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This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition What I Built During humanitarian crises, natural disasters, and grassroots mutual-aid initiatives, the most critical resource is human attention. Frontline workers and community volunteers regularly spend 10 to 14 consecutive
Most pomodoro apps gate your own history behind a paywall. Marinara and Focus To-Do (among others) only keep a month of data on the free tier. I wanted to actually analyze months of tracked time, not lose it after four weeks. On top of that, I track dates on the Persian (Jalali) calendar, which none
Run this in your browser console: btoa('café'); // 'Y2Fm6Q==' Now encode the same word as UTF-8 first: btoa(String.fromCharCode(...new TextEncoder().encode('café'))); // 'Y2Fmw6k=' Same word, two different answers. Both are valid base64. Neither one throws. Only the second is what
I recently shipped a small Apify Actor — a keyword-based monitor for a government data portal, built with Playwright + Camoufox (a hardened Firefox build for stealth automation). It works, and it's live: it turned out to be a much better debugging exercise than I expected. Three bugs in particular c
WordPress makes it easy to write code that works and easy to write code that lasts, and those are not the same skill. Hooks, filters, custom post types, widgets — the platform hands you enough rope to build something maintainable or something that collapses the moment a second developer touches it.
Installing OCR, three model tiers side by side, the reflex is "pick the biggest, it's most accurate". Reading what the tiers actually say, the 20x size gap doesn't buy one single thing. ImgIng uses PP-OCRv6 in three tiers. Here's what separates them: Tier Size Languages Fast ~6.0 MB Chinese
Turn Google Sheets into a Petabyte Lakehouse with Sub-Second ACID Queries. Abstract Google Sheets faces severe scalability bottlenecks when handling large enterprise datasets, including a strict 10-million cell limit, crippling CRUD latency, and Google Apps Script's execution and memo
TL;DR. I counted every task in Loggd. Across 21,655 one-off tasks from 1,375 people, 7,774 were completed, which is 35.9%. The shape matters more than the rate: 40.8% of completed tasks were finished the same day they were created, the median completed task took 1 day, and the ones that did not move
Two CVEs against the same identity provider, filed six months apart. CVE-2023-48228 and CVE-2024-23647, both against authentik, describe the same failure: the server accepted PKCE in one request and its absence in the next. RFC 7636 had been published nine years before the first advisory. PKCE bind
The OAuth flow has four participants: client, authorization server, resource server, and, when state is absent, the attacker. RFC 6749 made the only CSRF control in the authorization code flow optional. This is not theoretical. It is CVE-2019-10315, CVE-2023-31999, and most OAuth clients running in
Hello, fellow version-bumping enthusiasts, sleep-deprived Rustaceans, and accidental software archaeologists who just found out that bumpversion is a thing 👋! So there I was, staring at my terminal at 2AM, trying to release version 0.1.0 of something. I typed bump-my-version patch, pressed Enter,
TL;DR what: Sansec disclosed StyleSmuggler on September 5, 2026, an unauthenticated remote code execution chain in Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce that has been exploited in the wild since September 4 and installs a persistent backdoor. Attackers are executing unauthenticated code on Ma
Is the endpoint free, or just unbilled? Those are different questions. Mix them and agents get brittle. I keep hearing the same five claims. They sound calm in a design doc. They fail in boring, repeatable ways. This is a FAQ. Not a glossary. Not a bake-off. You get a probe and a decision table.
At some point every backend grows an API key system. Most teams improvise the format — and the format matters more than you'd think. Here's the 10-minute version of what I wish I'd known. 1. Length is entropy — do the math once The security of a key comes from its random body. With a cha
"bcrypt decode", "bcrypt hash to text", "bcrypt decrypt online" — these searches get thousands of hits a month, and every result promising to do it is either confused or a scam. Let's clear this up properly. bcrypt is a hash, not encryption Encryption is a two-way street: encrypt with a
One-liner: A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack overwhelms your system with fake traffic until real users can't get through. Defense is layered — no single solution works alone. ❓ Types of Attacks Type How Target Volumetric Flood bandwidth (Gbps UDP) Network layer Pro
I Built My First Python Student Evaluation Program — What Would You Improve? I’ve recently been learning Python, and I built a small student evaluation program as a practical exercise to apply the concepts I’ve learned so far. The program: Calculates the average of Mathematics, Physics, and Chem
I run about thirty scheduled jobs on a single Windows box. Some are scrapers, some generate content, some are trading bots, some just check that the other jobs are alive. Most of them were written and are maintained by an AI coding agent that I let run unattended. Over three months, every one of th
How to turn struct-tag validation failures into a standard "application/problem+json" response — the RFC 9457 format — with one method call, no hand-rolled error envelope. Most Go APIs invent their own validation error shape. One team returns {"errors": [...]}, another {"field_errors": {...}}, a t
If you're not a lawyer, here's a practical gut-check for any AI you put into a QMS or quality workflow. Ask these two plain questions. If either answer is yes, stop what you're doing and fix it. Does any AI in your stack talk directly to a human without clearly saying "I am AI"? Does any AI in you
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