31+ min ago   (268+ words) Today I tagged 1.0 of Kairos, a schedule definition language I've been building — a small DSL where schedules like "3 business days before month-end" or "payday on the 25th, previous business day if it's a holiday" are single expressions. cron can say "the…...

1+ hour ago   (1443+ words) The fastest way to lose confidence in bot protection is not to miss a bot. It is to block a real customer. A missed scraper costs bandwidth or content. A blocked customer costs a sale, a support escalation, and trust…...

30+ min ago   (554+ words) A build step that reads requirement tables out of a document reported this, every run: reason=parse has an obvious reading. Either the document is malformed or the parser is broken. A person following that reason code goes and looks…...

54+ min ago   (515+ words) ESLint took 4.4 seconds to lint 445 TypeScript files. oxlint took 0.24. Turn on the type-aware rules that most projects actually want and ESLint climbs to 12 seconds, while oxlint, doing the type-aware pass too, finishes in under one. I went in expecting to…...

2+ hour, 2+ min ago   (369+ words) FSR stands for FidelityFX Super Resolution, an upscaling technology built by AMD. It started as a gaming feature: render a game at a lower resolution (say 1080p), then let FSR reconstruct the missing detail to display it at a higher resolution…...

1+ hour, 55+ min ago   (1057+ words) Your Vercel usage graph is climbing and your logs are full of names you did not invite: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Bytespider. They hammer your App Router pages and quietly run up your bandwidth and compute bill. The reflex is a…...

2+ hour, 1+ min ago   (653+ words) A wall can look right in a browser and still arrive in CAD at the wrong size. The difficult part of an export feature is preserving what the geometry means. I’m building FloorDraft, a manual 2D floor-plan editor. These are concrete…...

2+ hour, 53+ min ago   (490+ words) If you're using TanStack Query with native fetch, your query functions may look like this: There's nothing wrong with this. But as the application grows, the HTTP layer usually becomes responsible for much more: This is the problem I wanted…...

3+ hour, 14+ min ago   (821+ words) If you've ever been curious about how encryption works at a basic level, the Caesar Cipher is a great place to start. It is one of the simplest classical encryption techniques. The idea is straightforward: shift each letter in a…...

3+ hour, 23+ min ago   (1367+ words) Choosing a stack is a product decision before it is a technical one. This article documents why this portfolio runs on Bun, Astro, and MDX — and, more importantly, the reasoning that led me to turn down more sophisticated alternatives. Nothing…...