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One Draft, Eight Platforms, One Command

How long does it take to publish one article? If you run a one-person company, the honest answer isn't "the few hours of writing." It's everything that comes after — moving it into your newsletter, copying it to one dev community, pasting it into another, translating it for an English audience, cutting a short version for X, dropping a note somewhere else. That relay of copy-paste-reformat costs more energy than the writing itself. This week I killed that chore. Now I finish a draft, drop ...
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I Can't Really Code. I Built an Indexing Monitor With Claude Anyway.

Three weeks ago a page that had been pulling steady search traffic for over a year disappeared from Google. Not deranked, just gone. I only noticed by accident, about ten days later, while poking around Search Console for something unrelated. Ten days of a page earning nothing because nobody, including me, was watching. Some background: I'm a marketer. I run a small agency, I publish a lot of pages across a few sites, and my technical ceiling for the last decade has been editing HTML that som...
The Case of the Lying Clock: 5 Vue Mysteries Solved
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The Case of the Lying Clock: 5 Vue Mysteries Solved

Every detective has their cold cases. These are mine — five Vue concepts that confused me until I investigated them properly. Grab your magnifying glass. Case #1: The Lying Clock Imagine you set an alarm to go off every 60 seconds. You press start at 10:00:00. First alarm: 10:01:00 — perfect Second alarm: 10:02:00 — still good But your phone is also doing other things: checking email, refreshing weather, running background tasks. Sometimes it fires the alarm a tiny bi...
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Route by Task, Not by Hype: A Budget-Aware Harness for Trying New Coding Models

Every few weeks a new checkpoint drops and the timeline fills up with claims that it's cheaper, smarter, and about to change everything. Some of those claims hold up. Many don't. And even when a model genuinely is better on public leaderboards, that tells you almost nothing about whether it's better on your codebase, your tasks, and your budget . I wrote previously about building a reproducible harness before wiring any model into your workflow. This article is the sequel nobody asked for bu...
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My MCP Tool's Empty-Payload Guard Checks Whether You Passed a Field. It Never Checked Whether the Field Would Actually Change Anything.

Back in early August I fixed a bug in update_article , one of the tools in this repo's DEV.to MCP server. The bug was straightforward: the tool built its PUT payload from three optional parameters, and if a caller passed none of them, it still fired a GET and a PUT with an empty {"article": {}} body against a live published post, then logged a no-op entry to the audit trail as if something had happened. The fix was a guard: raise before either network call if the built payload dict ends up em...
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Stop Comparing AI Coding Tools by Autocomplete Quality

The biggest mistake in choosing an AI coding tool is comparing autocomplete latency. Cursor and Windsurf are editors with agent abilities. Claude Code works mostly through a terminal on your local repository. GitHub Copilot spans IDEs, GitHub, code review, and a cloud agent. Replit Agent connects generation to a hosted environment where the app actually runs. CodeGeeX provides affordable IDE help for Chinese-language development. They execute in different places. That means a single "best AI ...
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The Jeff Dean Canon
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The Jeff Dean Canon

A primary-source reading guide to Jeff Dean’s 27 years at Google, from distributed systems and AI infrastructure to Discovery Loop.
The AI CapEx Bubble Is Hitting a Physical Wall
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The AI CapEx Bubble Is Hitting a Physical Wall

How Wall Street is packaging depreciating silicon into complex structured notes to siphon public teacher and police retirement funds into the AI bubble....
The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy
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The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy

Open models may soon be added to an updated AI framework, sources tell WIRED, as the White House continues to grapple with how to regulate a technology it has tried not to regulate.
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Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful

Article URL: https://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/Impressions/PrincipiaMathematica.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279928 Points: 75 # Comments: 29
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Build Wide, Ship Narrow

Article URL: https://adapt.com/blog/build-wide-ship-narrow Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280047 Points: 49 # Comments: 6
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Cats and dogs are missing meals after a popular smart feeder went down

A Petlibro outage is preventing its smart pet feeders and other devices from performing scheduled tasks, like dispensing food. The outage began on Tuesday, with users across Reddit reporting that their smart feeders, litter boxes, and water fountains have gone offline. Though Petlibro maintains that "existing settings and schedules stored locally on your device will […]
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This 8BitDo mechanical keyboard has an extra keypad and is 30 percent off

If you’re looking for a mechanical keyboard that can give your desk a touch of retro flair, Amazon has 8BitDo’s Retro Mechanical Keyboard with Dual Super Buttons on sale for $69.99, one of the lowest prices we’ve seen for the bundle. The styling on this keyboard is thorough, with blocky retro legends on the rounded […]
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Pixel 11 event live blog: Let’s watch Trevor Noah introduce Google’s new phones

It's almost time for the Made by Google keynote, where the company will show off the brand-new Pixel hardware it announced today. Like last year, it'll be a celebrity-packed live show, though Trevor Noah is hosting instead of Jimmy Fallon. If the 2025 show was any indication, today's broadcast might be something of a cringefest. […]