globalGlob(**/*) Staff
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Salesforce Announces What It Does
One of the eternal questions in I.T. has been, "What does Salesforce do?" For decades, the answer has been debated and philosophized with no clear consensus. The company's business dealings have been shrouded in mystery...until now. As of this afternoon, we have an answer directly from Salesforce itself. In a blog post titled, "This is what we do. Stop Asking!" the megacorporation best known for doing something, probably, detailed their business goals and what drives the company.
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Thought Leader Out Of Thoughts
"A.I. isn't the future, it's now!" self-titled Thought Leader Jim Tom Thomas claimed in a post last week.
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globalGlob(**/*) Candy Hearts: 2026
Did you know you can get candy hearts with custom text? We just found that out. If we knew sooner, we'd sell custom ones in our store that you can give to your techie sweetheart on Valentine's Day. But since we just had the idea (2 days before Valentine's Day), it's too late to set that up. Here's what we would have made if we thought of it sooner.
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Penetration Testing Company Sued For Fixing Client Bugs
The security penetration testing company, Pen Dat SaaS, is being sued by one of their clients, Record Me A.I., for doing more than checking the backdoors.
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Co-Worker Too Turned On Calling Code 'Sexy'
Developer Francis was reportedly a little too "turned on" in a code review meeting this past Tuesday, according to inside sources. Every time the `swapGroupReferences()` method was mentioned, Francis went on a prolonged discourse about why this method was written the way it was.
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Big Tech Earnings Announcements: Calendar Q1 2026 - By The Numbers
Earnings season is upon us and every big tech company is, or will soon be, announcing record profits for the quarter ending December 31, 2025. Here are some numbers from their announcements.
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Palantir Condemns I.C.E. Use of Surveillance Technology
"We're bad, but they're evil." Palantir Technologies, the software giant supplying legally questionable surveillance applications to government agencies has come out against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, better known as I.C.E., but not for any of the reasons you're thinking of.
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GitHub Fixes Every NPM Vulnerability By Shutting Down NPM
"Everyone thought Microsoft would screw up NPM when GitHub acquired it, but I think this proves all the haters wrong." The opening line from GitHub's latest announcement regarding NPM is a bold statement, but accurate.
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C# to Add Gen Alpha Slang Keywords
The C# programming language has always a reputation as a boring language only used for corporate enterprise applications. To win over the hearts and minds of today's youth, a series of proposals have been added to the GitHub project holding the C# spec. Microsoft has said they plan to add these in time for C# 15, to be released in November 2026.
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Vibe Coding Devs Laid Off, Replaced By Vibe Coding Manager
Eight months ago InsuraGen Now, the insurance company using A.I. to set insurance policies (but not prices), made the bold decision to lay off all 20 developers at the company and replace them with a small team of 4 vibe coders. Now that the experiment has proven just how much money they saved by reducing the overall team by 16 people, they've done it again.
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CTO Doesn't Understand Why Expensive Tool Didn't Fix Everything
Preston Stafford, the CTO at bio-medial start-up CaptiVEINE, went on a rage session complete with childish insults and throwing furniture at walls. Reports confirm the furniture did not bounce back and hit him.
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Microsoft Announces Windows Copilot for Microsoft Copilot
In an announcement post this morning, Microsoft announced the availability of a new Windows Copilot application for Microsoft Copilot. This new A.I. assistant will manage the old A.I. assistant, combining their intelligences to accomplish tasks it couldn't handle.
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SRE Team Begs Developers For Logs
Yet another SRE team is begging the software development teams at their company to add logging to their codebases.
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The globalGlob(**/*) 2026 CES Awards
The globalGlob(**/*) may only be a month old, but we want to hit the ground running in tech journalism. So we sent our whole team to CES 2026 to review the latets and greatest consumer technology being peddled. It may be our first visit, but we think this was the best show ever. It can only be downhill from here. Below are our awards from our first annual visit to the Consumer Electronics Show.
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Company Hires Medium To Contact Deceased Developer
Due to a series of unfortunate events, Externcorp may not meet their quarterly goals. And it's all Jim's fault.
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Dev New Years Resolution Is More Tests
Ringing in the new year, another developer has proclaimed a new years resolution to make all of their code, "well tested".
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New Working Group Established To Finalize Pronunciation Of GIF
One of the great debates of our industry, "How to properly pronounce GIF?" has been raging since the format's initial release in 1987.
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Developer Explains Algorithms Used By Santa To Visit Every House
During a recent holiday trip, little Timmy asked how Santa can visit every house in just one night. And Uncle Henry just went off.
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Interview With Developer Who Purchased Yet Another Domain
This morning, local developer Taylor purchased yet another domain name. After gloating about it almost non-stop on social media, we tracked them down for an exclusive interview and to celebrate the momentous occasion.
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New LMA Development Pattern Promises Simplicity And Performance Gains
The developers at Soft And Co. have developed a new service architecture which has improved their development throughput by nearly 300%.