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The Longest Hall — Nexus Ragnarok A mythic‑cyber arena built for the June Solstice Game Jam, where light and darkness, identity and liberation, and code and consciousness collide. What I Built The Longest Hall is a solstice‑driven level inside my ongoing project Nexus Ragnarok. The hall is split into two realms: Day Side — Hall of Identity: a radiant space of refracted Pride‑spectrum light, mirrors, and visibility puzzles. Night Side — Hall of Memory: a star‑filled chamber where chains brea...

Edge computing is now the backbone of industrial AI. Cloud-only architectures consistently fail in factory environments where latency requirements are measured in single-digit milliseconds, internet connections drop without warning, and a single conveyor belt vibration sensor generates over 10 GB of data per day. We have deployed edge AI systems across steel plants, sugar refineries, and power stations over the past two years. These are the five architectural patterns that consistently survive t...

Quick context: final-year CS student, self-teaching full-stack via 100xDevs. College isn't teaching me real dev skills, so I'm doing it myself. What I've built so far: Counter App, Todo CRUD API, Users API, Hospital API Books API — fully solo, no help Auth Server with JWT (signup/login/middleware/protected routes) 4 LeetCode done, targeting 50+ by August The actual problem: I understand the concepts. But in interview settings, I freeze and under-explain things I know. Just had a moc...

This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam Coordinate systems. Rotated bounding boxes. A sine wave cycling 637 times per second. A tribute to Alan Turing hidden in binary light. This is how Solstice Village came to be. The Idea June 21. The longest day. Light and darkness at their most dramatic inflection point. I wanted something that felt like the solstice — not a platformer about suns, not a timer counting daylight seconds. I wanted the quiet tension o...

LLM API calls fail between 1% and 5% of the time in production. Not from hallucinations. From 429 errors nobody handled. You've probably seen this: you ship an agent, everything works in staging, prod hits a burst of traffic, the provider throttles you, and suddenly your agent is retrying forever, burning tokens on every attempt, and the cost graph spikes sideways. The incident isn't model quality. It's the retry loop you forgot to fence. I've written about production architecture for ag...

We have all been there. It is 2:00 AM, and your phone starts screaming on the nightstand. You squint at the screen to see a cryptic alert: "login error rate jumped 5x." Your heart sinks because you know exactly what comes next. You crawl out of bed, open your laptop, and begin the frantic detective work. You start digging through deployment logs and scrolling through a long list of recent Merge Requests. You check Slack to see who was active late in the day. You are under maximum pressure t...

When building prototypes with Generative AI, velocity is everything. Developers want to stitch together prompts, text splitters, vector stores, and models as quickly as possible. This need for speed catalyzed the explosive rise of orchestration frameworks like LangChain. However, as a backend systems engineer with over a decade of experience maintaining production microservices, my perspective changes when moving code from prototype to a high-volume enterprise environment. In production engin...

My wife doesn't want to put her artwork online as she does not want it to be used to train LLMs. I wonder if this has culminated in any libraries that makes it feasible for me to build her a custom site where the artwork is processed to defeat LLM training. I don't have a lot of front-end experience, but can cobble together a simple site with a static site generator. (I have used eleventy for my band's website.)

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Hi everyone, I'm a student from Flanders and I like to use Claude Code for my purposes, ideas and also just for fun and also make solutions for problems in our world!) So that's why I built "Pulse", it's an local application that you can easily install to your device and easily follow what your claude agent is doing right now in your terminal session with an ambiance design and easily give permissions for your agent. For those who wants to see directly how much tokens you spent, and how much th...

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Howdy all. I'm Zack :wave:. I've been thinking about the problem of misguided AI pull requests and figured I'd throw a possible solution out there for feedback. Basically, CleverCrow lets supporters give tokens to a GitHub repo (or set of issues in that repo) for the maintainers to use to build/fix stuff. The fun implementation challenges have been around implementing the pooling dynamics and keeping the maintainers in charge while the backers are motivated to support their work. Comments UR...

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If you had a Roomba, especially in the early days of the robot vacuum, it was in many ways a fairly unsophisticated machine. It would just bump around your house, looking for something to suck up, until its battery died or its (way too small) tank filled up. Not that it mattered, though. You probably […]

According to a Wall Street Journal investigation, Polymarket has been paying people to film themselves placing fake bets and celebrating fake wins on social media. WSJ identified over 1,100 deceptive clips and talked to creators who, despite not stating as such in their videos, confirmed the company paid them to create the clips. The videos […]

Siri’s AI overhaul may have grabbed the headlines at WWDC, but some of Apple’s most useful AI features are arriving elsewhere in iOS 27.

On the new episode of Equity, we discussed what actually prompted the administration's latest moves against Anthropic, and what this might mean for the AI ecosystem.

Originally published at woitzik.dev I assumed my homelab repo was clean. No one had ever flagged anything in review (there is no one else reviewing it), CI was green, and I generally try to use Vault and ExternalSecrets for anything sensitive. Then I ran a full-history gitleaks detect against it. It found 12 distinct secrets committed in plaintext — including the OIDC private key that signs SSO tokens for half the cluster. This is the scanning setup I put in place afterward, th...

Choosing a learning path is one of the most critical decisions you make as a beginner. When I set out to learn web development, I knew exactly what I needed: resources that were thorough, accessible 24/7, and completely free—both online and in print. Before settling on my 2026 learning path, I experimented with a few popular options. Here is a look at what I tried, why they didn’t quite stick, and where I ultimately landed. What Didn’t Work for Me Scrimba Scrimba offers hig...

If you've worked with Angular Material, you know theming can be one of the trickiest parts of the library — especially after the move to Material 3. Token-based theming, custom palettes, dark mode, component-level overrides... there's a lot going on under the hood. I built a full course to break it all down, and I'm excited to announce it's now completely free . What's in the course Angular Material Theming System is a deep, practical walkthrough of Angular Material's themi...

Why Bohmian Mechanics, Go Programs, AI, and EBP 2.1 Could Help Reopen the Deepest Questions in Physics There is a quiet crisis in theoretical physics, and it has nothing to do with the equations. The equations are fine. Quantum mechanics predicts with staggering accuracy. General relativity bends light exactly as calculated. The Standard Model matches experiment after experiment. The mathematics is not the problem. The problem is what happens between the equations and the claims. ...

An App Store rating looks like a verdict. It behaves more like a monument, built over years and slow to move. It says very little about how this month's users feel. I took the 12 most-rated Productivity apps on the US App Store, 32 million ratings between them, and split the headline star into the two numbers it hides: how far recent sentiment has fallen below the lifetime average, and whether the developer replies when users complain. How it is measured Population truth. ...