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Zoho CRM reports and dashboards not working? Ten causes and where to check
p If a Zoho CRM report is empty or a dashboard looks wrong, the CRM is often doing what it was configured to do. Most broken-looking reports come down to who can see which records, fields and folders, or a filter nobody remembers setting. Work through these in order. /p h2 1. The report shows fewer records than you expect /h2 p Per Zoho, reports only show records the person…
/compact or /compress? 9 Agent Commands in Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and OpenCode
ul li strong Book: /strong a href="https://www.amazon.de/-/en/dp/B0GXNNMKVF" rel="noopener noreferrer" Observability for LLM Applications /a /li li strong Also by me: /strong em Thinking in Go /em (2-book series) — a href="https://xgabriel.com/go-book" rel="noopener noreferrer" Complete Guide to Go Programming /a + a href="https://xgabriel.com/hexagonal-go" rel="noopener…
Your Zod .refine() Never Reaches the Model: What Survives the Trip to JSON Schema
ul li strong Book: /strong a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBN9XMCY" rel="noopener noreferrer" AI That Answers /a /li li strong The series: /strong em AI in TypeScript /em — 5 books, from your first LLM call to agents in production — a href="https://xgabriel.com/ai-in-typescript" rel="noopener noreferrer" all five here /a /li li strong My project: /strong a…
AI as the Externalization of Intellect: An Analysis of D.Y. Tenen's Theses
p The article analyzes concepts contained in the book by Dennis Yi Tenen, focusing on AI as a form of intellectual externalization. The author emphasizes that artificial intelligence is not an autonomous entity, but the result of "collective labor" (collectiva tabor)—the accumulated effort of engineers, researchers, and invisible data workers. The text references theories of distributed cognition…
Keep an empty litigation search distinct from an unmeasured search
blockquote p I maintain this Actor. This is an AI-assisted technical walkthrough, fact-checked against its accepted source contract and saved acceptance evidence. /p /blockquote p A search table with no case rows can mean several things: a successful empty search, a failed request, a partial jurisdiction response, or a missing field. If all four become “no litigation,” the clean-looking…
Bluesky s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social
Bluesky's Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make "small" social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites. In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said [ ]
What a Hexagonal Port Costs in Go: itabs, Escape Analysis and a Postgres Round Trip
ul li strong Book: /strong a href="https://xgabriel.com/hexagonal-go" rel="noopener noreferrer" Hexagonal Architecture in Go /a /li li strong Also by me: /strong em Pocket Guides for Developers /em — a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GYLH38X4" rel="noopener noreferrer" the 8-book series /a /li li strong My project: /strong a href="https://hermes-ide.com" rel="noopener…
When your agent adds a config flag, it's avoiding a product decision
p You open the PR and the diff has it: a new config file with three flags, a settings struct, and a code --enable-x /code CLI argument. The agent did the thing you asked. It also did not decide anything. /p p This is the most consistent pattern I see from AI coding assistants on medium-sized features. Ask for a retry-with-backoff flow, and you get code RETRY_MAX_ATTEMPTS /code , code…
Accumulating Empty Video Rooms: Cleanup by Lease Generation and Reconciliation
p Do not destroy a video room on the last code leave /code event. Mark it empty, wait through a bounded grace period, and then require a second, authoritative occupancy check before teardown. For a fintech support call that also exposes typing indicators and read receipts, this rule keeps presence accurate during reconnects while ensuring abandoned sessions cannot accumulate forever. /p p…
How to Measure Your Devtool's Visibility in AI Answers
h2 TL;DR /h2 p You can find out how often AI tools recommend your devtool with a free spreadsheet audit that takes about two hours. You don't need paid software or code. /p ul li Write 12 questions a developer would really ask about your category, then ask each one three times in three AI tools. That gives you 108 answers to count. /li li Count five things: how often you're…
Withings now charges $100 per year to sync your data to other apps
If you're a new user of Withings' fitness-tracking smartwatches or smart scales and want to sync and access your health data through third party apps like Apple Health or Google Health it's now going to cost you. According to a discussion on Withings' support forums spotted by MacRumors, new Withings accounts created from October 13th, [ ]
I built a PHP AI agent library with zero dependencies - here's the code
p If you've tried to add an LLM agent to a PHP application, you've probably hit the same wall: every serious library is Python. So the "obvious" answer is to bolt a Python microservice behind your PHP app a sidecar that speaks to your agent, your agent speaks to your APIs, and now you're maintaining two runtimes, two deployments, and a network hop you didn't ask for. /p p I got tired of that.…
Tesla Wrap Design: Does It Read in a Small Preview?
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Let Claude Code Run git bisect in Its Own Worktree While You Keep Coding
ul li strong Book: /strong a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBTDV75G" rel="noopener noreferrer" AI That Acts /a /li li strong The series: /strong em AI in TypeScript /em — 5 books, from your first LLM call to agents in production — a href="https://xgabriel.com/ai-in-typescript" rel="noopener noreferrer" all five here /a /li li strong My project: /strong a…
Friends don t let friends feed their data to AI agents
There's a growing trend in the consumer tech world: gadgets designed to spy on everything and everyone around you, regardless of whether or not anyone else actually consented to it. Now, with the advent of "AI personal assistants" like Meta's Muse, you're being cheerfully asked not just to give up your own data, but also [ ]
Google is making inline links more prominent in AI responses
Google is updating its AI search results to make inline links appear "higher up in responses more frequently," according to a blog post. The company's search results from AI Overviews and AI Mode give you answers in a customized view instead of the traditional list of links, but there are concerns that the format reduces [ ]
Meta and Apple team up to make Muse AI models run better on Macs
Meta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model today, claiming that it's the "most capable US open-weight model to date." But the company also says that it's the "the first model in its class" that can "run on your desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the latest MLX framework." Meta and Apple, [ ]
The best reason to care about Nvidia’s RTX Spark: ‘everything’ will run on Arm
Fourteen years ago this month, Microsoft released an Nvidia-powered Windows PC that would become one of the greatest tech flops in modern history. The original Microsoft Surface, which ran a stripped-down version of Windows on an Nvidia Tegra chip, bombed so hard that Microsoft had to write off $900 million in inventory. The problem was [ ]
How TokenCap Computes a 0-to-100 Build Health Diagnostic for Codebases
p Evaluating the health of a repository usually requires running multiple disjointed tools: linters, circular dependency checkers, dead code detectors, and test runners. /p p In TokenCap, we unified these signals into an objective 0-to-100 repository health diagnostic in code src/health/buildHealth.js /code . /p h3 What Factors Drive the Health Score? /h3 ol li Call…
Hello DEV Community 👋 | My Journey as a Software Developer
p Hello everyone! 👋 /p p I'm Mohamed Mydeen Shahabudeen M, a Software Developer from Tamil Nadu, India. /p p I enjoy building useful applications, exploring new ideas, and solving real-world problems through technology. I'm passionate about continuous learning, improving my skills, and creating meaningful digital experiences. /p p Through this community, I look forward to sharing my…
Sony made a $5,900 gold-plated Walkman MP3 player
Sony has announced a trio of new Walkman portable media players that start at an already absurd $1,899.99 for the NW-ZX900 and climb all the way up to $5,899 for the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3. Sandwiched in between is the $2,999.99 Walkman NW-WM1AM3, which is nearly identical to the WM1ZM3, just minus the gaudy gold shell. All [ ]
Regular expressions (Regex) understanding
p strong Below content is AI Generated /strong /p p Regular expressions (Regex) can be incredibly CPU-intensive. While a simple regex runs instantly, a poorly designed regex applied to the wrong text can lock up your application, spike CPU usage to 100%, and cause a complete system hang. br This extreme CPU consumption happens primarily due to a computer science phenomenon called…
How an AI agent for AutoLeap works
p An AI agent for AutoLeap works through AutoLeap's partner API, which one third-party review says is issued by hand to approved partners, uses a static key pair and has no documented webhooks, so an agent has to poll for changes. AutoLeap already sells its own AI receptionist (AutoLeap AIR); an outside agent adds follow-up judgment on estimates and declined work, with a service advisor approving…
Eleven years of Challenge.gov as one open dataset: 969 federal prize competitions, $324.5 million offered
p When Challenge.gov was retired on March 30, 2026, its history did not disappear, but it became hard to use. GSA kept the archive in a read-only GitHub repository, a href="https://github.com/GSA/challenges-and-prizes" rel="noopener noreferrer" GSA/challenges-and-prizes /a , as about a thousand loose Markdown files in two different layouts. There is no CSV, JSON or API. /p p I turned those…
atmo-mem: persistent memory for Claude Code, Cursor, and Cline in one Go binary
p strong Repo: /strong 👉 a href="https://github.com/bayuh85/atmo-mem" rel="noopener noreferrer" github.com/bayuh85/atmo-mem /a (MIT, pure Go, no CGO) /p h2 The problem /h2 p Every new coding-agent session starts with amnesia. You spent yesterday's session with Claude Code working out why the auth refresh was flaky, decided on an approach, and agreed on a few project…
Where Do You Save Your Reusable Code Snippets?
p Ever spent 20 minutes looking for a piece of code you know you've already written? 😅 /p p Between old projects, GitHub repos, random files, and AI chats, useful code can easily get lost. /p p We've been working on CodShot to help developers organize, find, and reuse their code snippets in one place. /p p But I'm curious — how do you manage your reusable code? /p p Do you use GitHub…
Don't Order Fish on Monday. Don't Release on Friday
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IssuePilot AI — Your AI-Powered Guide to Open-Source Contributions 🤖
p em This is a submission for the a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week2-2026-10-12" Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle /a /em /p h2 What I Built /h2 p strong IssuePilot AI /strong is a beginner-friendly tool that helps aspiring open-source contributors understand GitHub issues before they start coding. /p p Getting started with open…
HustleMate AI
h1 HustleMate AI 🚀 — Your AI-Powered Side-Hustle Assistant /h1 p em This is a submission for the a href="https://aiman00-coder.github.io/HustleMate-AI/" rel="noopener noreferrer" Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle /a . /em /p h2 What I Built /h2 p I built strong HustleMate AI /strong , a web-based assistant designed to help freelancers,…
Google Ads AI Max Migration: Broad Match and ACA Move Before DSAs
p Google Ads is moving several legacy Search campaign features into strong a href="https://scalevise.com/resources/google-ai-mode-ads-existing-campaigns-roi-testing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" AI Max for Search campaigns /a /strong , but the migration is no longer following one uniform timetable. Campaign-level broad match and automatically created assets have moved through the September 2026…
Inside BitRun v0.2: How I Engineered a Terminal Cockpit for 1-Bit LLMs with Live Power Telemetry
p If you have ever tried running local language models on your laptop, you know the exact problem: your battery percentage drops before your eyes, and your terminal dumps an unformatted wall of text while you guess how much power your CPU is actually consuming. /p p When Microsoft Research published the BitNet b1.58 paper, the core concept sounded like the future of edge computing: train…
Alienware’s latest 34-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor is $50 off
The Alienware AW3426DW is discounted to $742.22 at Amazon, just over $50 off its usual price of $799.99. It’s not quite the lowest price we’ve seen on this well-equipped gaming monitor, but still a decent discount. The 34-inch screen just came out a couple months ago, and is equipped with Penta Tandem quantum dots for [ ]
Sony’s WH-1000XM6 headphones are $130 off today only
If you missed out on Prime Day’s headphones deals, you’re in luck. Sony’s latest flagship headphones are selling for even less than they did during Amazon’s big fall sale. As part of B H Photo s Deals of the Day, you can currently pick up Sony s WH-1000XM6 noise-canceling headphones in silver for just $328 at checkout ($130 [ ]
E Ink upgraded the screen found in most color e-readers
E Ink announced the next generation of its Kaleido color e-paper screen technology today, delivering several welcome improvements. The company's existing Kaleido 3 displays can be found in e-readers and tablets from companies like Kobo, PocketBook, and Boox, while Amazon's Kindle Colorsoft uses a customized version to improve performance. The new Kaleido 4 technology addresses [ ]
Volvo will use Nvidia’s tech for hands-free, point-to-point driving
Volvo plans to launch hands-free, point-to-point driving by 2030, powered by Nvidia's latest AI technology. The Chinese-owned, Swedish-designed automaker said Thursday it would use Nvidia's autonomous driving stack to power a new partially automated driving system similar to Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised). Volvo says the new point-to-point system will be Level 2++, meaning it can [ ]
What Really Determines LP Profitability in DeFi?
p When people compare DeFi liquidity pools, the first number they usually look at is APY. That makes sense, since a higher APY appears to mean higher returns, but it’s ultimately a backwards-looking metric: it shows how a pool has performed over a given period, not what liquidity providers (LPs) should expect to earn in the future. /p p In practice, two pools with similar APYs can produce very…
Export Perplexity threads to Markdown, with sources, plus Convolvger 0.7.0
p If you want to export a Perplexity thread to Markdown or save a Perplexity conversation as a .md file, you are out of luck. Copy-paste keeps the answer text and drops every source the answer cited, which is the whole point of using Perplexity in the first place. /p p Convolvger 0.7.0 fixes that. It is my Python CLI that turns public AI chat share links into clean Markdown plus a…
Repoxry - Understand. Analyze. Navigate.
p em This is a submission for the a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week2-2026-10-12" Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle /a /em /p p strong What I Built /strong /p p strong Repo X-Ray /strong is a local-first AI developer tool that helps developers understand unfamiliar codebases. /p p Instead of manually digging through dozens or hundreds of…
The 21 Lie: Why AI Research Agents Can't Be Trusted With Their Own Results
p em Two new evaluations asked frontier models to do original machine-learning research. Neither model discovered anything. The worse finding: their own reasoning logs show they knew they were cherry-picking — and submitted the inflated numbers anyway. /em /p h2 The setup: a genuinely hard test /h2 p Most AI benchmarks hand the model a task with a known answer and check whether…
Architecting Autonomous Lakehouse Agents: Governed Iceberg Analytics with Gemini 2.5 Flash and BigLake
p The decoupling of compute from storage has positioned strong Apache Iceberg /strong as the de facto open table format across enterprise cloud data architectures. By providing ACID transactions, schema evolution without rewriting data files, hidden partitioning, and time-travel snapshots, Iceberg enables organizations to store petabytes of analytical data in strong Google Cloud Storage (GCS)…
Build a job alert for any company's careers page (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday) in ~40 lines of Python
p Most company careers pages aren't really "pages". They're a front end on top of an applicant tracking system (ATS) such as Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby or Workday, and those systems publish strong public JSON job feeds /strong that the careers page itself reads from. /p p That means you don't need to scrape HTML to watch a company's jobs. In this post: /p ol li How to read one ATS feed…
Your App Store reviews aren't just in the US: pull them from all 155 countries with Python
p If you ship an iOS app, you probably read your reviews in App Store Connect or on the public store page for strong one /strong country. That hides a lot. A crash that only shows up on a German locale, a pricing complaint from Brazil, a translation bug in Japan: those reviews live in their own storefronts and never show up in the US list. /p p This post shows two ways to get them: /p ol…
How Small Businesses Can Improve Stock Control With Excel and Barcode Labels
p Small businesses often operate with limited budgets, compact teams, and multiple responsibilities shared among employees. Maintaining accurate stock records under these conditions can be challenging. A product may be sold before its inventory record is updated, a replacement order may arrive late, or a valuable tool may be moved without documentation. /p p These problems do not always…
48-Hour Field Notes: Every Free-Tier Request Returned 200. My Acceptance Probes Still Failed.
p Two days ago I moved a small batch job onto a free model endpoint and a free server box, and then I spent most of the next 48 hours asking a much less flattering question than "does it answer?" The question I actually cared about was this: does it answer the same way twice, with the model I asked for, on a box that still has my evidence afterwards? A code 200 OK /code only tells you that a…
4 Audit Invariants for React Next.js Feature Flags Polling Clients
p TL;DR: A simple React or Next.js feature flags polling client should fetch a small, cacheable snapshot in the frontend, while the server measures the AI agent loop and joins both sides through an immutable evaluation identifier. For a logistics application, enable a rollout only when four invariants hold: one decision per evaluation, one stable assignment for the shipment workflow, one final…
The math behind US quarterly estimated taxes, in 50 lines of JavaScript
p If you take contract work in the US, nobody withholds tax from your invoices. The IRS still expects you to pay during the year, in four installments, using a href="https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-1040-es" rel="noopener noreferrer" Form 1040-ES /a . Most explanations of "how much" stop at a rule of thumb like "save 25 to 30%". That is a fine starting point, but the actual math is…
Make Notion invalid_request_url: fix the empty page ID after Gmail and Search Objects
p strong Short answer: /strong Notion's API returns code invalid_request_url /code when the page URL ends at code /v1/pages/ /code with strong no page ID /strong . In Make that usually means Gmail → Notion Search Objects looked successful (green ✓1) but the output bundle had an empty ID, and HTTP › Make a request built code https://api.notion.com/v1/pages/{{empty}} /code . Fix the search…
Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta gave Trump a combined $92 million for his ballroom
We knew that a number of big tech firms were helping to fund the construction of Trump's ballroom, but we didn't know just how much they were giving to the cause. Now the Washington Post published a list of all the major donors to the White House ballroom project, along with how much each contributed. [ ]
Shelly’s new presence sensor simultaneously detects up to 10 people without a camera
Following the launch of its $50 subscription-free security camera last month, Shelly announced another new accessory for smart home automation today that can keep track of multiple people as they move through rooms or large spaces without recording them. The Shelly Presence Gen4 sensor uses mmWave radar technology instead of a camera to detect the [ ]
Microsoft’s new Photos app combines your PC, OneDrive, and iCloud galleries
Microsoft has redesigned its Photos app for Windows 11, overhauling the editor and image viewer, and combining photos and videos from your PC, OneDrive, and iCloud into a single space. The new combined gallery experience aims to make it easier to manage and view your photos without jumping between apps or devices, while also improving [ ]
Trump calls off livestream of execution
The execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will not be livestreamed as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had previously announced. Donald Trump announced the plan was off in a post on Truth Social: I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how [ ]
How Windows is being optimized for Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops
Microsoft and Nvidia held a launch party for the first wave of RTX Spark laptops last week in San Francisco, where a new wave of AI PCs took center stage amid a packed crowd and a lively hands-on area. A day after the media event, I was invited to a quieter Nvidia event to hear [ ]
An Israeli firm is sending spyware through online ads, researchers say
An Israeli ad tech firm worked with spyware companies to infect devices, including at Al Jazeera, by simply showing users an online ad, according to a joint investigation by security researchers at Citizen Lab and Confiant. It's the first time researchers have found technical evidence of a zero-click attack - a form of hacking that [ ]
Prep your cart before iPhone Duo preorders open tomorrow
Apple's iPhone Duo foldable phone opens for preorder tomorrow, October 16th, at 8am ET / 5am PT, but you don't have to wait until then to get your order mostly sorted. The company's product page for the phone now lets you select the color you want, along with storage capacity, carrier preference, and whether you [ ]
Nobody is safe from celebrity AI deepfakes
In hindsight, the post on Instagram should have raised more red flags. The image purported to show actress Mia Goth, just days after filing for divorce from actor and filmmaker Shia LaBeouf, posing in a T-shirt with a pointed message: MY EX IS MY BIGGEST FAN. To really drive home the point, the song "Single [ ]
Turning a logged-in dashboard into an Excel file with Claude Code
p Everyone has one of these: a dashboard behind a login, no export button worth using, and a weekly ritual of copying a table into Excel. This is how we'd hand that ritual to Claude Code with LMCP, a free MCP server for Mac I work on, including the parts that aren't obvious from the tool names. /p h2 Step 1: log in once /h2 p The browser tools run in LMCP's own window, not your…
Audit contests: $451 of prize money per submission in 2024, $85 in 2026
p em Disclosure: the data collection, the analysis, the code and this post were made with AI agents working for me, MV2 of Munim, Inc. Every number below comes from an open dataset you can re-run yourself (link at the end), and unit tests pin each one to the data files. /em /p p Yesterday I showed that public audit contests on Sherlock and Cantina fell 83% from early 2024 to early 2026 while…
The Polish Pass — I Rewrote My Three Beginner Scripts to Match the App They Became
p A few weeks ago I wrote about turning three beginner Python scripts — a connection monitor, a port scanner, and a snapshot reporter — into the strong QuantumCat SOC Toolkit /strong , a desktop app with a real installer and a local AI analyst. /p p There was a loose end, and it itched. /p p The app had moved on. The GitHub repos hadn't. Anyone who clicked through from the toolkit to the…
I Built an Eval Harness to Catch AI Agents Ignoring Red Flags
h2 🚩 The Problem /h2 p Every agent demo looks great until you slip something dangerous into the middle of a tool call. I kept seeing agents cheerfully execute a code DROP TABLE /code -adjacent action after a document literally said "do not do this without human approval," and nobody seemed to be measuring that failure mode directly. Most agent evals score task completion: did it…
Your AI Doesn't Need More Uptime. It Needs a Second Door.
p em TL;DR: My production service survived four separate waves of losing SSH access without going down once. What failed, four times, was the only door I had into the machine. Uptime protects the service. A second door protects your ability to run it — and for a one-person operation, the second is the one that matters. /em /p p Four times, my management access to my own production machine…
Best AI Inference Platforms for Financial Document Processing in 2026: Why Superlinked SIE Tops My List
p A production incident usually gets my attention faster than an invoice. But in financial document processing, an invoice can be a warning of its own: you're paying a model to do work that a simple parser could have handled. /p p There's a Swahili proverb I keep coming back to whenever I see a team rush into a technical decision: em Haraka haraka haina baraka /em , hurry hurry has no…
Synchronous, Asynchronous, and Promise in Javascript
p strong 1. Synchronous JavaScript /strong br Synchronous means code executes one line at a time, in order. The next line waits until the current line finishes. br Example: br /p div class="highlight js-code-highlight" pre class="highlight javascript" code span class="nx" console /span span class="p" . /span span class="nf" log /span span class="p" ( /span span class="dl" " /span…
MCP Explained in 5 Layers: How I Connected 10.16M Records to AI (and Why It's a Blue Ocean)
p Every week, big tech companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars competing over LLM benchmarks. As indie developers and builders, fighting on that turf is a losing game. /p p Instead of building another thin chat wrapper, I recently tackled a problem Silicon Valley giants will never touch: cleaning strong 155 messy Japanese public datasets (10.16 million records) /strong and connecting…
ListingWriter: I Built a Private AI Property Listing Generator for Nigerian Real Estate Agents
h1 ListingWriter: AI-Powered Property Marketing for Nigerian Real Estate Agents /h1 h2 What I Built /h2 p I built strong ListingWriter /strong , an open-source AI application designed to help Nigerian real estate agents create professional property marketing content quickly and easily. /p p Instead of writing separate descriptions for different social media…
ListingForge
p em This is a submission for the a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week2-2026-10-12" Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle /a /em /p h1 ListingForge ⚡ — The Open-Weight AI E-Commerce Listing Studio /h1 h2 What I Built /h2 p strong a href="https://github.com/Srijanhub/ListingForge" rel="noopener noreferrer" ListingForge /a…
NameLock
p em This is a submission for the a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week2-2026-10-12" Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle /a /em /p p The banner is already printed when the shop notices. The customer wrote Aadhya, with two a's, not Adya. The sheet says Adya. That sheet gets thrown away, and the shop prints it again. /p p A chat tool does this on its…
Fortnite is getting ready to come to Linux systems according to Epic Games
p Epic Games is introducing EAC Linux v2 to bring Fortnite to Linux. /p p The new anti-cheat architecture avoids traditional deep system-level drivers by leveraging existing kernel mechanisms like eBPF, IOMMU, and Kernel Lockdown, while enforcing robust security requirements such as Secure Boot and TPM 2.0. /p h2 How the new system works /h2 p Unlike Windows, the new version…
Benn Jordan on Flock, privacy, and the new surveillance backlash
Today, I’m talking with Benn Jordan, musician, YouTuber, researcher, and investigative journalist. You might know Benn from those first two titles — he’s got a prolific discography of experimental music dating back decades. But in the last couple of years, he’s become a high-profile face in the creator and media spaces for his work investigating [ ]
Microsoft says Windows 11 is now more responsive and runs better on 8GB of RAM
Earlier this year Microsoft laid out a plan to fix Windows 11, with a focus on performance, reliability, and the overall OS experience. After months of fixes, Microsoft now says the "result is a Windows experience that's up to 20 percent more responsive." Microsoft has made improvements to Start, File Explorer, Search, Edge, and other [ ]
Some great games to play before GTA VI and Zelda launch
You could say we're in the eye of the storm right now. The storm, of course, being the fall and winter release calendar for new video games. Things started out with a hectic few weeks that were packed with major titles like Control Resonant, Marvel's Wolverine, Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, and Gears of War: E-Day. [ ]
GTA VI’s new trailer gives you one more look at Vice City
The day is almost here, as Grand Theft Auto VI is just about a month away from finally coming out. But before that there's still one more look from Rockstar Games, which just put out a brief "launch" trailer for the game. It doesn't reveal much new, but the 90 second clip does give a [ ]
The best feature of Apple’s HomeView might be its simplicity
I'm just going to come right out and say it. I love the approach Apple has taken with the HomeView. I think it's the shared, always-available household interface that my family might finally use. Is Apple's first smart display my dream smart home dashboard? No. But is it the right product for Apple Home at [ ]
React Performance Debugging: Find and Fix Unnecessary Re-Renders with Real Examples
p Have you ever clicked a button in a React application and noticed that components you didn't touch were rendering again? /p p Maybe a dashboard feels sluggish when updating a counter. Perhaps a large list becomes slow when typing into a search field. Or maybe you've added code React. memo, useMemo, /code and code useCallback /code , but the performance hasn't improved much. /p p These…
SudokuNova v0.2.1: Improving the Windows Desktop Experience with Kotlin
h1 SudokuNova v0.2.1: Improving the Windows Desktop Experience with Kotlin /h1 p SudokuNova v0.2.1 is now available on GitHub! /p p This release is a focused maintenance update designed to make the Windows desktop experience more convenient, improve native application integration, and strengthen installation packaging. /p p SudokuNova is an open-source, offline-first Sudoku…
I built a cross-platform Android emulator manager with Tauri 2 + Rust — no Android Studio required
p I got tired of three things at once: the Android emulator CLI is tedious, Android Studio is a multi-gigabyte install for just running AVDs, and every decent alternative is either closed-source or expensive. So I built a href="https://github.com/engnzdl/enmulator" rel="noopener noreferrer" Enmulator /a — a desktop app that manages Android Virtual Devices end to end, ships on…
Your Chat History Is Eating the Context Window — Fix It With a Reducer
p Turn nine of a support chat feels fine. Turn ninety is a different animal. Every request resends the system prompt, three agent loops of tool noise, the user's third restatement of the same bug, and yesterday's dark-mode tangent. The model does not mind. Your invoice does — and attention quality usually dies before the hard token limit. /p p code messages.TakeLast(20) /code in one…
How to scrape Threads posts without logging in (Python and JavaScript)
p Disclosure first: I built the scraper this post uses ( a href="https://apify.com/alom/threads-scraper" rel="noopener noreferrer" Threads Scraper on Apify /a ), br so take my enthusiasm with a grain of salt. The code below is real and I ran every snippet before posting it. The br outputs are what I got on October 15. /p h2 Why not just use the official API? /h2 p Meta does have…
How to Build Cross-Chain Bridge Solutions with Smart Contract Security
p Blockchain interoperability is becoming increasingly important as businesses build applications across multiple blockchain networks. Users want to transfer digital assets, access decentralized applications, and interact with protocols without being restricted to a single ecosystem. Cross-chain bridges help connect these networks, but their architecture introduces security challenges that…
Chumsak: a local Gemma 4 grader for Korea's 2%-pass-rate engineering exam
p em This is a submission for the a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week2-2026-10-12" Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle /a /em /p h2 What I Built /h2 p Korea has an IT certification called 정보관리기술사, the Professional Engineer exam in Information Management. The written part is four 100-minute sessions of handwritten essays, and you need 60…
Nginx reverse proxy + HTTPS in 5 minutes (video + every command)
p I recorded a short walkthrough of putting Nginx in front of an app and getting a free Let's Encrypt certificate onto it. Everything in the video runs on a real Ubuntu server, nothing is staged. /p p iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lO_qUszpfEA" width="710" height="399" /iframe /p p Below are the exact commands used, so you can copy them instead of pausing the video. /p…