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Chris Heilmann

Tool Showcase: Marta.sh a fast, native, fully customisable and extensible two-panel file commander

Marta is a free, super fast, fully customisable two pane file manager that makes organising a large hard drive a breeze compared to using Finder. Organising lots of files with Finder isn’t fun or ...

3 days ago

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 236: Load-Bearing Verschlimmbesserung, Asteroids and Drive-bys…

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 236 . 🤖 AI coding will prevent expertise 🔩 Why Claude uses “load-bearing” 👁️ Understanding AI systems visually 🎨 10 anti-AI slop moves for frontend projects 🛡️ Huggin...

3 days ago

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Chris Heilmann

Tool Showcase: Three tools to help you find what's clogging up your hard drive

Isn’t it amazing that no matter how big a hard drive you have, it is always 70% full in no time? The issue is that operating systems don’t have a good way to tell you where your storage went. Here ...

8 days ago

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Markus Eisele

Your AI coding tool is getting used. But is it doing anything useful?

A practical guide to reading adoption and spend data without fooling yourself. Your usage dashboard is green. Developers are active. The AI assistant is firing on all cylinders. But the sprint stil...

9 days ago

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 235: Tokens vs. Cost, the 1/3 AI Web & a Button to Fix It All!

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 235 . 🤏 Why token reduction doesn’t mean cost reduction 🧠 How to write agent skills ⚡ How to make LLMs 3x faster 🌐 1/3 of new websites are written by AI 🚫 737 Chrome ...

10 days ago

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Chris Heilmann

Tool Showcase: mac-ocr - extract text from images locally on your computer

Mac OCR is a free tool that allows you to extract text from images locally on your computer. This enables you to find images faster and agents to convert them without using up any tokens. Apple’s...

16 days ago

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 234: How X's Feed Works, Top 10 CI/CD Risks & Meat Proxies

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 234 . 🤖 How software teams use AI 🥩 How not to be a “meat proxy” 🔐 Web security is too hard 🛡️ The top 10 CI/CD security risks 🤥 JSON.stringify is a liar! 🧩 HTML can ...

17 days ago

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Daniel Cranney

HTML Input Attributes That Make Your Forms Smarter

Good forms are harder to build than they look — intuitive input, sensible validation, minimal friction on mobile. But a handful of native HTML attributes get you most of the way there for free. Bel...

21 days ago

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Daniel Cranney

Dev Digest 233: Strip AI Watermarks, Hacked Homelabs & Designing with Code

Inside last week’s Dev Digest 233 . 🦩 Why AI companies are obsessed with pelicans 🤖 Which AI to use to do different tasks 🎯 AI users are 3x less accurate but twice as confident 🌐 HTML is unsafe ac...

24 days ago

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Aishi Huang

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Chris Heilmann

Trustworthy AI Starts at Deployment: 5 Checks Before You Ship

Trustworthy AI is not a slogan. It is a release standard. Most AI features do not fail because nobody talked about ethics. They fail because they get shipped like ordinary features, even though the...

25 days ago

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Scott Wirth

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Chris Heilmann

Generating ODF Files in JavaScript — Without LibreOffice

European governments are mandating OpenDocument Format (ODF) as the standard for public sector documents. Germany’s recent Deutschland-Stack decision and the EU’s push for digital sovereignty mean ...

27 days ago

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Igor Khokhriakov

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Chris Heilmann

How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again

The Problem: Big Science, Tiny Teams Between 2012 and 2016, we built a control system for high-throughput tomography beamlines at PETRA III (DESY, Hamburg) and FRM II (Munich) – facilities where re...

29 days ago