Crazy tech week 🧐

Technology

👾 Google’s biggest announcements at I/O 2022

Here are the biggest announcements we saw on Wednesday.

👾 UST’s Do Kwon Was Behind Earlier Failed Stablecoin, Ex-Terra Colleagues Say

Do Kwon, the CEO of Terra creator Terraform Labs, was one of the pseudonymous co-founders behind the failed algorithmic stablecoin Basis Cash, CoinDesk has learned.

👾 The crypto crash, in 10 charts

On Twitter, users tell the story of Luna, Bitcoin, and Ethereum’s downfall in data visualizations.

👾 If you’ve got Intel inside, you probably need to get these security patches inside, too

Intel has disclosed high-severity bugs in its firmware that’s used in datacenter servers, workstations, mobile devices, storage products, and other gear.

👾 The iPod is dead

The end of the road.

👾 Twitter Drama continues

Twitter deal is temporarily on hold.

Engineering

👾 How a ham and cheese sandwich got its own algorithm

A story of an airline and AWS

👾 How to Monitor Endpoints in Kubernetes using Blackbox Exporter

Monitoring endpoints is an important aspect of system observability for diagnosing performance and availability issues.

👾 Azure/aztfy

A tool to bring your existing Azure resources under the management of Terraform.

👾 7 trends to watch in the API economy

Here are the biggest trends shaping the future of the API economy.

👾 Squash and Rebase — My Method for Merging Git Branches

I find Git to be somewhat like coffee. Once I’ve found a method that works for me - I stick to it.

Interesting reads

👾 An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

👾 ‘I hate everybody including you’

👾 Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place

👾 Lego built a $170 Transformers Optimus Prime that actually transforms

Crazy star (Blackhole) of the week

Well, it’s a Black Hole

🌠 Astronomers Reveal First Image of the Black Hole at the Heart of Our Galaxy

Fun

It’s a conversation between the Brain and Heart

comic