You set up Puppeteer, navigate to a page, call page.screenshot() , and the bottom half of your image is blank placeholder boxes. Welcome to lazy loading. Most modern sites defer images and heavy content until the user scrolls. Your headless browser never scrolls. So those elements never load. Here's how to deal with it. The scroll trick The most common fix is to programmatically scroll down the page before taking the screenshot: async function scrollToBottom ( page ) { await page . evaluate ( async () => { const delay = ms => new Promise ( r => setTimeout ( r , ms )); const distance = 300 ; while ( window . scrollY + window . innerHeight < document . body . scrollHeight ) { window . scrollBy ( 0 , distance ); await delay ( 150 ); } window . scrollTo ( 0 , 0 ); }); } await page . goto ( " https://example.com " , { waitUntil : " networkidle2 " }); await scrollToBottom ( page ); await page . waitForTimeout ( 1000 ); await page . screenshot ({ fullPage : true }); The 150ms delay between scrolls gives IntersectionObserver -based lazy loaders time to trigger. Too fast and you'll scroll past elements before they start loading. That final waitForTimeout after scrolling back to top lets any remaining images finish rendering. Not elegant, but necessary. Why networkidle2 isn't enough You'd think waitUntil: "networkidle2" would handle this. It waits until there are no more than 2 network connections for 500ms. But lazy-loaded images haven't even been requested yet at that point — they're waiting for a scroll event that never happens. networkidle2 only helps with content that loads on page init. For scroll-triggered content, you need the scroll. The loading="eager" override Some sites use the native loading="lazy" attribute. You can override it before images load: await page . evaluateOnNewDocument (() => { Object . defineProperty ( HTMLImageElement . prototype , " loading " , { set : function ( val ) { this . setAttribute ( " loading " , " eager " ); }, get : function () { retu

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition What I Built Soccer is defined by passion, but that passion often turns toxic when fans and commentators do not understand the limits of human performance under extreme pressure. During a 90-minute World Cup match, when a team collapses in the final ten minutes, the narrative defaults to harsh judgments like, "they lost their nerve." BioTactix AI was born out of a passion to change that global conversation. It is a securely licensed, real-time sports analytics architecture designed to solve the " Human-Machine Bottleneck. " By quantifying the exact intersection of physical exhaustion, cognitive delay, and psychological pressure, it transforms raw biological telemetry into context-aware, Explainable AI (XAI). Instead of relying on static dashboards, **BioTactix AI **provides real-time narratives to foster empathy among fans, actionable tactical alerts to prevent defensive collapses for coaches, and critical 14G-impact safety overrides for referees. Demo You can view the full demonstration and the real-time terminal output of the BioTactix AI Master Engine here: Watch the Demo on YouTube VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQbuIVqc8D0 ** **Code The complete project, including the core biotactix_ai_master_engine.py script, is hosted publicly in github repository. The repository is fully secured with a software license to ensure the intellectual property and architectural blueprint remain protected. https://github.com/minakshihub/BioTactix-AI How I Built It Building a system to process 100-Hertz live biological data across a 40-man roster without compute bottlenecks required moving beyond standard web development approaches and leaning heavily into advanced storage systems engineering. Sovereign Edge Compute & VFS Routing: Instead of wasting CPU cycles continuously scanning the entire roster, the architecture leverages a custom Sovereign Virtual File System (VFS). This enables highly efficient data inge

Many developers still rely on heavy, third-party JavaScript frameworks or external UI libraries just to create simple popups and modal windows. This introduces bloated bundle sizes, slows down page speed, and often ruins accessibility (a11y) for keyboard users and screen readers. Fortunately, you can build an accessible, highly interactive modal window completely natively using the modern HTML5 <dialog> element. The Code Setup Here is how simple it is to build a native modal with semantic HTML, minimal JavaScript, and a touch of modern CSS styling. 1. The Markup (index.html) <main> <h1> Native HTML5 Dialog Element </h1> <p> Click the button below to open a completely native, accessible popup modal. </p> <button id= "openModalBtn" > Open Modal Window </button> </main> <dialog id= "myModal" > <h2> Native Modal Title </h2> <p> This modal is rendered natively by the browser. Focus is trapped automatically! </p> <button id= "closeModalBtn" > Close Modal </button> </dialog> ### 2. The Logic (script.js) Instead of manually managing visibility states or toggle classes, the browser gives us built-in `.showModal()` and `.close()` methods: javascript const modal = document.getElementById('myModal'); const openBtn = document.getElementById('openModalBtn'); const closeBtn = document.getElementById('closeModalBtn'); openBtn.addEventListener('click', () => { modal.showModal(); }); closeBtn.addEventListener('click', () => { modal.close(); }); dialog ::backdrop { background-color : rgba ( 0 , 0 , 0 , 0.6 ); backdrop-filter : blur ( 4px ); } dialog { border : none ; border-radius : 8px ; padding : 2rem ; box-shadow : 0 4px 12px rgba ( 0 , 0 , 0 , 0.15 ); } Interactive Demos & Source Code Working Live Code Demo: ( https://codepen.io/editor/CoderDecoding/pen/019f5548-f0cb-75f8-b915-b9fdb33e92d1 ) Public Code Repository: ( https://github.com/CoderDecoding/native-dialog-demo )

Hi, my name's Ibrahim, I'm a university student, and I have a problem: I love fragrances way more than my bank account loves me for it. It started small, the way these things always do. A cheap Middle Eastern attar someone gave me as a gift, the kind that costs less than a coffee but somehow smells like it belongs in a much fancier bottle. Then another. Then I started actually reading about notes, pyramids, accords, sillage, the whole rabbit hole. Fast forward through a lot of saved-up allowance and skipped nights out, and I've now got about 20 bottles on my shelf. Mostly affordable Middle Eastern gems (some of them genuinely punch way above their price), with a small handful of designer pieces I saved up for and treat like trophies. If you're a fellow fragrance enthusiast, you already know the feeling: you don't just "wear" a scent, you collect them, you study them, you have opinions about whether a note is top, heart, or base and you will absolutely fight someone about it. That obsession is basically the entire reason this project exists. So when I saw the DEV Weekend Challenge's "Passion" prompt, there was only one thing I could possibly build. What I built: recommendmeafragrance recommendmeafragrance is a browser arcade for fragrance nerds: six small daily games built around real perfume data (notes, brands, years, price tiers), plus an AI Concierge you can actually talk to about what you're in the mood for. Every game feeds into a personal "shelf" that tracks which fragrances you've discovered, plus streaks so you have a reason to come back tomorrow. Here's the tour. 🧪 Scentle: Wordle, but for your nose A new fragrance is picked every day (the same one for everyone, worldwide, no matter your timezone). You get 6 guesses, and after each one you get Wordle style feedback: was the brand exact or just the same house family, did the real answer come out earlier or later than your guess, is it pricier or cheaper, same gender, same concentration, how many notes do you

Tokens and DAOs are often presented as simple ideas: issue a token, distribute ownership, let the community vote, and build a decentralized organization. In reality, the technical problems behind tokens and DAOs are much deeper. A token is not only an asset, and a DAO is not only a voting system. Together, they create an economic, governance, security, and coordination layer that must work reliably in a hostile, open environment. The first major problem is token design. Many projects treat token creation as a deployment task, but the real challenge is defining what the token actually controls. Does it represent governance power, protocol revenue, access rights, reputation, staking weight, or all of these at once? When one token is used for too many purposes, the system becomes fragile. For example, a token designed for liquidity may not be suitable for governance, because the most active traders may not be the most aligned decision-makers. Good token architecture should separate economic utility, governance authority, and long-term reputation where possible. The second problem is distribution. A DAO can be decentralized in branding but centralized in practice if token ownership is concentrated among founders, investors, or early insiders. On-chain governance depends heavily on voting power, so distribution directly affects decision quality. Poor distribution creates governance capture, where a small group can control treasury spending, protocol upgrades, or parameter changes. This is not only a social issue; it is a technical design issue. Vesting contracts, delegation systems, quorum rules, voting delay, and proposal thresholds all influence whether governance is resilient or easily manipulated. Another core issue is governance security. DAO voting is not automatically safe just because it happens on-chain. Token voting can be attacked through flash loans, bribery markets, vote buying, low-participation proposals, and governance fatigue. If a malicious proposal pas

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Episode 1 established the mindset: failure is normal, not a sign of bad engineering. Episode 2 gets specific — you can't detect or handle a failure you can't even name. Saturday, Round 2 👦 Nephew: Uncle, last time you convinced me failure is basically guaranteed. Fine, I accept it. So what actually fails ? 👨‍🦳 Uncle: You tell me. Start listing things that could go wrong in your app right now. 👦 Nephew: Uh... the server could crash. The database could go down. My code could have a bug. 👨‍🦳 Uncle: Keep going. 👦 Nephew: The network? Someone could deploy the wrong thing? Payment gateway dies mid-checkout? 👨‍🦳 Uncle: You just named six of the seven categories without trying. You already know this. You've just never sorted it. 1. Hardware Failure 2. Software Failure 3. Network Failure 4. Database Failure 5. Third-Party Failure 6. Human Error 7. Resource Exhaustion 👦 Nephew: Then why do we need the list at all, if I already know it instinctively? 👨‍🦳 Uncle: Because "instinctively" isn't fast enough at 2 AM. Let's trace each one properly. Part 1 — Hardware Failure 👦 Nephew: This one's obvious anyway — I deploy to AWS. The cloud hides hardware failure from me. 👨‍🦳 Uncle: Does it? 👦 Nephew: ...doesn't it? That's the whole point of paying for EC2 instead of buying a server. 👨‍🦳 Uncle: Let's trace it. Your app sits on an EC2 instance. What's underneath the instance? 👦 Nephew: Virtual machine stuff, I guess? 👨‍🦳 Uncle: And underneath that ? 👦 Nephew: ...an actual physical machine somewhere. In a data center. 👨‍🦳 Uncle: There it is. Your app | "Virtual" server (EC2/Droplet) | ACTUAL physical hardware somewhere in a data center | Still capable of failing — just less visible to you 👦 Nephew: So it's not hidden. It's just one layer further away than I thought. 👨‍🦳 Uncle: Exactly. AWS absorbs a lot of it — that's part of what you're paying for — but disks still fail, instances still get abruptly terminated, whole availability zones still go down. That's Hardware Failure . Hardware Fa

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition (#weekendchallenge #devchallenge #ai #googleai #gemini #webdev #showdev) What if your GitHub could roast you harder than your teammates ever would — and then remind you why you keep building? What I Built 🔥 roaster0 — an AI that roasts your GitHub profile, then redeems you. Drop in any public GitHub username and it pulls your real repo data — commit habits, abandoned projects, lazy repo names, language choices — and turns it into a savage, hyper-specific roast using Gemini's structured output and multimodal reasoning. Then it ends with one sincere, earned compliment pulled from something genuinely good in your data. The idea started from a simple thought: your GitHub is an involuntary diary of what you were obsessed with. The eleven repos with no description. The final-v2-FINAL commit. The side project you lived and breathed for three weeks in March before abandoning it. That's passion — messy, obsessive, usually invisible unless someone points a spotlight at it. There's also a second mode, 🎭 Roast Anything : submit a name, bio, links, and/or images, and Gemini reads all of it — text, links, photos — to generate the same experience for anyone, not just developers. Demo 🔗 Live app: roaster0.netlify.app Try it on any public GitHub username, or switch to Roast Anything mode and paste in a bio + an image to see the multimodal analysis at work. Once your roast is generated, you can: 🔊 Listen to it — full audio narration via Web Speech API, paced and pitched differently depending on roast intensity 🖼️ Download the card — every roast renders as a shareable PNG on HTML5 Canvas, ledger-paper aesthetic, ready to post 📋 Share the record — copy a formatted text version straight to clipboard for any platform A couple of examples from testing: GitHub mode — roasted DEV's own founder using nothing but his real public repo data: (screenshot: Ben Halpern roast card — graveyard count, repo names like oceanic-giraffe and test

Losing PostgreSQL Gains? Blame Inline JSONB!! PostgreSQL's jsonb is a favorite among developers for its flexibility - but it hides a dark side. When used carelessly, especially in-line within rows under 2KB, it can silently destroy performance, even if you're using indexes. Here's why. 🔍 The Hidden Cost of JSONB (Inline Storage) PostgreSQL stores table rows in 8KB pages, packing as many tuples as possible. For a typical row with 10–12 columns, and small text/integers, 40–100 rows can easily fit per page. Typically row count = Page Size(8kb) / row size + row metadata (30-50 bytes approx.) But the game changes when you add jsonb. Example CREATE TABLE events ( id serial PRIMARY KEY, user_id int, action text, metadata jsonb ); Suppose metadata which is a jsonb column contains: { "ip": "127.0.0.1", "device": "Android", "country": "IN" } This JSON might be just 100–500 bytes, so PostgreSQL stores it in-line inside the same page (no TOASTing). Result Each row size jumps from ~80 bytes → ~200–400 bytes Row count per page drops from 100 → 20–40 Index scan still needs to read each page for matching rows More pages = more I/O, slower performance 🔢 Real Benchmark Insight Performance comparisonEven with a GIN or B-tree index on the JSONB column, PostgreSQL still needs to scan all matching pages to retrieve the full tuple. 🧠 Why Index Doesn't Save You Say you index a JSONB key like: CREATE INDEX ON events ((metadata->>'ip')); And query: SELECT * FROM events WHERE metadata->>'ip' = '127.0.0.1'; PostgreSQL will: Use the index to find matching tuples Still need to fetch the row from disk Because JSONB is in-line, many pages are touched More page fetches = more IO = slower queries 🩹 What You Can Do ✅ Force TOAST: Add padding to make JSONB exceed 2KB: UPDATE events SET metadata = metadata || jsonb_build_object('padding', repeat('x', 2000)); ✅ Split into separate table: If JSONB is rarely queried ✅ Stick to well defined schema and avoid using jsonb unless absolutely necessary. 🧾 TL;DR

In the previous articles, we learned how an LLM generates text and how techniques like RAG and CAG help it answer questions using external knowledge. At this point, our AI-powered Travel Planner can answer questions like "I'm visiting Japan for 7 days. Suggest an itinerary." or "Recommend vegetarian ramen near Tokyo Station." That's useful, but it's still just a chatbot. What if the user asks to "Book the cheapest flight from Mumbai to Tokyo." , "What's the weather in Kyoto this weekend?" , or "Remember that I prefer vegetarian food and always choose a window seat." ? An LLM cannot execute these actions by itself. To build real, production-ready AI applications, we need to connect the model to the outside world. Let's see how that works. Tool Calling (Function Calling): Letting AI Use External Tools Suppose the user asks: "What's the weather in Kyoto tomorrow?" Since the LLM doesn't know tomorrow's forecast, our application can provide the model with a weather API. The workflow is simple: the LLM understands the request, determines that it needs the weather tool, calls the Weather API (via the client application), receives the live weather data, and generates the final grounded response. User ──► LLM understands request ──► Application calls API ──► App sends results ──► LLM response It's critical to understand that the LLM isn't calling the API directly . It simply outputs structured instructions (typically JSON) telling the client application: "To answer this, I need you to call the weather function with parameter location='Kyoto'." Your application executes the actual API call and feeds the result back to the model. This capability is called function calling or tool calling . The tool can be anything: a weather API, a flight booking service, a calendar, a database, a payment gateway, or an internal company system. The LLM acts as the decision-maker (determining which tool to use and when ), while your application acts as the executor. 💡 Developer's Takeaway Think