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llm 0.37

Release: llm 0.37 There's a lot of stuff in this new release of my LLM CLI tool and Python library, representing around two months of accumulated features and fixes. I added gpt-6.1-sol and gpt-6.1-terra, plus a new llm…

Amazon Connect Customer now supports Cases and External Tool events in the Wait block

Amazon Connect Customer now supports Cases and External Tool events in the Wait block, giving you more control over how your customer experience flows react to real-time data changes. In addition to waiting for a Lambda…

The U.S. Census Bureau and “Super Intelligence”

I was reminded today of AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies, a chart produced by Apollo Global Management in September 2025, which appeared to show a slowdown in U.S. corporate AI adoption based on…

Notable V8 changes from Node.js 26 to 27 (Alpha)

POJO Scripts, Deep Expertise vs. LLMs, BCE Boundaries and Transactions, Local Java Inference--Questions for the 152nd airhacks.tv

Questions and topics for the 2026.11/152th edition of airhacks.tv: Java CLI scripts and the obvious name clash with JavaScript--is "POJO Scripts" a good name? Is it still relevant to deep dive into a specific…

What do YOU do instead of providing abstract base classes?

Fairly often in other languages, it's helpful for a library provider to provide an abstract base class that partially or fully implements an interface, when users of the library will want to provide their own…

Building an Enterprise-Grade Contact Form in React with Zod and CSS Modules

Forms are the backbone of user inputs and interactions in websites. However, as developers, we know the golden rule: never trust user input. Trusting user inputs too much will expose our websites' vulnerabilities.…

Mark and Continue (a constrained case of GOTO)

There have been many discussions that relate to goto. For example: PEP 3136 – Labeled break and continue | peps.python.org Add optional `if break:` suite to `for/while` - #3 by tim.one There are many more, but as a new…

Crop an Image in the Browser: The Four Numbers Behind the Drag

A crop is four numbers, not a drag gesture Cropping an image looks like a mouse action. Underneath it is a rectangle: an x, a y, a width and a height, in pixels. Most croppers keep those numbers to themselves and give…

Base64 in the Browser: UTF-8 Bytes, Padding and a Round Trip You Can Check

Base64 is not encryption, but the paste box still matters Base64 turns bytes into printable ASCII. It is an encoding, not encryption - anyone can decode what you encode - but the practical problem is the same: a lot of…

How to Scan QR Code from PDF Documents Online Without Uploading Files

When dealing with digital documents like invoices, boarding passes, e-tickets, and transaction receipts, QR codes are frequently embedded inside multi-page PDF documents. Most conventional online decoders force users to…

How I Built a Privacy-Focused Loan Calculator with Pure JavaScript and Chart.js

Have you ever used an online calculator, only to wonder: Where is my financial data going? Most loan calculators today require you to upload your data to a server to compute the results. Some even ask for an email…

Convert PNG to JPEG or WebP in the Browser: What Happens to Transparency

I work on OnePassApps. We build browser studios that work on files in the tab instead of uploading them. This one is the Image Studio's Convert tab - the step that turns one image format into another. Most online image…

Pagination SEO in 2026: rel=next is dead, and these 5 checks matter instead

The blog had 1,200 posts and paginated archives. A redesign swapped numbered pages for a "Load more" button and canonicalised every ?page=N URL to page 1. Six months later, about 900 older posts had dropped out of the…

Core Web Vitals regressed and you found out 4 weeks later: catching it with the CrUX API and a lab gate

A new cookie banner shipped on the 3rd. It pushed the main content down after load. Search Console's Core Web Vitals report started showing "Poor" CLS URLs around the 20th, and the team only connected it to the banner…

Show dev.to: I built a complete ordering + house-tab system for small counters — plain JS + Firebase, live demo inside

CounterKit is a small, self-hosted system for independent cafés, bakeries, and delis whose regulars order by name and run house tabs — the notebook-and-memory workflow, minus the notebook. Try it first: live demo — it…

View source vs Inspect element: the SEO bug hiding between raw and rendered HTML

The product pages looked perfect in DevTools: unique titles, correct canonicals, a full set of internal links. Rankings slid anyway. Someone finally ran curl on a product URL and found a generic title, a canonical…

Doing Math with Python: Code and Solutions Refresh

It's been 11 years, since Doing Math With Python was published. The world of software learning has changed drastically. I hope you are still continuing to learn using books, writing programs and the educators among you,…

Don't use setTimeout for anything that matters: where delayed jobs should actually live

The trial-expiry email was scheduled with setTimeout(sendEmail, 3 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000). It worked in testing. In production, the app deployed twice a day, and every deploy wiped every pending timer. Almost nobody got…

Soft 404s: your 'page not found' returns 200, and your link checker thinks it's fine

The link checker reported zero broken links. Every URL returned 200 OK. Then someone actually clicked through the old pricing links and found a friendly "Oops, we couldn't find that page" on every single one. The site…