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Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years

Score: 170 | Comments: 87

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Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code

Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.

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White House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US

The US Department of Energy reportedly deleted about 6,000 pages related to energy conservation as a historic heatwave tears across the country. The deletion was suspiciously timed, following Republic

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Matic’s robot vacuum is getting a $250 price hike in September

The Matic is our favorite robot vacuum by a pretty comfortable margin. If you’ve been thinking about buying one, you may want to plan on doing it sooner than later. The company will raise its price by

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What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.”

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Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world

Score: 99 | Comments: 22

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Flatbush Zombies’ Erick the Architect misses his BlackBerry keyboard

Erick the Architect is a founding member of, and the primary producer for, the legendary Flatbush Zombies. He's toured the world, performed on Kimmel and Fallon, played Coachella, and collaborated wit

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Hey number pad lovers, this is a keyboard we can finally agree on

I know a vocal group of people who swear by the number pad on their keyboard. And yet, for years I haven't cared about using one - until I put my hands on the Epomaker RT98. It's a mechanical keyboard

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Building Production AI Systems(Part 1)

OpenRouter isn't just another AI gateway. It's an architectural decision. This is Part 1 of a five-part series on building production-ready AI applications. A few months ago, if you wanted

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My repository isn't written for humans — I run my whole life with Claude Code

I run my life as a single Git repository, operated by several AI agents through Claude Code. Journaling, self-analysis, investing, hobbies, parenting: each of them started as a small app I built to so

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Intake insurance claims with an email agent

Most "AI for insurance" demos point a model at a claims handler's mailbox and call it triage. That's fine until you realize the agent is squatting in a human's inbox, racing the human for unread mail,

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HTTP finally has a proper way to send a query: meet the QUERY method

For decades we've had exactly two bad options for "read something using a complex input": cram everything into a GET URL, or lie and use POST. In June 2026, the IETF standardized a real fix:QUERY meth

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Building a Crash-Proof Terminal Loop Calculator in Python from Scratch 🚀

Taking My First Steps in Core Python Mastery Today, I kicked off my core Python journey by building a continuous, terminal-based calculator completely from scratch. My goal wasn't just to make a tool

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Run the Readiness Audit Before You Flip DNS

The cutover that would have taken the money and then broken The DiagnosticPro migration moved a live product off Firebase, Firestore, GCP, and Vertex AI onto a single self-hosted VPS. New d

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ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro reject your card? It is probably the billing country, not the card

TL;DR: ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro can reject a perfectly good card because your country is not on their billing list. The card is not the problem. The billing country is. This one confused me for a

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The square-ish phone that I wanted to love

The Ikko MindOne Pro is delightfully small. I keep calling it a square phone, which isn't quite right; the screen is square, but the phone itself is slightly rectangular. The camera flips up so you ca

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Figma-to-code: the real shift happening

If you're shipping static sites, or building on a standard design system, the Figma MCP server is probably doing great work for you, and you can skip this one. This is for the people who have hit the

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EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster

Score: 52 | Comments: 25

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I Built a Free Local Service Cost Calculator Website

Hi DEV community, I recently built a free website called ServicePricingTool. The idea is simple: a lot of people do not know what local services should cost before they book. So I wanted to create a

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Sematic Coherance

Semantic coherence is not a quality metric or an alignment outcome. It is the structural condition that determines whether meaning remains stable, interpretable, and legitimate as the system accelerat

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