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ProgrammingDEV Community ·
How I Built Browser-Based Image Tools Without Uploading User Files
I've used plenty of online image tools over the years. Resize an image. Compress it. Convert WebP to JPG. Convert HEIC to JPG.
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ProgrammingDEV Community ·
What Really Happens When You Open Netflix and Play a Movie?
You open Netflix, scroll through a few titles, find a movie you've been waiting to watch, and tap Play. A moment later, the screen changes, the movie starts playing, and everything feels almost effortless. But what actually happened between tapping Play and seeing the first frame? Your request had to pass through multiple backend services. Netflix needs to identify your account, determine what content you're allowed to watch, locate the appropriate media, choose suitable streaming infrastructure, and deliver the video to your device.
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ProgrammingDEV Community ·
Polymarket Trading Bot Execution Analytics: What Should You Measure After the Trade?
A Polymarket trading bot can be running normally and still have problems you won't notice from the P&L. Orders may be taking longer to execute. Partial fills may be increasing. Rejections may be happening more often. Execution state may be staying unresolved longer than expected.
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ProgrammingDEV Community ·
The hard part of an editable table is knowing what changed
Editing is the feature people ask data grid libraries for most, and "how do I get the row's values after an edit?" is one of the most-read grid questions on Stack Overflow. The question is telling. Nobody struggles to put an input box in a cell. They struggle with what comes after it: Which cells did the user change, and what were they before? Is this value allowed, and how does the user find out it is not?
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ProgrammingDEV Community ·
Patch Matrix for CVE-2026-86350: Which Apache Tomcat Builds Need 11.0.26, 10.1.60 or 9.0.122
Patch Matrix for CVE-2026-86350: Which Apache Tomcat Builds Need 11.0.26, 10.1.60 or 9.0.122 Operator summary CVE-2026-86350 is an Important-severity Apache Tomcat defect involving a request header mix-up in HTTP/2 handling. It is a regression from the fix for CVE-2026-41293. Remediation is a version move, and the correct target depends on the branch a server runs. Branch Vulnerable range Fixed release Vendor commit Tomcat 11.0.x 11.0.22 to 11.0.25 11.0.26 192bc749 Tomcat 10.1.x 10.1.55 to 10.1.59 10.1.60 259e938d Tomcat 9.0.x 9.0.118 to 9.0.121 9.0.122 5adadc4e Tomcat 8.5 does not appear agai
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ProgrammingHacker News ·
The characters of plastics (2024)
Article URL: https://yarchive.net/blog/plastics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941764 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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ProgrammingDEV Community ·
Handling Legal Document Metadata and File Integrity in Cross-Border Civil Registration Workflows
If you've ever built a system that touches legal or civil documents (court filings, immigration paperwork, civil registry integrations), you've probably run into a problem that has nothing to do with the law and everything to do with files: how do you guarantee that a document a human scanned, an agency authenticated, and a translator certified is still the same document by the time it lands in a database or gets submitted to a foreign authority? The source article on certified translation of divorce decrees for foreign registration covers the legal side well: apostilles, consular legalisation
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ProgrammingDEV Community ·
Building a Zero-Trust Faculty Recruitment Agent & AI Triage Pipeline with Sanity CMS & Gemini published
This is a submission for the Sanity Challenge, Path Two: Vibe-Code Something Strange Most AI recruitment chatbots on the web are toy implementations: ungrounded wrappers that hallucinate job requirements, invent benefits, and indiscriminately tell applicants, "You’d be a great fit, apply now!" In high-stakes domains like school education, ungrounded AI is a legal and regulatory liability. Under statutory boards like CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) and the NCTE (National Council for Teacher Education), teacher appointments are strictly governed by statutory Bye-Laws (e.g., Section 5
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ProgrammingDEV Community ·
Structured Outputs for AI-Generated Financial Models: Schemas Before Spreadsheets
Generating a financial model with an LLM is not primarily a spreadsheet-generation problem. It is a data-contract problem. When an LLM is asked to create a financial model directly in Excel, several important decisions can become implicit. What is an input? Which numbers are assumptions?
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ProgrammingDEV Community ·
Why SOP Templates Beat Blank Docs for Small Businesses
The blank document is the enemy of getting things done. When a small business needs its first onboarding checklist, leave policy or invoice process, the owner usually opens a new doc, types a heading, stares at it — and the policy never gets written. This is where SOP templates beat blank docs, and it's not even close. Starting from zero requires you to (1) know what sections a good process document needs, (2) phrase instructions clearly, and (3) structure it so someone else can actually follow it. Most small-business owners have the knowledge but not the documentation muscle — so the knowledg
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ProgrammingDEV Community ·
8 Voice AI Features Most Developers Overlook
1. Real‑Time Voice Cloning Modern voice AI isn’t just about generating speech from text. Developers often forget that you can clone a voice on the fly and stream it back to the user in milliseconds. ElevenLabs provides a low‑latency endpoint that accepts a short audio clip, extracts a speaker embedding, and then synthesizes new text in that voice instantly. import requests, json # 1️⃣ Upload a short clip to get a speaker ID clip = open("sample.wav", "rb").read() resp = requests.post( "https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/voice/clone", files={"file": clip}, headers={"xi-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"} ) spea
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ProgrammingDEV Community ·
Beyond PR Counts: How Hacktoberfest 2026's Quality-First Pivot Is Reshaping Open Source Development Habits
Originally published on tamiz.pro. For nearly a decade, Hacktoberfest operated on a simple, gamified metric: submit four pull requests to qualifying repositories in October, earn a t-shirt. The model drove participation numbers that made headlines, but it also created a well-documented quality problem. Spam PRs, drive-by "fix typos" submissions, and low-effort changes flooded maintainers' queues every October, eroding trust between contributors and maintainers. Hacktoberfest 2026's revised framework marks a decisive break from that model.
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ProgrammingDEV Community ·
Internet-Exposed RDP Is Still the Ransomware On-Ramp the Gunra Advisory Warns About
Internet-Exposed RDP Is Still the Ransomware On-Ramp the Gunra Advisory Warns About The Gunra ransomware advisory published on 10 August 2026 lists three key actions for defenders. The first is to prioritise patching known exploited vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems, and it names virtual private network gateways and RDP-exposed infrastructure in the same breath [1]. The pairing is deliberate. Remote Desktop Protocol remains one of the shortest paths from the public internet into an internal network. The advisory maps Gunra's initial access to the exploitation of known vulnerabilities
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ProgrammingDEV Community ·
Opus 5.5 Video Examples: 13 Code-Rendered Clips and Their Prompts
Claude Opus 5.5 makes video by writing the animation as code. A browser draws that code one frame at a time, and the frames get encoded into an MP4. So the output behaves like motion design work: crisp typography, exact colors, mocked-up interfaces, charts, and shape-to-shape transitions. Across 475 public Opus 5.5 videos, about six in ten are motion graphics, four in five are 16:9 landscape, and the median length is 30 seconds. Veo, Kling, and Seedance output pixels.
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ProgrammingDEV Community ·
WooCommerce Performance: Why Your Store Is Slow
Almost every WooCommerce performance investigation starts the same way. The store owner has already moved to a faster host, installed a caching plugin, and bought an image optimiser, and the site is still slow. They conclude that WooCommerce is simply heavy and give up. WooCommerce is heavier than a brochure site, which is unavoidable when every page can carry a cart. But a store that takes six seconds to load is not suffering from that overhead.
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ProgrammingDEV Community ·
Stop Context Switching: Introducing Stitch, an Energy-Guided Developer Workspace 🧵
Have you ever started your workday staring at a mountain of repositories, lost track of which PRs need your review, and felt completely drained before writing a single line of code? As developers, we are constantly context-switching between reviewing PRs, sketching out architectures, addressing bugs, and executing deep work. Traditional tools treat all these tasks equally, but our brains don't. That's why I built Stitch—a productivity-first developer dashboard that groups and manages your GitHub repositories by your active energy level. The core philosophy behind Stitch is simple: match your t
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ProgrammingDEV Community ·
Backlink Monitoring and SEO Audits in Practice
Backlinks are still one of the strongest signals a search engine uses to judge a page — a link from another site is, in effect, a vote of confidence. But votes can be lost, redirected or turn toxic, so monitoring them is an ongoing job, not a one-off task. Here is how backlink monitoring and SEO audits work in practice. A practical SEO audit looks at three layers: Technical health — broken links, redirect chains, missing meta descriptions, mobile usability, and indexation status. On-page content — title tags, heading structure, thin or duplicate content, and keyword coverage.
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ProgrammingDEV Community ·
How Daily Gold Karat Prices Are Tracked and Calculated
Gold is one of the few things most people buy priced by purity. Walk into a jewellery shop in Riyadh or Dubai and the board behind the counter lists prices for 24K, 22K, 21K and 18K gold — each updated daily, often shown in both English and Arabic. But where do those numbers actually come from? Here is how daily gold karat prices are tracked and calculated. Every calculation begins with the international spot price of pure gold — the 24K benchmark quoted in US dollars per troy ounce.
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ProgrammingHacker News ·
Memory-Safe WebP Decoding
Article URL: https://halide.cx/blog/wpd/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941641 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
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ProgrammingDEV Community ·
Merge many Excel/CSV files into one sheet: Power Query steps and 3 gotchas
Every month someone sends you twelve branch reports, or a folder of CSV exports, and you spend an hour copy-pasting them into one sheet. Excel already has a built-in way to do this: Power Query. Here is the short version, plus three things that usually break it. Put all files you want to merge in one folder (nothing else in it). In a new workbook: Data > Get Data > From File > From Folder, pick the folder.