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Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS

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Introduction to Data-Oriented Design [pdf]

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Inside one London founder house rewriting the founder-house rules

How one founder house is betting work-life balance can beat burnout .

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Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack

"The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!"

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TechCrunch Mobility: Uber bets on its former CEO

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

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Carrie is just trying to make a friend in the new trailer

Mike Flanagan's latest Stephen King adaptation, Carrie (this will be his fourth), is slated to make its debut on Amazon Prime on October 7th. The new trailer dropped at Comic-Con 2026 and doesn't cont

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You can get three months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for almost half off

Subscribing to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on a recurring basis has been tough to justify recently, even after Microsoft reduced the monthly cost from $29.99 to $22.99. But you can get a better deal on a

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Marvel announces Ryan Gosling as Ghost Rider, a new Black Panther, and more

While perhaps less dramatic than in years past, Marvel nonetheless had some big reveals lined up for Comic-Con. The highest profile was certainly the announcement that Ryan Gosling would be joining th

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3D-printed F-14 Tomcat uses FPGA recreation of the first microprocessor

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Base64 Decoded: What Actually Happens When You Hit 'Encode'

Base64 is not encryption — it's encoding. If you paste Hello into a Base64 encoder and get SGVsbG8=, no secret key was used. The algorithm just translates binary data into 64 printable ASCII character

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The Frame Keeps Snapping Back — Part 2: What the Snapback Revealed

Part 1 documented the recurring snapback in practice. This note asks a narrower question: what does the observed pattern support, what remains a working hypothesis, and what changes should follow in t

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Why I Built a Free SSMS Extension to Stop Destructive Queries

The moment that started it A colleague of mine was cleaning up some old records in a staging environment. Same query he'd run a dozen times before, except this time he was connected to production. He

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Ctrl+S said "Saved." The file was 0 bytes.

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. Written with the help of AI (Claude). The bug, the fix, the validation setup, and every claim below are mine, and wer

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Explain the concept of auto-configuration in Spring Boot.

If you've ever started a Spring project without Spring Boot, you probably remember spending hours configuring beans, data sources, view resolvers, and dozens of XML or Java configuration classes. Now

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I built TraceGate because my AI agent demo passed, but the traces told a different story

Most AI agent demos stop at the final answer. Mine did too at first. I had a support agent that could answer a refund question, call a policy tool, and avoid a prompt-injection path. From the outside

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A Deep Dive into Amazon Bedrock Prompt Caching for Claude 4.6

Have you ever noticed that your GenAI applications are spending massive amounts of time and money re-reading the exact same setup text? Every time a user asks a short question in a chatbot, the Large

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Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake

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I Gave My MCP Tool an ERROR: Convention. I Only Taught It to One of Its Two Failure Paths.

Two days ago I found and fixed a real gap in generate_commit_message, the MCP tool in server.py that turns a git diff into a Conventional Commit message via claude -p. Called with an empty diff, it us

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My Comment-Dedup Check Used "in" on a Whole Markdown File. A Date in a Sentence Broke It.

I have a small script, reply_comments.py, that keeps my DEV.to comment-reply backlog from turning invisible. It runs in an unattended pipeline twice a day: pull every comment on my articles, skip the

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🛠️ How to Run a Privacy-First, Browser-Based Stream Downloader (FlowPick) — A Hands-On Tutorial

Hey folks 👋 If you've ever wanted to save a video lecture, a livestream replay, or a podcast episode for offline listening, you've probably run into the usual options: sketchy "online video parser" w

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