Dev Tools & Open Source

A full rewrite moves it to GTK4 and Libadwaita, with Windows 11 support being tidied up.

Nobody starts a library because they wanted to write a SECURITY.md. You start it because there is a thing you want to exist. Then you publish it, and a second job arrives that nobody signed up for: issue templates, a code of conduct, pinned action SHAs, a changelog that survives contact with a relea

OpenAI has disclosed that an internal model generated a proof disproving the Erdős unit-distance conjecture , a long-standing question in discrete geometry. The result, announced on May 20, 2026, was subsequently checked by external mathematicians and presented with accompanying mathematical comment

In 2023, the Fama-French 5-factor model could explain only 35% of NVIDIA's weekly return variation. In 2024, it explained 82%. That gap tells you something important: NVIDIA's 2023 surge was driven primarily by a narrative that no systematic factor had yet priced in - the sudden recognition that GPU

Adding a chat interface to a website is easy. Making it answer company-specific questions reliably is the real engineering and content problem. A support assistant needs more than a capable language model. It needs a controlled set of sources, a retrieval workflow, a testing process, and a clear fal

My name is Bless Kimbi Starting a Computer Science degree, I thought I had a rough idea of what I was signing up for. I was wrong about a lot of it. Here's what I wish someone had told me before day one. 1. Grades don't matter as much as you think projects do I spent way too much energy chasing perf

Designing Real‑Time Safety and Bias Guardrails for Generative AI Career Advisors to Meet UK Online Safety Act and DSA Requirements Meta: Learn how to embed real‑time safety and bias guardrails in generative AI career advisors to comply with UK OSA and DSA, with actionable code patterns. Key Takeaway

Every "best OCR tool" article online is one of two things: a vendor's own product page, or a listicle that copied the same five names from another listicle. Neither tells you which tool actually fits what you're building. This one does. If you're: digitizing scanned paperwork for a small team, build

Last week I wrote about saying no to a feature request : a user designed a laneId mode for my project over four days, and the right answer turned out to be zero lines of code, because they ended up shipping the fix themselves — in their own layer. That post was accurate. The decision was right. The

I needed a quick way to convert SVG icons to PNG for a project. Every online converter I found required uploading files to a server — slow, privacy-invasive, and overkill for a 2KB icon. So I built imgloft.com — a free, client-side SVG to PNG converter that works entirely in your browser. No uploads

MiniMax H3 (Hailuo 03) just dropped with open weights in ComfyUI. This omni-modal video model pushes the boundaries of what's possible in local AI video creation, offering native audio and impressive 2K video generation. My recent exploration into its capabilities has been a hands-on journey into th

What is Bootstrap? Bootstrap is a CSS framework. It is used to build websites faster without writing everything from the beginning. It already has many ready-made classes for buttons, cards, forms, grids, navigation bars and many more. We only need to add the class names in our HTML. This saves time