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X Profile Picture and Header Size: A Crop-Safe Guide

X has two profile images that are easy to confuse: the profile picture next to your posts, and the h…

Rolling Your Own Password Generator in Code: When It's the Right Call and How to Stop Getting It Wrong

Most password "guides" skip past the engineering side. They tell you to use a manager, click a butto…

DOM order is not always keyboard order — I built a Chromium scanner to visualize it

The DOM can tell you where elements are. It cannot always tell you the exact route a keyboard user w…

Designing a Local ABA-Therapy Search Flow Without Treating a Directory as a Promise

A parent-facing provider directory should not imply that a listed provider has capacity, accepts a p…

Doodle Generative Compositions…

Originally published at norvik.tech Introduction Explore the implications of Doodle's g…

FastAPI vs Flask: Which One Should You Choose in 2025?

FastAPI vs Flask: Which One Should You Choose in 2025? tags: python, fastapi, flask, webdev ta…

Your alt text passes automated checks. That doesn’t mean it’s any good.

We built a plugin for the GitHub Accessibility Scanner to make sure your alt text is actually access…

SSL Certificate Problem: Unable to Get Local Issuer Certificate

You open the site in a browser and the padlock is green. Then your app tries to call the same host a…

The notification system you didn't plan to build

Originally published on the Elaan blog. Sending one email is one line of code. The system that grow…

Three bugs that each cost me a full day building a self-hosted AI gateway on Supabase

I've been building an open-source project called Keyroute, a self-hosted AI API gateway that lets yo…

How to Convert a Unix Timestamp to a Date in JavaScript

To convert a Unix timestamp to a date in JavaScript, multiply it by 1000 and pass it to the Date con…

Bringing Live Application Logs to Reel Quick

When a Reel workflow crosses the FastAPI backend, asynchronous workers, Redis, and the Next.js front…