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Manabu Kosaka's Handmade Paper Sculptures

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PostgreSQL for Everything

Score: 403 | Comments: 237

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11 Independent DevOps Learning Sites That Are Not Selling You a Certification

Search for how to learn DevOps and you get two kinds of result. The first is vendor content. It is often excellent, and it will teach you the vendor's product. You will come away knowing how their ma

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I Built a Browser Voice-to-Writing Tool Because Typing Slows Down Thinking

Typing is useful when the sentence is already clear. But when the thought is still rough, typing often becomes the wrong first step. The person starts editing too early. The first sentence gets rewr

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Cursor's Origin: A New GitHub Alternative for Modern Developers

Cursor just put GitHub on notice Cursor launched Origin on 2026-08-19 and the smart part isn't the feature list — it's the fact that you don't have to move. Your GitHub repos can sit alongs

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Post-Mortem Best Practices That Actually Drive Change

The Post-Mortem Nobody Learns From I've sat through hundreds of post-mortems. Most follow the same pattern: something breaks, someone writes a Google Doc, we have a meeting, we list action

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Implementing Support Agent 2FA with SMS OTP and Email Fallback

Short answer: build passwordless support-agent sign-in as one OTP challenge with two delivery attempts, then feed permanent email bounces into the same recipient-suppression boundary used by authentic

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Everyone is saving 60% on LLM costs. Nobody will show you the numbers.

Every few weeks the same post does the rounds. Someone's routing layer cut their LLM bill by 60%, "with no drop in quality", and here's a lovely chart to prove it. Except it doesn't prove anything. T

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Greatness Is Forged by Limitation

Can't believe I spent 2 weeks writing this. Last week, I gave a talk at a Cursor community event about AI and how it's changing the way we build software. The event went great, and after the talk, qu

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CareCloud confirms 3.7M patients had their medical records stolen in data breach

The cyberattack at CareCloud resulted in one of the largest reported data breaches in the U.S. healthcare industry this year.

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Syncing Webround and Brevo newsletter subscribers on Cloudflare Workers

When a client migrated their store to Webround, they already had an active Brevo account with about 3,000 newsletter contacts built up over multiple years. However, their original integration had sto

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The Names Came In as Gibberish and Excel Said Nothing

This article gives you the fix for a specific ugly sight: names importing as é, ü and rows of symbols where letters should be. The fix at import is one dropdown: Data > From Text/CSV, set File Origi

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Does the European Accessibility Act apply to you? If you employ fewer than 10 people, probably not.

I sell a tool that helps with European Accessibility Act compliance, so this is an odd article to write: most of the people currently being sold tools like mine do not have to comply with anything. T

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Welcome Thread - v389

Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're learning, or just a fun fact about yourself. Reply to someone's comment, either with a question or j

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A practical guide to live streaming protocols, latency and scaling

Live video looks simple until you build it. Then you discover that "low latency" means five different things, that your CDN and your latency target are fighting each other, and that the box which hand

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Amazon seemingly leaked Jason Statham’s entire Mutiny movie

Jason Statham's upcoming film Mutiny is set to hit theaters on August 21st, but for at least an hour today it was available to stream in full on the US version of Amazon Prime Video. My colleague Domi

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Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming

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The women’s soccer league trying to fix fantasy sports

Most fantasy sports leagues suffer the same problem: retention. Leagues play out over monthslong seasons, require regular attention, and can punish players severely for missing even a single week. I'v

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Nvidia’s new financial strategy does not compute

April - 1805 Napoleon is master of Europe Only the British fleet stands before him Compute is now an asset class I see it is once again time to talk financial innovation. Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone

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You can Venmo your college tuition, for some reason

Kids these days don't know how good they have it.

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