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Why We Still Need Simple, Open-Source System Utilities Every clean installation of Windows 10 or 11 comes with a noticeable amount of pre-installed background services, telemetry processes, and unwanted software. While…
Why Voice AI for Customer Support? Customer support is one of the most repetitive yet critical parts of any business. The same questions—“Where is my order?” “How do I reset my password?” “What��s my billing…
I send files to friends a lot, and every service wants the same thing: upload it to their server first, wait, then the other person downloads it. With big files on a slow connection that means moving the same bytes…
I run a free HTML5 games portal, SPC – Super Play Combo. It's built on WordPress with the GeneratePress theme and has over 3,000 games from the GameMonetize and GamePix feeds. Over the last few weeks I rebuilt the…
A public holiday is a legal fact: the law says the office is closed. A religious observance is something else. Ramadan, Passover or Lunar New Year don't close anything in Lisbon, but a lot of people still plan around…
I run Asermu, a novel-writing app built with Next.js and deployed as a Docker image on Railway. I added Sentry a while ago. The dashboard stayed quiet, and I took that as good news. It wasn't. Today I found that…
I shipped a small atmospheric project: Cyber Sansa / 赛博산사. Live (official domain only): https://sansatemple.live It is a browser-based 3D temple you can walk through with other visitors. Halls use a soft presence cap so…
If you regularly work with multiple browser windows, you know how quickly tabs can get out of hand. Finding a specific tab, moving it between windows, or figuring out which tabs you haven't used in days can become…
Building a universal video player comes with several challenges, especially when combining HTML5 video and YouTube. Why Standard YouTube Embeds Ruin UX Standard YouTube embeds can cause iframe leakage, broken layouts,…
A while ago I needed a simple QR code that opened a website. I found a free generator on Google, pasted my URL, downloaded the image and started using it. A few days later, the code stopped working. That made no sense…
For years, the default way to get Google Trends data in code was pytrends. Today it's a frustrating choice: the repository is archived, it no longer gets fixes, and many people now see 429 Too Many Requests on the very…
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Introduction Imagine sitting in a café and waiting for your order. You want to know as soon as it is ready. You could keep asking the cashier, "Is my order ready?", or ask the cashier to notify you when it is ready.…
You fire off a requests.get(), parse the response with BeautifulSoup, and find an empty <div id="root"></div>. The data you can see in your browser never made it into the HTML. This is the everyday reality of scraping…
Developers hear about broken contact forms late, usually from a client who says a customer phoned to complain. The form looked fine in staging, the submit button worked, and the success message appeared. The bug was…
Gamebreak is a new site of short browser puzzle games: open one between two tasks, finish in a few minutes, close it. No login wall, no account, no app install. It has around 70 games: Sudoku, Mahjong, FreeCell, 2048, a…
I run a lot of remote meetings, and the first five minutes are usually silence and black camera tiles. So I built a set of small multiplayer games that run in the browser: Draw & Guess, Two Truths and a Lie, Emoji…
Okay, so you know that feeling? The one where a deadline is breathing down your neck, and there's one bug, a seemingly simple one, that refuses to die. That was me, all last week, staring down a looming Monday release…
If you want code quality feedback on every pull request, SonarQube is the name everyone knows. It is also not the only option, and for some GitHub teams it is not the easiest one. This guide compares the main…