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Cloudflare Cuts 20% of Workforce
The infrastructure giant announced it would eliminate roughly 1,100 jobs across engineering and operations teams. The move follows a broader contraction in cloud services spending and growing pressure on margins from competitors.
Schools' Data Held Hostage
ShinyHunters claims access to Canvas education platform data affecting millions of students. The group is threatening to release student records unless Instructure pays an undisclosed ransom. Districts scramble to assess exposure.
Dirtyfrag: a universal Linux local privilege escalation exploit disclosed today. Patch your kernels.
Independent design and engineering work doesn't always fit neatly inside a company. Some of the best work happens at the edges — between studios, between disciplines, between what a client thinks they need and what they actually need.
A mobile-first cross-platform golf app that lets players track the progress of a round in real-time. Responsible for product direction and strategy.
Built over a weekend with the Character140 collective — a group of DC-area developers and designers. Politweets scraped Twitter's public timeline for presidential candidate mentions and displayed them in real time, homepage styled like a digital newspaper. Went live just before the New Hampshire primaries. Covered by HuffPost, Mashable, ZDNet, and ReadWriteWeb. Six to nine months later, Twitter shipped their own version at election.twitter.com.
One of the earliest experiments using the Twitter API to track keywords across the public timeline — built with Jason Garber and the Character140 crew initially just to entertain friends. Twittertale scanned every public tweet for swear words and ranked which users had the biggest potty mouth. Covered by Mashable. The same keyword-tracking mechanic became the foundation for Politweets a few weeks later.