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I Thought AI Interior Design Was Mostly a Gimmick Until I Built One
44+ min ago (307+ words) Then I tried building one. Turns out, generating the image is the easy part. The difficult part is making the result look like something a person could actually imagine doing to their room. One thing I noticed while testing is…...
It Printed "Verifying." It Verified Nothing.
19+ min ago (1247+ words) It printed "verifying sha256 digest." Then "success." The file it had just verified was 561 bytes of nulls, and its own filename said so. I lost two days to this, and most of that time I was looking at the wrong software…...
GitHub Models Shut Down: What Beginners Should Learn About AI Vendor Lock-In
31+ min ago (1184+ words) An AI feature can look permanent right up until the provider removes the sign from the building. GitHub Models reached that moment on July 30. GitHub had announced that the playground, model catalog, inference API, and bring-your-own-key endpoints would all be…...
How to redesign an app: Change nothing
44+ min ago (949+ words) I've never seen a project go so smoothly. Three developers, one fractional head of design, six weeks, virtually no production bugs. No heroics, no overtime — just a solid plan: constrain the problem, hand-craft the building blocks, and let an LLM…...
Emotional AI for Relationships: Goutoujunshi's New Approach
16+ min ago (499+ words) At its core, goutoujunshi functions as a "relationship coach" powered by the capabilities found in models like Codex. What distinguishes this tool is its dual approach: first, it processes emotional input, then it analyzes relational dynamics before delivering tailored strategies....
Jack Mallers Unveils AI System for Daily Bitcoin Code Review
14+ min ago (160+ words) I'm Archisha Mondal, a content writer currently immersed in the dynamic world of crypto. With a strong foundation in Sociology from St. Xavier’s College and several years of experience across diverse content niches, I bring a unique blend of analytical…...
Building an Efficient Authentication Pipeline with ASP.NET Core, Playwright and Token Caching
25+ min ago (496+ words) Authentication is one of the most important parts of any application that integrates with external services. While many modern platforms expose OAuth APIs or SDKs for third-party developers, there are situations where an application needs to interact with an authentication…...
GitHub finds your vulnerabilities. Something still has to manage them.
29+ min ago (843+ words) Turn on CodeQL, Dependabot, and Secret Scanning across a handful of repositories and you get exactly what the marketing promised: findings. Lots of them. Each one sitting in its own repository's Security tab, behind its own set of tabs and…...
Deal-scoped PASETO: three things I got wrong about audience-bound tokens
36+ min ago (1253+ words) Three normative sentences from the 2026-07-28 authorization spec, which is the current revision as I write this. They are from across its Token Handling section rather than one continuous paragraph: The middle sentence is the one that moved. In 2025-06-18 it began…...
Netlify's Hot AR Summer Challenge: I Wasn't Going to Enter. 33 Apps Later, I'm So Glad I Did
33+ min ago (1587+ words) On Friday, July 31, I was at date night dinner with my wife in LA. We sat down at 8. The plan was... Tagged with showdev, ai, webdev, buildinpublic....