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A developer has published smart-retry, an open-source TypeScript library designed to handle API call retries more intelligently than existing solutions. Unlike generic retry wrappers, it offers drop-in clients for both Axios and Fetch, along with automatic disk logging of exhausted requests, preserving details such as URL, method, headers, body, and error for later inspection or replay. The library retries only meaningful failures by default, including network errors, timeouts, HTTP 429s, and 5xx responses, with an option to override this behaviour via a custom callback. It is available on npm under the package name @aubaid/smart-retry, with the source code hosted on GitHub. The project is actively seeking contributors, with several open issues labelled as good first issues covering areas such as test coverage, type improvements, and documentation.
A developer built a browser game where players recreate brand colors from memory using hue, saturation, and lightness sliders, scoring each guess by measuring the color distance in CIE Lab space. The original scoring formula mapped a ΔE of 0–50 onto 100–0 points, but this meant the entire rating vocabulary compressed into a range far tighter than where real player guesses actually landed. After registering score as a custom metric in GA4 and collecting 232 samples, the developer found every round averaged below the lowest rating threshold, with 27.8% of guesses scoring a flat zero. The root problem was that a typical human guess sits around ΔE 37 — a competent performance — yet the old curve already treated anything past ΔE 27.5 as a failure. The fix raised the zero-point to ΔE 90 and added a gentle exponent curve, dropping zero-score guesses from 27.8% to 2.3% and aligning the rating bands with how people actually play.
A model known as 'ox-alpha' on r/LocalLLaMA was officially identified on August 26 as GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B parameter mixture-of-experts model released under the MIT license. The reveal highlighted the accelerating pace of local AI model releases, with Qwen3 shipping five versions in just 36 days between July 19 and August 24. Developers argue this rapid churn creates a recurring cost for AI agents that store memory in a model's context window, as every model swap requires re-tuning prompts, retesting tool calls, and re-ingesting curated context. To address this, a tool called Uteke stores agent memory in a local SQLite and vector index that any model can access via MCP or CLI, keeping memory intact across model changes. Its developers report a 42ms median recall time across 10,000 memories and a Recall@5 score of 0.946 on long-horizon benchmarks.
A developer has spent the past two to three weeks building Unity_access, a plugin designed to make the Unity Editor compatible with screen readers, particularly NVDA. Recent updates include a new Assets Viewer that lets users browse, rename, move, and delete project files, addressing a longstanding accessibility gap in the Editor's Project Window. An Options Menu, accessible via Shift+F10, enables users to perform object-level actions such as duplicating, parenting, and creating Prefabs — a key Unity feature for reusable game objects. Additional additions include a basic Console for reading logs and errors, a scene creation tool, an accessible Project Settings window, and a Build Profile window for managing project builds. The plugin is written in C#, available on GitHub, and the developer is actively seeking feedback from blind game developers and experienced Unity users.
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