ASAghassi Sinaghassi.hashnode.dev路2h ago 路 9 min read My support agent wrote "I can see you were charged". Both lookups had failed.In September 2026 I built an AI customer support agent and wrote it a realistic duplicate-charge ticket. I ran it once and read the whole run afterwards. There is no real customer in this article. I h00
Bbrunodev1999inbigdataexplained.hashnode.dev路Sep 4 路 2 min readHow I built an automated cloud warehouse pricing trackerEvery "BigQuery vs Snowflake cost" article I found while researching this was at least a year old, and cloud pricing changes often enough that the numbers were already wrong. I wanted something that s00
Iiqbalhssn78inihaveatoolforthat.hashnode.dev路Sep 1 路 6 min readHow WebAssembly became our privacy architecture (not just a performance trick)This one is about something different: how Wasm's sandboxed execution model makes certain privacy failures structurally impossible -- and how we built 90+ browser tools around that property. The Probl10
CICarlos Infantesinskillpilotapp.hashnode.dev路Sep 1 路 6 min readI shipped a paid product with Claude Code. 1,805 green tests didn't catch the bug that mattered.I built SkillPilot over about three weeks with Claude Code, a set of workflow skills, and a lot of arguing. It is a real product: two Next.js apps on Cloudflare Workers, Supabase for auth and entitlem00
IIgnoredtimeinignoredtime.hashnode.dev路Aug 29 路 6 min readHow I Built a Treadmill Pace Calculator in Vanilla JS (No Framework, 60 Lines of Math)I run on a treadmill three times a week, and every single time the same thing happens: I set the belt to 6.0 mph, then spend the first five minutes trying to remember what pace that actually is. Ten m00
CDChristoph Dieckinslashgordon.hashnode.dev路Aug 20 路 6 min readI Built a Paving Planner Because Herringbone Patterns Made Me Lose My MindThe story starts with dirt and confusion Early this year I cleared out a patch of wild growth in front of my house and prepped the ground for paving. The surface was ready. The stones were stacked. An00
CDChristoph Dieckinslashgordon.hashnode.dev路Aug 19 路 5 min readI Built a Lottery Simulator to Break My Own Habit. Here's What 1000 Years of Draws Look LikeI'm not stupid. I just liked the dream. Let me be honest for a second. I'm a software engineer. I have a degree. I understand probability. I can explain expected value to you on a whiteboard. And yet,00
RKRituranjan Kumaringeekyyadav.hashnode.dev路Aug 7 路 1 min readI built PXEL: A 100% Client-Side Privacy-First Image & PDF Toolkit (Wasm)Hey Hashnode Community! 馃憢 Like many developers and users, I frequently need to compress images, merge PDFs, or crop graphics. But every time I used existing free online tools, I felt uneasy about upl00
RMRaj Mayekarinrajmayekar.hashnode.dev路Jul 31 路 3 min readI Built a Daily Wordle Clone for DevelopersIf you've ever played Wordle and thought "this would be so much better if it was about programming languages instead of five-letter words," you're exactly who I built this for. Programmdle is a daily 00
MPMomcilo Popovinmomcilo.hashnode.dev路Jul 17 路 3 min readI convert videos to printed flipbooks for a living: here's how the pipeline works (FFmpeg print bind)I spent years shipping software. Now part of my week is printing, binding, and shipping small books. In 2018 we built a side project that turned short videos into flipbooks. It sat idle for years. In 00