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Jerry's Map

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Valve confirms it’s working with Intel and Nvidia on SteamOS for more GPUs

MSI's Intel-powered Claw gaming handhelds have so far mostly been Windows machines, meaning that anyone who picks one up has to deal with the crusty experience that is Windows on a handheld gaming PC. But now, both Valve and Intel tell The Verge that they're working with each other, and people like YouTuber ETA Prime […]
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My go-to Kindle is back at its best price yet for Prime Day

If you’ve been thinking about picking up a Kindle, Amazon’s Prime Day sale is a great time to do it. The retailer is currently offering steep discounts on several of its e-readers, including the latest Kindle Paperwhite with 16GB of storage and ads, which is down to $124.99 ($35 off) at Amazon. If you’d prefer […]
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Sony’s AI Camera Assistant is exactly as bad as it looks

When Sony announced the Xperia 1 VIII last month, it promoted the phone by sharing some of the worst photos taken on a Sony camera in years. These weren't just any photos, though: they were taken with Sony's new AI Camera Assistant. After a week with the Xperia 1 VIII, I'm here to tell you […]
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The Oura Ring 4 is as low as $226 for Prime Day

Yes, the Oura Ring 5 just launched. But if you’re looking for a bargain and don’t mind a slightly thicker smart ring, then copping the last-gen Oura Ring 4 is still a smart and savvy move. Especially since the price is as low as $226 in most sizes and color schemes at Amazon for Prime […]
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Hoto’s 25-bit electric screwdriver is 40 percent off during Prime Day

You knew there’d be a Hoto deal, right? Whether you’re moving into a new apartment or tackling a growing list of small repairs around the house, a good electric screwdriver can save you time and effort. Hoto’s 3.6V Electric Screwdriver Kit Pro is one we love to recommend, especially because it’s on sale for $28.49 […]
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The Fitbit Air takes a smarter approach to the AI health dumpster fire

Google Health Coach seems to think I'm on the verge of physical collapse. My sleep is not where it needs to be, hence my unimpressive readiness score. My heart rate variability, a measure of how recovered I am, is below baseline. I'm spending too much time in a hot, humid environment, it says, reminding me […]
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How much would the Steam Machine cost to build?

The Steam Machine is here, with a base price of $1,049. Yes, that's nearly twice the price of a PS5, but what you're buying here isn't a console but a full-on PC - and a tiny one at that. Valve says it's selling the Steam Machine basically at cost. So we asked ourselves: What would […]
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Meta’s smart glasses now have a dedicated charging stand

Meta launched a stand accessory that lets you display the company's smart glasses on your desk or nightstand while they're being recharged. The new Charging Stand is listed at $59 on Meta's website - $30 less than the charging case for Meta's non-Ray-Ban glasses - and resembles a metal tube with a groove you can […]
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Something’s off with Midjourney’s pivot to body scanners

Last week, Midjourney, an AI startup best known for its image generator, made an unusual pivot: medical imaging. The company announced a futuristic ultrasound scanner that would dunk users into a vat of water and, hopefully, produce "something as powerful as MRI" yet "as casual as a trip to the spa." Midjourney says the goal […]
Block Ads Across Your Entire Network: Why AdGuard Home Overtakes
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Block Ads Across Your Entire Network: Why AdGuard Home Overtakes

Why AdGuard Home Overtook Pi-hole Last month, while attempting to add ad filtering to the internal network of a production ERP system, the Pi-hole configuration escalated to 85% CPU usage within an hour, causing DNS responses to lag. AdGuard Home resolved the same scenario with 3% CPU and an average latency of 15 ms , which is why it has dethroned Pi-hole. In the following sections, I detail the architecture, performance, security features, and my real-world deployment experience with both...
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Dev Log: 2026-06-22 — Configurable Schedulers, Load-Test Toolkits, and an MCP Server

Some days the work spreads across a few projects instead of landing as one big feature. Today was that — three distinct threads, each with a lesson worth keeping. I'll keep things generic and teach the pattern rather than the project, but the through-line is the same: move things that were hardcoded or ephemeral into something you can configure, repeat, and trust. Thread 1 — Make scheduled tasks configurable instead of code-only If you've run a Laravel app for any length of tim...
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npm Supply Chain RAT: PostCSS Impersonation & Dependency Confusion

Originally published on satyamrastogi.com Three malicious npm packages masquerading as PostCSS tools delivered Windows RAT payloads. Analysis of supply chain attack mechanics, payload delivery chains, and detection gaps in dependency management. Malicious npm Packages Pose as PostCSS Tools to Deliver Windows RAT Executive Summary This is a textbook supply chain attack leveraging npm's trust model. Three packages published in June 2026 - aes-decode-runner-p...
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The Tool Found Corridor Nodes — But the Bigger Finding Was Where It Found None

A few weeks ago I published corridor-lab — a Docker lab that proved a triage mismatch: a service that stores nothing sensitive can become high-priority because of where it sits in the path to a sensitive downstream system. The lab proved the premise. The next question was whether a tool could identify those nodes automatically — without manual path declaration, without value labels, from graph position alone. So I built corridor-id. You point it at a Docker Compose file. It discovers the...
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Stop Writing Boilerplate Code: Automate Code Generation with Eclipse Xtext.

I've been working as Software Developer mainly focussed on Java and builts many application using Eclipse RCP framework or VS Code Application. Almost all the time I had to deal with multiple large files (either read/generate/validate) them which seemed very difficult and some of them almost impossible as most of them would be dependant on each other and would be referencing each other (just like how java files work together). Now assume client1 requires the same content in multiple Json f...
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What Western Devs Need to Know Before Visiting China in 2026: Alipay, WeChat Pay & the Mobile Web

If you write software for a living and you're considering a trip to China in 2026, the friction you'll hit is not what you expect. The Great Firewall is the headline, but it's rarely what trips up a first-time visitor. What actually breaks your week is the small stuff: a QR code at a noodle shop, a metro turnstile that won't take your foreign card, a hotel Wi-Fi that quietly drops every request to Google. This is a brief survival guide written from a developer's mindset: what's actually chang...
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A Day of Performance Hardening: Hunting N+1s and Killing Wasted Queries in Laravel

Performance work has a reputation for being glamorous — the heroic "we cut latency by 80%" story. Most days it's not that. Most days it's a janitorial pass: you go looking for the queries you're firing without realizing it, and you quietly delete them. That was today. One sustained sweep across an app and the package that backs it, chasing the same theme everywhere: stop asking the database for things you don't use. Let me walk through the patterns, because they generalize to any Laravel ap...
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Dev Log: 2026-06-23 — Query Cleanups, Real Health Checks, Safer MCP Tools, and Password-Reset Plumbing

A wide day rather than a deep one — four separate threads across a few projects, each with a lesson worth keeping. I'll teach the patterns and keep the specifics generic. The through-line: make the system honest about what it's actually doing — which queries it fires, whether a service is really up, what a tool will do when you call it twice, and in what order a password change should land. The performance thread got big enough that I split it into its own focused post; here's the short ver...
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AI Studio is untapped territory for a large set of Developers and rightfully So..

This post is my submission for DEV Education Track: Build Apps with Google AI Studio . What I Built I set out to build the same app as the one mentioned in the Tutorial. Please create an app that generates a unique new Magic the Gathering card, using Imagen for the visuals, and Gemini to create the text descriptions and stats for the card. Apply the "Sophisticated Dark" design theme to the app. Spammed Fix Errors Non-Stop After this other than the Manual Entry option. ...
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The One Prompt Engineering Trick That Actually Works

Your prompts are fine. Your AI output is still garbage. You write carefully. You're specific. You ask for the format, the tone, the length. Hit enter. The AI responds with something that sounds like it was written by a committee of lawyers having a really bad day. Here's what you don't realize: You're not telling the AI to do something. You're describing the problem, and the AI is solving for the statistical average. The fix isn't more detailed instructions. It's three examples. Th...
11 Must-Read Software Architecture and Design Books for Developers
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11 Must-Read Software Architecture and Design Books for Developers

Disclosure: This post includes affiliate links; I may receive compensation if you purchase products or services from the different links provided in this article. Hello friends, System design ** and ** Software design are two important topics for tech interviews and two important skills for Software developers. Without knowing how to design a system, you cannot create new software, and it will also be difficult to learn and understand existing software and systems. That's why big...