Kanad Godse

Web developer (still learning) and with the passion to follow all tech to the very end! :-P

[DVLP @DVLPLONDON]

Goodbye clicking on Google Street View to check out the route!

In your browser, with https://t.co/2Zwyv0DEv9 you can actually drive anywhere in the world🚀
You can also create multiplayer races🚗🏎🚓

The world is generated ahead of you in real-time from OpenStreetMap data combined with satellite elevation data as you drive.

Just added a WIP of night mode and replaced the placeholder terrain/road textures with some nicer physics-based textures. Also now anywhere you go a million street lights will be added too. This is actually slowly starting to look like the promised Need For Speed + Google Maps
#threejs #gamedev #indiedev

Single player mode:
Just find a location, click anywhere on the map and click "Hop Here". After parachuting down hold X to call the car to the road.

Multiplayer mode:
Click on "Create race" and select start and finish points. A route will be plotted. Click on Share Race to get the link and start racing!

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

Say HELLO to my little friend, Task Manager OG!

I'm please to announce the immediate availability of the MacOS version of TMOG today; Windows support will follow shortly, so follow for the update!

TMOG is a free application; I may do a Pro version at some point, but everything here is and will remain free.

Get the beta: https://t.co/29uNVV2pHU

[devalopr @_devalopr]

It's completely unnecessary to destroy books when machines like this exist.

This book scanner by Treventus for example, can scan fragile books without destroying it.

[Mumbai Nowcast @s_r_khandelwal]

Dear Mumbai,
𝐓𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲-𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨, on 𝟐𝟔 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟓, the sky fell on us. #MumbaiRains
Almost 𝟏𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐦𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲. The city drowned. Lives were lost. Everything stopped.

I was just another Mumbaikar watching it unfold — the water rising, the silence, the helplessness. That day changed something inside me. The shock of how suddenly and completely nature could take over made me realise how little we truly knew about the rain that rules our lives.

That unexpected mega rain became the reason I started looking at the skies more carefully… the reason I began tracking every cloud, every forecast, every warning.

𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐢 𝐍𝐨𝐰𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲.

We cannot change what happened on that day. But we can remember it.
And we can try, every monsoon, to be a little more prepared than we were then.

𝐓𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟔 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟓 — 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐬.

With respect and remembrance,
Mumbai Nowcast

[Brady Long @thisguyknowsai]

CCleaner used to be the default way to keep a Windows machine fast.

Then it got bought, stuffed with ads and bundled crapware, and in 2017 one release was compromised and shipped malware to over 2 million people. Millions still install it every month because nothing else has really replaced it.

So, a team called AdventDev just built a free, open-source replacement.

It's called Kudu. Open the app and you get one dashboard for the whole machine.

> System cleaner for temp files, logs, caches, and crash dumps.
> Browser cleaner across every major browser.
> Gaming cleaner for launcher and shader caches.
> Registry cleaner for broken and orphaned entries.
> Startup manager that shows the actual boot impact of each program.
> Disk analyzer with an interactive treemap, so you can see where 40GB quietly disappeared to.
> Debloater that rips Windows bloatware out.
> Program uninstaller that also removes the leftovers other uninstallers leave behind.

Then it does the parts CCleaner never did.

A malware scanner with signature matching, heuristic analysis, and Windows Defender integration. A privacy shield that lets you flip 30+ Windows privacy settings from one screen: telemetry, ad ID, Cortana, tracking. Secure delete that overwrites files with random data before removing them, so nothing can recover them later.

There's a real-time performance monitor with per-core CPU, memory, disk, network, and S.M.A.R.T. drive health. A one-click restore point before every clean, so you can roll back. Scheduled scans. A CLI mode for people who don't want a GUI. Support for 30 languages.

Native app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Intel and Apple Silicon builds. No ads, no upsells, no telemetry, no account.

The cleaning rules are plain JSON files, so if your favorite app isn't covered yet, you can add support for it without writing a line of code.

MIT license. 100% Open Source.

Repo: https://t.co/ctmxLjkgII

[Kanad Godse @kanadgodse]

😂😂😂

[trish @TrisH0x2A]

OS in 1,000 Lines teaches you how to build a Unix-like operating system in just 1,000 lines of C

despite its size it includes process switching virtual memory with paging a shell a filesystem and a disk driver

every feature is built step by step with real code you can run and experiment with

for comparison Linux was around 10,000 lines when Linus Torvalds first released it in 1991

one of the best resources for understanding how an operating system comes together from scratch

[KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat]

In December 2007, a Barcelona newspaper ran a charity raffle to pick a local baby for a UNICEF calendar shoot.

The winning family brought their 5-month-old son.

The 20-year-old Barca player assigned to bathe him was Lionel Messi.

The baby was Lamine Yamal.

Nobody thought about the photo for 15 years.

Then the baby debuted for Barcelona at 15. Won the Euros at 16 while still doing homework. Took over Messi's number 10 shirt.

On Sunday they meet in the World Cup Final.

Messi is 39. It's likely his last one.

Yamal turned 19 two days ago. It's his first.

The baby Messi held in his hands is now trying to take the trophy out of them.

[Ice Universe @UniverseIce]

Compared to traditional Photoshop edits, AI has taken satirical art into a whole new era.😂

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

This is GENIUS 😂

[sasha @lobotosasha]

HAHAHAHAHA OS CARAS ESTÃO INDO LONGE DEMAIS NOS MEMES

[𝕮 @XCzsnx]

Boss gave me a company credit card and nobody's noticed I still have it six months after quitting.

Found it in my wallet last week. Thought about cutting it up. Decided to test if it still worked first.

Bought coffee. Went through.

Checked the account online using my old login. Still active. Nobody deactivated anything when I left.

Transaction showed up under my name like I still worked there.

My roommate saw the statement.

Roommate: You're still buying coffee on the company card?

Me: Accidentally.

Roommate: How do you accidentally commit fraud?

Me: I forgot I had it.

Roommate: For six months?

Me: I don't use that wallet often.

Roommate: You need to return it.

Me: I know.

Didn't return it. Kept testing it.

Lunch. Gas. Groceries. Everything processed. Nothing flagged.

Started getting curious how long this could go. Monthly statements kept coming to my old work email that also never got deactivated.

Limit was five thousand dollars. I'd spent maybe three hundred.

My friend said I was playing a dangerous game.

Friend: They'll notice eventually.

Me: It's been half a year.

Friend: Doesn't mean they won't audit.

Me: You think they audit?

Friend: Every company audits.

They didn't audit.

Month seven, bought a new monitor. Four hundred dollars. Approved instantly.

Statement came. My name still listed as "Marketing Associate" even though I quit and they hired someone new.

Started wondering if I existed in two places. Quit in real life, still employed in their system.

Called the office pretending to need HR records.

HR: Employee ID?

Me: 4847.

HR: Marcus Webb. Still shows active.

Me: I quit in March.

HR: (typing) Not seeing termination paperwork.

Me: I sent an email to my manager.

HR: Did he submit the forms?

Me: I assumed so.

HR: Let me check with him.

She called back twenty minutes later.

HR: Your manager left the company in April. Looks like he never processed your resignation.

Me: So I've been employed this whole time?

HR: Technically yes.

Me: Am I getting paid?

HR: (long pause) Oh no.

Turns out they'd been depositing paychecks into an account I closed three years ago. Bank rejected them. Nobody followed up.

Six months of paychecks sitting in accounting limbo.

HR: We need to issue these payments and back-date your termination.

Me: Or?

HR: Or what?

Me: What if I just came back?

HR: You want your job back?

Me: Do I still have it?

HR: According to our system, you never left.

Talked to the new department head. Different guy. Never met him.

Him: Marcus? Heard you were remote.

Me: Something like that.

Him: You've been away for six months though.

Me: Medical leave.

Him: We don't have documentation.

Me: Previous manager mishandled it.

Him: (frustrated) He mishandled everything. Can you start Monday?

Started Monday. Same job, same desk, same login credentials that never expired.

Coworkers asked where I'd been.

Me: Extended leave.

Them: For what?

Me: Personal reasons.

They stopped asking.

Got my six months of back pay last week. Nineteen thousand after taxes.

Roommate: You accidentally took a six-month paid vacation?

Me: Nobody told me I couldn't.

Roommate: That's insane.

Me: That's corporate inefficiency.

Still have the credit card. It's legitimate now.

Bought coffee this morning. Completely legal this time.

Tastes exactly the same as fraudulent coffee.

Slightly less exciting though.

[ElysiumCricket @CricketElysium]

Back When Men Played Cricket 🥶

Australian fast bowler Jeff Thomson delivered a brutal bouncer that struck West Indies opener Desmond Haynes on the head, forcing him to retire hurt. Everyone expected the next batsman to walk out wearing a helmet

Instead, Richie Richardson walked to the crease wearing only his iconic maroon cap. The Australians could hardly believe what they were seeing 😂

But Richie didn’t just survive he fought back. He took on one of the fastest bowlers in cricket history with fearless strokeplay and went on to score a magnificent century 🔥

[Mumbai Lakes @MumbaiLakes]

Warning: This is a nerd post. 😄

Over the last few weeks, like every year, I’ve been tracking rainfall across Mumbai, reservoir levels, and how long it actually takes for rain to show up as water in our lakes.

Turns out, the relationship isn’t nearly as straightforward as I thought.

Today’s rain doesn’t necessarily become today’s water.

Obviously it’s the rain over the catchments, not the city, that matters (apart from Tulsi and Vehar) but even then, the reservoirs often respond a few days later…

Here’s my first attempt at putting that story into a single infographic.

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

We hired a new VP of Engineering who is obsessed with agile methodology.

He called a meeting on his first day and said we need to transition to 2-week development sprints.

He wanted daily stand-ups, retrospective boards, and continuous deployment pipelines.

He wanted us to actually write new code.

I realized immediately that he was an existential threat to my lifestyle.

I let him finish his impassioned speech about workflow velocity.

Then I stood up, walked to the whiteboard, and drew a single horizontal line.

I told him agile sprints are a localized solution for a localized mindset.

I said our infrastructure operates on a Zenith Release Cycle.

He asked what a Zenith Release Cycle was.

I told him it's a holistic, macro-stabilization framework where we observe the system in a state of prolonged stasis.

By not touching the code for 18 months, we allow the legacy dependencies to organically settle.

I told him that deploying bi-weekly updates creates micro-abrasions in our database architecture.

I used the phrase chronological data scarring.

The CEO was in the room and audibly gasped.

He told the new VP that we can't risk chronological data scarring just to satisfy a trendy tech buzzword.

The VP looked at me like I'd just invented a new color.

He was completely paralyzed by the sheer density of my fabricated jargon.

He quietly agreed to adopt the Zenith Release Cycle.

We're officially scheduled to deploy our next update in the third quarter of 2027.

I spent the rest of the afternoon buying things I don't need on Amazon.

Agile is a disease invented by people who want to be punished for their salary.

I refuse to participate in my own suffering.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Taiwan solved tax evasion in 1951 with a trick so cheap it should embarrass every tax authority on the planet.

The problem was an all-cash economy full of small shops. A merchant pockets the cash, skips the receipt, and the sale never existed. Auditors can't catch what was never recorded, and hiring enough of them to watch every noodle stand costs more than the missing tax.

So finance chief Ren Xianqun flipped the incentive. Print a lottery number on every receipt. Draw winners every two months on live TV. Top prize today: NT$10 million, about $310K.

Suddenly the customer and the shopkeeper want opposite things. The merchant wants the sale off the books. The customer wants the ticket. And there are millions more customers than merchants. Every transaction now carries a built-in witness demanding the paper trail.

Year one, reported tax revenue jumped 75%, from NT$29 million to NT$51 million. Seventy-five years later, roughly 70% of Taiwanese still play. Convenience stores redeem the smallest NT$200 prizes at the register, so even a coffee receipt feels like a scratch card.

The elegant part is what the audit force costs. The prize pool runs about NT$7 billion a year, roughly $20 million. In exchange, the government gets 23 million unpaid auditors working every checkout line in the country, forever. No inspector general on earth delivers that coverage at that price.

Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. The most effective compliance tool ever built looks like a game, and that's exactly why it works.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Old cathode ray tube TVs were essentially miniature particle accelerators sitting in our living rooms.

It's fascinating to think that for decades we watched images created by an electron gun firing beams at a phosphor-coated screen, making pixels glow thousands of times per second.

[Chandana 🌻✨ @RoseOnX9]

Innovation starts with noticing problems like this.

This is how you create lifelong customers.

[Roan @RohOnChain]

Met a guy making $1.4 million a year as a prompt engineer.

I asked him how he learned prompting so well.

He sent me a video that was never supposed to get out. Andrew Ng's 2 hour prompting course.

You wont find anything better about prompting than this video.

I watched it last night.

Halfway through, I realized I have been using Claude completely wrong for years.

Bookmark and watch this today.