I was building a side project that needed image compression. My first instinct was to look for an API — TinyPNG, Cloudinary, something with a POST endpoint. if (blob.size >= file.size) { Try the requested quality first. If the output is bigger, walk down through lower qualities until something sticks. As a last resort, if WebP output is still larger, fall back to JPEG entirely. Not elegant, but it
At 2:17 AM, my monitoring alert yanked me out of sleep: the customer service bot had suddenly lost its memory. Users were asking “Where is my order?” three times in a row, and it kept asking for their phone number as if they were complete strangers. I opened the logs and saw that ConversationBufferMemory was loading empty message lists. The key was still there in Redis, but somehow deserialization
Ever had users sign up with [email protected] or [email protected]? Disposable email addresses are a headache for any app that relies on real user contact. I built burner-bouncer to solve this — a zero-dependency libra
I finished an English series on the way I think ordinary people can start using AI for real work. The point is not to become an AI expert first. The point is to have one place where you can say what you want, give the tool access to the right folder, and check the result. Anything important still needs a human pause: publishing, deleting, paying, or authorizing. My preferred starting point is simp
If this is useful, a ❤️ helps others find it. All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. HiyokoLogcat supports Japanese and English. The AI diagnosis needed to respond in whichever language the user chose. The simplest solution: write the system prompt in the target language. Gemini follows it reliably. // Don't do this let prompt = format!("Analyze this log: {}\nRespond in Japanese.", context);
When you bind Ctrl+S to "save" in a web app, do you check event.key === "s" or event.code === "KeyS"? The honest answer is "I don't remember, I copy-paste from Stack Overflow." Until a Dvorak user reports the shortcut is broken — or a Japanese IME user reports it fires mid-composition. This is a live inspector for KeyboardEvent: press any key (or combination), see every field — key, code, keyCode,
37 days. That's how long the main and submain branches diverged before the big merge today. It wasn't just about closing this gap; it was about making the biggest forward leap we've seen in weeks. The test matrix exploded from 78 to 117 tests, and we dropped an 11-commit sprint into IR lowering that hammered out essential struct and array support. That alone makes you want to take a closer look at
When building modern applications, one problem shows up everywhere: How do I uniquely identify data across systems? That’s where UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifiers) come in. A UUID is a 128-bit unique identifier used to identify information in distributed systems. Example: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 It looks random - and that’s the point. Traditional IDs (like auto-increment integers