22+ min ago   (441+ words) Kitset is a PHP-rendered directory that currently exposes 423 small browser tools. The interesting engineering problem was not adding one more calculator. It was deciding, for every tool, which work belongs on the server, which work belongs in the browser, and…...

20+ min ago   (420+ words) This is the condensed walkthrough; the full guide (estimates, API, data model, and the full production.NET 9 code) is on my site 👇 The two sides scale very differently: Storage and transcode compute dominate the write side; the CDN is not…...

16+ min ago   (262+ words) Paste a JWT into a "free online JWT debugger." Paste a config file into a "free JSON formatter." Then open DevTools, hit the Network tab, and watch it POST your payload to api.something-saas.com/v1/parse. Most of them weren't…...

1+ hour, 6+ min ago   (485+ words) If you have ever written canvas.toBlob(callback, 'image/avif'), there is a good chance your users have been downloading PNG files with an.avif name. That is what happened to me. I build Filewhisk, a set of image tools…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago   (682+ words) Functions are one of the first "real" programming concepts you hit in Python, and they're also one of the most important. Once you understand how to package logic into a function, you stop repeating yourself and start building code that's…...

3+ hour, 23+ min ago   (110+ words) "I used to write the same code over and over. Copy, paste, tweak one word. Then I learned about functions — and my code got 10x shorter. Here's how they work and why I use them everywhere now." Problem: If I want…...

3+ hour, 33+ min ago   (474+ words) npm i -D eslint-plugin-import installs 205 packages. That number is true and almost useless, which is the problem with every dependency-weight argument I have read. 69 of those packages are ESLint itself. Since npm 7, peer dependencies install automatically, so any plugin declaring…...

3+ hour, 41+ min ago   (236+ words) Education Track: Build Apps with Google AI Studio For my first project using Google AI Studio's new "Build apps with Gemini" feature, I set out to build Mythic Forge, an interactive web application that acts as an RPG Character Portrait…...

6+ hour, 54+ min ago   (174+ words) React startTransition Without useTransition: The Standalone API Teams Keep Overlooking in... Tagged with javascript, react, webdev, node....

7+ hour, 57+ min ago   (173+ words) If you are building a text input that restricts users to a specific character limit (like a tweet, an SMS gateway, or an SEO meta tag), your first instinct is probably to use String.prototype.length. If you are doing…...