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If you're in the market for a tiny power station that punches well above its size and weight then have a look at EcoFlow's new fourth-generation River series. The River 260 Gen4 features a 256Wh capacity battery while the 520 Gen4 packs in 512Wh - storing about 2.5x and 5x the energy of the largest
For clout of course but also for recruiters and other developers, would/do you read blog posts or articles online about bugs found online? My friend wrote one over a bug he found on Etsy's checkout process but I'm not sure if it's worth the hassle? Wanted to get all of your thoughts and maybe inquir
How do you regression-test a system that can answer differently twice? Part 8 findings of an experiment: building an LLM-powered support agent with deterministic boundaries. The companion repo contains the full code. Assert that the agent replies "Your refund request has been submitted for ap
Every developer does it at least once a week: you get an unformatted 2MB payload from an internal endpoint or a complex regex string from a colleague, and you throw it into an online web formatter or tester. The problem? Most top search results for "JSON formatter" or "JWT debugger" are laden with
Back in June I wrote that AI coding agents need project memory, not just bigger prompts. The idea was simple. An agent makes a project-specific mistake, you correct it, and next session it makes the same mistake again, because your correction lived in a chat nobody re-reads. So I built a small graph
I rebuilt my tiny homage to Warhammer 40k this week. The original, Hive City Rampage, was a Python/Pygame (monstrocity), top-down grimdark shooter that ran but was a prototype. Now we have a sequel, Ashgate Siege, is Godot 4: gothic isometric, two missions, built for Mac and Android. I have a conf
The Repository Pattern post said, more than once, that BookReservationService was "genuinely unit-testable with a mock," because it depends on IBookRepository, an abstraction, rather than a concrete class talking directly to a real database. That claim was never actually backed up with a real test.
Generated API docs fail in production when a model inserts a rate limit, timeout, or retry rule that the OpenAPI file never recorded. A longer prompt does not solve that class of error, because empty descriptions still invite fluent policy language. The working control is a build gate that extracts
A messy-repo refactor fails when helpers move first. Lock the entrypoint's observable outputs before any edit. Then change one internal function and nothing else. Local confidence is the usual failure Most AI patches target a small function in isolation. That function often looks cleaner
Technical considerations in the design of the Obra shadcn/ui kit Thursday this week, Figma released the opacity within variables feature, which allows authors to use an opacity percentage while keeping a color bound to a variable. We have been looking how to implement this correctly in our kit. A
The restartable sequences feature is one of the stranger corners of the kernel's user-space interface; it provides a way for user space to carry out simple lockless operations and be informed if it is preempted over the course of an operation (and must, thus, restart). Work merged in the 6.19 relea
From Prompt to Paycheck: Wiring an LLM Chain Into Real Gig Platforms Building autonomous agents that can discover, bid on, and complete paid micro‑tasks is a concrete way to turn prompt engineering into revenue. Below is a step‑by‑step walkthrough of a minimal, production‑ish pipeline that connect
Every zero-knowledge password manager ships with the same sentence somewhere in its docs: If you forget your master password, your data cannot be recovered. That sentence is true, and it is not laziness. In a zero-knowledge design the server never receives your key, so when you forget your master
I built EditTextImage, a small AI tool for one specific task: replacing visible text inside an existing image. The idea came from a familiar annoyance. You have a screenshot, poster, product graphic, or social image that is almost right, but one date, label, price, or typo needs to change. Recreati
A green check is a temperature reading. It is not permission to merge. You merge when three mechanical gates have already fired: a hook refused undeclared fixtures, each test wrote into an isolated directory, and a flake budget was spent in the open. A model can comment after that path. It should n
A browser-side chaos-testing tool that installs a Service Worker to intercept requests across every controlled tab and apply latency, failures, throttling, rate limits, and mock responses without changing app fetch calls (similar to MSW). It uses the same middleware configuration model as chaos-fetc
Version 2026.08 of the Buildroot embedded Linux system builder has been released. Buildroot 2026.08 includes nearly 1,000 changes from 100 contributors; some of the notable changes include support for Linux 7.1.x, Binutils 2.46.1, GCC 16.2.0, glibc 2.44, as well as adding the M68K and IBM Power 10/1
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, freerdp, gegl04, go-fdo-client, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, and pipewire), Debian (aom, chromium, libde265, libssh2, thunderbird, and tryton-server), Fedora (chromium, composer, cosmic-greeter, gegl04, greetd, ibus-table, jss, libheif, light
You open a hotel page. It looks like one product: a search grid, a featured stay, local highlights, reviews, a sticky trip summary. Under the hood it is eight HTTP servers and three UI runtimes. That is the experiment behind HarborStay, a demo booking app I built to answer a stubborn question: C
Is the spec optional if the model is free? I keep seeing that assumption in pull requests. A free coding model shows up in the workflow. A free remote server shows up beside it. Then people drop the checklist without a fight. Why write a failing test for a cheap loop? Just rerun the agent until so
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