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This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What We Built Shruthi is a close friend of all three of us. She told us that [HER REAL PROBLEM, IN HER OWN WORDS, e.g. "my days feel messy and I never stop to reflect"].
most ai wrappers just spit out a markdown block and say "good luck." if the ai hallucinates and writes a malicious script or an infinite loop, your machine takes the hit. yesterday, i was patching a truncated script error in koda v29. the file just..
I shipped three small tools over about a week. Bridle , Interlock , Slopguard . I was pleased with the names - short, metaphors that explain the mechanism, not a vowel-dropped startup pun among them. Then, quite late, I checked the npm registry. $ fo
Picking a document extraction API in 2026 comes down to one question: can you trust the output enough to act on it without someone re-reading the page? Here's the short version, before we get into the details: For extraction you can verify value by v
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built I built Vanam, an offline AI field guide for identifying birds and plants in the field. It uses the device camera, microphone, and GPS, and runs AI m
Part 3 of an 8-part series on Native Federation v4 for enterprise architecture teams. New to the series? Start with Part 1: The Mental Model, Revisited . In Part 2, we mapped the four layers of Native Federation v4 and saw that one file, remoteEntry.
Monorepo CI has one recurring chore: every workflow carries a paths: list that someone has to keep in sync with the code. Add a shared library, forget to add it to three filters, and a breaking change sails through CI untested. dynamic-monorepo is a
Following many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it "can confirm that we have discovered some activity" by "rogue" OpenAI agents on Wikimedia pla
Anthropic has begun embedding an imperceptible, machine-readable watermark in Claude-generated text as part of its EU AI Act compliance work . The marker is designed to remain invisible to readers, preserve the text’s meaning, add no tokens, and stay
I use Upwork's official MCP server from Claude Code, and doceval, my open-source eval tool, ships an MCP server of its own. This is how MCP works underneath, and four things I learned along the way. Where I tested something, I say how. MCP in one par
Bug fixing is often treated as the process of locating and correcting defective code. In complex systems, however, the more useful objective is to restore predictable behavior by identifying and correcting the mechanism that allowed the failure to oc
Lola Vision Systems is one of TechCrunch's Battlefield 200 Companies
Android app compatibility on Googlebooks may not be as smooth as previously stated.
I wasn't looking for a new side quest. I was just wandering GitHub when I stumbled on rhun - a blazing-fast code editor written entirely in x86-64 assembly . No libc, no toolkit, no Electron. It speaks Wayland and X11 wire protocols directly, draws i
I've been quietly building Antigravity Tools - a collection of 59 free, browser-based developer utilities - and today I'm sharing everything I built and learned. Why vanilla JS? No React, no build step. The main constraint I set for myself: zero depe
Feeding raw HTML into LLM context windows is one of the most expensive and inefficient mistakes in modern AI engineering. A standard modern news or blog page easily spans 1.5MB to 4MB of raw DOM payload. When passed straight into an LLM or vector dat
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built Outside Quest is a photo scavenger hunt that runs on Google's open-weight Gemma 4 , entirely on a laptop with Ollama. It's designed so the screen is
Distributed Denial of Service, commonly known as DDoS, is a major cybersecurity threat that attempts to make a website, server, application, or network service unavailable to legitimate users. Instead of compromising a system to steal information, a
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass Find Good First Issues That Are Actually Available What I Built Finding a good first issue on GitHub is easy. Finding one that is actually unassigned, relevant to
Most side-project advice assumes you have time: launch, iterate, grow slowly. A Halloween product gets about three weeks. If people can't find it, trust it and pay for it in that window, the next chance is a year away. This October I shipped HallowPa
Most developers think of GitHub Actions as automation. Build the app. Run tests. Deploy. Publish a package. Maybe send a notification. But a workflow is not just a script runner. Depending on how you configure it, a GitHub Actions job may be able to:
The Silent Retry Bug: Why Your Resilient .NET System Is Actually Fragile If you’ve spent any time working with distributed systems in C# and ASP.NET Core, you know the drill: network calls fail, timeouts happen, and services become temporarily unavai
First published on openspec-ui.dev . OpenSpec Workbench's whole pitch is watching an agent while it works. Two small fixes this week are about the product not watching itself closely enough - one where cleanup quietly stopped, one where a number was
Part 6 of 10 · Building an Agentic Change-Approval MVP on MuleSoft Parts 4 and 5 covered what the integration team builds: MCP tool flows with strict contracts, behind a governed gateway. This part covers how they build it. We used MuleSoft Vibes in