Backend Validation: AI Will Find the Gaps Your UI Hides
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Backend Validation: AI Will Find the Gaps Your UI Hides

Your checkout page has a discount field: type a code, the price drops 10%; type a wrong one, the button greys out. You tested it and it works β€” what you probably didn't test is the backend validation behind it. Now look at what the browser actually sends on "Pay": the cart, the code, and in a surprising number of apps, a total the page worked out for itself. If the server accepts that number as-is, the only thing stopping a 100% discount is JavaScript running in a browser the customer contr...
IoT VLAN on OPNsense: three firewall rules that don't break casting or Home Assistant
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IoT VLAN on OPNsense: three firewall rules that don't break casting or Home Assistant

Moving smart plugs, bulbs, TVs and cameras onto their own VLAN is the single biggest security win on a home network, and it is also the change most people roll back a week later because the cast button went grey and Home Assistant lost half its devices. The usual "fix" is an allow-any rule from IoT back into the house, which quietly undoes the whole point. This is the setup I use on OPNsense at home: an IoT zone with a three-rule firewall policy, plus the handful of narrow exceptions that kee...
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Why I am building Threshold around replaceable agent sessions
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Why I am building Threshold around replaceable agent sessions

About four months ago, I started using coding agents, beginning with Codex. Small tasks went well. I could describe a change, inspect the result, and move on. Longer projects felt different. As a conversation grew, it accumulated more than code: why I had chosen a direction, which alternatives I had rejected, what I wanted to leave alone, and the boundaries of the work. Some of that understanding lived only in the session. I became reluctant to replace it. I worried that a fresh agent woul...
Meshy AI 3D Generator Review 2026: 35 Credits, 69.18 MB Monkey
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Meshy AI 3D Generator Review 2026: 35 Credits, 69.18 MB Monkey

Disclosure: this is an independent hands-on test. Both tools were run on ordinary customer accounts; neither company supplied review access or saw this piece before publication. Picture a school ordering a set of mascot characters. Thirty of them. One per class. That's the job I was pricing out. And it starts with one drawing: a monkey in a graduation cap, holding a rolled diploma, red sash across the gown. I asked around for the best way to turn a picture into a 3D file. Two names kep...
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Simulate coding pre-AI by year

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AI does math. Should you get a PhD?

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AI companies are starting to do phones

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To Switch, or Not to Switch the AI Model

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Data Engineering for Multimodal AI

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The Jevons Paradox: Will AI Take Our Jobs?

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I paid people to try and follow my README

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The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME

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Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

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Open-Source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Replications

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