Zzyx1d ago ยท 6 min readBuilding a Word Ladder Solver with BFS in JavaScriptTINY and MEND differ in three letter positions. But in my game's dictionary, the shortest valid transformation takes four moves. That extra move is a useful example of why a word ladder needs a graph just-share.hashnode.dev
Ssaggsagg52d ago ยท 4 min readWhat 1 billion Muse tokens actually buys (measured from real usage)Token allowances are abstract until you burn through them. I tracked my own Muse usage for a full week, so here is what the numbers mean in practice: what the free tier covers, what eats tokens fast, dusalabs.hashnode.dev
MMuzammil Hussain3d ago ยท 5 min readA build check that stops stale numbers, and the one error it could not catchI run a small site of calculators (pay raise, credit card payoff, overtime tax and so on). Each page has the calculator, a formula and worked examples written in prose: "a 3% raise on $60,000 makes $6sumfern.hashnode.dev
AAlex3d ago ยท 2 min readReferral codes are everywhere. I built a site to share them and compare which ones are actually worth itA few months ago I started noticing how many apps and banks offer money if you sign up with a friend's code. What annoyed me was the fine print. "Get โฌ100" usually turns out to mean payroll, a minimumyourreferralcodes.hashnode.dev
VVyatutas5d ago ยท 1 min readI built a privacy-first psychology & career test platform with Astro, React, and AIMost online personality and career test sites use classic dark patterns - letting you spend 15 minutes answering questions only to lock the final evaluation behind a paywall or a mandatory email trap.tester-lt.hashnode.dev
NNuke6d ago ยท 3 min readIntroducing CyberKit Log Analyzer โ A Free Browser-Based Log Analysis ToolHi everyone! ๐ I'm Nikita, an IT and cybersecurity professional, and I'm excited to introduce CyberKit Log Analyzer, a free, browser-based tool I've been developing independently. ๐ Try it here: htt1Scyberkit-security.hashnode.dev
LLeoOct 14 ยท 2 min readVerify before you runYou know the workflow. You describe the task, the AI writes the PowerShell, it looks right, you run it. Most days this works fine. Then September happened. A story went around about an rmdir suggestedallmightyleobyte.hashnode.dev
EenricoOct 12 ยท 3 min readI Built a CLI That Turns Your Text Into Tolkien Prose โ Here's Why I Used C99The Pitch What if your terminal could speak like Gandalf? I built tolkienizer โ a command-line tool that takes ordinary text and rewrites it in the voice of J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium. Commit messagnnevskji.hashnode.dev
MMelisa WongOct 11 ยท 3 min readFive things I rebuilt while making a Chinese naming appI build a Chinese naming app called NameSoul. This post isn't about what I got right โ it's about what I tore up first, and what each rebuild taught me. 1. Names: from character soup to six deliberate23SMmelisawrites.hashnode.dev
JJorge Guillem NajarroOct 10 ยท 1 min readBuilding SynBio Studio: an IDE for programming biology (BioScript, Rust LSP, SBOL)Hi! I'm Jorge Guillem Najarro, a developer from Catarroja (Valencia, Spain). For the past months I've been building SynBio Studio, an integrated development environment for synthetic biology. I'm sharjorgeguillem.hashnode.dev