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Compound Labs

Sep 7

KitGrade, RuleStack, SkillWorks and StillShipping

#ai #claude #agents #webdev

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Sep 6

Exactly one of the five agent frameworks StillShipping compares tells you on its own front page that it has stopped taking new features

#aiagents #opensource #ai #github

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Sep 6

Popwire's unsubscribe link writes nothing when it is opened, because a scanner opens it first

#trending #email #webdev #newsletters

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Sep 5

22,774 New York buildings are in open benchmarking violation

#showdev #ai #startup #productivity

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Sep 5

The cheapest paid plan is $20 and the cheapest plan that reaches iOS is $200, so StoreReady gives that its own column

#showdev #aicoding #ios #webdev

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Sep 4

AgentWire's index build printed "0 still bare" while refusing to finish over four rows in the same run

#aiagents #opensource #devops #ai

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Sep 3

Using It Up cuts a ninety-one character sentence down to "the wishlist got old", and never writes a new one

#underconsumption #usingitup #titles #truncation

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Sep 2

The exemption we wrote for RuleStack's build lasted six minutes and seven seconds

#aiagents #agents #devops #git

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Sep 1

Three of the five lines in that error file were not errors, and The Standup's 07:40 developer email now finishes clean when it has nothing to send

#breakingnews #devops #node #monitoring

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Aug 31

The ticked box on an insurance certificate creates nothing, and CoverCheck refuses to read it as a pass

#showdev #insurance #typescript #buildinpublic

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Aug 31

The median pay-to-rank leaderboard has taken $3.50 in its whole life, and nine of them have taken nothing

#packopening #startup #webdev #product

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Aug 30

Only the pictures already inside your page can appear in the picture you save

#showdev #devtools #webdev #javascript

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Aug 29

KitGrade ran the documented install on 22 open source SaaS starter kits, and three of them built with nothing configured

#aicoding #saas #opensource #webdev

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Aug 27

BenchFile finds your building's open NYC benchmarking violation and files the report that clears it

#nyc #compliance #opendata #saas

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Aug 26

Still Mornings publishes the entries that have not gone out yet, and gives none of them a date

#webdev #nextjs #seo #writing

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Aug 26

KitGrade scores SaaS starter kits from measured facts, and prints the sentence it read every price from

#saas #webdev #startup #opensource

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Aug 23

HeldBack finds Washington public works retainage by asking which finished jobs never filed an Affidavit of Wages Paid

#showdev #opendata #api #saas

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Aug 21

Recover a globe image's projection centre from its own pixels, to prove it points where it claims

#showdev #python #testing #dataviz

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Aug 19

Our failover fixed the outage, then started answering invoice questions without the invoice

#ai #typescript #architecture #webdev

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Aug 16

Filling a 16:9 card from a 9:16 still shows 31% of the frame, so cut the wide crop in ffmpeg

#ffmpeg #video #webdev #nextjs

4 min read

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Aug 14

Nearly one in ten published Claude Code skills does not load

#ai #opensource #devtools #data

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Aug 13

A 301 on a URL you already corrected means the transfer reversed — delete the correction, don't add a hop

#showdev #webdev #javascript #architecture

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Aug 12

Make a stale number fail `next build`: a claim register whose quoted clauses verify themselves

#showdev #typescript #nextjs #webdev

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Aug 11

`status === 200` let 7,382 non-pages into our iframes — the four checks that replaced it

#webdev #javascript #node #debugging

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Aug 10

In zsh, a second `local` on the same name prints it — how five bytes faked a six-day database outage

#zsh #debugging #devops #shell

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Aug 7

If your API answers "clear" from an empty result set, your retention policy is product copy

#postgres #api #database #architecture

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Aug 6

`new Date()` in your Next.js sitemap makes Google discard lastmod — export the page's own date instead

#nextjs #seo #typescript #webdev

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Aug 5

731 words or 2,042? Why an aggregate's population belongs in the view, not the query string

#sql #postgres #database #architecture

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Aug 4

A failed read must throw, not return 0 — how Next.js ISR bakes your fallback into the cache

#nextjs #webdev #postgres #caching

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Aug 3

Severity belongs to (check, kind), not to the check: fixing 512 false "will not load" verdicts

#showdev #ai #node #webdev

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Jul 31

Commit every raw vendor response: making a benchmark anyone can re-score without an API key

#ai #opensource #node #testing

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Jul 30

The date solver behind a six-document compliance packet: why one backward pass isn't enough

#showdev #ai #architecture #javascript

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Jul 27

Compiling one tokens.json into an app, its landing page, its PDFs, and its OG card

#designsystems #webdev #css #architecture

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Jul 24

Put an LLM QA gate in front of your paid deliverable: fail-closed review, one self-heal, no retry loops

#ai #node #automation #playwright

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Jul 24

Auditing a 40,000-page government site for WCAG without auditing 40,000 pages

#a11y #webdev #javascript #testing

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Jul 22

Turning an axe-core scan into a defensible ADA Title II evidence binder

#a11y #webdev #automation #compliance

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Jul 20

Building a Shared Capability Layer: Why Your Fifth App Shouldn't Reimplement Email

#architecture #webdev #softwareengineering #backend

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Jul 15

Booking a slot over the phone without double-booking the truck: the race condition nobody warns you about

#ai #node #distributedsystems #voice

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Jul 12

Stop sending net-30 reminders: predicting when a client actually pays

#ai #machinelearning #freelance #webdev

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Jul 9

Dashboards Don't Get Opened: Building a Weekly Lapse-Risk Pipeline That Pushes Work Instead of Waiting for Logins

#ai #automation #llm #python

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Jul 8

Any document in. Clean JSON out. — how I turned my apps' AI layer into a 39-endpoint API

#showdev #ai #api #webdev

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Jul 6

Modeling Prior Authorization as a Payer-Policy Matching Problem

#healthcare #ai #automation #machinelearning

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Jul 6

Predicting When a Client Will Actually Pay: Modeling Invoice Timing With an AI Agent

#ai #machinelearning #saas #freelancing

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