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Your rules file only grows. Here's how to find the rules that do nothing
22+ min ago (517+ words) This is part 3 of a series on project rules for AI coding agents. Part 1 covered how Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex load your rules. Part 2 covered enforcing rules with hooks. This one covers the part almost nobody does: figuring out…...
I Built a Browser to Solve a Problem Every Developer and QA Engineer Faces
29+ min ago (494+ words) If you've ever worked on an application with multiple user roles, you've probably experienced this. You log in as an Administrator. Then you need to test the Manager. So you log out. Log in as the Customer. Then the Support…...
Disaster Recovery Drills That Actually Work
14+ min ago (287+ words) Someone schedules a meeting. A few senior engineers walk through a runbook. Everyone agrees "yes, we could do this" and marks it complete. Then the real disaster hits and nobody remembers the procedure, the runbook is 2 years out of date,…...
The AI Supply Chain: The Next Evolution of Third Party Risk
9+ min ago (753+ words) Most enterprise security teams believe they have third party risk under control. They send out questionnaires, review SOC 2 reports, and negotiate vendor contracts. In the age of enterprise AI, this traditional approach is no longer enough. It is dangerously incomplete....
I Got Tired of Comparing AI Models Across Multiple Browser Tabs, So I Built AutarkChat
14+ min ago (130+ words) Most AI chat apps are built for conversations. I wanted one built for experimentation. Every time... Tagged with ai, webdev, opensource, llm....
Building a production AI agent in TypeScript with Mastra: a 2026 step-by-step.
14+ min ago (1038+ words) I spent an afternoon last month wiring up an AI agent in raw TypeScript using the Anthropic SDK directly. The code worked, but I owned every piece of it: the tool dispatch loop, the conversation history array, the retry logic....
SSG vs SSR vs CSR in Next.js: Choosing the Right Rendering Strategy for SEO
20+ min ago (258+ words) Thanks @opacedigitalagency for the valuable suggestion. While exploring this topic further, I researched how different rendering strategies in Next.js impact SEO, performance, and user experience. "Next.js is SEO-friendly by default." But the reality is more interesting. Next.js…...
AI Is Speeding Up Both Hacks and Hunts for Smart Contract Bugs, Security Experts Warn, 'Audit Shelf Life Is Shrinking"
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (755+ words) Please enter your credentials to continue. Security experts are warning that AI tools are dramatically accelerating the discovery of smart contract vulnerabilities, shortening the "shelf life" of one-time audits and forcing DeFi protocols to adopt continuous security monitoring as hackers…...
There are around 10 independent PDF engines, and I built a new one from scratch.
37+ min ago (313+ words) I'm a student who mostly built little apps for myself. About 14 months ago I needed to edit a random PDF and couldn't find a good web tool that actually edits them. It made me wonder: billions of people use PDFs…...
How I Built a Log Analysis Tool to Detect Network Anomalies
56+ min ago (604+ words) When I started this project, I wanted to build something that actually does something, not another todo app or weather widget. I'm a third-year CS student at TMU, and I wanted a portfolio project that would make a security engineer…...