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I built a Web-Scraper API that is 6-7x more efficient than current ones
Runo is a scraping API that returns typed JSON from any page — no HTML parsing, no selectors, no broken pipelines.
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Clawdmeter turns your Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard
Clawdmeter is a tiny open source hardware dashboard that shows your Claude Code token usage with pixel-art animations on a Bluetooth AMOLED screen.
TypeScript v6 is here: A full migration guide
TypeScript v6 prepares codebases for the Go-powered v7 with strict defaults, ES2025 support, and several breaking config changes.
Mado: Fast Markdown linter written in Rust
Mado is a Rust-powered Markdown linter that's up to 60x faster than markdownlint, with broad rule support and cross-platform installation options.
AI Didn't Make Software Engineering Easier. It Made the Hard Parts Harder.
AI ate engineering's boring 80%, but that work was cognitive recovery in disguise — now the hard 20% is the entire job.
Forced to vibe code at work, programmers say their skills are deteriorating
Developers report skill decay and rising technical debt from vibe coding, even as tech giants boast AI writes most of their code.
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Anthropic says more than 90% of its code is now written by AI
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How to Use OpenCode for AI-Assisted Python Coding
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The Per-Minute Calling Myth: The Hidden Economics of Voice and Video Calling API
Per-minute billing for WebRTC calls is a telecom-era holdover — most peer-to-peer media never touches provider infrastructure at all.
Categorical Programming Language Tutorial
A hands-on CPL tutorial that teaches category theory concepts like morphisms, products, and exponential objects through working REPL examples.
How quickly do browsers implement features?
A data-driven history of browser feature velocity — from IE's dominance to Chrome's disruption and Edge quietly becoming the fastest releaser since 2023.
Best 5 AI Coding Assistants for PHP Development
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Software Engineers Are Obsolete
AI empowered non-coders to ship software, but experienced engineers who debugged and read real code will outlast the prompt-only builders.
Python for Java developers (or vice versa)
A hands-on Python-vs-Java comparison covering indentation, lambdas, and map — perfect for Java devs who need Python for AI work.
Wireloom: A Markdown extension for UI wireframes
Wireloom turns plain-text Markdown into inline SVG wireframes — built specifically for AI agents to author UI layouts without touching a GUI.
Token Dashboard – local desktop app to see where your Claude Code tokens go
Token Dashboard is a free, fully local desktop app that shows exactly where your Claude Code token spending goes, with zero telemetry.
How to Create the Heart Pattern in Python
Learn the math behind rendering an ASCII heart in Python using nested loops, modular arithmetic, and index-based boundary conditions.