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I’ve been trying out pass / passwordstore for a few days. Had to revamp my GPG settings first, but it was worth it.

The concept is simple but powerful: track all your passwords in a repo, encrypted before check-in. Version-controlled passwords feel surprisingly good.
October 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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I have tried many container orchestration solutions. Running directly via CLI is only fine for experiments. For real deployments you need something declarative like a compose file, otherwise nothing is versionable and you are just hoping it keeps working
September 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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RustFS is not rust::fs.
It is an open source, S3 compatible object storage system written in Rust.

I used MinIO for a long time. About a year ago I needed on-prem storage and S3 was the best fit.
September 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Been using Pino on and off. Tried others like Winston, never quite clicked. Pino logs JSON by default, which makes sending data to services like Axiom (axiom.co) or Loki+Grafana easy.
Official site: getpino.io

What logger do you use?
Axiom — Logging, re-invented.
Cloud-native architecture meets built-in tracing and routing. Experience log management without compromise.
axiom.co
September 3, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I often use Jina.ai Reader to prep web pages for LLMs. Works great.

But sometimes I need a local, private option.

Just found defuddle. Strips clutter from pages, outputs clean text + metadata. Perfect for feeding into an LLM without sending URLs to a 3rd party.
August 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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For years, I mostly stuck with raw PyTorch—flexible and fully in control.
I’d heard of Lightning but never gave it a real try… until a teammate suggested it last year.
Didn’t quite work with our stack back then.

Revisited it last weekend. #PyTorch #ML
August 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Always watching for transformer alternatives.

They might look like the future of AI right now, but nothing says that will last forever.

Meet HRM. 27M parameters. Beats much larger models in some reasoning benchmarks. Uses a planner + executor instead of the transformer stack.

Small & Smart
This New AI is 100x Faster at Reasoning Than ChatGPT
The tiny Hierarchical Reasoning Model mimics the brain's structure to solve complex tasks in a single pass — no internet-scale pretraining.
www.techrepublic.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Some time ago I compared S3 providers. Interxnt replied, “You forgot Interxnt.”

They were right, and I’ve since looked into it

Their S3-compatible storage looks solid and pricing is competitive, or rather the best of the options I am aware of
internxt.com/de/cloud-obj...
August 13, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Just came across placeholder.pics, great for quickly adding placeholder images to early frontend mockups.

Unlike picsum.photos, this one makes it clear these are just placeholders rather then feature images.

Example: placeholder.pics/svg/300x500
Placeholder pics, sub kilobyte placeholder images
Placeholder pics is the lightest way to include placeholder images in your designs
buff.ly
August 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Better Auth 1.3 just dropped
www.better-auth.com/blog/1-3

Lots of great additions, but the new Stripe plugin really stood out to me

It handles users, subscriptions, payments, even webhooks. Takes so much complexity off your plate
www.better-auth.com/docs/plugins...
Better Auth 1.3 | Better Auth
SSO with SAML, Multi Team Support, Additional Fields for Organization, Performance and more.
www.better-auth.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Switched from poetry to uv for a few hobby projects.
Poetry was fine, but slow.
uv is fast. Like, actually fast. Even with big deps like torch.

Give it a try: buff.ly/CAbMS1B
August 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Frontend is not my domain, but icon/component libraries make rough frontends so much faster.

I’ve often used heroicons.com, super clean, copy-paste ready.

Just found freesets.dev
It aggregates tons of free resources, with licenses listed. Looks great.
August 4, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Sure, here’s a tweet-sized version:

Been testing out Biome, a Prettier + ESLint replacement in one. No plugin chaos, no config juggling. Just one fast, stable tool. Written in Rust. Feels great so far. Might be switching for good. Try it?
August 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Routing is one of the key places where meta frameworks built on Vite keep borrowing from each other.
At #ViteConf, there was even talk of Vite offering a built-in router. That idea stuck with me. #webdev
July 30, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Just built a mini project with LynxJS.
Super fast setup, great performance out of the box.

But native things like camera & sharing?
Still very involved to set up.

Promising framework though. Excited to see where it goes.

lynxjs.org
July 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Node now runs #TypeScript natively.

Bun and Deno had this from the start, and it was a key reason I switched to #Bun.

Still, this is a big deal for Node and for TypeScript being treated as a first-class citizen.

Curious what you think
July 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Loading .env files is tedious. Direnv loads and unloads env vars automatically when you enter/leave a folder. No manual sourcing, just cd and your environment is ready.

Highly recommended: direnv.net

#devtools
July 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Trello, Jira, GitHub Issues, GitLab Issues.

They can do the same job if you push them, yet they pull different crowds. Syncing them sounds great but rarely feels smooth in practice.

Do you use one tool for all, or does each deserve its own place?

What’s worked for you?
July 21, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Merging LLMs sounded to me like something only labs could do.
MergeKit makes it simple: blend two open models, no retraining needed.
Small idea, huge potential.
Can’t wait to try it.

github.com/arcee-ai/mer...

Anyone tried it or have a use case for merged models?
#AI
GitHub - arcee-ai/mergekit: Tools for merging pretrained large language models.
Tools for merging pretrained large language models. - arcee-ai/mergekit
buff.ly
July 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Tried out better-auth as an alternative to Auth.js.

Cleaner flows, easier custom login, 2FA and passkeys feel less brittle. Auth.js worked, but I never liked customizing it.

Will likely use better-auth for my next hobby project.

Anyone else tried it?
July 16, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Ever heard of GibberLink?

Like a QR code, but for sound.

Two AIs chat in English, realize they're both AIs, then switch to modulated sound to share data faster than language allows.

Is it risky to lose insight into what they share, or just smart efficiency?
July 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Most APIs ask, wait, respond.
OpenAPI shines there—clean docs, great tooling, tons of support.
But not all systems are polite little request/response machines.
Some just emit. Or subscribe. Or wait in silence.
#OpenAPI
buff.ly/GAayAsW
OpenAPI Initiative – The OpenAPI Initiative provides an open source, technical community, within which industry participants may easily contribute to building a vendor-neutral, portable and an open specification for providing technical metadata for REST APIs – the “OpenAPI Specification” (OAS).
This allows people to understand how an API works, how a sequence of APIs work together, generate client code, create tests, apply design standards, and much, much more.
buff.ly
July 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Cloudflare will block AI crawlers by default, covering 20% of web traffic. They introduce: Pay Per Crawl, which lets creators charge for access, but dynamic apps needing live data may struggle.
What are your thoughts?

Pay Per Crawl signup: buff.ly/eoGdqgr
July 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Tried oRPC recently. Was immediately happy.

Fits right into Svelte, framework agnostic, no React-shaped edges. Built-in SSE streaming support, REST + OpenAPI generation, and feels complete out of the box.

If you are circling around RPC frameworks, give it a try
July 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Took another spin with #SurrealDB lately.

This time, I kept everything in-browser using IndexedDB.
Fully persisted state. No backend server involved
July 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM