A LinkedIn recruiter pitched me a remote "Software Engineer at a DEX" project this week. Reasonable comp range, tech stack squarely in my wheelhouse. After a couple of friendly exchanges, she asked me to "review the codebase before the technical interview" and sent me a GitHub repo link plus a Calendly invite for the call. The repo was malware. It didn't get me, but it's something developers shoul
Like many of you, I have thousands of photos spread across devices, cloud drives, and chat histories. Finding that one specific picture from "last summer's beach trip" meant endless scrolling. Folders and filenames don't help when you can't remember when or where you saved something.Morse Code Translator So I built a tool to fix my own problem. It turned into a real product. Upload your photos, an
TL;DR: I built ChessDada — a free multiplayer chess platform inspired by old Yahoo Chess. No signup, no download, just instant browser-based chess. Built with Node.js, Socket.IO, and chess.js. Modern chess sites are bloated. Chess.com forces you through signup. Lichess defaults to account creation. The "5-second click and play" experience that made Yahoo Chess legendary in the 2000s is essentially
Picking a screenshot API feels binary until you start integrating, then the edges show: one service has a Python SDK but no async queue, another has webhooks but charges extra for authenticated pages, a third makes you wire up an S3 bucket yourself. This post walks through how Rendershot and Urlbox compare across the dimensions that actually hurt to change later. Upfront: I build Rendershot, so tr
The EU's Digital Product Passport (DPP) requirement is moving from regulatory text to technical reality. Under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), products sold in the EU must carry a DPP—a machine-readable identifier linking to standardized lifecycle data. For developers and compliance teams, 2026 marks the year where pilot programs transition to real deployments. Here's wha
TL;DR: I built a P2P file transfer tool that runs entirely in the browser. No install, no server relay, no account. Here's what I learned about WebRTC data channels, resumable transfers, and the browser storage mess along the way. Most file transfer tools follow the same pattern: upload to a server, get a link, the recipient downloads from that server. Your file sits on someone else's infrastructu
The first AI feature I shipped on a flat plan lost money on the third user who discovered it. Not slowly. Immediately. He was running a script through it on a loop because the UI did not stop him from doing that, and his single account burned through more in API costs that week than the feature was supposed to make in a month. I shipped the fix on a Sunday and rewrote the pricing on a Tuesday, and
Live: https://nulkratos-core.web.app GitHub: https://github.com/nulkratos/nulkratos-core Every "private" messenger I found had the same tradeoffs: Signal → needs your phone number. That's an identity anchor. Telegram → not E2E by default. Server-side messages. WhatsApp → Meta. Enough said. Matrix/Element → self-host complexity, still needs an account. Briar → great, but mobile-only and requires i