CDChristoph Dieckinslashgordon.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 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·3d ago · 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·Aug 7 · 1 min readI built PXEL: A 100% Client-Side Privacy-First Image & PDF Toolkit (Wasm)Hey Hashnode Community! 👋 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·Jul 31 · 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·Jul 17 · 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
RNRavi Nirbaninlazyblink.hashnode.dev·Jul 15 · 2 min readI built a free set of subtitle tools that run entirely in your browser (no upload) As a side project, I've been building Lazyblink — a collection of free browser-based tools — and I recently added a set of subtitle utilities that solve a problem I kept running into: most online subt00
Tthominwinconveyor.hashnode.dev·Jul 14 · 2 min readWinConveyoRHey, For the past year, my teammate and I have been building WinConveyoR, a cross-platform package manager for Windows and Linux. We didn't wrap existing tools, we designed every layer ourselves, from00
NNyaomaruinnyaomaru.hashnode.dev·Jul 8 · 7 min readBuilding Type Guards Like LEGO Blocks: Making Reusable Logic with is-kitHoi hoi! Still writing TypeScript guards by hand again and again? 😎 I’m @nyaomaru, a frontend engineer! When writing TypeScript, we often end up creating type guard functions (value is Foo) over and 00
CSChris Sheridaninhalosecurityhasnodedev.hashnode.dev·Jul 6 · 2 min read GEMMA-by-GOOGLESending client data to a cloud-based AI to assist with penetration testing defeats the purpose entirely. That concern is what started Halo. Halo is an autonomous penetration testing agent that runs 1001A
Ffirebonusesincollectivetap.hashnode.dev·Jun 29 · 4 min readThe link is the app: building account-free micro-apps with vanilla JS, Netlify, and Supabase Most group-coordination tools start the same way: download the app, or create an account, or both. We wanted the opposite. With CollectiveTap, the unit of software is the link. You create one, paste i00