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Reventador Volcanic Ash Advisory: ash plume to 15,000 ft (4,600 m) as of Sep 12, 22:30 UTC
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Weather alert affecting the Kansas City area Saturday evening - gusts up to 50 mph
12+ hour, 23+ min ago (112+ words) A weather alert was issued by the National Weather Service on Saturday at 5:54 p.m. for strong thunderstorms until 6:30 p.m. The alert is for Leavenworth, Johnson, Jackson, Miami and Cass counties. "At 5:53 p.m., Doppler radar tracked strong thunderstorms along a line extending from Linwood…...
I built an hourly newspaper for e-ink (and turned the pipeline into an MCP server)
34+ min ago (1124+ words) Every hour, a Lambda pulls about 120 items from ~100 RSS feeds, asks a small model to act as an editor, and typesets the result as a 480x800 one-bit page for the Xteink X4 e-ink reader on my desk. The same pipeline now produces…...
Set a Pause to Over-Engineering: Why AWS Lambda MicroVMs Will Serve Indie Developers in 2026
25+ min ago (373+ words) 1.True State Retention Without Complicated Databases Earlier, if you wanted your backend code to retain a simple piece of information from a past user action, you had to store that data in an external database, such as Amazon DynamoDB. For…...
The Twelve-Factor App: o guia que todo sistema deveria seguir (mas poucos seguem)
36+ min ago (507+ words) Se você já trabalhou num sistema que funcionava perfeitamente no seu computador mas quebrava assim que ia pra produção, ou já se irritou com uma atualização que exigiu reconstruir tudo só porque mudou a senha do banco de dados, você…...
I built a chat where every word costs money — on TON, solo, no legal entity
22+ min ago (1125+ words) Hi! I'm a mobile developer (Kotlin by day), and a couple of weeks ago I started a side project with a simple, slightly audacious idea: a chat where sending a message costs money — and the recipient gets paid. You write…...
Review time is up 441% under vibe coding. That is the real problem.
53+ min ago (749+ words) A state-of-the-art review of the first body of evidence on AI-assisted development was posted to arXiv on 20 Aug 2026. It is a preprint, not itself peer reviewed, though the field experiments it surveys are (Michels et al., arXiv:2608.20446). The number that…...
‘I Just Feel Ripped Off’: A Week of Users Asking What They Pay For
25+ min ago (374+ words) There is a particular kind of complaint that gets louder as a market matures. Not “this is broken” — that is the noise of a new product — but “wait, what am I actually paying for?” That is the sound of customers…...
What has working with multiple languages been like on your projects?
36+ min ago (236+ words) Hey everyone. I’m exploring a programming-language project and want to understand how people currently work across languages. Thinking about your most recent project where code in different languages needed to work together: What were you building, which languages were involved,…...
I Rewrote One Function in Squirrel, Then in C. One Line of Python Was Just as Fast.
52+ min ago (543+ words) I maintain a 2D game engine in Python called ABS Engine. Last week I decided it needed C. Not because anything was slow. That is the embarrassing part. I wanted to drop a.c file into a folder and call it from Python…...