I keep seeing the same argument about AI making us dumber. It's the same argument people had about search engines, and before that books. The usual response is to point at history and say "every generation panics, every generation was wrong, relax." I think that response is half right, and the wrong half is what bothers me. Tools change what we bother to remember. The people who'd trained their wh
The Problem With Most Browser Extensions Browser extensions have a reputation problem. Many popular extensions — weather apps, new tab replacements, productivity tools — quietly collect your browsing data, sell it to advertisers, or require accounts that tie activity to your identity. When I built the Weather & Clock Dashboard for Firefox, I made a different choice: zero data collection, no acco
I got tired of paying for API tokens. I got tired of worrying about where my data goes every time I hit "send." And honestly, I'm even tired of seeing endless "wrappers" that just pipe data back and forth to a central server. Recently, I’ve been obsessed with a different path. I realized that the future of AI doesn’t have to be locked away in a massive data center—it’s already sitting right there
description: "Critical issues blocking TestSprite adoption in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines. Production fixes included." tags: testsprite, testing, devops, indonesia, localization cover_image: "https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/testsprite_mcp_review.png" canonical_url: "" published: false Code Review: Why TestSprite's MCP Failed in Southeast Asia (And How to Fix It) TL;DR
If you've ever tried to learn Python consistently, you know the problem: That's why I built DuCode — a platform that ## How it works Every day a new challenge drops. You get a code snippet like this: def make_counter(start=0): def counter(step=1, *, reset=False): if reset: counter._val = start return counter._val counter._val = getattr(counter,
🚀 Introduction Most text-to-speech systems today are powerful—but they come with a cost: heavy models, GPU requirements, and complex setup. I wanted something different. So I built Kitten TTS — a lightweight, CPU-friendly text-to-speech model that’s fast, efficient, and easy for developers to use. Instead of just shipping a model, I went one step further: 👉 I built a live GUI and deployed it
Most monorepos pay lip service to "share code via libraries." In practice, apps grow huge and libraries stay shallow. The shared/ folder becomes a junk drawer. New code goes wherever's easiest, which is usually wherever the developer is already typing - the app. After scaling our frontend monorepo to 19 applications and 86 libraries (roughly 74,000 lines of TypeScript), I've seen this pattern from
TestSprite adalah platform testing yang fokus pada quality assurance untuk aplikasi modern. Setelah menggunakan TestSprite dalam satu proyek production-grade di berbagai device dan region, saya ingin share pengalaman mendalam tentang bagaimana tool ini menangani localization dan timezone handling — aspek yang sering diabaikan tapi krusial untuk aplikasi global. TestSprite memungkinkan developer un