Qwen3.8 27B addition in words
Research: Qwen3.8 27B addition in words Colin Frasier posted on Bluesky about an experiment he ran over two years ago using GPT-4o to see how well it could "compute the sum but return the answer in words" across…
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Type erasure and dyn lifetime in a NonNull/Box struct field
I'm new to Rust, and I am trying to understand dyn object lifetimes when inside a Box or NonNull. My goal is to write an adapter for a C API. I have a few C struct types: #[repr(C)] struct ConcreteA { // generated by…
Arena's and alignment
Hi rustaceans! I wanted to build an arena allocator as a little exercise for myself and I came up with this: use std::{alloc::{Layout, alloc, dealloc, handle_alloc_error}, ptr::NonNull}; use std::cell::Cell; pub struct…
Java and LLM Talks and Workshops in Autumn 2026
VibeKode Netherlands 2026: How To Write Great Code with LLMs #vibeless conference talk VibeKode Netherlands 2026 Utrecht, Netherlands 7 October 2026 https://vibekode.it/agentic-engineering/java-llm-clean-code/ Fewer…
Limitations of `min_specialization` when specializing a generic implementation?
I'm trying to understand #![feature(specialization)] vs. #![feature(min_specialization)] to inform the design of my types, but I haven't been able to find any novice-accessible documentation. How do the two differ?…
Security Baked Into the JVM: no single party controls the outcome
A URL is a name, and names get reused. Replace the bytes behind https://repo.example.org/order-processor.jar and every permission granted to that URL still applies, now to code nobody audited. So far in this series,…
My FAQ Schema and My FAQ Had Become Two Different Documents
I was rewriting the copy on one of my GPU comparison pages when I noticed something I probably should have checked much earlier. The FAQ people could read and the FAQ in the page's structured data were completely…
How to Add Voice to Your React App with ElevenLabs
Why Voice Matters in Modern Web Apps If you’re building a chatbot, a language‑learning tool, or a virtual tour guide, you’ll quickly discover that text‑only interactions feel flat. Adding spoken output turns a static UI…
Build a Text-to-Speech Chrome Extension
Why a Text‑to‑Speech Chrome Extension? If you spend a lot of time reading articles, documentation, or long forum threads, a quick way to listen instead of scrolling can boost productivity dramatically. With the rise of…
https://tobiaschc.github.io/petite/
petite — how coding agents work, built from scratch Understand how coding agents like Claude Code work inside by building one: a complete agent in 565 lines of Python, one concept per commit: tool calling, the agent…
One layout file, three outputs: building printer test pages as real CMYK PDFs with Astro
I built testpageforprinter.com, a free set of printer test sheets (color, black and white, CMYK, alignment, nozzle check, scale, photo, duplex). Most "printer test page" sites hand you one generic image. I wanted sheets…
The Matrix of Rust Ownership: A JavaScript Dev's Guide
The Quest Begins (The “Why”) Hey friend, picture this: you’ve just spent the afternoon wrestling with a nasty bug in your Node.js app. You pass an object to a helper function, mutate it inside, and suddenly the original…
Chron passed 10,000 npm downloads on September 30th. 10,158 as of this morning
Chron passed 10,000 npm downloads on September 30th. 10,158 as of this morning, five months after the first publish on May 8th. I build a tool whose only job is to tell the difference between this was recorded and this…
I Tested 11 HTTP Resilience Libraries
When I started building ffetch, I had a fairly simple goal: make HTTP requests more resilient without turning a fetch wrapper into a complicated piece of machinery. Retries, backoffs, circuit breaking, and the other…
Build an XRPL Token Screener in About 50 Lines
There are 20,422 tokens issued on the XRP Ledger and only 1,434 of them traded today. A screener is how you tell those two groups apart. Here is a complete one. No dependencies, runs on any Node 18+. The whole thing…
StudyBuddy — Pomodoro, Flashcards & Quiz in One Beautiful App 🦉
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built StudyBuddy is a browser-based productivity + learning app I built for my friend — a college student who was juggling exam…
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Create a Voice-Powered News Reader App
Why a Voice‑Powered News Reader? Reading the morning headlines while you’re commuting, cooking, or hitting the gym can be a real productivity boost. With modern text‑to‑speech (TTS) engines, you can turn any article…
I almost edited 25 documentation pages by hand. Then one WordPress plugin did it in 1 second.
I'm building BeeEngine JS, a lightweight 2D game engine for the browser, and I'm writing its documentation on WordPress, one page per module. Every doc page has the same sidebar listing all the modules. While a guide…
A static site SEO checklist I ran on my own site (and what it found)
I moved a 21-page static site from a subdirectory to a domain root last week, and it broke more things than I expected. Here is the checklist I ended up running, in the order that found actual problems. 1. Does the…
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