A free Fabric mod called Tale of Kingdoms: The Shattered Crown transforms Minecraft into a role-playing game for version 26.2. Players can join a guild and progress through a main storyline containing 105 quests. The mod also offers 30 spells to learn and fifteen towns to explore. It is available for download through CurseForge, and the developer invites support via Patreon.
A DEV Community article explains the administrative side of scheduling software in VeloxonHub, covering work done after a booking is made. Appointments and events share one bookings table, with a status field and a separate payment status field kept apart. Admins approve, check in, or cancel bookings through small server requests, and the list refreshes without manual status edits. The calendar groups occurrences by localized date, defaulting to today plus 30 days, and hosts set weekly availability rules that limit bookable slots. Host permissions are determined server-side, and analytics such as no-show rates are computed through SQL aggregations, with the article emphasizing the denominator used.
A new free Fabric mod called Fallen Star introduces starfall events to Minecraft 26.2. On rare nights, stars fall from the sky, and players can race to the landing site. Those who reach it can then face a boss known as the Star Sovereign. The mod is available for download through CurseForge.
Getting the VAT rate right on UK invoices matters, since errors can mean overcharging clients or owing HMRC uncollected tax. The standard rate of 20 percent covers most goods and services, including electronics, adult clothing, restaurant meals and most professional and software services. A reduced 5 percent rate applies to a narrow set of items such as home energy, energy-saving installations, children's car seats and mobility aids. Zero-rated supplies are still taxable, meaning businesses charge nothing but can reclaim input VAT, unlike exempt supplies such as insurance, finance and most health services, where input VAT recovery is not allowed. Items outside the VAT system entirely, like statutory fees and wages, complete the framework, and freelancers are advised to check rates before quoting and show rates per line item.
Layoff Atlas data drawn from state WARN notices shows 8,520 workers scheduled for layoffs to take effect the week of October 30, the largest weekly total for October. The figures reflect employers' filed plans rather than confirmed job losses, and dates or counts can change as notices are revised. The week of November 13 carries the highest total on the current calendar at 8,744 workers, with November overall showing heavy scheduled cuts. Washington, California, Illinois, Texas and Ohio report the most affected workers across the 90-day window. Totals will shift as new notices are filed and older ones roll out of the window.
A developer has published their first website on Render as part of Hacktoberfest 2026. The post shares a link to the live site, hosted at a hello-render-hacktoberfest subdomain. The author says they are looking forward to completing more challenges during the coming week. The item is a brief personal update rather than a detailed report, so it provides few further specifics about the project itself.
A new free Fabric mod called Sky and Weather overhauls the sky in Minecraft 26.2. It introduces light scattering, volumetric clouds, and aurora effects. The mod also adds wind, storms, drifting snow, footprints, and seasonal changes. It is available for download through CurseForge, and the developer invites support via Patreon.
Saudi Arabia's Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority requires e-invoice QR codes to be cryptographic data structures rather than simple links. QR data must be organized using Tag-Length-Value encoding and then converted to a Base64 string before submission. Phase 1 requires five tags covering seller name, VAT number, timestamp, invoice total, and VAT total. Phase 2 adds four cryptographic tags for the invoice hash, digital signature, public key, and certificate signature. A developer guide published on DEV Community includes a TypeScript implementation and notes common rejection errors such as BR-KSA-26 and BR-KSA-27 when the TLV structure is non-compliant.
A developer is building LazyDesk AI, a concept for a lightweight AI-powered productivity assistant aimed at reducing repetitive digital tasks. The planned features include a note summarizer, a smart task manager, a daily planner, a text helper, a focus timer, and a saved notes function. The project favors open-source AI models and accessible web technologies so tools can be used without expensive subscriptions or complex setups. It is being built with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, optional local AI inference, and browser-based storage, with the final approach depending on what runs reliably on everyday hardware. The creator, who is using the project as a learning exercise for the Hacktoberfest DEV Challenge, plans to test core features, document setup, and invite community contributions.
Browser pixels miss a growing share of purchases due to Safari tracking protection, ad blockers, consent banners and short-lived cookies. Meta's Conversions API addresses this by sending the same events from a server. The article argues that deduplication, normalised SHA-256 hashing and match quality determine whether a server-side setup helps or hurts. It recommends a shared event_id, such as one derived from the order ID, so Meta can merge the browser and server copies of a Purchase event. It also shows a Node.js example that normalises personal data before hashing, while sending IP, user agent and click or browser identifiers unhashed.
A DEV Community tutorial shows how to build a Python agent that polls prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi for the same event's probabilities. The author cites an October 18, 2024 example in which the two platforms priced the Fed's October rate decision about four percentage points apart. Manually tracking several platforms is impractical, so the agent automates polling, normalizes contract prices to a 0-1 probability scale, and computes the spread. The design uses asyncio for concurrent requests, public APIs only, and explicit termination via a maximum iteration count or keyboard interrupt. The post also flags challenges such as differing API formats, inconsistent contract wording, and error handling.
A post on Hacker News drew five points and no comments, linking to an article hosted on awakin.org. The article is titled 'This I Believe' and is listed under the site's read section. The provided material contains only the link and engagement metadata, so the essay's actual content and arguments cannot be summarized. Readers would need to visit the linked page to learn what the piece covers.
Claude Code must know about an MCP server through configuration before it can connect to it. Definitions can be stored at project, user, or local scope, or be provided centrally by an organization, depending on who should use them. A project's shared .mcp.json file can declare a team's server without exposing personal credentials, while local scope keeps individual secrets private to one project. When the same server name appears in several scopes, Claude Code uses the complete entry from the highest-precedence source rather than merging fields. Organization-managed definitions override the other sources when duplicated.
Net worth, the gap between what you own and what you owe, is presented as a clearer indicator of financial direction than bank balance alone. The guide walks readers through building a monthly tracker in Google Sheets, with an accounts list tagged as assets or debts and a column for each month. Formulas total assets and debts, calculate net worth and its monthly change, and compute a debt ratio that the author suggests keeping below 50%. A line chart of net worth over time and a category breakdown with a pie chart are also described. The article closes with a promotion for the author's own paid and free budget templates.
An essay argues that naming something gives people a handle on it, even when the thing is dangerous. It contrasts the nickname 'Peanut' for a deadly statue in a horror story with the template-generated names common among software companies. The author contends that generic, consultant-style names fit everyone and so tell no one anything. The piece cites IKEA's place-based and occupation-based naming as an example of specificity that scales, and suggests specific names are easier to remember and repeat.
The BlockVectra Data API TypeScript client now throws an error when it is created with a missing, empty or whitespace-only key, catching configuration mistakes before the first request. Non-empty keys are passed through unchanged, with validity still checked by the API itself. Version 0.1.3 is distributed as a prebuilt GitHub package, not yet through npm's public registry, and includes JavaScript and TypeScript declarations. The release also adds an isDataApiError guard that identifies structured JSON error responses while preserving the original HTTP status. The developers note that the release passed unit tests and example checks, but the credentialed live API test was skipped.
A DEV Community guide examines JSON Web Token security, explaining how JWTs are structured and why they remain frequently misconfigured in modern applications. It compares signing algorithms such as HS256, RS256, ES256, and EdDSA (Ed25519) and their cryptographic trade-offs. The article details major vulnerabilities, including algorithm confusion, the "alg: none" exploit, and kid header injection attacks. It also highlights risks such as storing tokens in localStorage, which exposes sessions to cross-site scripting theft. The guide concludes with recommended practices for stateless authentication and Refresh Token Rotation.
OpenClaw, formerly known as Moltbot with Clawdbot still used in some community circles, is expanding quickly, prompting questions about which chat platforms it works with. The article argues that 'supported' is ambiguous and should be understood across three tiers: native official connectors, community-maintained connectors, and bridges built through webhooks or APIs. Platforms with event webhooks and outbound message APIs are the easiest to integrate, while encrypted or policy-restricted apps often only allow narrow or notification-style interactions. The author recommends validating six dimensions before rollout, including event coverage, outbound capabilities, identity fidelity, reliability, security, and rate-limit handling. A reference pipeline is outlined, running from signature-verified webhook ingress through event normalization and policy enforcement to the OpenClaw runtime and back out to the messaging app.
The author checked three idle machines to see whether they could earn money, expecting a clear ranking. A rented VPS turned out to be barred from crypto mining under its providers' terms, and the estimated yield would not cover its rent anyway. A desktop RTX 5060 Ti could mine a small coin for about 0.99 USD a day gross, but German electricity costs made the result marginal or negative depending on power draw. Renting the same GPU out roughly broke even after power costs. The Raspberry Pi 1 was the one machine where the outcome was a small, modest win.
DeepSeek liberó el 20 de octubre DeepInfer, el motor de inferencia que usa en sus servicios de producción, bajo licencia Apache 2.0, y el repositorio superó las 19.000 estrellas en GitHub a los pocos días. La herramienta reparte el cómputo entre chips, agrupa peticiones y controla la velocidad de respuesta, funciones que definen buena parte del costo de operar un servicio de IA. La primera versión solo ejecuta el modelo DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash en modo por lotes, y aún carece de caché de claves y valores, separación completa de fases y balanceo de carga. Según el repositorio, el proyecto se apoya en gran medida en vLLM, al que se suman núcleos optimizados propios y soporte para chips Nvidia Blackwell y Ascend 950 de Huawei. La publicación coincidió con una orden del Gobierno estadounidense que retiró los modelos de DeepSeek de los sistemas federales.