Pluralistic: Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid (23 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net 2,000 words

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How becoming a dad changes men’s brains

Fathers show changes in some of the same brain areas as mothers, but the effect of parenthood on dads isn’t nearly as well studied

2026-6-21 4:00am Scientific American Tanya Lewis ($) 1,000 words

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FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama

In February, a Trump official refused to review the vaccine.

2026-6-18 3:08pm Ars Technica Beth Mole 1,000 words

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Hey, N00b, We Didn't Hire You to Complete Tasks

Welcome!

2026-5-15 6:35am Software Design: Tidy First? Kent Beck 1,000 words

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Scaling Rails at Aura Frames: Splitting to 8 Primary DBs and Reaching #1 in the App Store

📌 Overview Ruby on Rails has helped make it possible to scale out the database layer, meeting the demands of millions of Aura Frames customers enjoying their digital photo frames. In late 2025, the team added additional primary databases to expand capacity for peak write and read load ahead of Christmas Day, the busiest day of the year for the company. Rails manages queries and schema changes for each primary database within the same codebase, and now with the additional capacity of many...

2026-6-16 6:15am Software Engineer, Author, High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails Andrew Atkinson 4,000 words

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