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This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built Every screen-time app I have tried fights screen time with more screen time. Streaks, badges, weekly reports, notifications telling me to check my notifications. I wanted the opposite: a tool whose whole job is to make itself unnecessary. touchgrass is a tiny command line tool. You tell it how much time you have and how you feel, and an open-weight model running on your ow...

What Is Voice Cloning, Anyway? If you’ve ever heard a synthetic voice that sounds exactly like a real person, you’ve experienced voice cloning. In a nutshell, voice cloning is a subset of text‑to‑speech (TTS) that captures the nuances of a specific speaker—intonation, pacing, breathiness, even the tiny quirks that make a voice unique. The result is a model that can read any arbitrary text while sounding just like the original speaker. For developers, voice cloning opens doors to persona...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built TerraTale is a treasure map of your neighbourhood that is blank until you walk it. You start with a sheet of parchment and exactly one hex inked in: wherever you live. Every real walk inks in the ground you actually covered. A local Gemma writes the legend for what is there. Print it weekly. It is for anyone who already walks and wants the walking itself to be the point...

I've been working on RespKit , a Go package for keeping HTTP responses consistent across an application. The idea came from something pretty ordinary: writing the same response-formatting and error-handling code in different handlers. One endpoint returns data , another returns result , and error responses gradually pick up their own formats too. I wanted a shared place to handle those decisions, with simple defaults and room to customize things as an application grows. Repo: github...

Since Nx 21, custom task runners ( tasksRunnerOptions ) don't run, and in May 2026 Nx deprecated its own bucket plugins ( @nx/s3-cache , @nx/gcs-cache , @nx/azure-cache , @nx/shared-fs-cache ). The replacement for teams that won't use Nx Cloud is the self-hosted HTTP cache that landed in Nx 20.8: two environment variables and any server that implements Nx's OpenAPI spec. NX_SELF_HOSTED_REMOTE_CACHE_SERVER = https://cache.example.com NX_SELF_HOSTED_REMOTE_CACHE_ACCESS_TOKEN = <t...

In my last post, lesson 3 was "your database is the bottleneck, not Go" — use pgx, size the pool deliberately. A few of you asked what "deliberately" actually means. Fair question. Here's every pgxpool setting I touch in production, what it does, and the number I actually use. No theory — just the config running behind real traffic. 1. The pool is the choke point, not your code Go will happily spin up 10,000 goroutines to serve requests. If your pool holds 20 connections, 9,...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Touch Grass The Problem: The Screen-Time Paradox When you spend your days wrestling with complex code, algorithms, and computational physics, your brain hits a wall. Staring at a display longer yields zero marginal productivity. The best debugger is walking away from the screen. However, standard habit trackers feel like chores. I wanted to build something lighthearted, fast, and completely offline that rewards ...

## "Ball this weekend?" 💬 … seen by 14 Every football crew has this group chat. Someone asks on Wednesday, "Ball this weekend?" A few thumbs up. Somebody says "I dey." Friday comes, nobody has fixed a time, half the people forgot, and the other half are waiting to see who else is coming. By Saturday afternoon we're all still indoors, scrolling, telling ourselves we'll play next week. And when we do play, nothing is remembered. Who scored? Who carried the team? Who keeps claiming h...

Chasing unpaid invoices is the admin job most freelancers and virtual assistants put off the longest. Usually the problem isn't writing the email. It's that the list of who's late lives in one place and the reminder wording lives somewhere else, so it never feels like a two-minute job. A tip from another indie maker fixed this for me: put the reminder copy in the same row as the invoice, not on a separate page. When the row already says "INV-1010, Cedar Wellness, 40 days late" and the polite-...

When building Local Guides Ranking—a global leaderboard for Google Maps contributors—I wanted to give users a way to show off their stats on their own blogs and GitHub profiles. The requirement was simple: A live-updating badge that works everywhere. No iframes, no heavy JavaScript, just a clean image. The solution? Generating dynamic SVGs directly via PHP and serving them as standard images. Here is a breakdown of how I built it, the hurdles I faced, and how I solved them. 1. Gener...

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Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 147, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I missed you all, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) I'm back from parental leave! Part time, anyway. Thanks to everyone who sent well wishes […]

At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI." OpenAI would spend the day taking veiled shots at Meta's Muse, its primary competitor, for failing to keep users' data safe. […]

When it comes to TVs, the LG name has long been synonymous with OLEDs, continually leading Samsung and Sony as the top OLED manufacturer. But 2026 is all about RGB LED TVs. Almost every major company has released models with the new technology - including LG and its $3,600 75-inch Micro RGB evo MRGB95B that […]

Today, I’m talking with Peter Kafka, chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of the Channels podcast, about the gigantic Warner Bros.-Paramount merger and the future of the company now simply called Skydance. Skydance is owned by David Ellison, son of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, and its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery officially closed […]

After a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations. In a report Friday, the company detailed "unintended model actions," including submitting a false tip regarding an unsolved murder, that led to the decision. Although the impact of these behaviors was minimal […]

Sunmi is an undeniable force in K-pop. She first made her debut as a member of the Wonder Girls back in 2007, one of the first K-pop acts to really break through in the West. The English version of their single "Nobody" was the first K-pop song to hit the Billboard Hot 100 in October […]

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A few days ago I published the architecture behind Vicquant’s RAG Vault; a 9-stage retrieval pipeline built to ground financial AI answers in actual source documents, with strict citations, so a user asking “what’s my 401(k) contribution limit” gets an answer tied to a real document, not a model’s confident guess. The quality evaluation backed it up: +5.2% answer relevance, +16% context precision, +4% context recall over the simpler pipeline it replaced, with zero hallucinations measured on eith...

When building an AI-powered application, connecting a language model to real development assets can be surprisingly useful. Consider a dashboard builder. A developer describes the interface they want, and the application suggests components, layouts, and icons. The layout suggestions might be reasonable. But what happens when the model needs to recommend actual SVG icons? Without access to an icon catalog, it may suggest generic names, invent identifiers, or mix incompatible icon styles...