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The musician created his own line of loopers that record and layer riffs in a loop. The pricey Looper X does what it claims, but it isn’t without quirks.

The games start June 11 and end with a grand finale in New Jersey on July 19. There are 104 of them. Here’s how to watch ’em all.

For years, whenever I needed to merge two PDFs or compress a file to upload to a government portal, I would Google "compress PDF", click the first result, and inevitably hit a paywall. "You have reached your 2 free files per day limit." Worse, I was uploading sensitive documents—tax returns, medical records, and NDAs—to random servers in God-knows-where just to strip out some heavy images. I decided to build an alternative. I wanted it to be 100% free, have absolutely no daily limits, and most importantly: zero server uploads . Here is how we built PDF Pro using Next.js and WebAssembly to process PDFs entirely natively inside the user's browser. The Architecture: Why WebAssembly? Traditional PDF tools (like Smallpdf or iLovePDF) use a monolithic server architecture. You upload your file to their AWS bucket, their backend runs a Python or C++ script (usually using Ghostscript or a proprietary library) to manipulate the PDF, and then you download the processed file. This architecture is expensive (high bandwidth and compute costs) and creates a massive privacy liability. By compiling a C++ PDF manipulation library down to WebAssembly (WASM) , we inverted the architecture. 1. The Build Process We took pdf-lib and custom C++ compression algorithms and compiled them to a lightweight .wasm binary. When a user visits PDF Pro Compress , their browser downloads the ~2MB WASM file once and caches it. 2. Client-Side Processing When you drag and drop a 50MB PDF into the UI, it never hits our server. Instead, the browser's JavaScript engine passes a Pointer to the file data directly into the WebAssembly memory buffer. The WASM module executes native C++ speeds directly on your local CPU to compress or merge the document. Performance Benchmarks Because there is zero upload and zero download time, the performance metrics are staggering: 10MB PDF Compression (Cloud): ~15 seconds (Upload) + 4 seconds (Process) + 5 seconds (Download) = 24 seconds . 10MB PDF Compression (PDF Pro WASM)

Every tool sprawl thread I read starts with license math, and license math is a decoy. Last quarter I added up what our seven-tool delivery stack actually cost us, and the subscriptions came to about 15% of the total. The other 85% never appears on an invoice, which is exactly why nobody budgets for it and nobody fixes it. Some background so you can judge whether my numbers transfer to your team. I spent years building automation in banking before running my own product team, so I am professionally allergic to process waste. Despite that, our stack had drifted into the usual shape: Jira for tickets, Confluence for docs, Lucidchart for architecture, TestRail for test cases, two spreadsheets doing unpaid overtime in the gaps, and an AI chatbot bolted on the side that had never seen any of it. The licenses for all of that, for six people, ran about $700 a month. Annoying. Not a crisis. And that is precisely why the "consolidate your tools" pitch dies in so many budget conversations. Saving a few hundred dollars a month does not justify a migration, and everyone in the room knows it. If licenses were the real cost, I would side with the skeptics. The audit: two weeks of logging every re-key So we measured the part nobody measures. For two weeks, everyone on the team logged every re-key: any moment a human moved or restated information that already existed in another tool. Copying acceptance criteria from Confluence into a Jira ticket. Updating TestRail because a story changed shape. Redrawing a Lucidchart flow that had drifted from the code. Reassembling a status update by hand from three tabs. Pasting project context into the chatbot, again, because it forgot everything since yesterday. The rules were strict so the number would survive scrutiny. Log transfer time only, not thinking time. Round down when unsure. If the same fact got re-keyed twice, log it twice, because it cost twice. Each entry went into a shared CSV with four columns, and this script turned it into th

I’ll say it plainly: the first health-adjacent agent workflow I’d trust is not an AI doctor. It’s a narrow pipeline that takes 6 months of Apple Watch sleep data, cleans timestamps, maps records into a fixed sleep-diary schema, flags broken rows, and stops for human review before anything reaches a clinician. That sounds unsexy. Good. That’s exactly why it’s the first version I’d trust. I landed on this after reading a post on r/openclaw where someone said they had their AI assistant turn months of Apple Watch sleep data into the diary their sleep clinic requested, and the data gotchas were brutal. That sentence contains the whole product. Not “AI healthcare.” Not “autonomous wellness.” Not a GPT-5 wrapper with a soothing UI pretending it understands sleep medicine. Just a very practical engineering problem: parse ugly export data normalize time boundaries fit it into a clinician-friendly format fail loudly on bad rows require a human to approve it That is a real use case. And if you build automations in n8n, Make, Zapier, OpenClaw, or Python, it should feel familiar: the hard part is not the final prompt. The hard part is the ugly middle. The hard part is ETL, not reasoning Most health-agent demos skip the only part that matters. They show the polished summary. They show Claude or GPT-5 saying something calm and articulate. They show a dashboard. I don’t think that’s the hard part. The hard part is ETL: extraction transformation loading For sleep data, that means dealing with stuff like: timestamps crossing midnight timezone normalization naps vs overnight sleep missing start or end times overlapping intervals gaps from the device not recording clinic-specific diary formats If you get any of that wrong, the model summary at the end is not helpful. It is actively misleading. That’s why I think the boring pipeline is the real product. The workflow I’d actually ship If I had to build this today, I would keep the architecture aggressively narrow. Apple Health export ->

My CV is a PDF, and PDFs do not answer questions. So I built ask.hiten.dev : a streaming chat grounded in my actual career history, where a recruiter can ask "why should I hire you over another senior frontend engineer?" and get a real answer. The constraint that made it interesting: the total inference budget is zero. No OpenAI bill, no hosted vector DB, nothing. Here is what that actually took. Four free providers and a failover chain No single free tier is reliable enough to put in front of strangers. Groq's free tier caps at 100k tokens/day, and I hit that cap on day one. OpenRouter's free models come and go. Cerebras occasionally queues you out at busy times. The fix is boring and effective: an ordered provider chain, all OpenAI-compatible, walked per-request until one answers. Groq (llama-3.3-70b) -> OpenRouter (gpt-oss-120b:free) -> NVIDIA (llama-3.3-70b) -> Cerebras (gpt-oss-120b) Each provider is just a base URL, a key and a model name. The API route tries each in order; the first 2xx with a body wins, and the response streams straight through. The client gets an X-Provider header so I can see who served what in the logs. Two details that mattered: Empty env vars are not unset. Docker Compose's ${VAR:-} yields an empty string, which defeats ?? defaults in Node. Every key goes through a helper that coerces "" to undefined , otherwise a provider with no key "exists" and fails every request. You cannot cheaply probe a token-per-day cap. My health check hits GET /models on each provider (auth check, 60s cache). It tells you "key works, service up", not "you have tokens left". The failover chain covers the gap: a TPD-capped provider fails fast and the next one picks up. If every provider is down, the page itself says so. The health check runs server-side at render time, and instead of a broken chat you get a short maintenance note. Never ship a chat UI that can fail after the user has typed. Open-weight models do not follow formatting orders My site's voice avoi

Let’s all assume we’re able to do whatever is possible with CSS/HTML/JS. (No typescript or node.js due to hosting restrictions) How can one use it for their animation/storyboard portfolio, unlike making something like a wall of displayed art, how can it be made interactive in a professional way? I’m more interested in ideas that use the strength of web itself, not just decorative effects submitted by /u/Enc7 [link] [留言]

Cindy Zhang discusses the evolution of XDS, a unified UI system powering 10,000+ internal tools. She shares actionable insights for architects and engineering leaders on managing large-scale community contributions, executing safe monorepo refactors using JS AST and AI codemods, mitigating breaking changes via feature flags, and expanding UI libraries into full-stack platform systems. By Cindy Zhang

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I'm working on a free SVG icon project called IconShelf and recently noticed something confusing. Analytics show decent traffic, but signups and conversions are much lower than expected. To investigate, I started reviewing sessions in Microsoft Clarity and found behaviour that makes me suspect that a significant portion of visits may be from bots, crawlers, or automated traffic. I'm already using Cloudflare Bot Management and several WAF rules. I'm curious how other developers handle this. What tools do you use to identify bot traffic? Do you rely on analytics, server logs, Clarity, or something else? How do you measure "real" traffic versus raw pageviews? Have you ever discovered that your actual human traffic was much lower than your analytics suggested? I'd love to hear what worked for you and any lessons learned from tracking user behavior and conversions. What is the solution from developer prospective? Here in the screenshot 70% are bots? https://preview.redd.it/19jsil0e5m6h1.png?width=2604&format=png&auto=webp&s=70591a9e33c635cfbaacc64c9af1b5800b6e2e74 submitted by /u/Parking_Pea5161 [link] [留言]

Background: I accidentally created a recursive loop with an AI agent that would have cost me $50+ in API calls before I noticed. Existing tools either cost money or only show you what already happened. So I built TokenFirefighter — a 100% free, local-only HTTP proxy. What it does: - Sits between your app and OpenAI/Anthropic on localhost:7272 - Tracks every API call cost in real time - Detects 4 types of runaway loops and blocks them - Has a terminal dashboard (no web UI needed) - Zero accounts, zero data collection, zero cost Install: npm install -g tokenfirefighter tokenfirefighter init tokenfirefighter start Then just set OPENAI_BASE_URL=http://localhost:7272/v1 in your .env. Would genuinely appreciate feedback from anyone who uses AI APIs regularly. GitHub: https://github.com/MohitBaghel24/tokenfirefighter submitted by /u/AdventurousMirror122 [link] [留言]

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This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam What I Built Bletchley is a web codebreaking game set at Bletchley Park, 1939–1945. You play as an anonymous codebreaker in Hut 6. Your job: decrypt intercepted Enigma messages by adjusting mechanical rotors before time runs out. The game spans 4 levels across two cipher types — Caesar and rotor permutation. Early levels introduce the mechanics with a single rotor and generous time. By level 4, you're working with three rotors (two already solved by your colleagues), 90 seconds on the clock, and a hint you have to earn by clicking. The hint system mirrors a real codebreaking technique: cribs — words known to appear in the plaintext. Players use them as anchors, sweeping the rotor until the word surfaces in the decrypted output. That's exactly how Turing's team worked. Between each level, the screen goes quiet and a narrative fragment appears. No UI, no score — just text. Together they tell Alan Turing's story in chronological order: his arrival at Bletchley in 1939, breaking Naval Enigma in 1941, the classified silence after the war, and then 1952. The game doesn't end on victory. That's intentional. Theme connection: The game honors Turing on two registers — the mechanics recreate the known-plaintext attack his team developed, and the narrative tells his full story, including the parts history preferred to forget. June is also Pride Month. That's not incidental. Video Demo Note on the video: Due to a dental procedure, I wasn't able to record a voiceover. The narration was AI-generated. The gameplay, code, and everything else in the demo are entirely my own work. Code cristianrubioa / bletchley Web codebreaking game inspired by Alan Turing and the Enigma machine bletchley — A Turing Tribute Codebreaking game · June Solstice Game Jam 2026 · Best Ode to Alan Turing You are a codebreaker at Bletchley Park. Decrypt intercepted messages by adjusting Enigma rotors before time runs out. 4 levels · 2 cipher types · histori

Breaks down package managers as different dependency models rather than "faster npm replacements". It compares npm, Yarn, pnpm, Bun, and Deno through reproducibility, compatibility, disk usage, and migration failure modes. submitted by /u/OtherwisePush6424 [link] [留言]

I didn't set out to build a content API. I set out to stop copy-pasting. Every week, the same ritual: open a doc, stare at a blank page, write a headline, delete it, write it again. Multiply that by every client, every product page, every email drip campaign. I wasn't doing creative work — I was doing assembly-line work while pretending it was creative. PostAll started as a script I wrote to stop doing that. The API is what that script became after other developers asked if they could use it too. This guide walks you through integrating PostAll's API into your own workflow — authentication, the endpoints you'll actually use, real working code in both Python and Node.js, and the specific places things will break before they work. By the end, you'll have a functioning pipeline that generates formatted, CMS-ready content programmatically. What you'll build A script that takes a list of content briefs (keywords, tone, target length) and returns publish-ready content — with proper formatting, metadata, and error handling for the rate limits you'll hit in production. Here's the shape of what you're building: [ CSV of briefs ] → [ PostAll API ] → [ formatted content objects ] → [ your CMS / database ] The full working code for both languages is at the end of each section. I'll explain the interesting parts inline. Prerequisites A PostAll account with API access enabled (free tier works for this guide — rate limits noted below) Node.js 18+ or Python 3.10+ Basic familiarity with async/await in either language An HTTP client: axios or native fetch for Node, httpx for Python Step 1: Authentication PostAll uses API key authentication. Every request needs your key in the Authorization header. Get your key: Dashboard → Settings → API Keys → Generate New Key Store it as an environment variable. Never hardcode it. export PostAll_API_KEY = "postall_live_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" Your key has two prefixes: postall_live_ for production, postall_test_ for the sandbox. The sandbox returns r

https://dsa-life-simulator-frontend.vercel.app"I made a free tool to make DSA practice feel like an RPG — would like feedback from this community"Been grinding DSA for months and it never felt fun. So I built something. What it does: 🏟️ Real-time 1v1 Arena battles against other devs 🧪 Lab to create and publish your own challenges 🏘️ Community Hub to attempt others' challenges 📖 AI writes your weekly coding journey as a life story 🎮 XP, credits, levels, leaderboards Stack: React + Tailwind + Firebase + Node.js + Socket.IO + Groq AI Still early — would genuinely love feedback from people who've felt the pain of traditional DSA prep.

AI coding tools are changing how software gets built. Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf and other tools can generate code incredibly fast. For small tasks, they are already useful: write a component, explain a function, scaffold an endpoint, create a test, refactor a file. But after using AI in real projects, one thing becomes obvious: The problem is no longer code generation. The problem is engineering control. Most AI coding workflows still look like this: text idea -> prompt -> code -> fix -> prompt again -> more code -> lost context -> start over It feels fast at the beginning. Then the project grows. Requirements change. Architecture decisions disappear inside chat history. The AI forgets previous context. You start acting as product manager, architect, reviewer, QA, DevOps, and prompt engineer at the same time. That is not software engineering. That is vibe coding. ## Vibe coding works until it doesn't Direct AI coding is great when the task is isolated. Ask for a React component. Ask for a SQL query. Ask for a utility function. Ask for a unit test. No problem. But real software is not a collection of isolated snippets. Real software has: - business rules - architectural constraints - existing patterns - security concerns - database impact - deployment requirements - edge cases - regression risk - long-term maintenance When AI jumps directly from prompt to code, it often skips the thinking that should happen before implementation. The result may compile. But does it fit the architecture? Does it respect the domain? Does it create hidden technical debt? Does it solve the right problem? That is the gap we are trying to close with N45.AI. ## What is N45.AI? N45.AI is a framework that turns AI coding tools into a structured engineering workflow. It works with the tools developers already use, including Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Windsurf. The idea is simple: Instead of treating AI as one generic assistant, N45.AI organizes the work like a

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Audit thousands of passwords against data breaches — completely in your browser with zero-knowledge privacy. Published: June 9, 2026 TL;DR Most bulk password checkers require you to upload your entire vault. Utilora’s Bulk Password Breach Checker uses HIBP’s k-anonymity + local hashing so your passwords never leave your device . The Hidden Risk Most People Ignore Using a password manager is excellent, but it’s not enough. Many users unknowingly reuse or slightly modify passwords that have already been leaked in massive breaches (LinkedIn, Adobe, Yahoo, etc.). Manually checking hundreds or thousands of passwords is impractical — which is why people turn to bulk checkers. The problem? Most bulk checkers ask you to upload your password list . That creates a massive new privacy risk. How Utilora’s Zero-Knowledge Breach Checker Works We built this tool using a privacy-preserving technique called k-anonymity (popularized by Troy Hunt of Have I Been Pwned). Step-by-Step Technical Process: Local Hashing — Your browser uses the WebCrypto API to create a SHA-1 hash of each password locally. Prefix Only — Only the first 5 characters of the hash are sent to HIBP’s Range API. Server Response — HIBP returns hundreds of matching hashes that start with the same prefix. Local Comparison — Your browser checks if your full hash exists in the returned list. Result: HIBP knows someone checked a password starting with ABC12 , but has no idea which specific password it was. Why You Should Audit Your Entire Vault Regularly Discover weak or compromised passwords you forgot about Clean up old reused passwords Respond quickly after major breaches Maintain good password hygiene across all accounts Real-World Scenarios You exported your Bitwarden / 1Password / KeePass vault You want to check 500+ passwords before a security audit You just heard about a new major breach and want to verify impact You’re helping a family member or client secure their accounts How to Use the Tool Go to the Bulk Pas