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Every "free passport photo" site I tried asked me to upload a photo of my face to a server I knew nothing about. Crop arithmetic does not need a server, so I built one that doesn't. Two weeks in, the traffic is close to…
Speech-language pathologists measure a child's MLU, mean length of utterance, by counting morphemes, not words. "Doggie jumped" is two words but three morphemes: doggie, jump, -ed. On a 50-utterance sample that counting…
Hey DEV Community! 👋 Managing customer support and recovering abandoned carts for e-commerce stores using traditional text-only chatbots often feels clunky. Customers drop off, issues get delayed, and midnight support…
A pattern shows up in a lot of front-end code reviews: some piece of data — a token, a cached profile, a license flag, sometimes even a "secret" configuration — is written to localStorage, and when someone objects, the…
Hibira speaks the Pusher Channels protocol. Your client libraries, server libraries, channel names, events and auth endpoints keep working. What changes is the host they connect to and the credentials they use. This…
Marketplace fees look simple until you try to put them in code. Some are percentages, some are fixed, they apply to different bases, and one of them depends on how the buyer found you. I built Fee Math, a set of free…
I started thinking about the Web Models API while experimenting with building AI-native GUIs. I was exploring the idea of UI as a function of AI: the model would generate the content and choose the component best suited…
Most Electron apps never touch native code: the renderer, the main process, and Node's built-in modules cover UI, networking, storage, and shell integration. The day comes when you need the other 1% — a fast image or…
Search for "TikTok shadowban checker" and you will find tools that ask for a username and return a verdict. We wanted to build one for our site, and the first thing we learned is that there is nothing to look up. TikTok…
Most "free online converters" work the same way: you upload a file, a server converts it, you download the result. For a holiday photo that's fine. For a scanned passport, a contract or a client's design file, it's an…
Most teams that add JavaScript protection start in the wrong place: they run an obfuscator over the entire production bundle and hope for the best. The result is usually a slower app, a larger download, a few broken…
What does a signed agent record actually prove? Agents are starting to do real work across company boundaries: request quotes, negotiate prices, place orders, approve payments. When one of those interactions goes wrong,…
