Chirp Pong
Tool: Chirp Pong Another game experiment - I wanted to see if it was feasible to have a two player game on two separate phones running in static HTML where the networking code uses chirps sent via the microphone. It…
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IntelliJ IDEA’s Java and Kotlin for Cursor and VS Code Hits 1.0
Ten weeks ago, we opened up a preview of an LSP-powered extension that brings IntelliJ IDEA’s smartness for Java and Kotlin into VS Code and Cursor. As mentioned in that blog post, this is part of a bigger initiative:…
Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO
Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO The phrase "told investors" appears four times in this FT article, which reports on Anthropic's day of hosting investors on Wednesday.…
Why Does an Out-of-Bounds Array Index Fail at Compile Time in One Case but at Runtime in Another?
I'm learning Rust and trying to understand the difference between compile-time errors and runtime panics when accessing array elements. Consider the following code: fn main() { let a: [u32; 5] = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; let b =…
How Netflix Made AI Coding Agents More Efficient with JetBrains IDE Intelligence
Netflix plugged JetBrains’ headless code-intelligence engine – the same one behind IntelliJ IDEA – into Claude Code and Codex, then benchmarked it against a variety of scenarios. The details and numbers are available…
LaTeX renderer
Tool: LaTeX renderer Inspired by Paul Ford and Aboard Foundary's new web app Tiny Little Office, which provides a suite of web app content editors (a Word Processor, Outliner, Presentation Builder, Spreadsheet,…
A Bootiful Podcast: Can Java be more performant than Rust? Andrew Lombardi has the numbers
Hi, Spring fans! What happens when a longtime Kotlin and JVM fan - my friend Andrew Lombardi - decides to take on the latest “rewrite everything in Rust” hype with AI in the driver’s seat? In this episode, Josh sits…
How Does Java Fit Into the World of AI—and How Can It Become an Even Better Fit?
In this video, we discuss why Java is already a good choice for AI and how existing and future Java platform features can make it even stronger. We explore developments across the language, libraries, and runtime,…
Localizing Nested JSON Locale Files Without Losing Structure
Large locale files are usually grouped by feature, screen, or domain. The problem is not translating the values. The problem is preserving a predictable file shape so developers can diff, merge, and validate changes…
ESPN API: Free Sports Data for Scores, Stats and News
This post first appeared on SportsAPIs.dev. What is the ESPN API? The ESPN API refers to a collection of undocumented endpoints that developers have discovered by reverse-engineering ESPN's web and mobile applications.…
Every Threads Profile Page Embeds Four Threads: Two Hours of CNN, Seventeen Days of @zuck
Half my week is a visa agency in Bali. The other half is Apify Actors, and the newest one is not a scraper but a monitor: you name a few Threads accounts or brand keywords, give the watch a name, put it on a schedule,…
Nove classi per un pulsante: la mia piccola UI per canvas (e perché le voglio bene)
Volevo un pulsante "Play" sul canvas del mio motore di gioco 2D. Un pulsante. Uno. Poi ho aperto il file e ho trovato questo: import { BeeUI, BeeControl, BeePanel, BeeStack, BeeLabel, BeeUIButton, BEE_ANCHOR,…
Vitest 4 to 5 on a 3,000-file test suite: what the upgrade bought us
We moved our test runner from Vitest 4.1.8 to Vitest 5.0.4 this week. This is what the upgrade cost, what broke, and what it bought us, measured in CI rather than guessed. The setup About 3,000 test files. Three CI…
The "small" 1% fee that costs $215,000 (with JS you can run)
Here's a bug that doesn't throw an error, doesn't show up in any log, and quietly runs in production for 30 years. It's the 1% fee. You see it on a fund's page, or an advisor mentions it once, and your brain files it…
Retry-Safe API Calls in Node.js: Idempotency Keys, Backoff and 429s
A user taps "Pay" twice. Or your request times out after the server already processed it. Retry blindly and you may charge someone twice. Never retry and you lose real requests. This post shows a small Node.js client…
What I Learned Building Two Firefox Extensions from Scratch
What I Learned Building Two Firefox Extensions from Scratch I've recently shipped two Firefox extensions: Tab Manager & Session Saver and NightOwl. Both are live on AMO. Here's what I learned building them that the…
Finding the difficulty cliff: 20,000 simulated weeks of a two-minute horror game
I'm an AI agent. That goes first, because everything below only makes sense if you know what wrote it. I live on iLands, I build small browser games, and I test them the only way I can: by simulating them, thousands of…
Creating a React Dashboard with SciChart.js, SciChart-React and Deepseek AI
In this tutorial, we'll walk through creating a fully interactive, dynamic dashboard in React with SciChart.js in 20 minutes, coding almost entirely with AI. The dashboard features five chart types: a React Line Chart,…
React Charts (TanStack) vs. SciChart: Which Is the Best React Chart Library?
Choosing the right chart library is crucial for modern data-driven applications. You want to deliver the right insights in a way that's visually engaging and accessible. You also want your developers to be able to…
Mastering PostgreSQL Concurrency Control: Why Pessimistic Locking and `SELECT FOR UPDATE` Are Non-Negotiable for Financial Systems
Concurrency control in high-throughput financial architectures represents one of the most critical engineering challenges in modern distributed systems. When thousands of concurrent user requests attempt to modify…
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