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Dinosa Labs "Bueno, ahora sí, os presento a CLOROPLASTO, la minúscula ciudad de la fotosíntesis 🪄✨🌱😌"
npmx If you search for npm packages frequently, give npmx a try. It's much faster and the UI is an
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David Zinn "Jen’s response to winter is to wear big boots and keep on stomping."
pandoc for the people The pandoc wasm web-app is now available and allows to run any kind of document conversion that pandoc supports in the browser. The documents never
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Craft Agents Claude Cowork is the Claude Code brains for working with office documents (Word docs, presentations, etc) which I think is a powerful idea. Yet, I just started using Craft Agents and I like it much better—similar in spirit to Cowork,
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Rentail.space, an AI-powered specialty lease marketplace, today announced its official launch, transforming how businesses discover and secure short-term retail spaces in shopping centers across the United States and Canada.
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MTV Rewind If you miss MTV from back when it was a TV station that plays music, aka the good old days.
dbreunig/whenwords This is seriously cool. A library that provides timeago ("in 3 days"), duration ("2h 30m"), parse_duration, human_date ("
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Convert & Compress When you need to process a batchload of files: convert them to a different format, limit their width/height, compress with specific quality loss, etc.
(* To make sure my webapp is performing well, I run a script that goes through all files in
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ARGVMI~1.PIF "Well, you can't say you weren't warned."
How I wrote JustHTML using coding agents
Yes. JustHTML is about 3,000 lines of Python with 8,500+ tests passing. I couldn't have written it this quickly without the
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Street Art Utopia "Painted Octopus! By Lumen Street Theatre in Limerick, Ireland."
Building a Toast Component This is the story of Sonner, why they came up with that name, how they managed animation and stacking, momentum-based gestures, and more. I love Sonner, the API is so
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David Zinn "Claude’s secret to surviving winter is having a grandma who knits."
W4G1/multithreading The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript. Supports modern browsers, Node.js, Deno, and Bun.

voici.js Print tables on the terminal — more evolved than console.table
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Slirt "Don't forget to save enough SPACE for dessert... Nanu-nanu!"
Respinner For when you need React spinner components.

Rebane 🤯
cursed CSS trick: use the Q unit instead of px, it looks almost the same and saves a character
doxx You can now view
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Real Life Bog Person "My SIL has informed me that this exists in Auburn WA. I have a new place to visit!"
Grila If you calendar a lot you're going to love this app: a keyboard-driven calendar.

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John S Russell "Where I post from."
Zod + TypeScript: Schema Validation Made Easy Learn how to use Zod, a TypeScript schema validation library that allows you to validate external data at runtime.

ftw you realise that pacman is short for Package Manager and you start
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Wilhelm Gere "This should explain things"
Cursed Knowledge Immich shares their experience and I love that their product website (it's not a dev tool!) has this page. (via archiloque)

You Should Write An Agent In the mantra of "you only think you understand
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I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong I'm using Alabaster to see how I like it (PS it's an extension, not a theme):
The problem with that is, if everything is highlighted, nothing stands out. Your eye adapts and
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Comedy Wildlife Awards 2025 – in pictures Collection of amazing photos for your enjoyment.
Your data model is your destiny
Your product's core abstractions determine whether new features compound into a moat or just add to a feature list. Here's how to get it
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The Autistic Innovator "Someone didn't think that design through"
LaunchOS Launchpad is back! Not my favorite UI, I never cared to use Launchpad, but I know a few people who swear by it, and now you can brew install launchos on your macOS 26.
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Lizzy "You guys i did a thing"
Folder Quick Look fixes an all-time Mac grievance for free This is pretty slick, very useful, and free to use.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust AI Coding Agents Mirrors my experience as well. Differnet problems, different
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How I Use AI An ever growing list of ways in which David Bauer uses AI for work, life and play. Includes some interesting prompts. I took one to help Claude write for brevity.

Nine HTTP Edge Cases Every API Developer Should Understand If you&
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Tangled Interesting 🤔 If GitHub bumped into Bluesky, a social-enabled git collaboration platform using atproto.

LLM Rankings: The New Battleground Welcome to the mention economy!
If you want to appear in AI search results, your brand name has to show up often, in credible
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How to keep package.json under control With the latest npm hacks adding a cooldown period to installs should be regarded as standard security practice. Now available in pnpm, npm-check-updates and hopefully other package management tools.

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brettezeleliquide Spoonbill bird in flight.
Vibe Coding as a Coding Veteran The road from 8-bit Assembly to English-as-Code:
This gives an entirely new meaning to Knuth’s “literate programming”: Rather than interspersing natural language specification and its corresponding artificial language implementation in a story over
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Natasha Jay “Biker gang - believe this group are leaders in the illegal cat nip trade ...”
looks-same Nice library for visual regression testing, when you need to compare images from different platforms (dev, CI, etc) that are not pixel for pixel identical, using a fairly simple
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MostlyHarmless "The bloody hipsters have gone too far."
Embeddable When you need a little widget on your website that converts traffic (newsletter signup, posted review, discount checkout, etc), why not let AI do the walking? This doesn't look horribly expensive, $19/month for 100
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Syulang "Soooooo.... capitalism is at it again."
First the good news: 10 days ago was the 20th year anniversary of this very blog! 🎂 Many happy returns!
Unfortunately, I spent last weekend in the hospital — it took them 4 days to queeze me into a one hour
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Meanwhile in Canada "You know it's hot when the cat melts"
Kiro "Tame complexity with spec-driven development" Smart use of generative AI: Kiro turns your prompt into a requirements document, and then uses that to build your code, so when you get
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a beautiful bitch "This is why i make sure i eat plenty of fiber"
kompressor macOS image convertor with a very interesting UI: drag & drop images into the wormhole, then toggle the kind of processing you want, and away we launch!

secretlint/secretlint Linting tool
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Information Is Beautiful "Seems to fit?"
kepano/defuddle When you need to clean up a web page and extract only the important contents. This library claims to offer some benefits over Readability.

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