Delivery Application Engineer Admits System Failure.
Also, the network connection is now a teenager.

The Sandwich Protocol is Built on Spaghetti Code

A developer working for a major food delivery application has dropped a memo, not into the company intranet, but onto a public confession forum. The developer details what most users already suspected; the entire corporate logistics platform is less like a Swiss watch and more like a stack of damp napkins. The confession suggests the system is held together with aggressive deadlines and code that is, charitably speaking, technical debt on a grand scale.

The core problem is not malice; it is simply that the food delivery application has too many deadlines and not enough time to make anything that is actually clean. This is the Silicon Valley equivalent of trying to organize a ten thousand square foot warehouse with a single intern. The company is trying very hard and failing spectacularly to make their platform work correctly and ethically; the developer’s plea, found on an old Reddit thread, mostly confirms the order you received was thirty minutes late because of a deeply nested SQL query somewhere in Phoenix. The engineering team has essentially reached the point of benevolent incompetence, a classic management strategy.

Network Protocol Turns Thirty, Still Living in Mother's Basement

The internet’s long awaited replacement for its address system, IPv6, is celebrating its thirtieth birthday. The networking protocol has been the focus of numerous corporate transition memos since 1995. Despite three decades of planning, it still has not managed to secure full adoption, spending most of its time in a state of perpetually pending integration. The Register notes the anniversary, confirming that the digital world’s plan for an unlimited future of addresses remains stuck in a very cramped IPv4 shared apartment.

The tech world has decided to hold a small party for it in a poorly lit server closet anyway, complete with a cake shaped like a hexadecimal string. The lack of urgency surrounding its deployment suggests that the entire project has been classified as a "long-term strategic initiative" by the department that also handles the broken water cooler.

Parental Controls Are Just Stealth HR Policy

A new report details the truly insidious nature of parental controls; they are apparently not designed to protect children from the internet, but rather to protect the companies that provide them from liability. The entire concept functions as a way for platform owners to offload the messy problem of child safety.

This makes the feature less of a helpful tool for families and more of an automated legal waiver. Essentially, a major platform has outsourced its compliance department to whichever overworked parent accidentally clicked 'Agree' in the onboarding process. The platforms are now asking users to self-regulate because firing their own internal moderators was cheaper.

Briefs

• GitHub Issue Tracker: Terminal developer Ghostty has created a system where users cannot create issues directly. It’s the digital equivalent of putting a sign on the complaints box that says "Do Not Touch" for maximum efficiency.
• Tesla Sales: Elon Musk's Tesla has recorded its second yearly sales decline, falling by nine percent in 2025; they blamed the drop on a temporary supply chain issue that was actually just people realizing they don't want a yoke steering wheel.
• Public Domain Day: Another year, another mandatory celebration of intellectual property expiration. Standard Ebooks released its annual list, confirming that all those dusty books on your shelf are now free, like all that outdated software in your legacy codebase.