhere I lived, use the commerce winds for cooling. My residence had jalousie windows alongside horizontal pane slats that let the breeze continue through.

In contrast, buildings current in the Southeast are typically climate-controlled using air conditioning and heating units.

If I'm being honest, I motionless have to transport a sweater about to keep heated whenever the air conditioning is strong. However, dependable air conditioning is particularly nice during hot, humid summers.

Locally grown create is now a summer staple.

I appearance onward to peach period all summer. Jana Soli

In Hawaii, since the climate is beautiful mild year-round, many fruits have multiple or uninterrupted expanding seasons. Plus, I continually knew person who was giving fruits distant from their backyard.

Here in the Southeast, though, caller fruits awareness additional seasonal. I now get enthusiastic for peach period and the lengthy lines at local farmers markets.

On the mainland, the climate is harder to predict.

I used to be capable to acknowledge climate patterns in Hawaii. Jana Soli

Where I lived in Hawaii, I'd appearance out complete the sea and be capable to foretell the next few hours of climate beautiful accurately.

After years of living there, I understood the patterns of the clouds and wind, and could typically gauge the amount of period I needed to create it residence from a run or the coast before the climate turned.

However, I have a much tougher period guessing what the climate volition be akin on the mainland. I now depend a lot additional on climate forecasts to cognize what to expect.

The advertisements took me by surprise.

I affection study the advertisements in Atlanta. Jana Soli

Billboards aren't allowed in Hawaii, so whenever I archetypal moved to the Southeast, I couldn't accept how many huge signs dotted the skylines.

Now I get a boot out of study them and analyzing the marketing, but it's continually engaging returning to Hawaii and seeing how open the landscape is without them.

Fast-food restaurants on the mainland are missing Spam.

Spam musubi was a famous dish rear in Hawaii. Jana Soli

Chicken and burgers are staples of fast-food restaurants on the mainland, but Hawaii's celebrated chains frequently characteristic grain and Spam.

Now, whenever I sojourn my favorite chains, I young female getting Spam musubi — Spam wrapped in grain and seaweed.

This Autonomous Camera Robot Is My New Best Friend

support@mycoding.id (Stephen Johnson) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:30:00 +0700

Stephen Johnson is a elder personnel author at Lifehacker covering pop civilization and technology, including the columns “The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture” and “What People Are Getting Wrong This Week.”

Like any pure-hearted geek, I've wanted to own a droid always since I saw Star Wars as a kid. Now, I really have one: It's Beni, a new gadget from Mondo Robotics, and it has me saying, "Artoo who?" It's not fair my Upgrade of the Week; it's perchance the upgrade of my life.

Beni is an all-terrain camera robot that was born as a project on Kickstarter, but dissimilar so many another Kickstarted projects, it's really really cool. It takes 4K video during autonomously following its topic anywhere they go. If you desire to get act footage, there's no need to hassle alongside a tripod or another person: You can authority it alongside a remote, or you can create it prosecute you. It can additionally be set to track you from the flank or circle you, and you can modify what it is doing from the app or distant authority on the fly, so alongside minimal effort, there's no bounds to the benevolent of detailed shots it can drag off. Plus it's adorable. Just appearance at this small guy:

Credit: Stephen Johnson

Being adorable wouldn't matter if Beni was fair a gimmick, but the footage it takes is really really impressive. Check out this clip, which I recorded alongside no preparedness of any sort; I fair locked Beni's camera on this skater and told it to prosecute him wherever:

See how smoothly it glides complete the uneven concrete? How effortlessly it handles inclines? I equal launched it off a huge ramp and it landed on the another side, righted itself, and got rear to business.

Here's an example of the benevolent of footageyou'll get whenever you put it in "circle you" manner (and again, this was recorded alongside no previous planning):

What do you think so far?

The way it fair slides under that bench? Come ON. That's fair slick.

Yes, Beni is a slightly silly product, but as slightly silly products go, it's beautiful inarguably awesome. Here is a abbreviated catalog of things I affection concerning Beni:

It's excellent easy-to-use. I got it up and operating moments following taking it out of the box and downloading the app. You can effortlessly fig out how it plant on the fly.
It's a multi-terrain robot. You can get an additional set of bigger, beefier wheels, but equal alongside the inventory tires, this item worked awesome on uneven concrete, grass, and dirt.
It's rugged. While Beni does have obstacle finding ability, it runs into things a lot anyway, but that's not a problem. Beni can obtain massive, epic spills, slam into walls, and get kicked by children, and it volition correct itself and continue on without a hitch. It's amazing to watch.
It really plant the way you anticipate it to. I cognize that's a low bar to clear, but it's rare for a flashy part of tech to really do what it says it promises, and Beni does.
It's adorable. A lot of activity went into making Beni as friendly-looking as possible—it does tricks, blinks its "eyes," responds to gestures, and you can equal provision him a small ballgame cap. Beni's vibe is positive.
It's awesome for social interaction. If you have a small robot following you around, group will desire to conversation to you. I'm not a huge fan of people, but if you desire to create allies at the park, this robot volition at smallest open the door.
It's not as costly as you power imagine. Beni volition run you $750 for the basis model, and $899 for the "Explore Combo" alongside larger wheels, a charging stand, and a small hat. While $750 isn't cheap, for what you get, it's really a beautiful firm deal. Everything expenses a fortune now anyway! You deserve a robot.

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Beni isn't fairly prepared to create its debut yet. Right now, you can pre-order one on Mondo Robotics site, alongside a publish planned for several period in first November. This is the company's archetypal product, so it's not yet apparent if Beni volition always be sold via third-party retailers akin Amazon.

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Show HN: Nasscad – local-first 3D CAD for browser and Windows

support@mycoding.id (Adi Gunawan) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:28:32 +0700

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This is how badly X wants you to pay to promote your posts

support@mycoding.id (Andrew Liszewski) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:26:39 +0700

Andrew Liszewski

is a elder newsman who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things digital since he was a kid.

After Elon Musk warned that “advertisers who article ads that are ugly, shrill, strident or overstate claims concerning their merchandise volition be barred from advertising” on X before this month, the phase now appears to be using a jarring animated arm that reaches throughout the display to diagram notice to the “promote” clasp during users are composing a post.

Many X users have seen and shared images of the unsettling promotional tool, including The Verge’s Tom Warren, but it doesn’t appear for everyone on the platform. The arm seems constricted to verified users, or those alongside a paid subscription to X Premium. Reactions, unsurprisingly, have been small than positive. “I’ve never promoted a article and HATE this display takeover,” stated Sheel Mohnot, during Jesse Middleton likened it to a Halloween prank. “I desire I could explain how jarring this hand and animation was in the @X app. It was really shocking, nearly akin a Halloween gag, but I’m beautiful certain it was real.”

Using the paid advance characteristic extends the attain of an X article to a larger spectators according to their location, interests, or demographics, including those not currently following a user’s account. Posts that have been promoted appearance akin another posts on X but are tagged alongside a “promoted” or “ad” label.

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Emacs Turns 50

support@mycoding.id (Adi Gunawan) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:25:11 +0700

Programming used to be a extremely distinct cognition from the one we cognize today. In fact, the archetypal programmers didn’t compose code at all; the six women who worked on the ENIAC, among the world’s archetypal computers, at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 did it by physically configuring switches, cables, and plugboards.

A few years later, MIT engineers programmed the Whirlwind by punching code onto document strip that was afterward loaded into the computer’s memory—making it among the archetypal “stored-program” machines. Later, they and others moved on to punch cards, one for all row of code.

By the first 1960s, programmers alongside interactive computers could use a “line editor” to category their code on teletypes—large, noisy keyboard-and-printer machines. They’d category one row of code at a time, and their activity would be saved on a spinning difficult disk the size of a contemporary washing machine. But there was motionless no specified item as the now-familiar full-screen content editors that authorize programmers to see and modify many lines at a period on a display.

One of the archetypal specified tools, EMACS, turns 50 this year, and it is motionless extensively used.

EMACS archetypal ran on the first video terminals at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1976, but its center concepts were so mighty that it was rewritten for many functioning systems in the decades that followed. Apple equal distributed it alongside Mac OS X. Beyond that, the software-sharing community that started about EMACS helped provision increase to the modern-day liberated application movement and the GNU/Linux functioning system.

EMACS’s roots commencement alongside the TECO content publishing company (originally the “Tape Editor and Corrector”) that Dan Murphy ’65 created in 1962 for the pioneering PDP-1 device at MIT. The program’s commands were uppercase letters: A person would category “I” to insert text, “D” to delete a character, and so on. When strip gave way as a retention average to records on a huge shared disk, the “T” in “TECO” came to remain for “Text.” And as years passed, TECO became a complete tongue that programmers could use to create new commands, called macros, for editing their code.

In the autumn of 1971, Carl Mikkelsen ’76 created Control-R, an add-on program for TECO that took advantage of “glass teletype” terminals alongside video displays. Control-R immediately displayed changes to the document being edited on screen; the programmer no longer needed to reprint all row to see the changes. The drawback: The display could display lone a few lines of code at a time.

“Experienced and advanced users established EMACS to be eminently additional usable than any of the former forms of editing.”
Bernard S. Greenberg, SM ’74

Then, in 1976, Richard M. Stallman, a investigator at the MIT AI Lab, saw a full-screen editor—called E—on a sojourn to Stanford’s AI Lab. Inspired, he returned to MIT and set out to enhance Control-R. The most crucial alter to the program’s underlying structure: Every key ran its own macro whenever pressed, making Control-R far easier to customize. The lab’s hackers took to Stallman’s code alongside gusto and started changing and adding commands.

That created an matter for Guy Steele Jr., SM ’77, PhD ’80. A alumnus pupil in the lab, Steele frequently needed to assistance another lab members debug their programs. “I noticed that it was much harder for me to assistance person who was using one of these packages fairly than direct TECO,” he recalls. “Eventually, it occurred to me to try [to] agent agreement on a norm set of Control-R commands that everyone could concur to use.”

David Moon ’75, another associate of the lab, helped out. Stallman jumped in as well, and eventually he took over. Together, the collection assigned a norm set of commands that made use of the Meta key established on many of the lab’s first keyboards: Meta-F would move the cursor onward a word, Meta-B would move it rear a word, and so on. They called the outcome EMACS, abbreviated for “Editor Macros” or “Editing Macros.” “My goal was not to build a awesome new content editor,” says Steele. “I was trying to location a social problem.”

Nevertheless, EMACS was a awesome new content editor. Whereas Control-R could be tricky, EMACS users alongside “no specialized cognition at all” could study to edit letters, emails, and equal programs “within minutes or an hour,” according to a former by Bernard S. Greenberg, SM ’74. Meanwhile, “experienced and advanced users established EMACS to be eminently additional usable than any of the former forms of editing.”

Stallman started distributing EMACS to anyone who sent him a magnetic strip and a postage-paid come back envelope. “EMACS does not disbursal anything; instead, you are joining the EMACS software-sharing commune,” he wrote in the 1981 manual. “The conditions of affiliation are that you must dispatch rear any improvements you create to EMACS.”

Programming manuals for the Multics functioning system. While operating at Honeywell, Bernard S. Greenberg wrote his own type of EMACS for the system. It was so good, Honeywell commercial it.

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Greenberg, meanwhile, decided to compose his own type for Multics, an first functioning scheme by that period owned by his employer, Honeywell. Greenberg’s EMACS won archetypal award at the International Honeywell Software Conference in 1980, and Honeywell started marketing it. Honeywell wasn’t solitary in promotion a type of EMACS: James Arthur Gosling, a Carnegie Mellon alumnus who went on to guide the betterment of the Java programming language, made a type that he eventually sold as a business product.

This passage from liberated to paid application ultimately spurred Stallman to initiate a project to create an functioning scheme that could be openly shared and improved by its users. He modeled this effort, called the GNU Project, following the increasingly famous Unix functioning scheme from Bell Labs. “GNU” was abbreviated for “GNU’s Not Unix,” alluding to the fact that, dissimilar Unix, it would be free.

The project’s archetypal important use was GNU Emacs (now restyled in lowercase). The GNU/Linux functioning scheme was motionless years away, so, notwithstanding the project’s aim to create an entirely liberated functioning system, GNU Emacs initally ran on Unix. It would eventually run on a range of functioning systems, including Linux but additionally another Unix-based systems. When Apple launched Mac OS X, the archetypal publish of its Unix-based functioning system, in 2001, GNU Emacs was included.

Apple stopped shipping GNU Emacs in 2019, but the business motionless has a program called mg (“Micro GNU Emacs”). Though it supports most EMACS commands, it lacks an unified programming language, making it what several call an “ersatz EMACS.”

Meanwhile, much of Apple’s OS motionless has hidden assistance for EMACS commands. The keyboard has no Meta key, but Control-Option-B volition move rear one word, and Control-Option-F volition move one forward.

Former Louis Vuitton employees share 6 common mistakes they saw customers make when shopping at the luxury retailer

support@mycoding.id (Cheyenne Elwell) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:24:47 +0700

Three erstwhile Louis Vuitton workforce shared average mistakes they saw customers create whenever buying in-store. AdrianHancu/iStock

Shopping at Louis Vuitton can awareness intimidating, particularly for a first-time customer.

The French luxury house, founded in 1854, is known for its handbags, luggage, and signature LV monogram. Even although these pieces are extensively recognizable — and worn by celebrities akin Emma Stone and Zendaya — many arrive alongside cost tags in the thousands. For a acquisition that expensive, it can be helpful to cognize what to anticipate before you shop.

Business Insider said alongside three erstwhile Louis Vuitton workforce concerning the most average mistakes they saw customers make. Here's what they said.

Louis Vuitton shoppers shouldn't anticipate to discover discounts at its stores.

Louis Vuitton does not recommendation discounts or sales. mpalis/iStock

Shelley Alvarado, a erstwhile revenue affiliate and keyholder director at a Louis Vuitton location in Topanga, California, stated customers would frequently arrive into the shop and ask if any items were on sale.

"I think that group assumed that there would be sales, and there wasn't a revenue division at all. Louis Vuitton never went on sale," Alvarado told BI.

According to Louis Vuitton's website, that is motionless the case. The brand does not recommendation discounts on its products.

Waiting too lengthy on limited-edition items is risky.

A erstwhile employee recommended purchasing a limited-edition item correct away. Andrei Antipov/iStock

Eddison Brown, a erstwhile Louis Vuitton client adviser in Los Angeles, stated he would encounter customers who waited too lengthy to acquisition particular collaborations and limited-edition drops, ultimately missing their chance.

"If you desire item that's a constricted drop, you have to be adamant concerning purchasing that correct distant since it'll be gone before you know," Brown told BI.

He additionally recommended construction a association alongside a client advisor. These are workforce who create one-to-one relationships alongside customers, and can be a asset for data concerning upcoming products.

Choosing cost complete practicality is a big mistake.

The practicality of a luxury bag should obtain precedence complete its price. Edward Berthelot/Getty Images

Given the elevated cost of luxury bags, it can be tempting to choose the less-expensive option. However, Dominique Danielle, a erstwhile Louis Vuitton employee in the Philadelphia area, stated that sometimes meant customers ended up alongside a bag that didn't really fit their needs.

"Customers would default to a small costly choice or bag without considering whether it really fits their lifestyle," Danielle told BI.

Some customers, she said, afterward returned bags following realizing they couldn't fit everything they needed to inside. She recommended being open to an associate's direction fairly than assuming a distinct size recommendation was an attempt to upsell them.

Thinking a bag volition appearance brand new everlastingly is unrealistic.

A Louis Vuitton Neverfull bag naturally darkens alongside use. Moritz Scholz/Getty Images

A Louis Vuitton purse isn't necessarily expected to appearance the identical years following you buy it. For instance, Danielle explained that the untreated cowhide reduce on bags akin the Neverfull and Speedy naturally darkens alongside use.

"The idea of it is to get darker and display the deteriorate and display fair the journey of the bag," Danielle told BI.

Brown additionally stated that aging can add character to a bag, particularly whenever it's passed downward through generations.

That said, customers should not treat costly bags as indestructible.

Proper care is crucial for the longevity of a luxury bag. MikeDot/iStock

The erstwhile workforce all told BI that a elevated cost tag doesn't average customers should skip appropriate attention and maintenance.

"Making this funding doesn't eliminate the need for care. It really requires additional of it since you have item that's precious and susceptible and expensive," Danielle told BI.

Danielle emphasized the importance of storing these luxury items in their powder bags whenever not in use. Brown additionally recommended being mindful of exposing bags to rain or severe weather.

Feeling intimidated by the luxury surroundings is unnecessary.

Customers shouldn't hesitate to ask associates questions during browsing a luxury store. tupungato/iStock

All three erstwhile workforce stated customers sometimes seemed intimidated by the luxury surroundings or concerned concerning how associates perceived them according to their appearance.

"I think that they assumed that the salespeople were judging them correct whenever they walked into the store, which wasn't the case at all," Alvarado said.

To assistance shoppers awareness additional comfortable in the environment, Brown encouraged them to browse and ask associates any questions they had concerning any item.

David Ellison’s Skydance Is Giving Employees a Choice: Come Into the Office 5 Days a Week or Take a Buyout

support@mycoding.id (Jonathan Small) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:15:00 +0700

Staffers at the newly merged Paramount and Warner Bros. have until Nov. 8 to decide, and HR says no second recommendation is coming.

By Jonathan Small | edited by Dan Bova | Oct 28, 2026

Paramount and Warner Bros. workforce who aren’t prepared to provision up operating in their sweats from residence now have a big choice to make.

Staffers throughout Skydance, the business newly cast by the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, were told this week that they’ll shortly have to activity completely in person, Business Insider reports. Employees who don’t desire to arrive to the agency can obtain a norm bundle of two weeks’ severance for all twelvemonth they’ve worked at Paramount or WBD, two group acquainted alongside the recommendation inform BI. The deadline to decide is 8 pm PT on Nov. 8.

The command is a bigger ask for Warner workers, who had been in the agency at smallest three days a week. Paramount workforce assigned to an agency have been there five days a week since before this year.

“We acknowledge that as we bring our teams together, not everyone volition see their forthcoming here,” Skydance’s HR squad wrote in an email to staff. The email calls the buyout “a one-time offer” and says no additional programs are planned.

Paramount and Warner Bros. workforce who aren’t prepared to provision up operating in their sweats from residence now have a big choice to make.

Aasaan Tech Pvt Ltd: Account Executive SaaS Sales Interview Guide

support@mycoding.id (Board Infinity) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:14:35 +0700

At Aasaan Tech Pvt Ltd, the Account Executive (AE) turns a builder's frustration alongside disbursal overruns and scattered location data into a signed application contract. Every agreement an AE closes adds Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) to a scaling Construction Technology (ConTech) startup. It additionally puts Aasaan's synthetic intellect (AI) and WhatsApp tools onto another live project.

This guide is for MBA candidates from the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) preparing for the Aasaan evidence procedure in endeavor Software as a Service (SaaS) sales. It covers what the job involves week to week, the skills interviewers test and the apt discussion rounds. It additionally includes 29 role-specific questions alongside example answers, the topics to expert and a four-week preparedness plan.

1. About the Enterprise SaaS Account Executive (AE) Role

As an AE, you own income from the archetypal conversation to the signed contract. You decide which contractors and developers to prosecute and which ones deserve a demo. You additionally decide how to example the come back on funding (ROI) and whenever to stroll distant from a deal. Your scoreboard is ARR, the annual subscription value of the accounts you sign.

The merchandise you market covers matter management, biometric and QR-code employee attendance, Bill of Quantities (BOQ) evaluation and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) sync. It runs on Aasaan's proprietary Raaya AI and Meta-verified WhatsApp integrations. Spend period on aasaan.co before your discussion so you can depict all component in your own words.

2. Required Skills and Qualifications

Educational Qualifications

Skills Overview

3. Day-to-Day Responsibilities

A representative week blends prospecting, finding meetings, tailored demos, recommendation follow-ups and pipeline reviews. You volition expend as much period understanding how a client's projects run as you expend talking concerning software.

Running Deals End to End

You transport all chance from archetypal communication to signature. You build a mark catalog of developers and contractors and publish finding calls. Next, you run a demo shaped about what you heard, portion an ROI model, negotiate conditions and get the agreement signed. A sole agreement power affect a site-specific demo and a recommendation revised twice before the CFO approves it.

Selling Outcomes, Not Features

Before pitching, you map how a client prepares BOQs, raises acquisition requests, tracks location advancement and bills its own customers. Then you show, in rupees and days, anywhere Raaya AI and WhatsApp automation eliminate rework. Examples contain a supervisor reporting matter receipts on WhatsApp alternatively of a document register, or BOQ quantities feeding procurement without being retyped.

Earning CXO and Founder Trust

The individual who signs is frequently a founder, builder or elder executive, and rely is built complete multiple conversations fairly than one pitch. You power dispatch a abbreviated note analysing their own location numbers or bring an industry adviser into a discussion. You additionally remain in contact between projects. Strong relationships alongside builders and consultants additionally bring introductions to another firms.

Owning the ARR Number

You transport quarterly and annual ARR targets and are expected to attack them, not fair encounter them. In practice, this method reviewing your pipeline all week. Every agreement needs a stage, a value, a next stage and an honest near date, and deals that volition not near get dropped. Commission on top of your fixed pay is uncapped, so pipeline site shows up immediately in your earnings.

Working With Internal Teams

You bring in Solution Engineering for complex demos or ERP sync questions. Signed clients go to Customer Success alongside apparent notes on who volition use what at all site, so onboarding is smooth. You additionally continue site patterns to Product. One example is three developers in a duration asking for the identical billing report.

4. Key Competencies for Success

Most IIM candidates can construction an answer. The ones who remain out display they comprehend how a building agreement really gets bought, protected and renewed. These traits sit beyond the listed requirements and decide who closes consistently.

5. Interview Process at Aasaan Tech Pvt Ltd

Campus processes for endeavor revenue at scaling SaaS startups are normally abbreviated and conversation-heavy, and are frequently completed on the placement day itself. Treat the stream below as a operating model. Your placement commission volition verify the exact rounds and their order.

Pre-Placement Talk and CV Shortlisting

The business presents the endeavor and the function to the batch, normally through founders or revenue leadership. CVs are afterward screened for evidence of marketing and influencing. Client-facing internships, sponsorship or fundraising roles and quantified outcomes transport importance here.

Screening Conversation

This is a abbreviated one-on-one alongside a hiring director or founder. It tests your motivation for sales, the clarity of your communication and your essential understanding of what Aasaan sells and to whom.

Sales Role-Play

Expect a imitate finding call or pitch, alongside the interviewer playing a sceptical contractor MD or CFO. The circular tests your listening, the norm of your questions and how you grip objections under pressure.

Case or ROI Exercise

This circular normally covers a market sizing, section prioritisation or ROI calculation, solved aloud or on a whiteboard alongside a revenue leader. It tests your comfort alongside project economics and alongside defending assumptions.

Founder or Leadership Fit Round

A final conversation alongside elder guidance checks grit, ownership and whether you desire to build a startup revenue function for the lengthy term. Questions on the fixed affirmative commission construction frequently arrive up here.

Candidates most frequently endure the role-play by pitching features specified as AI, WhatsApp and dashboards in the archetypal minute, alternatively of asking how the client runs its sites. With a building buyer, a throw that shows no rupee effect and stumbles complete conditions akin BOQ or RA bills signals that the applicant has not done the homework.

6. Interview Questions

Use STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) for behavioural questions. For pitches and objections, use a apparent construction specified as problem, cost, resolution and next step. For cases, conversation through the maths stage by step.

In a consultative revenue role, interviewers measure how fine you hear and quantify as much as what you say.

Behavioral and Company-Fit Questions

Role-Specific Enterprise Sales Questions

Product, Market and Case Questions

7. Topics and Areas of Focus

Each area below maps to item you volition be asked to do in a role-play, case or pitch. For the WhatsApp flank of the product, the authoritative WhatsApp Business Platform location is the finest primer on how businesses communicate at measure on WhatsApp.

8. Preparation Plan

Freshers: lean on organized frameworks (STAR for stories, step-by-step maths for cases) and diagram on internships, live projects and evidence roles anywhere you sold or persuaded. Candidates alongside previous activity experience: prepared 3-5 effect stories alongside numbers, specified as income influenced, clients won or expenses cut, since a quota-carrying function is judged on measurable outcomes fairly than responsibilities.

Week 1

Company and Industry

Learn the merchandise and how a building location really runs.

Week 2

Sales Skills and Metrics

Build finding scripts, ROI models and chimney maths.

Week 3

Stories and Questions

Write STAR stories and answer this guide aloud.

Week 4

Mocks and Polish

Run complete imitate rounds and fix your weakest answers.

Pre-Interview Checklist

9. Career Growth & Next Roles

In startup sales, promotion follows accordant quota attainment, backed by exact forecasting and customers consenting to vouch for you. Aasaan names Senior AE, Strategic Accounts Lead and Regional Sales Management as the fast-track paths.

The timelines below are representative for endeavor SaaS sales. Strong performers at a fast-growing business can move faster.

Account Executive (Now)

You own a set of accounts or a section and run the complete sequence on all agreement against a quarterly ARR target. To move up, you must attack quota for multiple successive quarters and forecast inside a narrow border of error. You additionally need signed customers who are blessed adequate to obtain a citation call from your next prospect.

Senior AE (Around 2-3 Years)

You obtain on larger multi-site contractors and developers alongside longer cycles, additional stakeholders and ceremonial procurement. Newer AEs frequently shade your calls. To progress, display that you can near complex deals that affect IT and backing reviews without dense support. You should additionally assistance lift the team's average performance.

Strategic Accounts Lead (Around 4-6 Years)

You own the company's biggest developer and infrastructure relationships, and your concentration shifts to expanding all document throughout new projects and modules. To move on, you need evidence that accounts develop under your ownership. You must additionally run shared document plans alongside Customer Success and Product, and clasp board-level conversations alongside founders and CFOs.

Fork: Regional Sales Management or Strategic Specialist

On the administration path, you guide a local team: hiring AEs, coaching deals, environment quotas and owning the local forecast. On the expert path, you remain an idiosyncratic contributor on the most complex endeavor and infrastructure deals. Either way, you demonstrate your value through repeatable results. Managers display it in squad performance; specialists display it in the measure of the deals they close.

10. Conclusion

The sole biggest differentiator is speaking in rupees, not features. Walk into all circular prepared to explain how one Aasaan component changes a contractor's matter cost, labor invoice or billing cycle. Back it up alongside a quick calculation. That one habit carries you through the pitch, the role-play and the case.

Two additional actions create a genuine difference. First, study the vocabulary of a building site, so the founders comprehend a forthcoming coworker fairly than a student. Second, rehearse finding additional than pitching, since candidates who ask keen questions before presenting remain out in role-plays.

Today, open aasaan.co and choice one module, specified as employee attendance or matter management. Build a one-page ROI example for an imaginary contractor alongside three live sites. Then throw it aloud to a batchmate in two minutes and ask them to shove rear akin a sceptical CFO.

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Aasaan Tech Pvt Ltd: Company Overview, History, Mission and Services

support@mycoding.id (Board Infinity) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:14:33 +0700

1. Key Competitors of Aasaan Tech Pvt Ltd

Aasaan Tech Pvt Ltd competes in India's innovation services market for small and mid-sized businesses. The client is normally a originator or operations caput who wants application that plant without operating an in-house engineering team.

Brand size rarely decides these deals. Competition runs on cost per project, speed to launch, how fine the vendor understands the client's workflow, and who stays liable for care following go-live.

Boutique Indian Software Studios

Small teams construction tradition web and mobile apps for SMBs

Competes on: the identical project briefs, specified as a booking app for a medicinal center sequence or an inventory dashboard for a distributor.

Position: powerful on referrals and founder-to-founder trust, so deals are frequently won on association and portfolio fit.

Freelance Developers

Individual contractors hired per project or per milestone

Competes on: disbursal for small, well-scoped work, specified as a landing leaf alongside fee integration or a WhatsApp ordering stream for a local bakery.

Position: cheapest at the admission level, but weaker on continuity, records and long-term support.

Ready-Made SaaS and No-Code Tools

Subscription application the client configures alternatively of commissioning

Competes on: the "build or buy" decision. A retailer power obtain an off-the-shelf billing tool fairly than a tradition GST invoicing module.

Position: accelerated and predictable on cost, but it loses whenever a endeavor needs workflows the template cannot handle.

Regional IT Consultancies

Mid-sized assistance firms offering betterment affirmative ongoing IT support

Competes on: clients who desire one vendor for the build, hosting and annual maintenance, specified as a logistics resolute digitising its shipment tracking.

Position: powerful on capability and assistance contracts, although normally slower and costlier than a lean squad for a archetypal product.

In a competitive-analysis answer, difference Aasaan Tech alongside all competitor category on three or four genuine dimensions, specified as cost, speed, customisation and post-launch support. Then explain which client situations favor Aasaan Tech and which favor the alternative, fairly than reducing the answer to "who is bigger".

For a innovation endeavor akin Aasaan Tech Pvt Ltd, the most dependable social effect grows out of what the business already does: construction software, training people, and assisting users get comfortable alongside digital tools. The themes below prosecute from that endeavor example and are anywhere a tech resolute of this benevolent typically focuses its community work.

Treat them as informed themes, not confirmed programmes. Before naming a particular undertaking in an interview, inspect the company's latest website, LinkedIn leaf or media communication.

📱

Digital Literacy

Helping first-time smartphone users study mundane tasks specified as paying a invoice through UPI or downloading documents from DigiLocker safely.

🎓

Youth Skilling and Employability

Workshops, internships and mentoring that provision students from smaller towns applicable coding and office skills.

👩

Women in Technology

Return-to-work tracks, scholarships or mentoring circles that broaden the pond of women entering engineering and merchandise roles.

♻

E-Waste and Green IT

Responsible disposal of laptops and servers, and choosing energy-efficient haze setups to decrease the ecological disbursal of operating software.

🌐

Accessible and Vernacular Tech

Designing interfaces that activity in local languages and alongside display readers, so innovation stays uncomplicated for users who are frequently remaining out.

🤝

Employee Volunteering

Staff giving period to build uncomplicated websites or tools for NGOs, schools and local community groups.

3. Interview Process & Selection Rounds

Hiring at Aasaan Tech Pvt Ltd follows the form average to Indian innovation companies: a screen, a skills check, one or two functional interviews, and a final civilization and recommendation conversation. Engineering roles lean heavily on coding assessments, during design, revenue and operations roles substitute them alongside portfolios, case exercises or role-plays.

Senior hires normally skip the online test and visage a deeper conversation alongside guidance instead. Campus and fresher drives frequently compress the rounds into a sole day.

Application and Resume Screening

Recruiters inspect whether your experience, projects and location equivalent the opening. Engineers are filtered on tech stack and project depth, designers on portfolio quality, and revenue or operations candidates on measurable outcomes specified as targets met or processes improved.

Online Assessment or Take-Home Task

This circular tests baseline capability under period pressure. Engineering and QA candidates typically get coding and debugging problems, data roles get SQL and analytics questions, and merchandise or scheme candidates frequently obtain a abbreviated take-home concise alternatively of a timed test.

Technical or Functional Interview

A squad associate probes how you really work. Developers explain code, data structures and scheme choices; designers stroll through a case study; revenue candidates grip a imitate client call; operations candidates resolve a procedure issue on the spot.

Hiring Manager Round

The director judges ownership, judgement and fit alongside the team's priorities. Expect circumstance questions concerning trade-offs and deadlines; for elder roles this becomes a conversation of former impact, squad guidance and how you would method the archetypal 90 days.

HR and Culture Fit Discussion

HR checks motivation, alignment alongside business values, notice duration and compensation expectations. This circular is broadly the identical throughout functions, so prepared the company-fit questions in the next division despite of the function you are applying for.

4. Common Interview Questions Across Roles

Any Aasaan Tech Pvt Ltd applicant can visage these questions despite of function; role-specific specialized questions are covered in all role's own guide.

Company Fit & Behavioral Questions

5. Required Skills & Tools

Aasaan Tech Pvt Ltd does not have one worldwide skills list; all occupation path needs a distinct one, and the array below maps them to the identical routes used in Career Opportunities.

6. Career Opportunities at Aasaan Tech Pvt Ltd

Careers at Aasaan Tech Pvt Ltd are organised by functional path fairly than a sole company ladder. You associate a path specified as engineering or sales, develop inner it, and move throughout lone whenever your skills assistance the switch.

The six routes below use the identical names as the Required Skills array in Section 8. Each one lists the titles you are apt to clasp alongside the way and the indication that tends to get group promoted.

Software Engineering

The customary progression runs from Software Engineer Trainee to Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, afterward Tech Lead or Engineering Manager. Freshers typically commencement by fixing bugs and construction small features before they own entire modules. Promotion follows ownership: shipping a characteristic end to end, reviewing another people's code well, and being the individual the squad calls whenever manufacturing breaks.

Quality Assurance & Testing

Roles on this path contain QA Engineer, Automation Test Engineer, Senior QA Engineer and QA Lead. The activity shifts complete period from penning manual test cases to construction automated regression suites. Promotion comes from moving the team's publish confidence forward, for example by automating a manual test sequence or catching defect patterns before they attain customers.

Product & Design

This path covers Associate Product Manager, Product Manager and Senior Product Manager, alongside UI/UX Designer and Product Designer on the scheme side. Early activity method penning apparent necessity documents and operating person research. Promotion depends on outcomes, not output: a shipped alter that measurably improves activation, preservation or project completion counts for additional than a lengthy characteristic list.

Data & Analytics

Typical titles are Data Analyst, Business Analyst, Senior Analyst and Analytics Lead, alongside Data Engineer as a parallel specialized track. The job starts alongside SQL queries and dashboards, afterward moves into owning metrics for a merchandise or endeavor line. The individual who gets promoted turns a dashboard into a decision, so they bring a advice fairly than lone a chart.

Sales & Business Development

The ladder normally runs from Business Development Executive to Business Development Manager, Key Account Manager and Regional or Sales Head. Entry roles concentration on guide generation, merchandise demos and following up on pipeline. Promotion follows accordant mark accomplishment complete multiple quarters, affirmative the capability to win and keep larger accounts without dense assistance from managers.

Customer Success & Support

Roles current contain Customer Support Executive, Customer Success Associate, Customer Success Manager and Support Team Lead. Day one is resolving tickets and onboarding new clients. Promotion goes to group who decrease reiterate issues at the source, for example by flagging a recurring bug to engineering or penning assistance satisfied that cuts ticket volume, and who keep renewals healthy.

7. Future Outlook and Strategic Plan

Aasaan Tech Pvt Ltd's name comes from the Hindi term for "easy," and the milestones in Section 1 display how that commitment has worked in practice. Interviewers volition anticipate you to nexus that former to anywhere the business is heading. The five themes below depict direction, not forecasts. Each one points to item you have to be prepared to discuss.

Simplicity as the merchandise promise

Be prepared to explain a complex scheme in plain language. One example is how a first-time person links a financial institution document to a UPI app. Another is how you would cut the steps in an IRCTC Tatkal booking. Interviewers desire to see that you can scheme for group who are not technical.

Continuity alongside the company's milestones

Know the Section 1 timeline fine adequate to inform it as a story, not as a catalog of dates. Pick one milestone and explain what it made imaginable next. Then say how your function would build on that identical path.

Customer outcomes complete characteristic counts

Talk concerning results that users really feel. Examples contain small drop-offs at a sign-up screen, or small reiterate assistance calls following a release. Bring one example anywhere you measured effect fairly than fair shipping work.

Trust, safety and liable data handling

Making a merchandise uncomplicated cannot arrive at the disbursal of safety. Be prepared to conversation how you would grip delicate identifiers akin Aadhaar or PAN numbers. Expect questions on consent, masking and least-privilege admission under India's data safety rules.

Learning speed and capability building

Show how you choice up new skills whenever a project demands them. You power depict learning a new example mid-sprint, or assisting a younger coworker get productive. A expanding business values group who create the entire squad better.

8. Conclusion

Aasaan Tech Pvt Ltd operates in a crowded Indian innovation market. The competitors profiled before frequently equivalent it on capability and price. Its border depends on keeping the commitment in its name: making innovation genuinely uncomplicated for the group who use it.

That direction rests on dependable execution, client rely and a squad that learns quickly. For you, this method your activity volition be judged by outcomes users feel. Come prepared to display how you simplify, not fair how you build.

My husband and I kept our finances separate after marriage. It worked well — and then, we had a baby.

support@mycoding.id (Rebecca Strong) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:03:01 +0700

Having a baby pushed my hubby and me to rethink how we grip money. Rebecca Strong

Maybe it's since I'm an lone kid raised by a sole mother, but I've continually appreciated independence.

I walked downward the aisle alone. I'll happily go out to meal or a movie by myself. When faced alongside a problem, my intuition is to wrestle alongside it myself fairly than ask for help. (I'm operating on that one.)

And whenever my hubby and I got married, I was adamant concerning keeping our finances separate.

For years, this institution worked beautifully. But following we had a baby in the summer of final year, I began to amazement whether the financial independence I'd clung to was really operating against us.

Keeping our finances distinct gave me a awareness of freedom

We opened a shared document following purchasing a house, but continued to keep most of our prosperity in distinct accounts. Rebecca Strong

The idea of combining finances has continually made me uncomfortable, mostly since I didn't akin the idea of having to validate any impulse purchases I've made following operating particularly hard. My hubby was continually on the identical page.

The archetypal period we really talked concerning changing our scheme was whenever we bought a home together in 2020, multiple years before we got married. We knew that this, of course, would arrive alongside a lot of shared expenses.

We decided to open a joint account, and to the two deposit the identical amount all duration to shield those expenses — akin the mortgage, utilities, and groceries. Then, we kept the remainder of our earnings in distinct checking accounts.

When my hubby wanted to splurge on several new audio equipment, he didn't awareness the need to consult me. Similarly, I didn't have to "ask permission" all period I wanted to get my tress done or go out for a nice meal alongside a friend.

To me, this scheme reflected fair how much we trusted all another to create financially liable decisions alongside our own money. Besides, it felt fair: We were the two contributing likewise to maintaining our home, during preserving several autonomy.

After having a baby, our distinct finances started creating tension

In 2025, we had a baby. Suddenly, finances felt a lot small cut-and-dried.

Because my hubby and I are the two freelancers, all hr one of us spends operating is frequently an hr the another spends caring for our son. So, whenever my hubby takes a last-minute gig, I endure that period to work, but I don't immediately advantage from what he earns — and vice versa.

We started to discover ourselves competing for the operating hours we needed to shield day attention and the mortgage, equal although we were expected to be functioning as a team. The "every man for himself" energetic felt entirely antithetical to what marriage was expected to be.

Meanwhile, the costs of parenthood — diapers, formula, day care, garments — were accumulating, forcing us to contribute additional and additional to our shared account. And now, one of us frequently had to sacrifice earning opportunities so the another could work.

During one of our latest weekly marriage check-ins, I expressed several resentment concerning how I'd been liable for picking up our son from day attention most days the former week, during my hubby was capable to activity much longer into the night.

"I'm contributing the identical amount, but I'm not being stated adequate period to acquire that amount," I said.

Combining additional of our prosperity helped us awareness akin a squad again

Now, merging our prosperity feels additional equitable. Rebecca Strong

Since our period and responsibilities are so intertwined these days, and we have a longer catalog of shared expenses than ever, we realized that the finest way to create our circumstance awareness additional equitable was to merge additional of our money.

In the past, we all deposited the identical fixed dollar amount into our shared document all month. Now, we contribute nearly all our earnings to that document and set apart the identical amount for the two of us to expend as we wish.

That alter helped curb several of the competition and resentment. Now, whenever one of us takes on an additional gig, client, or project, it feels akin a win for the two of us — despite of who's earning the paycheck.

That's not to say we've established the ideal arrangement. We're motionless figuring out how much individual spending prosperity makes awareness to set apart and which important expenses justify a conversation.

The crucial thing, though, is that we've realized independence and alliance aren't mutually exclusive. We portion the identical financial goals, so it lone makes awareness to portion our earnings. We're not giving up our financial independence, but redefining what it method to us.

The easier way to write media queries

support@mycoding.id (Kevin Powell) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:00:23 +0700

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This Seven-Piece Eufy Home Security System Is on Sale for $270 Right Now

support@mycoding.id (Pradershika Sharma) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:00:17 +0700

Pradershika Sharma is a tech deals author for Lifehacker.

She has a Master’s flat in English Literature, a B.Ed., and a TESOL certification. She has been penning professionally since 2018, creating merchandise reviews, affiliate articles, and hunt ads for earth clients during operating alongside Rubix Agency and Cognizant. Previously, she spent a twelvemonth instruction English at the younger elevated level.

An avid audience since childhood, Pradershika's idea of extreme sports is staying up to peruse “just one additional chapter.” She lives in India.

Eufy’s Essential 7-Piece Alarm System is downward to $269.98 at Amazon from $399.99, a $130 discount that price trackers say is its lowest cost ever. The kit includes a HomeBase Mini hub alongside 64GB of built-in storage, a keypad, four admission sensors, and a motion sensor. That’s adequate to shield the forefront and rear doors, a brace of ground-floor windows, and a chief hall in an flat or smaller house. It additionally doesn’t necessitate a subscription, so formerly you’ve paid for the system, you won’t have to concern concerning ongoing monthly fees.

Eufy Security Essential 7-Piece Alarm System

With the sensors in place, you’ll get an instant notification through the liberated Eufy app whenever person opens a protected entrance or window, during the motion sensor can detect movement in areas akin a living area or hallway. Not everyone in the family needs the app to use the system, though, since the included keypad lets family members or a home sitter arm and disarm it correct at the door. Everything connects rear to the HomeBase Mini, which serves as the chief hub alongside built-in retention that keeps everything stored locally.

What do you think so far?

Setting up the scheme takes minutes, as the battery-powered sensors necessitate no wiring and the app guides you through all stage formerly the HomeBase is plugged in. That said, you volition need to substitute the sensor batteries periodically, and a larger residence alongside multiple entrances may necessitate additional than the four admission sensors and one motion sensor included in the kit—you can add additional Eufy sensors and accessories as needed, but all comes at an additional cost. And if you desire to see what triggered an alert, you'll have to acquisition compatible cameras separately, since no cameras are included in the package.

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TikTok is going after Yelp and Google Maps with an in-app restaurant guide

support@mycoding.id (Mia Sato) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0700

TikTok is launching an in-app eatery guide in a difficulty to another platforms akin Yelp and equal Google Maps.

The business on Wednesday announced the initiate of Must Eat, a new division of the TikTok app built on 40 myriad posts, reviews, and comments concerning dining on the platform. The new characteristic uses videos and discussions of buzzy local businesses to create eatery advice guides. Users can depart reviews of restaurants, call and create reservations, and hunt for nearby businesses on a map.

At a initiate event this week, TikTok US CEO Adam Presser called Must Eat “the compilation of all of the conversation that’s happening on the TikTok phase throughout creators, restaurateurs, [and] individuals” who create videos or depart comments concerning local restaurants. Among the featured restaurants in New York are Golden Diner (home of extremely viral pancakes) and hard-to-reserve spots akin Semma and Via Carota.

Must Eat falls location between Yelp and additional curated recommendations from publications akin The Infatuation. Must Eat is divided into two category tabs: “everyday eats” and “elevated dining.” Users can kind and display by rating, distance, cuisine type, and what’s currently open, and all leaf for a eatery links to videos concerning the endeavor posted to TikTok. Diners can additionally bookmark businesses to preserve them for later. The characteristic is initially accessible in a few choose regions — New York City, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area. The business says restaurants can’t pay to be featured in the advice lists.

It’s not the archetypal period TikTok has tried to extend the gap for users between seeing a video concerning a location and really visiting in person. Earlier this year, the business added the ability to publish hotels and attractions through the app. That feature, TikTok Go, allowed satisfied creators to tag and nexus to locations; Must Eat is an enlargement of that before capability.

TikTok’s deeper move into the dining area is fitting, stated the app’s profound effect on restaurants. Content creators have angled to become the food critics of the short-form video era, all alongside their own schtick or eccentricities. The fame of food videos has equal changed what restaurants put on the list to commencement with, akin extra-long dairy merchandise pulls or theatrical presentations. In its media publish announcing the initiate of Must Eat, TikTok says 27 myriad US diners went to a restaurant, cafe, or shop for the archetypal period gratitude to the phase final year.

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KIND Snacks Founder Daniel Lubetzky Invests $62 Million — In a Nasal Strip Company

support@mycoding.id (Jason Feifer) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0700

Key Takeaways

This funding in Intake Breathing is the largest-ever from Lubetzky’s funding fund.Intake wants to reframe nasal strips from an occasional congestion remedy into a regular health and health habit.This represents a mighty chance for entrepreneurs, who can acknowledge and develop underdeveloped markets.
Intake wants to reframe nasal strips from an occasional congestion remedy into a regular health and health habit.
There’s awesome chance in identifying and expanding underdeveloped markets.

Daniel Lubetzky changed the snack industry alongside his business KIND Snacks. Now he’s betting those identical instincts can change how Americans think concerning breathing.

Camino Partners, the funding phase founded by Lubetzky and led by President Elle Lanning, today announced a $62 myriad funding in Intake Breathing — a fast-growing nasal band business whose merchandise is already used by top-tier athletes. It’s the largest funding in Camino’s history.

“This is the business that most reminds me of KIND,” Lubetzky said. “That’s how enthusiastic I am.”

In particular, Lubetzky and Lanning say, they see a akin opportunity: Snack bars used to be unfamiliar, overlooked, or slightly stigmatized, and afterward KIND turned them into an mundane health habit. Can Intake do the identical alongside nasal strips?

How They See the Opportunity

For Lubetzky, who is additionally extensively known as a recurring capitalist on Shark Tank, this funding all began alongside data.

“The data is insane,” he said. “Like whenever I looked at the data alongside my team, I’m like, my God, I’m so excited. I’ve not seen this data since KIND days. People try Intake and afterward they keep going.”

That stands out in the health industry, he says. Many supplements and health products neglect to create reiterate customers, since group can’t inform if they’re really working. “But alongside Intake, you immediately awareness it,” he says. “You comprehend that it’s working. When you sleep, you sleep better. You cognize that you sleep better.”

Lanning, who worked alongside Lubetzky during KIND’s increase and now leads Camino Partners, stated they’re particularly enthusiastic concerning the category of nasal strips. Unlike many another health products, nasal strips are already acquainted to a mass-market person — but they’ve been positioned narrowly, frequently as item you use whenever you’re ill or congested.

Lanning stated that’s an opportunity: When an entrepreneur can discover a narrowly used product, and afterward current new occasions to use it, they’re capable to develop and define a category themselves.

“I think this is extremely much a change to norm breathing as a foundational part of your mundane health,” she says. Which is to say: They desire group to think of nasal strips as a regular thing, not fair an occasional thing. (And in fact, Lubetzky and Lanning wore them during the discussion for this story.)

Even better, nasal strips are a habit that necessitate regular refills, and hence create recurring revenue. Intake sells packs of 30 uses for $40, and monthly subscriptions for $25.

Where Intake Goes Next

Intake Breathing has arrive a lengthy way. But there’s motionless a lengthy way to go, Lubetzky and Lanning say.

In fact, the business began in a extremely distinct industry, and wasn’t initially intended a health merchandise at all.

A concise history: In 1980, a serial inventor and avid skier named Jim Castillo was struck by a car. Doctors told him not to ski anymore; another hurt could permanently damage his knee. But he wanted to come back to the slopes. So he developed his own protective genu brace, and that ultimately led him to cofound a business called Innovation Sports, which became a foremost manufacturer of sporty genu braces. It entered the motocross market in 1983.

In 2014, Castillo set his sights on a distinct motoceoss problem: The sport’s goggles frequently compression a rider’s nostrils, which makes it difficult to breathe during competition. He wondered if he could resolve that.

Castillo built a small magnetic clip that paired alongside a part of metal element stuck to the rider’s nose. The idea was to market this as a goggle accessory. The prototype worked, but it sat on the sidelines for years. Eventually, his family urged it into reality, since they saw an chance to rotate it into a standalone breathing solution. The family financed the company’s archetypal manufacturing run, and his son-in-law Alex Hauck became CEO. A prosperous Kickstarter run in 2019 helped move things along.

The endeavor has grown organically, making its way into health and sporty communities, and marketing exclusively online. Now Lubetzky and Lanning are prepared to add operational firepower.

“Everything they’ve done has been really intuitive,” Lanning said, “which additionally is item that’s crucial in founder-based businesses.”

Next, Lanning said, her squad wants to assistance the business build retailing partnerships, sharpen its brand positioning, and develop sportsperson endorsements.

But complete all, Lubetzky says, he wants entrepreneurs to obtain note of this: Investors akin him cannot change a business, unless the norm of the merchandise is already top notch. “In person merchandise goods, the merchandise is king,” he said. “If you do not have a killer merchandise perfected, you can allocate all you want, market all you want, at the end it’s not gonna obtain off.”

Decodo Launches Web Data API To Give AI Agents Web Access

support@mycoding.id (Decodo) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0700

Decodo, a foremost provider of web data infrastructure, has introduced the Web Data API, which puts scraping, mapping, crawling, and hunt rearward a sole API key. Designed for AI startups construction agents or retrieval pipelines, its sole interface delivers fresh, organized web data.

“AI startups don’t have period to build their own abrasion infrastructure,” noted Decodo CEO Vaidotas Juknys. “The Web Data API gives them one key for scraping, searching, mapping, and crawling. That’s small period on infrastructure and additional period on the product.”

Data Challenge Facing Most AI Agents

Language models train on a fixed data snapshot. Agents tracking a company, a news feed, or a cost catalog need up-to-date data. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) likewise relies on how caller the retrieved documents are.

Pulling live pages method operating scrapers rearward rotating IPs, getting former CAPTCHAs and bot detection, followed by cleaning up incomplete pages and stripping navigation, ads, and boilerplate from any comes back. Building this infrastructure or assembling idiosyncratic tools takes engineering period distant from products.

Meet The Web Data API

Decodo developed the Web Data API to eliminate that additional work, bringing four endpoints on one document and one API key. Separate scraping, search, mapping, and crawling contracts are no longer necessary. Each endpoint addresses a distinct phase in the web data gathering process.

Scrape retrieves a sole page’s spotless content, equal through anti-bot protection.
Search delivers live web results, replacing the earlier offered Fast Search API.
Map reveals a site’s structure; all call can come back up to 147,000 URLs.
Crawl automatically follows a site’s links, collecting up to 10K pages inside a sole job.

One Vendor For All 4 Endpoints

Because the four run on one key, a squad gets one invoice, one dashboard, and one location to peruse usage. Each is supported by Decodo’s proxy network of complete 125 myriad IPs spanning 195+ locations.

It additionally shortens procurement: one vendor to vet, one assistance queue for billing and specialized questions, one integration for new hires to learn.

How Teams Are Already Using The 4 Endpoints

The four endpoints are already accessible for applicable workflows tailored to all user’s needs:

RAG teams change a records location to spotless Markdown for embedding through a sole crawl job.
Developers creating coding tools use hunt to bring live results into an IDE or an agent.
Legal and investigation teams find documents by mapping a regulator’s location before crawling those documents.
Competitive intellect teams regularly reiterate map and crawl jobs to detect a rival’s catalog complete time.

The finest part is that all these workflows run without needing a distinct abrasion stack.

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Decodo provides up to 10,000 liberated requests per month, alongside one quota shared by all four endpoints, without requiring a credit card. This quota resets all month, so a squad can run a genuine aviator before deciding on a paid tier.

For AI startups comparing the period and prosperity needed for in-house abrasion infrastructure alongside licensing it, Web Data API brings leaf extraction together alongside search, discovery, and crawling in one integration. The liberated tier lets teams measure how it fits inside their existing stack.

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ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Ops in US History

support@mycoding.id (Adi Gunawan) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:49:45 +0700

Attorneys for 15 Minnesota residents facing federal conspiracy charges have obtained evidence of a sweeping, perchance unconstitutional spying procedure carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement against left-wing social movements in Minnesota and beyond.

The high-profile Minnesota 15 prosecution makes apparent that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), flush alongside national finances and newly hired personnel, is now President Donald Trump’s chief tool against dissent, alongside a mighty gathering of post-9/11 investigative authorities brought to withstand against mundane Americans organizing their communities.

Nothing of this measure has been seen in the United States, experts say, since the national government’s counterinsurgency against the New Left and the anti-war movement in the 1960s and 1970s.

Among the records revealed during the finding procedure in these cases are dozens of reports, audio transcripts, emails, intercepted Signal chats, photographs, repository queries, and more. They disclose the inner workings of the family extremism investigations, operating under the names Project Whipple Shield and Operation Puppet Master, authorized by the arguable National Security Presidential Memorandum 7.

Published following Charlie Kirk’s assassination in September of final year, NSPM 7 instructs national law implementation to use all tool accessible against organizations and group who condemn the administration's policies and espouse "anti-Christian" ideas. The complete range and degree of the investigations it authorizes remains unknown.

Defense attorneys for the Minnesota 15 assertion that the prosecution stems from a broader nationwide surveillance procedure aimed at opponents of the Trump administration’s immigration policies. One attorney in the case immediately compares the DHS-run run to the FBI’s infamous Counterintelligence Program, or COINTELPRO, which unconstitutionally surveilled, infiltrated, and blackmailed ethnic justice, civic rights, and anti-war movements from the 1950s through the first 1970s.

Three erstwhile law implementation officials who reviewed filings concur, telling WIRED that the case is nearly certainly part of a wider intelligence-gathering procedure that began lengthy before the administration invaded Minnesota in December 2025.

Dueling motions in the case complete finding of DHS’s surveillance program disclose that personnel alongside Homeland Security Investigations—one of ICE’s two components—repurposed backing mechanisms and investigative tools for grave offender probes and turned them on family dissenters. Operation Keyhole, the HSI undercover program that bankrolled the Minnesota 15 prosecution, dates rear to 2008. As of June 2026, it was underwriting a fractional dozen energetic undercover investigations in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area.

Around 120 HSI agents, many drawn from specialized units throughout the nation that have served as the foremost border of the administration’s militarized immigration implementation operations, were assigned to the case—including 11 undercovers. They used extremely invasive surveillance techniques, including the deployment of Reaper drones and Patriot Act tools normally restricted to prosperity laundering and extremism investigations. Undercover operatives additionally infiltrated churches in apparent infringement of a court order.

Inside Amazon’s Echo hardware event

support@mycoding.id (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:46:42 +0700

Amazon exchanged its customary big autumn hardware showcase this twelvemonth for a sequence of smaller launches throughout October. So far this month, it has announced new Fire TV devices, new Kindles, the Alexa Tablet Pro 12, Ring’s archetypal astute lock, new hardware from AI-wearable startup Bee, and new Blink 4K cameras.

Then this week, it hosted journalists at a small event in New York City’s financial district to showcase its new Echo hardware.

Panos Panay, elder vice chairman of devices, Alexa, and Leo at Amazon, kicked off proceedings by explaining the company’s method this year. “We have so many products we’re launching that are meaningful,” he said. “However, we get to this item whenever we do everything at once; not all your children get adequate attention.” This longer rollout allows for additional concentration on all launch. He additionally teased two additional launches motionless to arrive — from Ring and several “Echo on the Go” news — before explaining that today’s concentration is “the most crucial concentration we have, which is the home.”

He afterward spent concerning 45 minutes introducing five new Echo astute speakers and displays — the Echo Show 16, Echo Time, Alexa Photo Frame, Echo Studio alongside Home Camera, and a new Echo Dot — alongside all merchandise sitting on plinths in the warehouse-like space.

He additionally demoed multiple new application features for the Echo Show astute displays that volition commencement on the Show 16 and trickle downward to existing Show products, including dedicated residence screens, an interactive 3D map perspective for astute residence control, and a meal preparedness feature.

He additionally announced that they have “opened up Alexa Plus’ brain a small bit more,” unlocking a new tier of understanding in the generative-AI-powered sound assistant. He pointed out that AI in the residence is motionless comparatively new, and during it’s everyplace else, from your device to your phone, the residence has been harder to unlock.

Amazon is looking to alter this alongside Alexa’s “new brain” — an updated type of Alexa Plus alongside new capabilities including the capability to do “deeper research” alongside its customary use cases, specified as controlling lights, environment timers, and playing music. To oversee these deeper conversations, a new “Card” interface on Show devices collects all chat. Cards additionally appear in the Alexa app and on Alexa.com, so you can continue chats alongside the aide anywhere you are.

Photo: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

The event continued in a choice of small rooms designed to awareness akin residence spaces, anywhere merchandise engineers and designers demoed the new devices and explained their features.

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One dead LED killed a working TV

support@mycoding.id (Putri Silvia) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:44:46 +0700

A TV repair technician in the UK, Allen Fleckney, keeps posting variations of the identical video, and it keeps going viral. The setup never changes. A large, costly television, a few years old, arrives dead. No picture. The owner has already been told it isn’t value fixing and they should buy a new one. Fleckney opens it, finds that a sole LED in the backlight band has failed, bridges two pins so the firmware stops seeing the fault, and the set springs rear to existence alongside a absolutely good picture. It was reported by Cybernews and Digital Trends, and you can observe him do it on his own TV Repair Community channel.

Where the error is#

The LED failing is normal. A backlight is a band of dozens of LEDs, and complete a few years one of them drifts out of tolerance and starts example a fistful of milliamps additional or small than spec. For a component akin that, this is an ordinary, expected, end-of-life event.

The genuine error is a decision made in firmware. The instant the current on that barrier moves exterior a tight window, the set treats it as fatal and shuts everything down. One LED out of dozens takes the whole tv alongside it, during the panel rearward it motionless works.

That is a classification mistake, and it disbursal the owner a television.

What benevolent of nonaccomplishment this is#

When engineers contend concerning error handling, they normally contend concerning mechanism: exceptions versus error codes versus std::expected. That is the second question. The archetypal one is what benevolent of failure this is, and whenever that answer is wrong, no scheme repairs it.

On my Advanced Modern C++ and Modern C++ Design courses I divided failures three ways since the right reply is distinct for each.

Bugs. A precondition was violated. Someone called the function wrong: a null pointer anywhere the contract stated non-null, an indicator out of range, a damaged invariant. This is a defect in the program rather than an error to be handled. There is nothing to regain from since the program is already in a province its own author declared impossible. For many functions, calling them alongside their preconditions unmet is undefined behavior outright, so there isn’t equal a defined error to report. The C++ Core Guidelines deliberately keep this case distant from exceptions: exceptions are “for error handling only” (E.3), and a precondition is meant to be expressed alongside an assertion, Expects() (I.6, “Prefer Expects() for expressing preconditions”), fairly than a throw. A failed precondition should halt the program fairly than rotate into item a visitant catches and continues past. Contracts, motionless in the C++26 outline (P2900), rotate the identical idea into first-class syntax: a function declares its pre- and postconditions inline alongside the signature.

double safe_sqrt(double x)  pre (x >= 0) // caller's obligation  post (r: r >= 0); // this function's guarantee

When a visitant breaks pre, the default is to run a infringement handler that terminates the program, not to limp on alongside a bad result. That is exactly correct for a bug: stop, grasp the state, and get it to a developer. Before C++26 you attain for the identical behavior alongside an assertion. Reporting a bug as a recoverable error lone hides it until it corrupts item downstream.

Expected failures. Things that are neither bugs nor rare: bad person input, a document that isn’t where the person typed it, a network equal that won’t answer, a repository row that already exists. Your code is operating correctly and the earth merely didn’t cooperate. These pertain on ordinary branches, in the normal stream of the code, handled by the contiguous visitant who is position right there and knows what to do. In contemporary C++ this is exactly what std::expected (from P0323) is for: the nonaccomplishment lives in the come back type, the visitant can’t silently disregard it, and the blessed path still says cleanly.

std::expected<Config, ParseError> parse(std::string_view text);  if (auto cfg = parse(input))  use(*cfg); else  report(cfg.error()); // fair another branch, not an exception

Genuinely exceptional failures. Rare, and the code that can do item helpful concerning them is far up the call stack, not the contiguous caller. This is what exceptions are for.

The importance is on its assigned task: the function was used correctly and motionless couldn’t deliver. The compiler’s own disbursal example assumes this is rare, approximately a one-in-a-hundred event or rarer. Reach for it on the average way and you pay for it, the two in achievement and in code you can’t easily follow.

Back to the television#

A backlight LED drifting out of spec following a few years is a textbook expected failure. It isn’t a bug in the firmware, no precondition was violated and the aging LED is a absolutely legitimate runtime input, and it isn’t a rare catastrophe either. The correct scheme is an average branch: peruse the fault, log it, keep driving the panel, perchance nudge brightness to compensate, and lift a quiescent “service soon” flag. The difficult shutdown have to be reserved for the genuinely dangerous, a genuine overvoltage or a thermal runaway, item that could actually start a fire.

What the firmware does alternatively is obtain an expected, recoverable circumstance and path it direct down the way reserved for “stop everything now.” The hardware was motionless fine, and the classification is what turned a two-pin repair into landfill.

Fleckney frames this as deliberate planned obsolescence, and the manufacturers have not answered the accusation. I don’t need the conspiracy for the item to hold, and honestly the item is stronger without it. Maybe it is cynical design. Maybe it is a lazy safety cutoff person shipped without thinking the nonaccomplishment modes through. The engineering instruction is the identical either way: a routine, recoverable circumstance was classified as fatal.

Classify the nonaccomplishment first#

That is the extremely archetypal regulation on the subject. Getting the taxonomy incorrect is expensive, and the cost grows the longer it goes unnoticed. Miscategorize a bug as a recoverable error and it hides in production until it corrupts state. A regular nonaccomplishment classified as exceptional expenses you either runtime on a hot way or, as the tv shows, a scheme that was working. The mechanisms matter, and I instruct them thoroughly: the basic, strong, and nofail exception-safety guarantees, RAII, std::error_code, the monadic interface on std::expected. But all one of them is downstream of the decision the TV firmware got wrong. Before you choose how to study a failure, decide what the nonaccomplishment really is. Is it a bug, an expected circumstance you should grip on a branch, or a rare event you should let propagate? Most of the brittle systems I get called in to appearance at got that one inquiry incorrect lengthy before anyone wrote a try or a catch.

Two high-speed trains collide near Toledo, Spain

support@mycoding.id (Putri Silvia) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:35:41 +0700

The collision occurred between Urda and Los Yébenes, in Toledo province, whenever a train travelling from Madrid towards Seville struck the rear of another that had stopped on the identical track. Two carriages were knocked off the rails, one of them torn apart, alongside twisted metal element and debris scattered downward a gravel embankment. Aerial footage shows the damaged trains surrounded by firefighters, constabulary and rescue teams in a flat, agrarian landscape. Castilla-La Mancha authorities spokeswoman Esther Padilla confirmed 10 deaths but warned that the toll was apt to rise.

The collision engaged a RENFE train carrying 397 passengers and an IRYO assistance alongside 147 people on board. The cause remains unknown. Emergency workers concentrated on reaching victims in the two worst-damaged carriages, during injured passengers were taken to nearby hospitals. A military emergency component was deployed, and rail services between Madrid, Ciudad Real and Andalusia were suspended.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez cancelled his engagements to concentration on the disaster. It was Spain's second important barrier tragedy of 2026, following a January collision in southernmost Spain that killed 45 people. That before accident had already raised concerns concerning safety on the country's extended high-speed barrier network.

Google Search Fan POV (Point Of View) Button

support@mycoding.id (Barry@Rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:35:00 +0700

Google has added a new interactive hunt clasp to several sports-related queries named "Fan POV." If you go to Google Search and hunt for [world series], Google volition display a blue clasp that has a ballgame emoji and the words "Fan POV." When you click on it, it opens a dialog box alongside autumn downs that you can customize and afterward volition obtain you into AI Mode to provision you additional information.

Mordy Oberstein spotted this and posted on X, "It is. It's a Fan POV clasp that lets you get a additional emotive obtain aligned alongside the fandom of all team. So it's personalization + trying to interrupt downward the emotive obstacle that exists alongside stoic AI results."

Here is a screenshot of the new Fan POV button:

Here is what it looks akin whenever you click on it - you can alter the Game figure and the item of perspective from a particular fan of a team:

Then you click "Ask now" and it takes you into AI Mode:

Here is a video Mordy made of this:

It's been a during but HEY @rustybrick IS THIS NEW?
It is. It's a Fan POV clasp that lets you get a additional emotive obtain aligned alongside the fandom of all team.
So it's personalization + trying to interrupt downward the emotive obstacle that exists alongside stoic AI results. https://t.co/OBgT24nDUw
— Mordy Oberstein (@MordyOberstein) October 28, 2026

Forum conversation at X.

This High-Capacity Portable Power Station Is $550 Off Right Now

support@mycoding.id (Pradershika Sharma) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:30:00 +0700

DJI may be finest known for its drones and camera equipment, but the business has additionally been expanding into portable power, alongside the Power 2000 being its most capable standalone power position yet. Essentially a ample rechargeable battery, it's designed to provision power anywhere you power need it, whether that's on a camping trip, at a job site, during an outdoor movie night, or at residence whenever the power goes out. And if you've been considering one for any of those situations, the Power 2000 is currently downward to $749.99 from its first $1,299 price, taking nearly $550 off what would alternatively be a fairly costly investment.

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It's concerning the size of a carry-on suitcase and weighs near to 50 pounds, so it's not item you'd strap to your back, but it fits effortlessly in a car trunk. The power division itself is built to last, rated for 4,000 charges before it starts losing any noticeable capacity. Performance-wise, DJI says the 2,048Wh capability can keep a refrigerator operating for up to 40 hours during a residence power outage, accusation a laptop 18 times, or power a projector for 18 hours. Those numbers row up alongside what you’d anticipate from a component this size, and they create it helpful for the two emergencies and planned outdoor use.

What do you think so far?

You additionally get a firm mix of ports—there are three AC outlets, a 30-amp harbor for heavier appliances or RV setups, multiple USB-C ports (including a 140W choice for laptops), and DJI’s own SDC ports for straightforward drone charging. If you use DJI gear, that solitary makes existence easier in the field, notes this Mashable review. Recharging is additionally accelerated for a power division this size. Plugged into a partition outlet, it can go from bare to complete in concerning 90 minutes. You can additionally top it up alongside sun-related panels or from your car, which makes it workable for longer trips. Rounding out its features is its companion app, which lets you inspect its power division flat from your phone without having to stroll complete to it, a small item that turns out to be beautiful convenient. Note that this component has no built-in light, which is item many competing power stations include.

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Almost all of Amazon’s new Echo gear is available now

support@mycoding.id (Cameron Faulkner) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:29:52 +0700

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is an publishing company covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and following a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025.

Amazon used to blast out dozens of products onstage at annual hardware events. If this October is any indication, the business has wisely changed its scheme to put additional concentration on all new merchandise alongside its own launch. The latest circular of launches focuses on Echo products, including speakers, astute displays, as fine as a astute photo frame.

All products, preserve for the new Echo Show 16 (which power be the most engaging of the bunch), are accessible to buy today. This includes the Echo Dot, the Echo Studio alongside Home Camera, the Echo Time, and the Alexa Photo Frame. The Show 16 isn’t launching until December 16th, although you can preorder it now to preserve $100 off the cost.

I’m going to rotation through all of the products below, fair so you can perspective them all in one location in case you’re considering making a acquisition (or a few) soon.

$100

The latest Echo Dot features 50 percent additional bass, and faster on-device handling for handling conversations alongside Alexa Plus. There’s additionally an additional mic to improved comprehend you about the house, affirmative Omnisense, a temperature- and presence-sensing tech, which can seamlessly authority astute residence devices.

$220

The latest Echo Studio merely adds a camera and Alexa Plus smarts into the mix. After launch, Amazon volition allow pairing alongside Fire TV devices to let your video calls display up on the big screen.

$200

While not Amazon’s archetypal bedside alert clock, this one’s focused on assisting you sleep better, and it doesn’t have a camera. It can detect your sleep phase via ultrasound and use astute alarms to comfort you into the day, but lone if you desire it to.

$200

A 10-inch anti-glare touchscreen that comes in a few scheme options. It’s a example that features Alexa, and doubles as a astute speaker. It plant alongside Amazon Photos, which offers unlimited retention for Prime members.

$400

Amazon’s most mighty (and best-sounding) astute display yet, alongside eight woofers and two tweeters sandwiched between its remain and screen. It’s VESA-compatible, and there’s a pricier nanomatte display option.

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19 books like Rebecca Yarros' 'Fourth Wing' to read while you wait for the next 'Empyrean' novel

support@mycoding.id (Samantha Grindell Pettyjohn) — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:23:01 +0700

Fans of Rebecca Yarros can peruse another romantasy books during they delay for the next "Fourth Wing" book. Wednesday Books/Bramble

Patience is the name of the equivalent for "Fourth Wing" fans these days.

"Fourth Wing" introduced readers to Violet Sorrengail, a pupil at Basgiath War College training to be a dragon passenger as war looms exterior the school. The 2023 novel was an instant bestseller for author Rebecca Yarros, who has since written two additional installments in the "Empyrean" series, as fine as a novella (more on that in a minute).

After it was published in January 2025, "Onyx Storm," the third publish in the series, became the fastest-selling grownup novel published in the former 20 years, alongside complete 2.7 myriad copies sold in one week.

The "Empyrean" series is set to have five books in total, and the fourth volition hopefully determine the cliffhangers Yarros left in "Onyx Storm." However, during Yarros has confirmed she started penning publish four, she has yet to province a publish date for the novel.

It volition be a during before the next "Fourth Wing" publish hits bookshelves, but luckily, fans can peruse akin novels, akin those alongside imagination settings or enemies-to-lovers romances.

"Threshing Day" by Rebecca Yarros

"Threshing Day" by Rebecca Yarros. Red Tower

Ahead of the publish of the next "Fourth Wing" novel, Yarros published "Threshing Day" in September, a gathering of stories set in the "Empyrean" universe.

Each division in the gathering tells the narrative of a distinct character's cognition on Threshing Day, whenever riders are selected by a dragon during their training at Basgiath in a procedure that is frequently hazardous for participants. Violet doesn't have a division in the book, as her Threshing Day is covered in "Fourth Wing," but the 13 chapters are all told by her chap riders, including her partner, Xaden Riorson, and her siblings, Brennan and Mira.

The collections extend multiple years, and the publish is chock-full of lore concerning dragons and their riders, answering several questions readers had concerning the "Fourth Wing" universe. It's the ideal appetizer to clasp readers complete during they delay for the fourth "Empyrean" novel.

"A Court of Mist and Fury" by Sarah J. Maas

"A Court of Mist and Fury." Bloomsbury

If you've peruse "Fourth Wing," you're likely already acquainted alongside Sarah J. Maas' "A Court of Thorns and Roses" sequence concerning faeries.

The second publish in Maas' series feels most akin in spirit to the "Empyrean" series.

In "A Court of Mist and Fury," Feyre Archeron is adjusting to her newfound existence as a faerie following she nearly died under the mountain — as fine as coming to conditions alongside the agreement she made alongside Rhysand, the High Lord of the Night Court, to expend a week alongside him all month. Despite it all, she got what she wanted: an immortal existence alongside Tamlin, the High Lord of the Spring Court.

However, Feyre's existence in the Spring Court starts emotion additional claustrophobic by the second, particularly whenever Tamlin forbids her from leaving the house. To her shock, she finds refuge alongside Rhysand, anywhere she uncovers truths concerning the Night Court, Rhys, and herself that volition alter everything she idea she knew.

"A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire" by Jennifer L. Armentrout

"A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire." Blue Box Press

"A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire" is the second publish in Jennifer L. Armentrout's "Blood and Ash" series, and protagonist Poppy is reckoning alongside the realization that nothing in her earth is what she idea it would be in the sequel to "From Blood and Ash."

Poppy was raised as the Maiden, believing it was her divine duty to sacrifice herself to the Ascended, the immortal beings that regulation complete her world. After falling in affection alongside her new guard, Hawke, and operating distant alongside him, she realizes she's been betrayed by the Ascended — and Hawke.

Poppy doesn't cognize who to trust, but Hawke is resolute to defend her — particularly as Poppy develops powers that could alter their world.

"The Magicians" by Lev Grossman

"The Magicians" by Lev Grossman. Penguin Random House

If you're a fan of the magical academy environment in Yarros' series, you volition affection "The Magicians" by Lev Grossman (which was additionally turned into a Syfy series of the identical name).

At the top of the trilogy, Quentin Coldwater feels apathetic concerning the future, although his aptitude for math could get him into any university he wants. Instead, he motionless longs for the simplicity of his favorite imagination series, taking comfort in the magical earth of Fillory whenever he can.

When he gets accepted into a concealed magical college, Quentin feels akin his dreams are coming true. Then, he accidentally taps into a darker flank of his power and starts a sequence of events that puts him and his classmates in danger — and opens the doors to Fillory.

"Divine Rivals" by Rebecca Ross

"Divine Rivals." Macmillan

"Divine Rivals" has the enemies-to-lovers fun and secrecy of Yarros' series, although Rebecca Ross sets her imagination narrative against the backdrop of a newsroom alternatively of a war college.

Iris Winnow is desperate to get promoted to columnist at the Oath Gazette. Her mother has fallen into alcoholism since her brother remaining to combat in a war of the gods, and Iris feels akin she is one missed paycheck distant from falling into ruin.

She's competing for the promotion against Roman Kitt, her infuriatingly handsome coworker who makes her awareness small all period she sees him. As Roman continues to succeed, her chances of achievement develop slimmer alongside all passing day.

Iris' lone comfort is penning alphabet to her brother on her grandmother's old typewriter. She doesn't cognize anywhere he is, so she slips the alphabet under her wardrobe, anywhere they disappear. Iris is hopeful her alphabet are somehow reaching her brother — until a alien writes back.

Ross' narrative evolves into a imagination complete of love narrative and longing, which continues in its sequel, "Ruthless Vows."

"The Serpent and the Wings of Night" by Carissa Broadbent

"The Serpent and the Wings of Night" by Carissa Broadbent. Bramble

You'll affection the archetypal publish in Carissa Broadbent's "Crowns of Nyaxia" series, "The Serpent and the Wings of Night," if Violet's perseverance drew you to the "Empyrean" sequence as much as her love narrative alongside Xaden did.

Oraya has spent all instant of her existence fighting to remain living since her father, the Nightborn vampire king, adopted her following his forces killed her complete individual family whenever she was a child.

Oraya is ill of being mortal in a earth of vampires prepared to slay her, so she decides to act the Kejari, a tournament anywhere the victor gets a desire granted to them by the goddess it's named for.

She plans to evade the vampires competing against her at all costs, but whenever she is forced into an alliance alongside Rhain, a handsome vampire she knows nothing about, Oraya volition have to rely person furthermore her begetter for the archetypal period in years.

The competition is deadly, particularly as war looms beyond the arena, but Oraya's attention to Rhain may be an equal bigger danger.

"Divergent" by Veronica Roth

"Divergent." HarperCollins

If you somehow missed the "Divergent" craze whenever Veronica Roth's books or the films according to them were released, it's the ideal sequence to binge during you delay for the fourth "Empyrean" book.

In the archetypal installment of the series, readers are introduced to 16-year-old Beatrice Prior, a female on the precipice of changing her existence forever. Beatrice lives in a community divided into factions according to people's aptitudes, and it's her rotate to obtain a test that volition inform her which faction she belongs to.

Beatrice's results put her complete society's scheme at risk, and the lone way she can last is to keep her results a secret. She abandons her residence faction of Abnegation to associate Dauntless, expecting she can conceal in the collection that values bravery and power complete all else. But she's not the lone one alongside secrets.

"One Dark Window" by Rachel Gillig

"One Dark Window." Hachette

Those drawn to the affectionate strain of the "Empyrean" sequence power desire to put "One Dark Window" by Rachel Gillig at the top of their to-be-read list.

The lone item keeping Elspeth Spindle harmless in her residence of Blunder, a district cursed alongside darkness, is the monster she calls Nightmare, a soul trapped in her mind.

Elspeth's long-kept concealed falls distinct whenever she has a run-in alongside a highwayman, who turns out to be the king's nephew and captain of the defender operating in concealed to overthrow his uncle. Elspeth agrees to assistance the captain and his family in their quest to end the dreary magic that rules their kingdom formerly and for all, equal if it puts her own existence at hazard and forces her to visage the Nightmare's power complete her.

Elspeth and the captain are on a period crunch to accomplish their mission, particularly as the Nightmare threatens to obtain her intellect complete for good. Still, they can't disregard the attention between them, no matter the dangers coming their way.

"His Majesty's Dragon" by Naomi Novik

"His Majesty's Dragon." Penguin Random House

If the dragons in Yarros' fictional earth were the most breathtaking part of "Fourth Wing" and "Iron Flame" for you, you may desire to provision Naomi Novik's "His Majesty's Dragon" a try.

The novel is set in the 1800s during the Napoleonic Wars. Will Laurence is a normal captain in the British forces until he captures a dragon egg. When it hatches, he bonds alongside Temeraire and becomes a rider, fighting in the skies.

Laurence volition have to study how to fly and combat in the center of the war — or hazard his and Temeraire's lives.

"Eragon" by Christopher Paolini

"Eragon." Penguin Random House

"The Inheritance Cycle" sequence by Christopher Paolini may autumn into the young-adult category, but the high-fantasy penning and the affectional coming-of-age journey the champion goes on throughout the sequence volition create it fair as breathtaking for adults as for younger readers.

In the sequence opener, Eragon is fair a adolescent living a uncomplicated existence on a ranch alongside his family until he stumbles upon a blue stone, which turns out to be the archetypal dragon hatchling delivered in his nation in a century.

Eragon immediately becomes a Dragon Rider whenever his dragon, Seraphina, hatches. The lone living passenger is expected to be king, environment Eragon on a way of magic and danger.

Like Yarros' series, "The Inheritance Cycle" is an epic journey of dragons and their riders, complete of magic, romance, and adventure.

"A Promise of Fire" by Amanda Bouchet

"A Promise of Fire." Sourcebooks Casablanca

Amanda Bouchet's "The Kingmaker Chronicles" is a three-part sequence complete of magic, gods, and love narrative that volition petition to Yarros fans drawn to Violet's mighty signet and Xaden's dedication to her.

In the archetypal installment, "A Promise of Fire," Cat Fisa has been on the run for years. She was delivered alongside the capability to inform whenever group are lying, a once-in-a-generation power that makes her the "Kingmaker." Cat wants nothing to do alongside her power — or her family in the North that would use her for it — so she stays hidden, pretending to be a soothsayer in a traveling circus in the South.

When Griffin, the broad of a newly established individual kingdom, sees her, he knows what Cat is immediately and takes her in the hopes of protecting his family's throne. Cat won't go downward without a fight, though, and Griffin's hostage becomes equal harder to authority whenever mighty family members arrive looking for her.

As they create their way toward his family's castle, Griffin volition have to convince Cat his family is value operating alongside — a project that becomes equal additional difficult whenever he realizes he doesn't desire Cat to fair activity alongside him; he wants her to be his wife.

"House of Earth and Blood" by Sarah J. Maas

"House of Earth and Blood," Bloomsbury

If you liked the contemporary flair in the "Empyrean" series, you'll affection Sarah J. Maas' steamy "Crescent City" series.

In "House of Earth and Blood," half-fae Bryce Quinlan thrives following graduating from Crescent City University, living alongside her finest friend, the werewolf and alpha of the Pack of Devils, Danika Fendyr.

Bryce has everything she wants — until she comes residence to discover Danika and the Pack of Devils murdered by a demon. She thinks the culprit was arrested, but a twelvemonth later, akin murders commencement up again in the city.

Because she's the lone one who saw the demon that killed her friends, Bryce teams up alongside Hunt Athalar, a Fallen angel bond to activity for the Archangels who run Crescent City, to resolve the mystery. As the inquiry progresses and Bryce and Hunt's attention to all another grows, the improbable brace volition detect secrets concerning Crescent City that could upend their earth as they cognize it.

To date, Maas has published three books in the series, including "House of Flame and Shadow" in January 2024.

"Neon Gods" by Katee Robert

"Neon Gods." SourceBooks

As Violet was raised to dislike Xaden Riorson, Persephone Dimitriou's fear of Hades was instilled in her from younker in "Neon Gods" by Katee Robert.

Trusting Hades feels akin Persephone's lone choice following her mother promises her hand in marriage to Zeus, the chief of the 13 houses in Olympus, whose wives mysteriously end up dead.

Persephone decides to run distant from the city fairly than wed Zeus, seeking refuge alongside Hades, a man she wasn't equal certain existed until she established herself on his doorstep. Luckily, Hades wants retaliation on Zeus, too, and they concur that making him envious is the finest way to do it.

Hades and Persephone decide to put on a show, but neither expects the real, palpable attention that develops between them.

"Throne in the Dark" by A.K. Caggiano

"Throne in the Dark." A.K. Caggiano

A.K. Caggiano's "Villains & Virtues" trilogy has all the magic and enemies-to-lovers fun of the earth of "Fourth Wing" alongside a heap of slow-burn strain and a lighter spirit than Yarros' work.

In "Throne in the Dark," Damien Maleficus Bloodthorne is resolute to liberated his demon begetter from his magical imprisonment and obtain complete the earth by his side. There's fair one problem: a beautiful, sickeningly saccharine individual named Amma, who accidentally becomes one alongside the magical arm he needs to bring downward the mortal powers that be.

Damien has no choice but to journey the realm alongside Amma to discover a way to distinct her from the weapon. He could slay her, but Amma proves to be amazingly helpful — and to his horror, she isn't the worst journey companion he could imagine.

Amma has secrets of her own, though, and she and Damien must activity together to get through their corresponding missions unscathed. And worst of all, as he spends additional period alongside Amma, Damien starts to amazement if what he really wants is the individual by his side.

"Bride" by Ali Hazelwood

"Bride" by Ali Hazelwood. Penguin Random House

Ali Hazelwood is finest known for her New York Times bestselling, STEM-centered love narrative books. Still, her archetypal paranormal novel, "Bride," can assistance "Empyrean" fans alongside their publish hangover following they complete "Onyx Storm."

In "Bride," vampire Misery Lark is concerning to wed Lowe Moreland, the Alpha of the Weres, as part of a historic harmony deal. Most vampires would be fearful of agreeing to tie themselves to their natural enemies, but following spending most of her younker as an emissary among the humans, Misery is prepared to obtain on the hazard — particularly since she needs the Weres' resources to try to track downward Serena, her individual foster sister who went missing without a trace.

Misery plans to evade Lowe as much as possible, but from the instant they encounter at their wedding, Misery seems to perplex and infuriate Lowe for reasons she can't comprehend (aside from their species' century-long feud). Soon, he's keeping a nearer eye on her than she would like, but she power not intellect his existence as much as she thought.

"The Dead Romantics" by Ashley Poston

"The Dead Romantics" by Ashley Poston. Berkley

If study Yarros' activity makes you yearn for a small magic in your day-to-day life, you power akin the magical realism in Ashley Poston's "The Dead Romantics."

Florence Day's archetypal gathering alongside her new publishing company is a disaster. After a breakup leaves her alongside a grave bout of writer's block, Florence desperately needs an expansion on the novel she's ghostwriting. Ben, who is inconveniently handsome and charming, refuses, leaving Florence additional disappointed than ever.

Then, her begetter dies unexpectedly, and Florence must come back to her Southern hometown and her family's burial parlor and visage the genuine ghosts she has continually been capable to see, an capability that remaining her alienated for much of her childhood.

Once she makes it home, it's not amazing that a shade shows up seeking her help, but it is a daze whenever the specter turns out to be Ben. He needs Florence's assistance handling his unfinished business: her.

"A Fate Inked in Blood" by Danielle L. Jensen

"A Fate Inked in Blood." Penguin Random House

The archetypal installment in the "Saga of the Unfated" duology, "A Fate Inked in Blood," offers an enemies-to-lovers love narrative set against the backdrop of Norse mythology.

Freya spent her younker dreaming of becoming a warrior, but at 20, she is wed to a man she hates, trapped in her fishing village, and guarding her most closely kept secret: She is a shield maiden, possessing magic that can defend her and others from attacks.

Freya's years of secret-keeping arrive to an end whenever her hubby betrays her to the local jarl. After she uses her magic to last a combat against his son Bjorn, the jarl sees Freya as what her begetter continually feared she could become: a weapon. The jarl magically binds Freya to him, enlisting Bjorn to keep her safe.

Freya must demonstrate herself as a magic-wielder and warrior to remain alive, but her drag toward Bjorn may put her at greater hazard than her magic always could.

"Heartless Hunter" by Kristen Ciccarelli

"Heartless Hunter" by Kristen Ciccarelli. Wednesday Books

By day, Rune Winters is a vapid socialite. By night, she's the Crimson Moth, a witch trying to single-handedly preserve those akin her that her authorities is resolute to rub out.

When her vigilante efforts put her at risk, Rune needs a shield story, and none could be improved than Gideon Sharpe, a witch hunter known for his dedication to the cause. If he falls for her, Gideon could recommendation the ideal protection, but Rune has no idea Gideon is onto her, blessed to get near to Rune to discover the witch he believes she is associating with.

Rune and Gideon are lying to all another at all turn, but the feelings they create alongside the way power be the one fact they can't deny. Book one in Kristen Ciccarelli's "The Crimson Moth" series, "Heartless Hunter," is packed alongside dizzying magic, governmental rebellion, and decadent enemies-to-lovers tension.

"Quicksilver" by Callie Hart

"Quicksilver" by Callie Hart. Grand Central Publishing

If you loved the adventurous elements of the "Empyrean" sequence as much as the romance, Callie Hart's "Quicksilver" volition be correct up your alley.

Saeris Fane is trying to keep her brother living in their wilderness world, anywhere h2o is nearly unattainable to arrive by. She'll starve herself, pilfer from the Undying Queen, and use her forbidden alchemical powers to do it, equal if it puts her own existence at risk.

When she's eventually caught for her thievery, Saeris is saved whenever she accidentally opens a portal, and a beautiful and intimidating fae named Kingfisher takes her to his homeland, anywhere ice and magic abound. However, she'll discover the fae are fair as hazardous as the Queen, and following she makes a binding accord to Kingfisher, she'll have to live among them until she can use her alchemy to fulfill her fractional of the deal.

Saeris wants to get their agreement complete with, desperate to get residence to inspect on her brother. Yet it power be the magnetic drag she feels toward Kingfisher that derails her.

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