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Demystifying HarmonyOS NEXT: A Deep Dive Into the Architecture, ArkUI, and Distributed Core
20+ min ago (617+ words) Under-the-hood breakdown of Huawei’s “Pure HarmonyOS” SDK for engineers and... Tagged with architecture, mobile, software, systemdesign....
AI Agents Failed to Prove Fermat's Last Theorem. Then They Got a Shared To-Do List
22+ min ago (751+ words) On September 4, Anthropic published something that sounds like a headline from a decade in the future: the first complete, computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, written by a team of Claude agents working largely autonomously over 11 days. Thirteen million lines…...
Stop changing your sprite sheet to fix animation speed
14+ min ago (57+ words) An eight-frame animation does not have a fixed duration. At 8 fps it lasts one second; at 12 fps it... Tagged with gamedev, javascript, tutorial....
Your Hand Is a Continuous Signal. A Scale Is Not. That Gap Is the Whole Problem.
34+ min ago (476+ words) A webcam hand tracker hands you a position, thirty or sixty times a second, as a float between 0 and 1. A musical scale hands you seven notes per octave. Building a browser hand-gesture synthesizer is mostly the work of getting from…...
Stencil My Tattoo: Turning Tattoo References into Printable Stencil Drafts with AI
47+ min ago (23+ words) Designing a tattoo is not only about finding a beautiful reference image. The harder part is turning... Tagged with showdev, ai, webdev, sideprojects....
AI Development Rules Needed Regression Tests Too
45+ min ago (1570+ words) I had already reached an uncomfortable conclusion: Giving an AI coding agent better instructions was not enough. The repository became more consistent. The agents behaved better. And then I ran into another problem. How did I know the rules were…...
Beyond Clean Architecture: The Iceberg Pattern for Real-Time Flutter Apps with BlocSignal
47+ min ago (36+ words) Discover why Uncle Bob's Clean Architecture breaks down in real-time cloud apps, and learn how the Iceberg Pattern pairs synchronous signals with screen facades for 0ms optimistic UI. Tagged with flutter, dart, architecture, statemanagement....
Documentation, audit, or commit gate: three postures for CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md — and where each one stops
1+ hour, 5+ min ago (939+ words) A reader asked, at the end of an unusually good comment on one of our CLAUDE.md posts: "The bigger question for me is: should agent instruction files eventually be treated less like documentation and more like executable configuration—with…...
MockMe: Instant Mock APIs When the Backend Is Not Ready Yet
54+ min ago (568+ words) The frontend is ready. The mobile app is waiting. The contract is agreed. And the real API is still "next sprint." You have seen this movie. You either hard-code fixtures, spin up a local JSON server, or wait. None of…...
The Beginning of My Competitive Programming Journey
1+ hour, 7+ min ago (189+ words) I've decided to take competitive programming seriously. I've been practicing DSA for a while, but I realized that solving problems casually and actually solving them in a contest are two very different things. So I decided to start participating in…...