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FastAnime: Your Terminal-Based Anime Experience

2025-01-28
FastAnime: Your Terminal-Based Anime Experience

FastAnime is a command-line tool that lets you browse and watch anime directly from your terminal. It integrates with AniList for powerful searching and downloading capabilities, and offers extensive customization options. Users can browse anime, download videos, manage cache, and more, all through a well-designed CLI. It supports MPV player, provides desktop notifications, and offers convenient keybindings. FastAnime is easy to install with support for various package managers and operating systems, boasting a rich set of command-line options and customization features for a streamlined and powerful anime-watching experience.

(github.com)
Development anime

YC-backed Structured is Hiring a Founding Engineer

2025-01-28
YC-backed Structured is Hiring a Founding Engineer

Structured, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is seeking a founding engineer. Structured is redefining how developers build and deploy data apps by consolidating the entire analytics stack into code. They're looking for an ambitious, scrappy, and product-minded engineer to build the core SDK, design interactive components, and tackle challenging problems like real-time data sync and cloud deployments. This is a chance to join a stellar team of ex-Meta engineers, own significant equity, and shape a startup from the ground up.

(www.ycombinator.com)
Development

Python Script Simplifies YouTube Video & Playlist Downloads

2025-01-28
Python Script Simplifies YouTube Video & Playlist Downloads

The Python script `Download-Simply-Videos-From-YouTube` makes downloading YouTube videos and playlists incredibly easy. It supports high-quality downloads, multiple formats, subtitles, and thumbnails, and automatically organizes files. Simply install Python and FFmpeg, run the script, and follow the prompts. Created by Pierre-Henry Soria, a software AI engineer passionate about automating content creation.

(github.com)
Development YouTube downloader video download

Turning Databases Inside Out: A Paradigm Shift

2025-01-28

Martin Kleppmann's talk challenges the conventional database architecture. He proposes a revolutionary approach: inverting the database. Instead of the traditional global, shared, mutable state, Kleppmann suggests viewing a database as an ever-growing collection of immutable facts. Using a distributed stream processing framework like Apache Samza, data streams are processed in real-time. At its core is a distributed, durable commit log (e.g., Apache Kafka). This approach promises simpler code, better scalability and robustness, lower latency, and greater flexibility for data manipulation.

(martin.kleppmann.com)
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CMU's ML in Production Course: From Model to Product

2025-01-28

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) offers a course, "Machine Learning in Production/AI Engineering," covering the entire lifecycle of building machine-learned models into real-world products. It encompasses model building, deployment, assurance, maintenance, responsible AI (safety, security, fairness, explainability), and MLOps. Targeted at students with some data science and programming experience, it doesn't require a software engineering background. Through case studies and a large-scale project, students learn to translate models into deployable and maintainable products, fostering collaboration in interdisciplinary teams.

(mlip-cmu.github.io)
Development AI Engineering

Highlighting Bash in Lua with Neovim and Treesitter

2025-01-28

The author built a tool to synchronize packages across multiple machines, using a Lua configuration file. To improve readability and editing of Bash scripts embedded within the Lua configuration, they leveraged Neovim and the Treesitter plugin. Treesitter, through its injection feature, identifies the `script` field in Lua tables and highlights its content as Bash based on a custom query. This significantly enhances code readability and maintainability. The post details the configuration of Neovim and Treesitter, along with the custom query to achieve the Bash highlighting.

(xnacly.me)
Development

Slack Overflow: How Railway Scaled Slack Support for Thousands of Developers

2025-01-28
Slack Overflow: How Railway Scaled Slack Support for Thousands of Developers

Railway, a software infrastructure provider, dramatically improved customer support by leveraging Slack. Initially, manual Slack channel creation proved unsustainable. They built 'Help Station,' an internal support tool, and integrated it with Slack, automating channel creation, message syncing, and issue categorization (sales or support). This involved overcoming technical hurdles like switching between Slack Bolt SDK's Socket and HTTP modes and implementing a message queue (Temporal). The result? A 50x increase in customer engagement and an 8x improvement in response times, significantly boosting customer satisfaction and revenue.

(blog.railway.com)
Development Slack Integration Customer Support Scaling

Four Days of AI-Fueled Chaos: My Deskthang Project Meltdown

2025-01-27
Four Days of AI-Fueled Chaos: My Deskthang Project Meltdown

The author aimed to build Deskthang, a project displaying GitLab CI/CD pipeline status using a Raspberry Pi Pico, LCD screen, and RGB LEDs, within a single day. He attempted to leverage AI tools for Zig code development and USB image transfer to the Pico. However, AI misguidance and a flawed understanding of USB communication led to a four-day struggle resulting in messy, dysfunctional code. Key takeaways: AI is a tool, not a co-pilot; deliberate friction improves focus; learning from mistakes is superior to shortcuts; respect the complexity of projects.

(nemo.foo)
Development Zig programming

Go 1.24's `go tool`: A Game Changer for Dependency Management

2025-01-27
Go 1.24's `go tool`: A Game Changer for Dependency Management

Go 1.24 introduces a revolutionary change in tool management with the new `go tool` command and the `tool` directive in `go.mod`. Previously, developers relied on `tools.go` or manual installations, leading to performance overhead and dependency bloat. `go tool` elegantly solves these issues. Its caching mechanism speeds up builds, and it prevents unnecessary dependencies, significantly improving developer workflow. While migration might encounter some compatibility hiccups, like with gqlgen, the performance gains and streamlined dependency management make `go tool` one of the most exciting advancements in the Go ecosystem in recent years.

(www.jvt.me)
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AI-Powered Coding: My Journey with Cline and LLMs

2025-01-27
AI-Powered Coding: My Journey with Cline and LLMs

Paolo Galeone recounts his experience using AI to revamp his SaaS platform, bot.eofferte.eu. Leveraging Cline's VSCode plugin and LLMs like Claude Sonnet 3.5 and Gemini, he redesigned the UI/UX, generating content like privacy policies. Backend development saw AI accelerate code optimization and repetitive tasks, but highlighted the need for human expertise. Multilingual content generation was streamlined, with AI efficiently translating JSON files for multiple Amazon affiliate regions. The key takeaway: AI significantly boosts efficiency but requires developers to validate and integrate AI suggestions, emphasizing the role of human expertise in ensuring quality.

(pgaleone.eu)
Development

Microsoft Open-Sources Document Database Built on PostgreSQL

2025-01-27
Microsoft Open-Sources Document Database Built on PostgreSQL

In a surprising move, Microsoft has launched an open-source document database platform built on a relational PostgreSQL backend. The fully open-source platform, requiring no commercial licensing fees, suggests using the open-source FerretDB as a front-end. This signifies Microsoft's increased embrace of open source and offers a new option for the NoSQL database community. The database leverages two PostgreSQL extensions: pg_documentdb_core (optimizing BSON) and pg_documentdb_api (implementing CRUD and query operations). FerretDB 2.0 integrates with it, boasting a significant performance boost, with up to 20x speed improvements for certain workloads. This move is poised to challenge existing document databases like MongoDB.

(www.theregister.com)
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Lago: Beyond PDF Billing – Empowering Engineers

2025-01-27
Lago: Beyond PDF Billing – Empowering Engineers

Lago is a revolutionary billing system designed to eliminate the tedious PDF generation process inherent in traditional billing systems. Traditional systems force engineers to build scripts for complex usage calculations and manual import into billing platforms, diverting valuable resources. Lago's custom SQL expressions feature allows users to send raw data directly, automating calculations, aggregation, and deduplication to generate invoices. This frees engineers to focus on product development, supporting various billing models (per-user, storage-based, etc.) and handling complex discounts and multi-cloud scenarios.

(www.getlago.com)
Development billing system developer productivity

DistroWatch Weekly: Adelie and Pop!_OS Updates, Plus Facebook Bans Linux Links

2025-01-27

This week's DistroWatch Weekly covers updates to Adelie Linux 1.0 Beta 6 and Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha 5. Adelie shows improvements in efficiency and multi-desktop environment support, but still faces networking and input device compatibility issues. Pop!_OS's COSMIC desktop boasts optimized window switching and settings panel, but suffers from high memory usage, broken video playback, and VPN setup problems. Additionally, Facebook's labelling of Linux as malware and subsequent ban on DistroWatch links sparks concern.

(distrowatch.com)
Development desktop environments Facebook censorship

Lean Graph Theory: Modeling Organizational Operations

2025-01-27
Lean Graph Theory: Modeling Organizational Operations

This article explores using path graphs, directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), and network graphs to understand and improve organizational operations, especially in rapidly scaling tech companies. The author argues that different company types at different stages of development face unique challenges and require different models to address them. Using a product launch lifecycle as an example, the article illustrates the application scenarios and interplay of the three models, emphasizing the varied application of "Lean" principles across them. The conclusion highlights a shift from path and DAG models to more network-graph-centric models as companies grow to manage complex structures and collaborations.

(cutlefish.substack.com)
Development Lean Management Graph Theory Organizational Operations

Rust Standard Library on Apache NuttX RTOS: LED Blinky and Beyond

2025-01-27
Rust Standard Library on Apache NuttX RTOS: LED Blinky and Beyond

This article details building applications using the Rust standard library on the Apache NuttX real-time operating system. It covers JSON handling with Serde, asynchronous functions with Tokio, and LED control with the Nix crate. The author explains the difference between owned and raw file descriptors in Rust and compares the Nix and Rustix POSIX binding crates. Detailed steps for building and running Rust applications on NuttX, along with troubleshooting tips, are provided.

(lupyuen.org)
Development

Deterministic Uniform Disk Sampling: A Novel Algorithm

2025-01-27
Deterministic Uniform Disk Sampling: A Novel Algorithm

This article presents a deterministic algorithm for generating N uniformly distributed points on a disk with diameter D. The algorithm divides the disk into M concentric rings, proportionally allocating points based on ring circumference. It then samples in polar coordinates, converting to Cartesian coordinates for the final point locations. The algorithm cleverly handles the relationship between point count and ring radius, and provides a simple integerization method, ensuring exactly N points are generated.

(victorpoughon.fr)
Development sampling

Pentester Bypasses Security with Null Byte Injection

2025-01-27
Pentester Bypasses Security with Null Byte Injection

0xold, a seasoned penetration tester, shares two vulnerabilities discovered using null byte injection. The first involved a password reset callback URL parsing issue; injecting the Unicode null byte character `\u0000` bypassed restrictions, allowing partial control of the callback URL. The second was a path traversal to XSS. Fuzzing revealed a `templatename` parameter; null byte injection and a custom wordlist led to successful XSS exploitation. Furthermore, null byte injection bypassed an internal WAF, enabling SQL injection.

(medium.com)
Development null byte injection penetration testing vulnerability exploitation

ErisForge: A Dead Simple LLM Ablation Tool

2025-01-27
ErisForge: A Dead Simple LLM Ablation Tool

ErisForge is a Python library for modifying Large Language Models (LLMs) by transforming their internal layers. It allows for creating ablated and augmented versions of LLMs, resulting in altered responses to specific inputs. Features include controlled manipulation of model behavior, measurement of refusal expressions, and support for custom transformation directions. Easy to use with comprehensive examples and documentation.

(github.com)
Development Model Modification Python Library

Bilinear Up/Downsampling: Pixel Grid Alignment and That Infamous GPU Half-Pixel Offset

2025-01-27
Bilinear Up/Downsampling: Pixel Grid Alignment and That Infamous GPU Half-Pixel Offset

This article delves into the common misconceptions and pitfalls surrounding bilinear up/downsampling techniques. The author points out that bilinear up/downsampling isn't a single concept; its definition and implementation vary, leading to long-standing bugs and confusion, even affecting top libraries like TensorFlow. The article thoroughly explains pixel grid alignment, GPU half-pixel offsets, and the role of odd/even filters. Using a signal processing perspective, it analyzes operations like zero-insertion and post-filtering, ultimately concluding that choosing the right coordinate system and filter is crucial for obtaining correct results.

(bartwronski.com)
Development signal processing

Indie Dev Builds Podcast Player with Racket and Swift

2025-01-27

An indie developer built an iOS podcast player called Podcatcher, now live on the App Store. Developed using Racket and Swift, Podcatcher boasts features like an equalizer, silence trimming, and variable speed playback. It's free, ad-free, and privacy-focused, prioritizing local data storage. The developer also detailed improvements made to Racket and several open-source libraries during development, including performance boosts to the XML library and enhanced redirect handling in the HTTP library. While cross-device syncing and UI enhancements are planned for future releases, the app already provides a solid listening experience.

(defn.io)
Development iOS Development

Failed Attempt: Shrinking npm Packages with Zopfli

2025-01-27
Failed Attempt: Shrinking npm Packages with Zopfli

The author attempted to reduce the size of npm packages by using the Zopfli compressor to improve performance and reduce storage costs. While Zopfli produces smaller files than gzip, it's significantly slower. The author successfully tested this on their own projects and submitted a proposal to npm maintainers. However, due to the slower publishing speed introduced by Zopfli and incompatibility with the npm lockfile, the proposal was ultimately rejected. Despite the failure, the author gained valuable experience and considers it a worthwhile endeavor.

(evanhahn.com)
Development

Open-Source LLM DeepSeek-R1 Integrated into Qodo Gen

2025-01-27
Open-Source LLM DeepSeek-R1 Integrated into Qodo Gen

Qodo (formerly Codium) announced the integration of DeepSeek-R1, a powerful open-source large language model comparable to OpenAI's o1, into its AI-powered coding assistant, Qodo Gen. Known for its strong reasoning capabilities and cost-effectiveness, DeepSeek-R1 handles complex coding challenges, generating responses faster and at a lower cost than many proprietary models. Qodo Gen supports multiple top-tier LLMs, providing developers with a secure and reliable AI-assisted coding experience.

(www.qodo.ai)
Development AI Coding Assistant

FreeWHA: Free Web Hosting Since 2005 – Still Going Strong!

2025-01-27
FreeWHA: Free Web Hosting Since 2005 – Still Going Strong!

Free Web Hosting Area (FreeWHA) offers free web hosting services since 2005, boasting reliable uptime and a robust feature set. Users get 1500MB of free space, unmetered bandwidth, Apache 2.4, PHP 7.1, MariaDB 10.4, FTP access, and an autoinstaller. While free, FreeWHA runs on fast servers and provides responsive support, accepting donations to maintain its operations. The service guarantees 99.8% yearly uptime.

(www.freewebhostingarea.com)
Development free hosting servers

Two AI Programming Paradigms: Dialog vs. Autonomous

2025-01-27
Two AI Programming Paradigms: Dialog vs. Autonomous

Eleanor Berger shares her experience with two primary approaches to AI-assisted programming: dialog-based and fully autonomous. Dialog-based programming involves interacting with AI assistants for advice, code completion, and suggestions. Fully autonomous programming relies entirely on AI to generate code, with the programmer only reviewing the output. Berger finds both methods valuable but difficult to mix effectively, as understanding code written by others (or AI) is challenging and error-prone. She explores strategies for combining the approaches, such as per-project or per-module separation. She predicts a future shift towards fully autonomous programming due to improving AI capabilities and the inherent inefficiency of manual coding in comparison.

(everything.intellectronica.net)
Development

Ordinary Objects: No-Code Mixed Reality Prototyping

2025-01-27
Ordinary Objects: No-Code Mixed Reality Prototyping

Ordinary Objects is a no-code mixed reality prototyping platform enabling designers to rapidly create high-fidelity spatial app prototypes. It boasts powerful authoring features and a unique workflow for prototyping spatial user flows and interactions. Supporting import formats like WAV/MP3 audio, animated GLB 3D assets, and PNG/JPG images, it offers real-time feedback—no play mode needed. Ordinary Objects runs natively on major platforms and features real-time collaborative editing, streamlining teamwork.

(ordinary.space)
Development mixed reality prototyping spatial computing

Supercharge SQLite with Ruby Functions

2025-01-27

This article demonstrates how to enhance SQLite's capabilities by integrating Ruby functions. The author creates User-Defined Functions (UDFs) to directly call Ruby code within SQL queries, enabling features like generating time-ordered UUIDs, performing regex matching, and calculating statistical measures (e.g., standard deviation and percentiles). The article also explores using the SQLITE_DIRECTONLY flag to prevent issues when accessing custom functions outside the application's process. Overall, this provides a powerful way to boost SQLite's flexibility and functionality, particularly useful for data exploration and analysis.

(blog.julik.nl)
Development

Hedy: Making Textual Programming Easy

2025-01-27

Hedy is a multilingual, gradual textual programming tool designed for classroom use. Supporting 47 languages, it removes the barrier to entry for non-English speakers. Hedy's gentle learning curve introduces programming concepts and syntax incrementally, making it easy for students to master programming skills. Teachers can utilize built-in lesson plans or customize their own. Hedy can be used to create interactive stories, drawings, games, and apps, broadening the applications of programming.

(www.hedy.org)
Development textual programming multilingual programming

Bagels: A Powerful Terminal-Based Expense Tracker

2025-01-27
Bagels: A Powerful Terminal-Based Expense Tracker

Bagels is a powerful expense tracker that lives in your terminal. Track and analyze your finances with ease using features like accounts, subcategories, splits, transfers, and recurring transaction templates. The clean interface offers customizable keybindings and defaults. All data is stored locally, providing privacy and convenience. Installation is simple for both macOS and Windows.

(github.com)
Development expense tracker

Voice-Pro: The Ultimate AI Voice Conversion and Multilingual Translation Tool

2025-01-27
Voice-Pro: The Ultimate AI Voice Conversion and Multilingual Translation Tool

Voice-Pro is a cutting-edge AI-powered web application designed to revolutionize multimedia content processing. It offers an all-in-one solution for content creators, researchers, and multilingual communication professionals, integrating YouTube video downloading, voice separation, speech recognition, translation, and text-to-speech. Key features include Whisper, Faster-Whisper, and Whisper-Timestamped speech recognition; F5-TTS and E2-TTS for zero-shot voice cloning; real-time translation across 100+ languages; and AI cover creation (RVC technology). Voice-Pro provides easy installation and updates for Windows users.

(github.com)
Development AI voice conversion multilingual translation multimedia processing
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