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Some notes on NixOS


TL;DR Let’s cap the year by putting a spotlight on some of the valuable work people outside of Spotify are doing. Late last year, we announced . And just as we did in , we wanted to learn more about what kind of impact direct monetary contributions might have on keeping these independent projects going. So we asked the maintainers of Jdbi, AssertJ, and Testcontainers to share their thoughts.

Each year, we aim to elevate the Spotify Wrapped experience for our users, crafting captivating data stories and pushing the boundaries of what the experience delivers to users. Since 2019, Spotify Wrapped has been available through the Spotify app on both Android and iOS. In 2023, we embarked on a path to share the joy of Wrapped with a larger global audience with a complementary web experience.

2023: Year in review

Let’s start into the new year with a little inspiration boost: wallpapers created with love by the community for the community. Happy 2024!

All GitHub Copilot users can now enjoy natural language-powered coding with Copilot Chat at no additional cost.

JavaScript may be the most popular client-side language in the world, but it’s far from perfect and not without its quirks. Juan Diego Rodriguez examines several “absurd” JavaScript eccentricities and explains how they made it into the language as well as how to avoid them in your own code.

As the year winds down, we’re highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers.


Providing software and web services that deliver value for users often requires measuring user behavior. In this blog we discuss emerging cryptographic and statistical techniques that enable collecting such measurements without violating user privacy

The View Transitions API is a new — but game-changing — feature that allows us to do the types of reactive state-based UI and page transitions that have traditionally been exclusive to JavaScript frameworks. In the first part of this mini two-part series, Adrian Bece thoroughly explains why we need the API and demonstrates its basic usage.

Cloudflare has long supported the open Internet principles that are behind net neutrality, and we still do today. That’s why we filed comments with the FCC expressing our support for these principles

The PGConf.eu took place 2023 in Prague. It was a great time with other CYBERTEC members and of course interesting topics.