Join our monthly AMA & Tech News episode! We dive into the complexities of time in code, the new React Foundation, the big AWS outage, the future of AI with OpenAI’s browser, and much more. A packed session of deep dives and community questions!

Hosted by: Amine Rachyd

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00:00:00 - Introduction: Monthly Tech News & AMA

00:02:40 - The Technical Challenge of Handling Time & Timezones

00:05:00 - Best Practices: Storing Time and Using UTC

00:11:20 - Weekend Project: Building an SMS Gateway

00:13:25 - Project Architecture: Cloudflare, Rust, and C++

00:17:55 - Expanding the Project’s Capabilities Beyond SMS

00:19:50 - Why Choose Cloudflare Workers for this Project?

00:25:45 - The Developer Experience of Cloudflare vs. AWS

00:27:45 - The Importance of Solving Your Own Problems as an Engineer

00:30:40 - Open IP: A New Approach to Intellectual Property

00:35:00 - Linux on the Desktop: Omarchy, Distro Hopping, and User Experience

00:41:35 - The Burden of Legacy Compatibility in Windows (GTA Example)

00:45:30 - The New React Foundation: What It Means for the Ecosystem

00:56:45 - The Rise of Vite as a Dominant Frontend Tool

01:03:45 - Analyzing the Recent Major AWS Outage

01:09:15 - Does an Outage Justify Switching Cloud Providers?

01:12:50 - What is Platform Engineering and Why is it Important?

01:22:30 - The Cycle of Complexity and Simplification in Tech

01:28:35 - OpenAI’s New Browser: Atlas

01:33:30 - The Real Goal Behind AI-Powered Browsers

01:39:10 - Why “Super Apps” Fail in the West

01:45:35 - The “Chat Control” Controversy in Europe

01:48:35 - Rumor: A Touchscreen MacBook is Coming

01:54:00 - Google vs. The Free Software Foundation: The Future of Android

02:08:50 - Google’s Quantum Computing Announcement

02:10:30 - The Job Market for AI Specialists in Morocco

02:14:40 - Best AI Tools for Programming (Claude, Cursor)

02:22:25 - Using AI to Learn vs. Outsourcing Your Brain

02:33:15 - Outro

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