41+ min ago   (110+ words) "I used to write the same code over and over. Copy, paste, tweak one word. Then I learned about functions — and my code got 10x shorter. Here's how they work and why I use them everywhere now." Problem: If I want…...

51+ min ago   (474+ words) npm i -D eslint-plugin-import installs 205 packages. That number is true and almost useless, which is the problem with every dependency-weight argument I have read. 69 of those packages are ESLint itself. Since npm 7, peer dependencies install automatically, so any plugin declaring…...

59+ min ago   (236+ words) Education Track: Build Apps with Google AI Studio For my first project using Google AI Studio's new "Build apps with Gemini" feature, I set out to build Mythic Forge, an interactive web application that acts as an RPG Character Portrait…...

4+ hour, 12+ min ago   (174+ words) React startTransition Without useTransition: The Standalone API Teams Keep Overlooking in... Tagged with javascript, react, webdev, node....

5+ hour, 15+ min ago   (173+ words) If you are building a text input that restricts users to a specific character limit (like a tweet, an SMS gateway, or an SEO meta tag), your first instinct is probably to use String.prototype.length. If you are doing…...

5+ hour, 10+ min ago   (28+ words) Tired of usual bland QR codes that don't show off your brand? I made a simple API to create fully... Tagged with python, api, backend, tools....

5+ hour, 45+ min ago   (596+ words) I work on LensUp, which does exactly that — the whole pipeline runs in the tab, and files are never uploaded. Disclosure up front: it's our tool, and this post is about the parts that were harder than the pipeline itself....

5+ hour, 53+ min ago   (415+ words) gh api --paginate --slurp --jq 'length' is the command everyone reaches for to count issues in a repository. It does not count issues. It counts pages. I found this while writing pagination recipes for a toolkit, and then found the…...

6+ hour, 38+ min ago   (502+ words) In the modern React ecosystem, "reusability" has been elevated from a best practice to a full-blown theology. We are taught from our first tutorial that DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) is the ultimate virtue. If you write the same button twice,…...

6+ hour, 34+ min ago   (196+ words) While building a small browser-based facial-proportion tool, I found that a few engineering choices matter more than adding another model. The pipeline starts with 478 detected facial landmarks and derives four displayed proportions: harmony, symmetry, eye area, and jawline. The important…...