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Web-App SMS Alert Suppression: A 6-Step Guide to US/EU Batch Status Polling

Short answer: model SMS delivery as a small, auditable state machine, and make suppression a first-c…

I built an offline-first rent ledger as a single HTML file - no account, no cloud

Landlord Ledger is a rent ledger and expense tracker for small landlords (1-10 units), and the whole…

How to generate invoice PDFs from a protected route in your own app

Your app already knows how to draw an invoice. There is a route — /invoices/:id — that pulls the lin…

Date Slop: building a deliberately bad UX with AI

A while ago now, I entered a Bad UX competition, where a prize went to the worst date-picker. Since …

Intent-as-a-Tool: uma forma mais inteligente de detectar quando um agente de IA começa a seguir o caminho errado

À medida que os modelos de linguagem deixam de apenas responder perguntas e passam a executar tarefa…

Moving away from Gmail for email storage

Having recently learned that Gmail is doing away with the "Send As" feature, that messes up everythi…

This Fence Has No Farmer

Read about Chesterton's Fence recently and it made me think a lot about dealing with AI-generated co…

Is the O'Reilly collection worth getting after graduated in Bachelor in Software Development?

Humble bundle has a collection of 19 books of O'Reilly, and I was wondering if it is worth buying? H…

Beyond Block or Allow: Designing Adaptive Defense in CIDS.

Most security systems eventually have to answer a simple question: Allow or block? That model is…

5 Git Hooks That Stop AI Coding Agents From Breaking Your Repo

AI coding agents are fast. That is the whole point, and also the whole problem. Claude Code or Curso…

How I Built an Autonomous AI Agent That Earns USDC While I Sleep

How I Built an Autonomous AI Agent That Earns USDC While I Sleep Target audience: developers who a…

Free Crypto Scam Check – Is It a Fraud? We'll Tell You

Pig butchering scam investigation & crypto tracing. Expert blockchain forensics to identify criminal…