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Two weeks after launching Buildside, 130 people had joined. I did not have an ad budget or a huge email list. There was no secret growth trick. I grew Buildside by sharing the journey on X and LinkedIn, speaking with users, and letting their feedback guide the app. The biggest lesson I learned was: You have to market your product long before you launch it. I started marketing before the app was ready Many founders wait until their product feels finished before they talk abo...

I sat in on Margaret-Anne Storey's DORA community session last week, and she put a name on the thing I'd been circling since April. It isn't technical debt. Her ACM Queue piece splits software health into three debts. Technical debt is the familiar one: implementation choices that make tomorrow's change harder. Intent debt is the missing rationale, the goals and constraints that say what a system is even for, which now has to be legible to agents and not just to people. Cognitive debt is...

Originally published on indiecore.net . I deployed, opened the console on the live site out of habit, and found this: Loading the script 'https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/v3d52…' violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'inline-speculation-rules'". The action has been blocked. I had not added that script. It is in no template, no build output, and no dependency. grep -c cloudflareinsights dist/index.h...

Security teams have historically operated on instinct. A firewall rule feels right. A new tool seems like it will help. An audit finding gets patched because someone said it was important. That approach worked when security was a small, contained function bolted onto IT. It doesn't work anymore. Attack surfaces are larger, budgets are scrutinized more closely, and boards want to know whether the money spent on security is actually reducing risk. The answer to that pressure is metrics-driven secu...

Short answer: for a server-rendered learning app, create a short-lived session only after the phone code is verified, keep refresh as a separate state transition, and make recovery a deliberate path rather than an accidental logout loop. The useful design artifact is an auditable session record tied to a learner, device context, and recovery status. I build RAG and agent features in Python, so I tend to move from a notebook test to a production boundary quickly. Authentication deserves a slow...

Imagine an HR manager who has just completed this month’s hiring drive. Dozens of candidates have accepted their offers, and everyone is eager to onboard them as quickly as possible. But before that can happen, every background verification request has to move through multiple checks, vendors, approvals, and status updates. What should be a straightforward operational process often turns into hours of chasing spreadsheets, checking vendor portals, and answering the same status questions over and...

Most EM interview prep fails the same way. You pick three strong stories, polish them until they're tight, run them past a friend, and walk in confident. Then somebody asks how you'd handle a high performer who's difficult to work with, and none of your three stories touch it. That isn't a depth problem. It's a coverage problem, and it's the thing that makes the EM loop different from every IC loop you've done. An IC loop samples from a narrow surface. Systems, code, a couple of behavioura...

git reset --hard HEAD~3 — run in the wrong repository window, at 6:40pm, immediately followed by the specific kind of silence that happens when you realize what you just did before your brain finishes processing it. Three commits of uncommitted-adjacent work, gone from the working tree in under a second. The first, most important fact: it's very likely still there git reset --hard moves the branch pointer and resets the working tree, but Git doesn't actually delete commit obje...

Most engineers who stall at a level have the skill. What they don't have is anyone willing to explain the machine they're inside. The explanation you get from your manager is partial by design. They know their part of the process and not the committee's, so what comes back is "keep doing what you're doing, you're close." Which is true, and useless, and then you're close again next cycle. So here is the machine, reconstructed from what the four big companies publish, what their engineers wr...

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Buildhorn’s fourth Shipaton update covers RevenueCat subscription testing, Firebase Crashlytics, and Koin cleanup before App Store submission.

Could human brains solve AI's growing data center and energy problem? A wild look at AI, The Matrix, and biological computing.

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Donald Trump’s West Wing renovations and DC arch could be on the chopping block, should Democrats win the midterms—they could also be leverage.

Amazon just hiked prices on Kindles, Echo speakers, Eero routers, and Fire TV devices ahead of the holiday shopping season.

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model "works harder" than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex tasks and "calling tools iteratively." It has the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash, $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million […]

Uber beat out Waymo in launching a commercial robotaxi service in London, the city's first. The vehicles use autonomous driving tech developed by Wayve, a UK-based startup, and will initially feature safety drivers behind the wheel. The launch is a milestone for Uber, which has been plotting a UK launch with Wayve for several years. […]

The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days.

OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.

Google has dodged an effort to break up its ad business, but a judge said Wednesday that the company will need to adjust its business to benefit competitors.

The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.

Boiler repair often starts with a vague message: “It stopped working,” “the radiators are cold,” or “the pressure keeps changing.” Those descriptions are valid from a homeowner’s perspective, but they are not enough to route a request, estimate urgency, or prepare a technician. A small, human-readable data model can turn the first contact into a structured service record without asking the customer to diagnose the appliance. This article proposes a lightweight intake schema for heating-servic...

It happened during a Friday afternoon sermon. The mosque was silent, the imam was mid-sentence, and then, a familiar, high-pitched ringtone cut through the stillness like a knife. It was my phone. My face burned as I scrambled to silence it, realizing I had walked through the door completely forgetting that my phone was still in normal mode. That moment of shared, collective embarrassment—and the subsequent realization that I do this multiple times a week—is exactly why I started building Muffle...

The call comes from a number you don’t recognise, but the voice you do. It’s your daughter, or your father, or your boss, and they’re in trouble — a crash, an arrest, a locked account — and they need money now, and please don’t tell anyone. Every instinct you have is built to respond to that voice. And increasingly, that voice is software. Answer first, because this is a topic where the useful information is simple and the panic is not. AI voice cloning has taken a very old confidence trick —...

Short answer: I chose an API with scheduled SMS cancellation and polling because health reminders can become wrong between scheduling and delivery; I kept template ownership in the application so every change remains reviewable. That decision is narrower than “which messaging vendor is best?” A vaccination reminder, a lab pickup notice, and a medication alert have different expiry rules. In our backend, the message body is a versioned template, while the delivery service owns transport, statu...

Shopify's latest commerce analysis indicates that AI-referred shoppers can be more valuable per visit than organic-search visitors , particularly for products that require substantial research before purchase. In Q2 2026, Shopify found that shoppers referred by AI converted at roughly twice the rate of organic-search visitors in spec-led categories. The result follows similarly strong Q1 findings on conversion rates and order values. The important point is not that AI is replacing search o...

You close your laptop. You walk away. When you come back, the mouse is in a different position. A program you didn't open is running. Your passwords stop working. You might think: "Has my PC been hacked?" It's a terrifying thought. But the truth is, hackers don't always leave obvious traces. Sometimes the signs are quiet — a slightly slower system, a network connection you don't recognize, a webcam light that flickers for no reason. The good news? Hackers leave footprints...