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Traps to Developers

by qouteall

A summarization of some traps to developers. There traps are unintuitive things that are easily misunderstood and cause bugs.

πŸš€ Read it!, engineering


Guid Smash

by guidsmash.com

The chances of generating two GUIDs that are the same is astronomically small.

πŸ“° Good to know, guids


Vibe Coding Tips and Tricks

by AWS Labs

Note This field is evolving quickly, and we will update this guide as new methods and recommendations arise.

πŸ“° Good to know, ai, vibe-coding


npm Adopts OIDC for Trusted Publishing in CI/CD Workflows

by Sarah Gooding

npm now supports Trusted Publishing with OIDC, enabling secure package publishing directly from CI/CD workflows without relying on long-lived tokens.

πŸ“° Good to know, npm, oidc, security


how to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method

by Yacine Mahdid

you need to sit for this one for 48h

πŸ“° Good to know, growth, performance


OverType

by David Miranda

A lightweight markdown editor library with perfect WYSIWYG alignment using an invisible textarea overlay technique. Includes optional toolbar. ~45KB minified with all features.

🧰 Tools, editors, markdown


Doxx

by Brandon Greenwell

Expose the contents of .docx files without leaving your terminal. Fast, safe, and smart β€” no Office required!

🧰 Tools, docx, terminal


Sim

by sim.ai

Sim is an open-source AI agent workflow builder. Sim's interface is a lightweight, intuitive way to rapidly build and deploy LLMs that connect with your favorite tools.

🧰 Tools, ai, agents


Prime Grid

by Danny Duplex

Prime Grid creates a simple, adjustable grid that plots prime numbers in a left-to-right, top-to-bottom layout. Use it to find interesting visual patterns, do some smart-person math stuff, or maybe find the secret code to the cosmos or whatever.

πŸ€ͺ Fun, math


Run Express.js on Cloudflare Workers

by James Ross

As of August 5th, 2025 and wrangler 4.28.0, Cloudflare Workers extends its Node.js compatibility efforts, and now supports running Express.js apps directly and natively (in local development, production availability coming soon)!

πŸ“š Tutorials, cloudflare, express


Using the Custom Highlight API

by Chris Coyier

The Custom Highlight API came to my attention recently as Firefox recently started supporting it (Firefox 140, June 2025), which brought support across all the major browsers.

πŸ“š Tutorials, css


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