Hello, Habre! Today we will talk about blocking Apple smartphones, installing SSL certificates on VPS and the best articles of last week: about the Soviet Need for Speed, beeper music, amateur stereo shooting, disadvantages of Scrum and much more.

▍ Company news

• Apple will allow blocking of smartphones with parts that it recognizes as stolen. For good or evil? We will try to answer this question in a new post of the RUVDS Telegram channel.
• Our new instruction on how to protect the site and increase the security of data transmission between the user and the server via the Internet has been published on VC. It will be about installing an SSL certificate on the site.
• In the “Reference” section on our site, several useful articles appeared at once: “How to install Sinatra on Ubuntu 24.04” and “How to install Prometheus on Ubuntu 24.04”.

▍ The best articles on Khabri for the past week

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Why I prefer exceptions over error values

High-quality error handling is the key to creating reliable programs. But it often scares programmers, because there will always be another borderline case. Traditional object-oriented APIs use special exception classes that can be thrown to interrupt the normal flow of control and immediately report an error.

🔸 Soviet Need for Speed. A brief history of the game “Behind the wheel”

During the times of the USSR, radio-controlled cars and products under the “Electronics” label, such as “Well, have a drink” and “Secrets of the Ocean” were expensive and considered, rather, luxury items. But there was another game that probably every Soviet schoolboy dreamed of – it was called “Behind the wheel”.

🔸 Secrets of Tim Fallin, Beeper, Spectrum and QChan

A highly specialized topic with confusing Z80 assembly code. Let’s reveal the secrets of Tim Fallin in “beep” music on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, try to repeat, and maybe even surpass his achievements.

🔸 Amateur stereo shooting

Stereo photography is not a new invention at all, and more than 150 years ago there were already two-lens cameras that allow you to shoot stereo pairs on photographic plates. In this article, you will learn how to take and view stereo images.

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Why is Scrum so exhausting?

Why is working in sprints more stressful? Aren’t these the same deadlines, only slightly shortened? Doesn’t this save you from having to work overtime at the end of the project? Such a course of thought seems logical, but in fact it misses a number of important details of the activities of modern software developers.

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