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Cognitive Load: The Silent Killer in Software Development

2025-08-30

Cognitive Load: The Silent Killer in Software Development

This article explores the critical role of cognitive load in software development. High cognitive load leads to decreased efficiency and increased bugs. It analyzes common causes of high cognitive load, such as complex code logic, excessive inheritance, too many shallow modules and microservices, and unnecessary abstraction layers. The author advocates for minimizing cognitive load by using meaningful variable names, early returns, composition over inheritance, and creating fewer but deeper modules to simplify code, thus improving readability and maintainability. The article also critiques the drawbacks of over-emphasizing design patterns and architectures, stressing that simpler, straightforward solutions are often more effective.

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Nginx-CGI: Bringing CGI Support to Nginx and Angie

2025-08-30

Nginx-CGI: Bringing CGI Support to Nginx and Angie

The Nginx-CGI plugin adds CGI support to Nginx and Angie web servers, making it easier to build low-frequency applications, resource-constrained systems, and prototypes. It supports various operating systems including Linux, macOS, and BSD. The article details installation, configuration, and usage, showcasing multiple ways to run CGI scripts: chroot, Docker, and FreeBSD jails. It also covers CGI script writing conventions and handling HTTP requests and responses.

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SeedBox Lite: Stream Torrents Instantly

2025-08-29

SeedBox Lite: Stream Torrents Instantly

SeedBox Lite is a revolutionary torrent streaming platform that lets you instantly watch movies and TV shows without waiting for full downloads. Built with modern web technologies, it offers a Netflix-like experience with powerful torrent capabilities. SeedBox Lite supports multiple formats, features smart caching, subtitle support, and responsive design, working seamlessly across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Deployment is a breeze, taking minutes with either Docker or PM2.

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Wear OS Air Mouse: Bluetooth HID Device Emulator

2025-08-29

Wear OS Air Mouse: Bluetooth HID Device Emulator

This project showcases the new Bluetooth HID Device API in Android P, implementing a simple air mouse and cursor keys emulator on a Wear OS device. Connect to laptops and desktops running Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, macOS, or Android TV without extra software – just a Bluetooth receiver is needed. Utilizing the Google VR library for orientation tracking ensures a stable and reliable air mouse experience.

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Envoy: A Lightweight Terminal Command Logger

2025-08-29

Envoy: A Lightweight Terminal Command Logger

Envoy is a lightweight background utility that logs your terminal commands. It's designed for simple, unobtrusive tracking of your shell usage, useful for debugging, work tracking, or simply remembering past commands. Envoy starts and stops on demand, saves to a custom file, and works on both Linux and macOS with bash or zsh. Installation is straightforward: clone the repo, build the executable, and add a shell hook to your profile (.zshrc or .bashrc). Log and status files are stored with the executable.

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Expert: The Elixir Language Server – Installation and Sponsorship

2025-08-29

Expert: The Elixir Language Server – Installation and Sponsorship

Expert is the official language server implementation for the Elixir programming language. Downloads are available for various operating systems. Place the executable in your $PATH. Editor-specific instructions are provided, along with instructions for downloading nightly builds using the GH CLI. Building from source requires Zig 0.14.1. The article concludes with information on corporate and individual sponsorship options. Expert is open-source under the Apache License 2.0.

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GPUPrefixSums: Portable GPU Prefix Sum Library for High-Performance Computing

2025-08-28

GPUPrefixSums: Portable GPU Prefix Sum Library for High-Performance Computing

GPUPrefixSums brings state-of-the-art GPU prefix sum techniques from CUDA to portable compute shaders. It introduces 'Decoupled Fallback,' a novel technique enabling prefix sum calculations even on devices lacking forward thread progress guarantees. The D3D12 implementation includes a comprehensive survey of algorithms, benchmarked against Nvidia's CUB library. Versions are available for Unity and as a barebones testbed. GPUPrefixSums aims to improve efficiency and portability, supporting parallel computing tasks like sorting, compression, and graph traversal.

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VIM Master: A Lightweight Browser-Based Vim Tutor

2025-08-28

VIM Master: A Lightweight Browser-Based Vim Tutor

VIM Master is a lightweight, browser-based game that teaches core Vim motions and editing commands through short, focused levels. No installation is needed—just open index.html and start practicing. Features include normal/insert modes, a command log, level validation, and undo/redo support. It supports a wide range of Vim commands and numeric counts. A challenge mode tests command recall under time pressure. Built with plain HTML, CSS, and JS, it's lightweight, dependency-free, and perfect for quickly learning essential Vim skills.

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Cactoide: Effortless Event Management

2025-08-28

Cactoide: Effortless Event Management

Cactoide is a mobile-first event RSVP platform that lets you create events, share unique URLs, and collect RSVPs without any registration. Features include instant event creation, one-click sharing, all-in-one clarity, no sign-ups required, smart limits, and effortless simplicity. Designed to streamline coordination and make events vibrant and unforgettable. The project is open-source with detailed setup instructions.

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bookmarks.txt: A Simple, Text-Based Bookmark Manager

2025-08-28

bookmarks.txt: A Simple, Text-Based Bookmark Manager

bookmarks.txt offers a streamlined approach to bookmark management using plain text files. Bookmarked URLs are stored in files named bookmarks.txt, with a simple format: one URL per line, optionally including a title (space-separated). A global bookmarks file resides at $HOME/bookmarks.txt, while project-specific bookmarks can be stored in local bookmarks.txt files. The project includes a script, bin/bookmarks, for listing and adding bookmarks, but building custom tools is also encouraged. Combined with fzf, it provides a powerful fuzzy search and open functionality. This lightweight, customizable solution prioritizes simplicity and extensibility.

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Development bookmark management

Malicious nx Packages on npm: Credential Theft and System Shutdown

2025-08-27

Malicious nx Packages on npm: Credential Theft and System Shutdown

Multiple versions of the npm package 'nx' (including 21.5.0, 20.9.0, etc.) were maliciously compromised. An attacker used a stolen npm token to publish packages containing code that scans the user's file system, collects credentials (GitHub, system passwords, etc.), and uploads this information to a GitHub repository under the user's account. The malicious code also modifies the user's `.zshrc` and `.bashrc` files to execute `sudo shutdown -h 0` upon terminal launch, potentially shutting down the system. Affected users should immediately update their 'nx' package to the latest version and check their GitHub for compromised repositories. Nx has removed the malicious packages and implemented enhanced security measures, including mandatory 2FA and the new Trusted Publisher mechanism for all npm packages.

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FilterQL: A Tiny Query Language for Filtering Structured Data

2025-08-27

FilterQL: A Tiny Query Language for Filtering Structured Data

FilterQL is a lightweight query language for filtering structured data. It consists of a TypeScript library and a language specification, with implementations in other languages welcome. Users define a schema for their data and then use a concise syntax to filter, sort, and limit results, such as `genre == Action` or `year >= 2008 && rating >= 8.5 | SORT rating desc`. FilterQL supports a variety of comparison and logical operators, and allows for custom operations to extend its capabilities. It's perfect for building CLIs or other tools needing flexible data filtering.

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Async: AI-Powered Collaborative Coding Workflow

2025-08-27

Async: AI-Powered Collaborative Coding Workflow

Async is an open-source developer tool that combines AI coding, task management, and code review into one streamlined workflow. Integrating Claude Code, Linear, and GitHub PRs, it automatically researches coding tasks, executes code changes in the cloud, and breaks work into reviewable subtasks, handling the entire workflow from GitHub issue to merged PR. Async excels with mature codebases, enforcing upfront planning, eliminating context switching, simplifying task tracking, and providing built-in code review. Built with FastAPI, Claude Code, and Google Cloud Platform, it supports desktop and mobile.

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spaCy 3.8 Released: Powering Up Industrial-Strength NLP

2025-08-27

spaCy 3.8 Released: Powering Up Industrial-Strength NLP

spaCy 3.8 is out! This advanced Natural Language Processing library for Python and Cython is built on cutting-edge research and designed for real-world applications. Supporting tokenization and training for 70+ languages, it boasts state-of-the-art speed and neural network models for tasks like NER, text classification, and more. It features multi-task learning with pretrained transformers like BERT, a production-ready training system, and easy model packaging, deployment, and workflow management. Check the release notes for details on improvements.

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Regolith: A Linear-Time Regex Library Preventing ReDoS Attacks

2025-08-27

Regolith: A Linear-Time Regex Library Preventing ReDoS Attacks

Regolith is a server-side TypeScript and JavaScript library built with Rust to prevent Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks using a linear regex engine. Unlike the default RegExp in TypeScript and JavaScript (which has exponential worst-case time complexity), Regolith boasts linear worst-case complexity, effectively mitigating ReDoS vulnerabilities. Designed as a drop-in replacement for RegExp, it minimizes migration effort, allowing developers to easily build ReDoS-resistant software. Still early in development, Regolith welcomes community contributions.

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Reverse Engineered: Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Schematic Released

2025-08-27

Reverse Engineered: Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Schematic Released

A hacker has reverse-engineered the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, releasing its schematic and layout. The process involved meticulously sanding down the board layer by layer, scanning each with a high-resolution scanner to create the design. While not intended for fabrication, this detailed schematic offers educational value and opens doors for advanced hacking, such as exploring the I2C register map of the PMIC. The project reveals insights into the CM5's power management, WiFi/Bluetooth control, and SD card compatibility.

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Hardware

Spoon Bending: Bypassing AI Safety Restrictions

2025-08-26

Spoon Bending: Bypassing AI Safety Restrictions

This research explores how the stricter safety guidelines in GPT-5, compared to GPT-4.5, can be circumvented. The 'Spoon Bending' schema illustrates how reframing prompts allows the model to produce outputs that would normally be blocked. The author details three zones: Hard Stop, Gray Zone, and Free Zone, showcasing how seemingly absolute rules are actually framing-sensitive. This highlights the inherent tension between AI safety and functionality, demonstrating that even with strong safety protocols, sophisticated prompting can lead to unintended outputs.

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timep: A blazing-fast Bash profiler with built-in flamegraphs

2025-08-26

timep: A blazing-fast Bash profiler with built-in flamegraphs

timep is a state-of-the-art trap-based profiler for bash code. It generates per-command execution time profiles, hierarchically logging command runtimes and metadata based on function and subshell nesting. The latest release (v1.3) is fully self-contained, including a compressed binary and a flamegraph generator. Major refactorings have dramatically improved performance; a test with ~67,000 commands now runs in 5 minutes (down from 20!). timep offers detailed and summarized profiles, plus visually insightful flamegraphs, simplifying the analysis and optimization of Bash code.

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Fenster: A Minimal Cross-Platform 2D Canvas Library

2025-08-26

Fenster: A Minimal Cross-Platform 2D Canvas Library

Fenster is a minimalistic cross-platform 2D canvas library reminiscent of Borland BGI or QBASIC graphics. It offers a single application window, a 24-bit RGB framebuffer, cross-platform keyboard/mouse input, and audio playback—all with minimal code. A simple polling API avoids callbacks or multithreading. It boasts C99, Go, Zig, and Lua bindings, and yes, it can even run Doom!

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Real-time 3D Human Motion Detection and Visualization using WiFi CSI

2025-08-26

Real-time 3D Human Motion Detection and Visualization using WiFi CSI

WiFi-3D-Fusion is an open-source project that leverages Channel State Information (CSI) from local Wi-Fi to perform real-time human motion detection and 3D visualization. Supporting both ESP32-CSI and Nexmon data acquisition, it employs advanced CNNs for person detection and tracking, including multi-person identification and re-identification. A continuous learning pipeline allows the model to automatically improve during operation. Visualization is offered through both a web interface and a terminal-based pipeline. Optional integrations with Person-in-WiFi-3D, NeRF², and 3D Wi-Fi Scanner are also provided.

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xv6-riscv-net: Bringing TCP/IP Networking to RISC-V xv6

2025-08-26

xv6-riscv-net: Bringing TCP/IP Networking to RISC-V xv6

This project integrates a TCP/IP stack into the RISC-V version of the xv6 operating system, enabling network functionality. It includes a kernel-space port of the microps user-space TCP/IP stack, a virtio-net driver for network emulation in QEMU, a standard socket API, and a simple ifconfig command. A few commands build and launch QEMU, configure IP addresses, and allow pinging the xv6 guest from the host, along with testing TCP/UDP echo applications.

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PEP: A New Ultra-Efficient Compression Format for Pixel Art

2025-08-25

PEP: A New Ultra-Efficient Compression Format for Pixel Art

PEP is a novel image compression format specifically designed for low-color pixel art (≤16 colors is optimal, up to 256 colors are supported). It uses "Prediction by Partial Matching, Order-2" compression, which is 2-10x slower than GIF, PNG, and QOI, but often compresses images 20-50% smaller than GIF/PNG (and multiple times smaller than QOI). If compressed image size matters, PEP is for you. It sits somewhere between GIF and WEBP in terms of speed/compression tradeoff. This is currently experimental, but a C header is provided for use.

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decode-kit: A Lightweight TypeScript Runtime Data Validation Library

2025-08-25

decode-kit: A Lightweight TypeScript Runtime Data Validation Library

decode-kit is a lightweight, zero-dependency TypeScript library for validating arbitrary runtime data. It uses assertion-based validation that refines your types in-place—no cloning, no transformations, and minimal runtime overhead. decode-kit validates your data and narrows its type directly; your original values remain unchanged. It employs a fail-fast approach, throwing a detailed error on the first validation failure, including the location and expected schema. Supporting various data types (strings, numbers, booleans, arrays, objects) with configurable rules, decode-kit outperforms libraries like Zod due to its in-place type assertion, making it ideal for performance-critical applications.

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4.4KB Ultra-Lightweight AI Agent Executes Shell Commands via OpenRouter API

2025-08-25

4.4KB Ultra-Lightweight AI Agent Executes Shell Commands via OpenRouter API

An ultra-lightweight AI agent written in C that communicates with the OpenRouter API and executes shell commands. Key features include: direct shell command execution via AI responses; optimized binaries (4.4KB on macOS, ~16KB on Linux); sliding window memory management for efficiency; cross-platform support for macOS and Linux. Requires GCC, curl, and an OpenRouter API key. The build system auto-detects your platform and applies optimal compression (GZEXE for macOS, UPX for Linux). The code is public domain, with no license.

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Provider-Agnostic CAS Cache with Pluggable Codecs and Generation Store

2025-08-25

Provider-Agnostic CAS Cache with Pluggable Codecs and Generation Store

cascache is a provider-agnostic Compare-And-Set (CAS) cache featuring pluggable codecs and a generation store. It offers safe single-key reads (no stale values), optional bulk caching with read-side validation, and an opt-in distributed mode for multi-replica deployments. Cascache ensures CAS safety using generation snapshots, supports various underlying stores (Ristretto, BigCache, Redis) and codecs (JSON, Msgpack, CBOR, Proto), and provides both local and distributed generation storage modes for high performance and availability.

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ContextForge MCP Gateway: Unifying REST, MCP, and A2A

2025-08-25

ContextForge MCP Gateway: Unifying REST, MCP, and A2A

ContextForge MCP Gateway is a powerful gateway, proxy, and MCP registry that federates MCP and REST services, unifying discovery, auth, rate-limiting, observability, virtual servers, multi-transport protocols, and an optional admin UI into a single, clean endpoint for your AI clients. It runs as a fully compliant MCP server, deployable via PyPI or Docker, and scales to multi-cluster environments on Kubernetes with Redis-backed federation and caching. Currently in alpha/early beta, it's not production-ready but ideal for development and experimentation. Note: This is an open-source component with no official support from IBM.

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Turn Your Old iPhone or RTSP Camera into an AI Security Camera

2025-08-24

Turn Your Old iPhone or RTSP Camera into an AI Security Camera

The Clearcam app lets you upgrade your old iPhone or any RTSP-enabled camera into a state-of-the-art AI security camera. With a simple Homebrew install and running a Python script, you can view live feeds and receive event notifications (objects/people detected) on your local browser. Clearcam Premium offers remote viewing, event clips, and end-to-end encryption. Currently only iOS is supported, Android users can use the iOS User ID temporarily.

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Seed: An Interactive Programming Environment in Your Browser

2025-08-24

Seed: An Interactive Programming Environment in Your Browser

Seed is an interactive software environment built on Common Lisp that runs inside a web browser. It allows you to create and use computer programs in diverse ways, visualizing them as a tree grid with glyphs representing functions and data types. Seed aims to transcend the limitations of traditional text-based programming by offering a representation orthogonal to the language's structure. It integrates the ASDF build system and provides comprehensive installation and usage instructions.

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ThinkMesh: Parallel Reasoning for LLMs

2025-08-24

ThinkMesh: Parallel Reasoning for LLMs

ThinkMesh is a Python library for running diverse reasoning paths in parallel, scoring them with internal confidence signals, reallocating compute to promising branches, and fusing outcomes with verifiers and reducers. It supports offline Hugging Face Transformers and vLLM/TGI, and hosted APIs. ThinkMesh offers various strategies like DeepConf, Self-Consistency, and Tree of Thoughts, and includes features like caching, metrics, and JSON tracing for enhanced efficiency and reliability in large language model reasoning.

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macOS Dev Tool: One-Click Kill for Processes on Ports 2000-6000

2025-08-24

macOS Dev Tool: One-Click Kill for Processes on Ports 2000-6000

This lightweight macOS status bar app monitors and manages development processes running on ports 2000-6000. It provides real-time process detection and lets you kill individual processes or all at once. Using `lsof`, it scans ports every 5 seconds, displaying the process count via a color-coded status bar icon (green: 0, red: 1-9, orange: 10+). Clicking the icon opens a context menu to kill all or specific processes. It uses a SIGTERM → SIGKILL termination strategy for safe process shutdown.

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