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GPT-6.1 Terra

GPT-6.1 Terra It's always interesting to note which aspects of a new model are emphasized in the release announcement. In the case of GPT-6.1 Terra, OpenAI went with visual reasoning and computer use: We’re introducing…

Quoting Jason Koebler

Because big tech platforms essentially do not have customer support and make it impossible for their users to contact a human, many people experiencing run-of-the-mill tech problems have turned to ChatGPT. And,…

webframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandbox

Research: webframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandbox webframe is a neat little project from Jeff Lindsay which lets you "run a web page like a program" - you point it at a URL or file and it executes it in a hidden…

Django Weblog: Natalia Bidart - Planned short-term leave

After more than three years as a Django Fellow, I will be taking a three-month break from Fellow duties during November, December, and January. This time will allow me to properly rest, reset, and recover from some…

I Spent 5 Months Trying to Learn JavaScript. Then I Found Scrimba.

How I went from getting stuck in tutorials to actually finishing a JavaScript course. I wanted to learn React. There was just one problem. I wanted to learn React because I needed it for hackathons. I'd participated in…

I built a desktop pet that floats over every window — using the Document Picture-in-Picture API

I wanted a tiny pet that sits in the corner of my screen while I work — like the old Shimeji / Desktop Goose apps — but without installing anything. Turns out modern Chrome/Edge can do this from a plain web page. The…

Building a Frictionless Vocal Range Test: A Deep Dive into Web Audio API and Astro

I’m not a professional singer. My vocal performances are strictly limited to the shower. But I’ve always been curious about my actual vocal range. Whenever I looked online to test it, I hit the same barriers: sketchy…

Arsitektur Next.js 14 Modern dan Strategi Optimasi Core Web Vitals (INP, LCP, CLS) untuk Web Skala Enterprise

Ringkasan Eksekutif (BLUF) Optimalisasi Core Web Vitals pada ekosistem Next.js 14 App Router menuntut pemisahan tegas antara Server Components dan Client Components, eliminasi blocking hydration script, serta…

Block Spoofed Telegram Mini App User IDs in React with Node HMAC Auth

Building a Telegram Mini App with React often starts smoothly: you import @twa-dev/sdk or read window.Telegram.WebApp, grab initDataUnsafe.user.id, and immediately render your interface. If you rely on initDataUnsafe to…

My VS Code setup went from 47 extensions to 6. My productivity went up.

I counted my VS Code extensions. There were 47. My editor took 8 seconds to start, lagged when I typed, and crashed once a week. I disabled 41 of them and kept 6. Here is what happened. The problem Extension creep is…

Every Edge Needs a Quote: Building a Quote-Grounded Knowledge Graph of Healthcare Software Adoption with Language-Model Agents

arXiv:2610.32781v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hospitals regularly buy software that clinicians and patients depend on. Because these purchases are costly, hard to reverse and can affect patient care, buyers look for…

REACT: Representational Early Analysis and Control of Chain-of-Thought Trajectories

arXiv:2610.32113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) generation offers an opportunity to intervene before a reasoning model completes its answer. But does the point at which risk is easiest to detect…

Astro2Method: Benchmarking LLMs on Machine Learning Method Selection in Astronomy

arXiv:2610.30282v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning (ML) is increasingly used in astronomy, but choosing a suitable method for a scientific problem often requires expertise in both astronomy and ML. Large…

MirrorCraft: Paired Evaluation under Hidden Rule Changes in Minecraft

arXiv:2607.29218v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the rapid progress of large language models (LLMs), an interesting question has emerged: how do LLM-based agents perform in Minecraft? To date, most Minecraft…

Benchmarking Honestly: Where My Framework Wins and Where It Loses (Inside AngeLite, Part 6)

Framework benchmark posts have a credibility problem: the author's framework wins. So this post is built the other way around. It describes how AngeLite is benchmarked, what the numbers show, and, more importantly,…

My Framework Ranked Last in the Security Tests. Here Are the 6 Holes I Fixed (Inside AngeLite, Part 3)

When I ran an attack-payload test suite against my own framework and against Preact, Vue, React and Angular, AngeLite came out as the worst of the group. That was the useful moment: the security model had been assumed,…

A 6 KB Framework With Angular Syntax? Meet AngeLite (Inside AngeLite, Part 1)

If you've written modern Angular, you probably miss a few things when you step outside it: the @if / @for control-flow syntax, templates with [prop] and (event), components with inputs and outputs, dependency injection,…

Six things I fixed while building a 3D card gallery with React Three Fiber

I run a small comparison site for crypto debit cards, and the main page is a 3D ring of 11 cards you can spin, tap and flip. It is built with React 19, @react-three/fiber, drei and three.js r185. You can try it here:…

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