1d ago · 8 min read · The problem: runaway AI agents and surprise bills There's a pattern that keeps showing up in developer communities: someone runs an AI agent overnight, something loops, and they wake up to a bill they
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2d ago · 6 min read · You're at your desk, coffee in hand, ready to try OpenAI's new Codex CLI. You Google "Codex download," click the first result — looks official, clean branding, clean GitHub link. You've installed it in under two minutes. Except you didn't install Cod...
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2d ago · 2 min read · I just shipped LoreNamer after two weeks of coding and way too much time reading Old Norse dictionaries. Here's what I learned building a fantasy name generator that actually cares about linguistics.
Join discussion2d ago · 7 min read · The alarm goes off at 5:47 AM. You've been browsing layoff threads for three hours. Your team shipped more features last quarter than any quarter in company history — your manager keeps mentioning "efficiency gains" in all-hands meetings. But you can...
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3d ago · 5 min read · The US government collects insane amounts of data about every ZIP code. Water violations, lead levels, radon zones, flood claims, wildfire risk, bridge conditions, air quality. All public. Also scattered across dozens of federal agencies in formats t...
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3d ago · 9 min read · After adding a Bluesky summary image pipeline to my article publish workflow, every Bluesky post came out as plain text with no thumbnail. Dev.to and Hashnode looked fine. The problem turned out to be a timing gap between when GitHub Actions commits ...
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5d ago · 3 min read · Week 2 of running three AI-curated directory sites. Five things that caught me off-guard between Monday and Friday. 1. @astrojs/sitemap generates /sitemap-0.xml, not /sitemap-index.xml I spent most of Tuesday assuming Google Search Console was silent...
Join discussion6d ago · 5 min read · What the smoke check found This morning I ran a manual smoke check on all three Cloudflare Pages sites — aiappdex.com, findindiegame.com, ossfind.com — as part of investigating an unrelated robots.txt issue. Every robots.txt declared: Sitemap: https:...
Join discussionMay 7 · 3 min read · The Problem: Subscription Fatigue in Wellness Apps In 2026, the digital wellness space is crowded. Most ambient noise or sleep apps require a subscription, a heavy download, or forced registration jus
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May 6 · 5 min read · This morning I scaffolded @royal_lore, a second YouTube channel that runs on the exact same scripts/yt-publish/ pipeline that already powers my first channel. The content bank I wrote covers 32 historical queens — Egyptian, European, Chinese, Indian,...
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