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Microsoft Exits 💼, AI Employees🐋, Making Enemies ✨
Today's TechToks: Microsoft against low performance, Anthropic hints at agent employees, The gentle art of making enemies, Trending GitHub repositories, Fresh Product Picks, and much more!
TechTok by João Martins
April 23, 2025
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Today's Picks🍒
🚀 Microsoft new exit strategy, Anthropic hints at fully AI employees, Big Tech fined $700 million
👾 From Unity Engineering: How to make enemies
🌟 GitHub's Trending Repositories
⚙️ Space-time database
📈 Crypto trading bot
🏗️ Quick Google Cloud App Templates
🔥 Products of the Week
✨ Save 18h/week with browser workflows
🧪 Free forms for business
💼 Nurture your Linkedin brand
➕ And much more
🧐 Weekly Picks
Most impactful articles and news of this week on techtok.today
Consistently low performers—always in the 0–60% reward outcome—can’t transfer, won’t be rehired for 2 years (if they exit), and are nudged toward exit plans. This shows a broader trend in the tech industry: prioritize productivity and efficiency, spot who’s adding value—and fire who isn’t.
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📱 Product Picks
Curated products from Product Hunt.
🔥Trending products of the week
AI browser that saves you 18h/week with automated workflows. Research 100s of websites in seconds, write content that matches your voice, take meeting notes and automate tasks on any website. Now in pre-beta.
Warm-up and nurture prospects at scale on linkedin. Track your customers' posts, spot key conversations with AI, and help your team build trust with thoughtful comments - in minutes a day.
Form builder for business: Unlimited responses, auto-saved partials, and a clean visual logic builder that doesn’t break, for free.
Test your AI apps with thousands of digital humans and save time with reproducible, automated runs. Debug behaviors, iterate faster, and reduce production risks with an interactive testbed built for agent developers.
Video tutorials and live coding in your browser, making it feel like you're pair programming with the teacher. Watch the teacher code, jump into the IDE to practice instantly, and get AI feedback to sharpen your fullstack skills.
👩🏽💻 Engineering Blogs
Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies
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The Charm of Chaos
Tempest Tower’s enemies aren’t just obstacles—they’re characters. From the lost, doe-eyed Peepers to their hollow-eyed zombie pursuers, every foe is designed to feel weirdly squishable. Players kept asking: “Why do they look so crisp yet clay-like?” The answer? Ramped lighting, MatCap rimlights, and curated glow.
Jump. Stomp. Repeat.
Gameplay demanded enemies be fun to interact with—so we made them bouncy, slimy, and visually distinct. Early designs triggered trypophobia (oops), so Half Past Yellow softened shapes, amped contrast, and leaned into that "poke me" appeal. Jumping on them is pure serotonin.
Readability Rules
New worlds mean new color palettes, but one rule stays: enemies must pop. A grayscale value chart ensures they never blend in. Because nothing kills fun faster than “Wait—where’d that teethy blob go?!”
✨ "Too long don't README"
GitHub trending repos of today
Like a database and server combined into one. SpacetimeDB is a high-performance database that embeds application logic, enabling applications to be built with no separate server infrastructure. It provides speed and low latency by keeping state in memory and using a write-ahead log for persistence.
What can you use this for? Build real-time applications like games, chat, and collaboration tools with minimal latency, no servers, and a unified codebase
Cryptocurrency trading bot. Supports major exchanges, uses machine learning for strategy optimization, and offers a web UI and Telegram integration for management and monitoring.
What can you use this for? Automate cryptocurrency trading, backtest trading strategies, manage crypto trades via Telegram
Repos to learn something new
Packages to quickly try Go applications from Google Cloud Platform. The libraries use Application Default Credentials for authentication and support the two most recent major Go releases. Templates for Firestore, Storage, and more.
What can you use this for? Build quick, study Google Cloud services for certifications, learn new solutions
