Unfortunately they are still highly dependent on other APIs.

When San Diego Comiccon went live on funko.com (shopify) the website was fine but the checkout was bottlenecked by the API calls to shipping providers. Many never were able to checkout and Funko had to issue an apology.

Unfortunate that no matter how great you can improve your own product you may still be dependent upon others.

Back in mid-October I needed to make a drastic change in my life. I spent a lot of time doing the following:

  - Mindlessly browsing the internet (FB, YT, HN, Reddit)
  - Dating apps
  - Nintendo Switch online

My wake up call happened when a few recruiters from big companies, that I'd love to work for, reached out to me about interviewing. It was then I realized how undisciplined I had been. I had no chance at either of these companies because I constantly wasted my free time instead of working on coding projects or bettering myself. So I made a change:

  - Added the Stayfocused browser extension and limited my internet wasting time to 30 min a day on weekdays
  - Deleted all my dating apps (this by far gave me the most sense of freedom and clarity which surprised me)
  - Stopped playing Switch altogether

That's it! My goal was not "go to the gym", "journal", "go on walks", "read more books"...but guess what...that's what happened! When I stopped/limited doing all of these time wasting activities I created a new void in my life. I suddenly had a lot more free time every day. My natural reaction was to go waste it, but now I could not...so I started going on walks instead. I started doing coding challenges and reading coding books on topics I knew I was weak in. I started journaling more and went to the gym 4 times a week.

Let me tell you, it has been an absolutely AMAZING life change. I highly recommend everyone take up this challenge for a month or two and see the difference in your life. If you're like me you'll never want to go back! Good luck out there!

PS. In case it helps motivate anyone, one of those companies was Google. I passed the phone screen :). I know that may be easy for some people here but I was completely unprepared when I was approached and I know this life change 3 months ago made the difference.

Beautiful images. They use "A high-resolution method, called Airyscan super-resolution microscopy"

I'm guessing this type of microscope: https://www.zeiss.com/microscopy/us/products/confocal-micros...

And I had never heard of the "Basic Principle of Airyscanning" which is pretty neat: https://www.zeiss.com/microscopy/us/products/confocal-micros...

This was the email our team received:

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We're attempting to bring it back online automatically. If we can't, we'll page an engineer to help.

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