Topic
20 articles found
I believe that chatbots have no place in a decent society, and am repelled by the topic of AI in general. But could I be seduced? I received a text message from my editor: “Um, is it unethical to ask you to get an AI bf?? You can prob say no.” Resentment. Contempt! Sorrow. Unease. I love text messag
Planning to shop Prime Day? Here's how to use Alexa deal alerts to track discounts on products in your cart, wish list and saved items automatically.
Apple's first foldable iPhone, which is rumored to launch as the iPhone Ultra, is expected to debut in September. Back in April, a report claimed that Apple had selected Samsung Display as the exclusive supplier of foldable OLED panels for the device. According to a new report from the same source,
There's a headline pattern that feels like sharp marketing writing but quietly costs conversions. "You code. We cloud." It's clever. The parallel structure is tight. It names a clear division of labor. But it describes the service delivery model, not the developer outcome — and those are different t
As a systems engineering student and frontend dev, I wanted a portfolio that Here's what I focused on while building it: The biggest pain with most templates is digging through components to change Developers love dark mode, so I made it the default, with a smooth toggle for Most people will view a
FastAPI's official docs are beautiful. I love them. So I scanned them through AINAScan. Here's what I found. FastAPI's tutorial examples are designed to teach. They're intentionally simplified. That's not a criticism — it's a design choice. But I wanted to know: when someone copies those examples di
Part 7 of a beginner-friendly series on learning Python from scratch. In Part 6, we learned to write reusable functions. Now it's time to make those functions work in the real world: reading data from files, handling things when they go wrong, and using code other people have written. This is where
World of Claudecraft is a free, browser-based MMORPG. No download, no signup wall, you open a tab and you are in. It is open source, and most of it has been built by working alongside Claude rather than writing every line by hand. Check it out at: https://worldofclaudecraft.com/ I started it partly
enabling productivity: exploring GitHub Copilot JetBrains new features and Claude agent integration Every quarter, an IDE upgrades and claims to change your workflow. Most don’t. This one does. With the June 2026 release, GitHub Copilot ships a dense slate of upgrades for JetBrains IDEs—wrapping cor
Part 8 of an 8-part beginner-friendly series on learning Python from scratch. Congratulations — you've made it to the final part! Everything you've learned — variables, control flow, collections, functions, file I/O, error handling — can be organized into classes and objects. This is object-oriented
Coding assistants like Aider, Cline, and Continue all speak the OpenAI wire protocol — point them at a base_url, give them an API key, done. That makes swapping in a different LLM backend trivial... if that backend uses Authorization: Bearer. The flat-priced, auto-routing API I'd been using doesn't.
The brief was approved. Scope defined, questions closed, acceptance criteria written. The obvious move was to start building. I ran the Plan phase first. Planning and the Plan phase are not the same thing. Every engineer plans. Sprint boards. Jira tickets. A rough sequence before a large refactor st
A few days ago, I shared my first step toward becoming the person I want to be. I talked about changing my habits, becoming more consistent, and starting a journey of growth. I planned to keep writing regularly, but sometimes life takes you into a different direction. During this time, instead of wr
Read Time: ~15 minutes | The gap between "it works on my machine" and "it works for everyone, always" Prerequisites: The full React Mastery Series — Parts 1–5 By the end of this guide, you'll be able to: ✅ Implement authentication with JWT and session cookies ✅ Add OAuth (Google / GitHub login) in m
I opened the STP 246 notes between meetings and ended up writing four little test stylesheets before I closed the tab, which is usually how a release earns its keep. The short version: this preview pushes on the CSS color and image surfaces, gives attr() a longer reach, and quietly turns on two typo
I'm what you might call a "Lego Maniac," and every time Prime Day rolls around, I go on the hunt for the absolute best Lego deals for myself and others. Here's this year's list.
This week's top new movies across streaming services include "Little Brother" on Netflix, "Avatar: Fire and Ash" on Disney+, and lots more.
Why Are We Uploading Pixels to the Cloud in 2026? Ah, yes. The classic "microservice-first" architecture, where we spin up an 8GB RAM Kubernetes pod just to run a basic interpolation on a 200KB PNG because someone didn't want to write 15 lines of 2D canvas context code. If your first instinct when a
Every atomic-CSS system eventually hits the same wall: the built-in breakpoints and pseudo-classes are great — until the day you need something they never shipped with. A brand-specific selector. A retina-display query. A tablet breakpoint that doesn't match any of the defaults. Most tools force you
Sandi Metz wrote The Wrong Abstraction in 2016. It keeps resurfacing — in high-scoring HN threads, architecture Slack channels, and code review comments — whenever a team is staring at a function that started as a clean DRY consolidation and has since acquired seven parameters, three feature flags,
