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My Agent Remembered the Fix and Was Wrong
5+ min ago (633+ words) Last month my incident-recovery agent looked at a failing search query, remembered it had fixed the same symptom before, and proposed the same fix. It would have been the wrong one. The bug was a search gateway returning results from…...
Hiii.Question for developers What do you do when you can't solve a bug? When you're stuck on a bug even after trying Google, AI, documentation, and debugging yourself, what do you usually do next? Have you ever asked or paid another developer to fix?
5+ min ago (10+ words) A post by member_7df73257. Tagged with debugging, discuss, programming....
The Line of Code That Makes Every Encryption Unique — Even With the Same Password
12+ min ago (267+ words) Same message. Same password. Same key. Two completely different ciphertexts. That's not a bug — it's a requirement, and it comes down to a single value that's easy to overlook: the nonce. This is the final post in a series documenting…...
My Craziest Side Project Yet: Drawva
22+ min ago (382+ words) This is a submission for the MLH x DEV Writing Challenge That project is Drawva. Drawva is an infinite canvas whiteboard engine powered by a multimodal AI perception agent. Unlike typical whiteboards where your strokes are just static pixels, Drawva…...
Why an IDE Is Not Enough: Building an ADE (Agentic Development Environment)
7+ min ago (828+ words) An IDE organizes one person's work on code: editor, terminal, debugger, Git, and extensions. An Agentic Development Environment (ADE) must also organize the work of autonomous agents — including when they run in parallel, use different models, and build context over…...
Designing a tool that uses LLMs to negotiate SaaS prices. Looking for feedback on the architecture.
5+ min ago (278+ words) The main workflow is: Dashboard ↓ New Negotiation ↓ Analyze ↓ Recommendation ↓ Strategies / What-if / Counteroffer / Evidence / Customer ↓ Record Outcome ↓ Learning This keeps the user's mental model simple. The user starts with a deal. Everything else exists to help with that deal. Hindsight should…...
Why your "zero-downtime" Docker Compose deploy still drops requests
25+ min ago (318+ words) For a while I was pretty happy with my deploy setup. Push to main, GitHub Actions builds an image, SSHes into the VPS, pulls, restarts. Simple, no Kubernetes, nothing to babysit. Then I actually measured what happened to in-flight requests…...
How I Learned to Research Industrial Protocols
15+ min ago (1038+ words) By RUGERO Tesla (@404saint). Nine industrial protocols later, the protocol research series is over. When I started it, I thought I was going to learn industrial protocols, and that was true, but it turned out to be only part of what…...
Security scanning at Foundation scale
13+ min ago (655+ words) By ASF Tooling and ASF Security This post describes how that came together: what prompted the scans, what we had already built, what the projects did to prepare, how the scans ran, and where the results went. It is a…...
Austin rain chances rise this week. How much could fall?
3+ hour, 16+ min ago (131+ words) Austin could see several rounds of rain this week, with 4 to 6 inches possible through early Sunday. The heaviest rain is most likely midweek....