A friend asked me to recommend a free invoice generator yesterday. I opened the first ten results on Google and they all did the same thing: signup wall, email capture, or a watermark across the PDF unless you pay $12/month. Generating a PDF from form fields is a solved problem that somehow became a SaaS category. So I built three of them in a day. Invoice generator, resume builder, cover letter g

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DEVMay 2, 2026 · 1d ago

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The Boring Engineering You Did Is Now AI Infrastructure

Part 2 of 5 in The New Engineering Contract - what it means to lead engineers when AI is doing more of the coding. Stripe never skipped the boring stuff. They ship 1,300 AI PRs a week. Amazon skipped it. Their storefront went down for six hours. Kent Beck wrote the answer in Extreme Programming Explained in 1999. We read it. Then chose velocity anyway. A friend of mine leads engineering at a funde

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DEVMay 2, 2026 · 1d ago

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The Boring Engineering You Did Is Now AI Infrastructure

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DEVMay 2, 2026 · 1d ago

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From Zero to 3 Enterprise Deals in 30 Days — What We Learned Launching a DevOps Startup

A month ago, we launched Veltrix. No brand recognition. No paid ads. No outbound spam. Just a small team with one clear focus: build infrastructure that actually works when it matters. In the first 30 days, we closed 3 major deals in Georgia. That wasn’t part of the plan. We expected a slow start — maybe a few small clients, some testing, iteration. Instead, we immediately saw something intere

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LOBMay 2, 2026 · 1d ago

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fabrica - A terminal-based minimal coding agent harness

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DEVMay 2, 2026 · 1d ago

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From Clean APIs to State Archaeology: Rethinking Data on Solana

Diving into blockchain data (Solana specifically) changed how I think about “data” entirely 👇 At first, I expected something like a clean database—tables, rows, easy queries. ⚡ The “click” moment: 🧩 Biggest surprise: 🆚 Compared to traditional APIs: 🚧 Still learning: It’s less “database access” and more “state archaeology.” And that shift changes everything.

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DEVMay 2, 2026 · 1d ago

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I built a CSS selector engine that uses BigInt bitmasks and a dual Bloom bucket index instead of DOM traversal — AQE is now on npm

I've been frustrated with querySelectorAll performance in high-frequency scenarios for a while. On large DOMs (10k+ nodes) with 50–100 queries/second — think virtual DOM diffing, live dashboards, design tools — it becomes a real bottleneck. So I built AQE (Atomic Quantum Engine): a CSS selector engine that replaces tree traversal with flat, memory-mapped bitwise operations. HOW IT WORKS Every DOM

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