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Fancy Clipping with CSS

I have been using clip-path for ages, especially for CSS Art, but I was today years old when I learn…

We Built a Social Feed for 100K Users — Here's What Broke First

Fan-Out on Write vs Fan-Out on Read: Choosing a Social Feed Architecture If you're building a soci…

Fake US addresses that fail real validation (and a few other tiny browser tools)

I keep a few one-page tools in the browser for work that is too small for a full app, and too annoyi…

The Angular pattern that needs no Provider

Services are often the default abstraction for reusable Angular logic. But what if the logic is loca…

Building a Customer Service AI Agent That Executes Workflows (Not Just Answers Questions) - Full Architecture

Most customer service AI implementations answer questions. They retrieve relevant information from a…

The arbitrage that wasn't: when two markets are identical but their oracles aren't

The arbitrage that wasn't I build a scanner that looks for cross-venue arbitrage in prediction mar…

Bulk-adding events to a calendar app: the .ics format from scratch

Last month I had a spreadsheet with ~40 shifts — date, start, end, who's on call — and needed them i…

I'm Done Paying for Beautiful.ai — Here's My $29 Alternative

I'm Done Paying for Beautiful.ai — Here's My $29 Alternative You know the drill. You're prepping f…

Add EU VAT validation to Xero

For businesses operating in the European Union (EU), VAT compliance is paramount. Integrating EU VAT…

🔔 Instagram Following Scraper — 5K Users Can't Be Wrong

Are you spending hours writing custom scrapers? There's probably an actor for that already. …

📱 Touch Controls — Equal Spacing Fix | समान-अंतर लेआउट

📱 Touch Controls — Equal Spacing Fix | समान-अंतर लेआउट Project: मोक्ष (MOKSHA) — Vedic Karma Brow…

The Phone Is Now the Camera and the Darkroom: What a Mobile Real Estate Photo Pipeline Actually Runs On-Device

An agent walks a property with a phone, not a DSLR and a laptop. They want the listing photo finishe…