I built a Chrome extension, got 100 installs, and 90% of users left. Here's what I'm fixing.
M.Bilal Khan |
Somewhere around install #80, I stopped checking my Chrome Web Store dashboard every day. Not because I'd lost interest — because the number that mattered wasn't installs anymore, it was this one: 10 active users.
Out of 101 people who installed Goat Alert, roughly 20 uninstalled it outright, and ... read more
Top Enterprise SCA Tools in 2026: A Developer's Comparison
Alex Vakulov |
Top Enterprise SCA Tools in 2026: A Developer's Comparison
If you ship software, you ship open-source code. The average application now pulls in dependencies for 70-90% of its codebase, and most of those packages are never audited by anyone on your team. Software Composition Analysis (SCA) is the ... read more
I built an AI patient, then spent most of my time stopping it from behaving like AI
Pratyush Gupta |
I’m a backend engineer, and my cofounder is a doctor training in emergency care.
Rounds began with something she kept returning to in our conversations. An exam gives you the relevant information. A patient gives you an opening complaint, and you decide what to ask, what to examine, which investig... read more
DynamoDB: GSI, LSI, and related design ideas
Abhijeet Chaudhari |
This note explains the important DynamoDB concepts in a simple and practical way.
First idea: think in access patterns
Before designing a DynamoDB table, ask:
What questions will the application ask?
Which fields will be used for filtering and sorting?
Which operations must be fast and cheap?
Wh... read more
7 Tips to Make Your AI Agent More Predictable
Salih Guler |
After months of building with AI coding tools, I found the difference between generated code that works and generated code that ships comes down to how you communicate with the AI. I have been sharing these lessons in a talk called "It's Dangerous to Code Alone! Take This: Developer's AI Survival G... read more
Why We’re Building Vault as a Source-First Interaction Library
Jyoti Pathak |
I work on Vault at Hyperiux, an interaction library for React and Next.js. Most people first encounter it through the visual side of the product: a cursor effect, a text interaction, a transition, a scroll treatment, or something running in WebGL.
That is also the easiest part to notice.
The hard... read more
Plan Around Next Month's Closure, Not Today's
Roman Kotenko |
Every traffic API on the market answers the same question: what is closed right now? That question is worth answering. It is also the wrong one for most of the decisions a planner actually makes. The oversize load ships in three weeks. The seasonal lane is being quoted for August. The construction ... read more
EU Digital Services Act Requires Clear Terms Summaries From the Largest Platforms
Ali Farhat |
The European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA) makes terms and conditions a formal transparency issue, not merely a legal or user-experience concern. Under the regulation, providers of very large online platforms and very large online search engines must publish concise, easily accessible and mach... read more
I Don't Know How to Code. I'm Learning Anyway.
Sanchi |
A_Zoology postgraduate's honest journey into the world of coding.
**I have a BSc in Life Science and an MSc in Zoology. I know cells.i know organisms.i know how to sit with a research problem and think it through carefully.
But code?not long ago, i couldn't even read a line of it-i didn't know wh... read more
Your Spring AI tests are slow, flaky, and cost money. Here's how to make them deterministic.
Rıfat Çakır |
You wire up Spring AI, the ChatClient fluent API feels great, your feature works. Then you sit down to write a test — and every good option is bad.
A test that calls a real model is:
Slow. A hosted call is a second or two; run it on every branch and it adds up. Run inference locally (Ollama + T... read more