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
TL;DR — Superpowers and Compound Engineering aren't competitors. They're optimised for different worlds. Superpowers is gold for mature codebases with established methodology (TDD shops, large legacy systems, teams enforcing standards). Compound Engineering is gold for early-stage products where one person owns a feature end-to-end. Pick by what your codebase looks like, not by which README sounds
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
If you’ve ever worked with APIs or JSON data, you know how messy it can get. Most tools out there have problems: Too many ads ❌ So I built my own. 🔧 What I Built I created a JSON Formatter Tool that lets you: ✅ Format JSON instantly 👉 Try it here: https://www.astonishbuddy.com/tools/json-formatter ⚡ Why I Built This While working with APIs, I constantly needed to: Debug JSON responses Format mes
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
If your team works with geospatial data, sooner or later you need a place where maps, layers, users, and edits live together. There are many capable SaaS platforms and proprietary solutions you can deploy on your own infrastructure, but there is another path: self-hosting an open-source Web GIS server. In this tutorial, we will deploy NextGIS Web on a low-cost VPS using Docker, and then configure
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
If you've spent any time doing Android development from the command line, you know the rhythm: adb devices, adb logcat, adb shell, repeat. It works, but it's friction — switching between windows, retyping device serials, manually grep-ing through logcat noise. padb is a Python-based terminal UI that wraps all of that into one interactive session. No GUI required, no Android Studio open in the back