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Claude Code Channels: Control Your AI Coding Agent from Telegram

4h ago · 4 min read · Claude Code just shipped a powerful new feature called Channels — a way to push messages into a running Claude Code session from external platforms like Telegram and Discord. Imagine this: you start a long-running coding task, step away from your des...

How to Build a Real-Time Chat App with WebSockets (And Why It Works)

10h ago · 5 min read · So I saw a thread recently where a developer got marked down in a course for suggesting WebSockets and TCP as the foundation for a chat application. The instructor insisted that PHP was the only valid approach for web development. Look, I'm not here ...

How to Handle Android's New 24-Hour Sideloading Delay in Your APK Distribution

10h ago · 6 min read · If you distribute Android apps outside the Play Store — whether that's internal enterprise tools, beta builds, or open-source projects on F-Droid — you're about to hit a new speed bump. Google is rolling out a 24-hour waiting period before users can ...

Astral Is Joining OpenAI — What It Means for uv, Ruff, and Python Tooling

15h ago · 5 min read · If you've been anywhere near the Python ecosystem in the last year, you've probably felt the ground shift under your feet. Tools like uv and Ruff — built by Astral — went from "interesting experiments" to "how did I ever live without these" at breakn...

Passkeys Are Ready. Here Is How to Add Them to Your App

16h ago · 8 min read · I finally added passkey support to a side project last month, and I'm kicking myself for not doing it sooner. The UX improvement is dramatic — users authenticate with a fingerprint or face scan instead of typing a password. Here's how to implement it...