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Backed by Alexis Ohanian’s 776 and Kindred Ventures, Zest uses transaction data and AI to generate restaurant recommendations based on users’ real dining habits and the places they frequent.

When building a personal finance tracker, data integrity and system reliability are non-negotiable. One missing try/catch block can crash your whole server, and weak types can let invalid financial payloads corrupt your database. While building the backend for my personal finance tracker, I decided to move past generic tutorials and build a bulletproof, production-grade API core using Express, TypeScript, and Zod. In this post, I’ll show you how I implemented a type-safe middleware ecosystem, leveraged TypeScript declaration merging to extend the native Request object, and eliminated repetitive try/catch boilerplate across the entire codebase. 1. The Weapon Against Boilerplate: The asyncHandler HOC Writing try/catch blocks in every single controller handler clutters code and introduces human error—it’s easy to forget to pass an error to next() . To solve this, I engineered a Higher-Order Function (HOC) factory that wraps asynchronous request handlers and automatically catches rejected promises, safely routing them into the global error handler. import { Request , Response , NextFunction , RequestHandler } from ' express ' ; export const asyncHandler = ( fn : RequestHandler ): RequestHandler => { return ( req : Request , res : Response , next : NextFunction ) => { Promise . resolve ( fn ( req , res , next )). catch ( next ); }; }; Why this matters: Reliability: Async errors always reach the centralized error middleware. Readability: Route controllers stay beautifully clean, focusing only on business logic rather than async control flow wiring. 2. TypeScript Magic: Declaration Merging & Type Augmentation When dealing with authentication tokens, request tracing ( requestId ), or custom validated payloads, developers frequently resort to casting the request as any (e.g., (req as any).userId ). This completely destroys Type Safety. Instead of fighting the compiler, I leveraged TypeScript Declaration Merging to reopen Express's internal Request interface and merge my cust

In my last post I complained — a lot — about product managers and how they made my life hell with vibe code. PS: apologies, manager, if you're reading this — but it's true. Now, I'm not here just to complain. There were a lot of learning opportunities too, like how to handle legacy / vibe code. Because at the end of the day, both are the same: no one knows how they work, but somehow they keep working. Touching them is like defusing a bomb — you never know how your change might cascade and break the core logic. The good news is that vibe code is much simpler than legacy. AI, in all its glory, tries to write perfect-looking code — proper function names, comments, the works — not like legacy code where a single function runs 500 lines, with spaghetti names all over that make no sense and comments that are out of date. And that makes it something I can actually handle. I still don't have a perfect, step-by-step playbook — but I've got pieces. The first one. The cheapest and the oldest one. The one the industry solved decades ago and the whole "AI built my app in a day" crowd somehow forgot exists. A linter. Yes, you heard me right. A linter. ESLint. Most people who've been in this industry already know it. It's the most boring, reliable tool in the box. But in an era where the answer to every problem is "add another AI," it's worth saying out loud why the boring tool still wins. What a linter actually is If you vibe-coded your way into this world, or you're new to web dev in general and have never heard the word "lint", here's the honest version. A linter is a set of rules you add to your repo. It reads your code without running it, checks it against those rules, and flags everything that's broken, sloppy, or about to bite you in production. The detail people get wrong: it's not a grep for bad words. A real linter parses your code into a syntax tree and actually reasons about its structure — what's imported, what's called, what's reachable, what types flow where. That's

Cybersecurity researchers are complaining that Anthropic's new model Fable has guardrails that are too strict for any cybersecurity work.

In 2025 Google Cloud added G4 , powered by NVIDIA's RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs to their offering, allowing them to offer hardware not only for AI applications, but also for other applications, such as rendering, simulations or gaming. A single G4 instance with one accelerator ( g4-standard-48 ) comes equipped with 48 CPU cores, 180 gigabytes of RAM and 96 gigabytes of GPU memory. This is a lot of resources for a single cloud workstation, that only the most demanding workstreams would utilize. Most professionals who require a graphics accelerator to do their job, don't really need this much compute power for day to day tasks. It wasn't financially reasonable to pay for a G4 instance, when you weren't utilizing all the resources you paid for. If only there were smaller machine types… If only you could share that one very powerful GPU between multiple virtual machines… Introducing fractional VMs! During Google Cloud Next 2026, Google announced GA for fractional G4 VMs and was the first provider to bring vGPU functionality to RTX PRO 6000 accelerators. vGPU stands for virtual graphical processing unit . Just like VMs (virtual machines) are a way to split one physical computer into smaller, independent systems, vGPU allows for a single physical accelerator to be split into 2, 4 or 8 virtual accelerators! The new fractional machine types ( g4-standard-24 , g4-standard-12 , g4-standard-6 ) now allow you to perfectly match the compute capabilities to your needs! Who is it for? The existence of those new machine types makes it much more cost-efficient to move many GPU-dependent tasks to the cloud. Replacing physical workstations in offices with cloud infrastructure is not a new thing , but till now, Google Cloud didn't offer a good platform for those who needed workstations to process images, post-process videos, simulate physics or render 3D graphics. Those users now can get exactly the hardware they need, allowing their companies to move away from maintaini

I ran the same browser smoke task through two paths: direct Chrome DevTools MCP and a custom CLI skill around mcp2cli . In GitHub Copilot CLI with gpt-5.3-codex-medium , direct Chrome DevTools MCP added about 5k tokens of upfront context before the agent did any work. The runtime table is too small and too noisy to rank the tools. The useful question is where the agent pays to discover the browser-control surface. mcp2cli README says it can “Save 96-99% of the tokens wasted on tool schemas every turn.” That is a strong claim and frankly I didn't no expect that sort of numbers... It's just the CLI part resonates with me - (a) there's no system prompt pollution with CLI, (b) if you choose between gh CLI and GitHub MCP the former would be better due to the fact that model already knows the tool and there's less tokens wasted on JSON schemas and tool calls. I used Chrome DevTools MCP a lot and I have chosen this MCP as a test bed to try mcp2cli . This came handy cause I started my experiments with the minimal pi coding agent and it doesn't bundle any MCP integration, just the basic bash tool, I was very much happy not to bloat my instal with a dedicated MCP plugin. Although in this cases I cmpared MCP vs CLI using a fully fledged GitHub CLI. Tool discovery is part of the experiment. Native MCP gives the agent a tool surface by loading schemas into context. A CLI wrapper makes the agent discover the surface the way it discovers any other command-line tool: list, search, ask for help, run a small probe, write down what worked. That changes where the discovery cost lands. The Setup I ran this in GitHub Copilot CLI using gpt-5.3-codex-medium : Copilot stock MCP servers were disabled. The app under test was a private Pythobn/Streamlit codebase. The browser task was the same 9-step smoke test in both variants. One variant used direct Chrome DevTools MCP. Another variant used a custom skill that wraps Chrome DevTools MCP via mcp2cli . The custom skill itself started as an ad-h

Every backend project I've worked on eventually hits the same wall. You start clean — one service, simple routes, everything works. Then slowly the requirements creep in. "We need rate limiting." "Can we add auth middleware?" "What happens when the user service goes down — does it take everything else with it?" You either bolt these things onto every service individually, copy-paste the same middleware across projects, or pay for a managed gateway like Kong or AWS API Gateway and hope it does what you need. I wanted to actually understand how these things work under the hood. So I'm building one — and this is what I've learned so far. What is Ferrox? Ferrox is a self-hosted, programmable API gateway written entirely in Rust. It sits in front of your backend services and handles everything a production system needs in one place: Dynamic routing — point any path prefix to any upstream service Authentication — JWT and API key validation on protected routes Rate limiting — Redis-backed per-IP and per-API-key limiting Circuit breaking — stops hammering a dead upstream service Response caching — Redis-backed TTL cache per route Real-time observability — WebSocket dashboard with live request stats Prometheus metrics — plug straight into Grafana The idea is simple. Instead of this: Client → Service A (has its own auth, rate limiting, logging) Client → Service B (has its own auth, rate limiting, logging) Client → Service C (has its own auth, rate limiting, logging) You get this: Client | v FERROX (auth, rate limiting, circuit breaking, logging — once) | +--------+--------+ | | | Svc A Svc B Svc C (clean) (clean) (clean) Your services stay clean. Ferrox handles the cross-cutting concerns. Why Rust? Honest answer — I already knew Rust from my backend work. But for a gateway specifically, it felt like the obvious choice. A gateway sits on the critical path of every single request. Every millisecond of latency it adds is latency your users feel. You need predictable performance

The Problem With Talking Directly to LLMs Most teams start by wiring their app straight to the OpenAI API. It works — until you need to add auth, rate limiting, observability, or swap out the model provider. Now you're rewriting application code instead of config. An AI Gateway solves this. One entry point, one place to govern traffic, providers become swappable. Kong Gateway is a mature choice here — it's been doing this for APIs for years, and the AI Proxy plugin extends that to LLMs. This post walks through the key ideas. For the full step-by-step guide, head over to the tutorial on Hashnode . What We're Building A Kong Gateway 3.14 data plane running on Kubernetes (kind locally), connected to a Kong Konnect control plane. The AI Proxy plugin sits on a route and handles forwarding to OpenAI — your app just talks to Kong. Your app → POST /ai/chat (Kong proxy) → AI Proxy plugin attaches API key → OpenAI API → response back to your app Your app never holds an OpenAI key. Kong does. You get rate limiting, logging, and model-swapping for free at the gateway layer. The Key Bit: decK Config as Code The most interesting part of this setup is using decK to define the service, route, and plugin as a YAML state file — then syncing it to Konnect, which pushes it down to the data plane automatically. # kong-ai.yaml _format_version : " 3.0" services : - name : openai-service url : https://api.openai.com routes : - name : openai-chat-route paths : - /ai/chat plugins : - name : ai-proxy config : route_type : llm/v1/chat auth : header_name : Authorization header_value : " Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" model : provider : openai name : gpt-4o options : max_tokens : 512 One sync command and Konnect pushes the config to every connected data plane: deck gateway sync kong-ai.yaml \ --konnect-token " $KONNECT_TOKEN " \ --konnect-control-plane-name "kong-ai-tutorial" Once it's live, a single HTTPie call confirms the whole chain is working: http POST localhost:8080/ai/chat \ Content-Type:applic

Serverless functions have a time limit. Vercel gives you 60 seconds on Pro. None of that is enough to send a welcome email sequence, process an uploaded CSV, or run any workflow with multiple external API calls. Inngest solves this by turning your Next.js API routes into reliable, retryable, observable background jobs — without Redis, without a worker process, without any separate queue infrastructure. Read the full guide with all code examples at stacknotice.com How It Works You define functions that run in response to events . When an event fires, Inngest calls your function via HTTP. If the function fails, Inngest retries it. If the function has multiple steps, Inngest checkpoints each step so a failure halfway through doesn't restart from scratch. Setup npm install inngest // lib/inngest/client.ts import { Inngest } from ' inngest ' export const inngest = new Inngest ({ id : ' my-app ' }) // app/api/inngest/route.ts import { serve } from ' inngest/next ' import { inngest } from ' @/lib/inngest/client ' import { welcomeSequence } from ' @/lib/inngest/functions/welcome ' export const { GET , POST , PUT } = serve ({ client : inngest , functions : [ welcomeSequence ], }) Welcome Email Sequence export const welcomeSequence = inngest . createFunction ( { id : ' welcome-email-sequence ' , retries : 3 }, { event : ' user/signed-up ' }, async ({ event , step }) => { const { userId , email , name } = event . data // Each step is independently retried await step . run ( ' send-welcome-email ' , async () => { await resend . emails . send ({ from : ' hello@yourapp.com ' , to : email , subject : `Welcome, ${ name } !` , html : `<p>Thanks for signing up...</p>` , }) }) await step . sleep ( ' wait-2-days ' , ' 2 days ' ) await step . run ( ' send-tips-email ' , async () => { await resend . emails . send ({ from : ' hello@yourapp.com ' , to : email , subject : ' Top 5 tips to get the most out of the app ' , html : `<p>Here are the tips...</p>` , }) }) await step . sleep ( ' wait

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Reentrancy is the oldest trick in smart contract exploitation. The DAO fell to it in 2016. You would think a bug this famous would be extinct by now. It isn't. Protocols still lose millions to reentrancy every year, because the textbook version is the easy one, and attackers stopped using the textbook version a long time ago. This post walks through the classic bug, then the modern variants that still bite in 2026: cross-function, cross-contract, read-only reentrancy through view functions, and callback reentrancy through ERC777 and ERC721. I'll show why ReentrancyGuard is not the silver bullet most developers think it is, and how an LLM-based auditor reasons about the call-then-state-change pattern in a way pattern matchers can't. The Classic: Single-Function Reentrancy Here is the canonical vulnerable withdraw. contract VulnerableVault { mapping(address => uint256) public balances; function deposit() external payable { balances[msg.sender] += msg.value; } function withdraw() external { uint256 amount = balances[msg.sender]; (bool success, ) = msg.sender.call{value: amount}(""); require(success, "transfer failed"); balances[msg.sender] = 0; // state update AFTER the external call } } The attack is simple. The attacker is a contract. When withdraw sends ETH via msg.sender.call , control passes to the attacker's receive() function before balances[msg.sender] is zeroed. The attacker calls withdraw again. The balance is still the original amount, so the vault pays out again. Repeat until the vault is empty. contract Attacker { VulnerableVault vault; receive() external payable { if (address(vault).balance >= 1 ether) { vault.withdraw(); // re-enter before balance is zeroed } } } The fix is checks-effects-interactions. Do all your checks, then update all your state, and only then make the external call. function withdraw() external { uint256 amount = balances[msg.sender]; balances[msg.sender] = 0; // effect first (bool success, ) = msg.sender.call{value: amount}(""); //

While Silicon Valley continues pushing aggressively into large language models and consumer-facing AI products, many European companies are focused on applying AI to complex systems already embedded into everyday life.

Part 7 of 7 · Series: Building Your AI Developer Handbook · GitHub The Scenario You're building a password reset feature. User enters email → gets a reset link → clicks link → enters new password. Standard flow. Medium complexity. Let's walk through every step using the full workflow — as if you're looking over the shoulder of someone who built this system. "Show me your workflow and I'll show you your output quality." Before You Even Type Claude loads automatically in the background: ✓ ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md loaded ← the global handbook ✓ .claude/CLAUDE.md loaded ← project rules (TypeScript, pnpm) ✓ memory/MEMORY.md scanned ← all lessons and preferences You haven't typed anything yet. Claude already knows: Feature-based folder structure State management ladder No mocking the database No AI attribution in commits No useCallback without profiler evidence "A doctor who reviews your file before you enter the room is more useful than one who asks 'so, remind me who you are?'" Step 1: /status — Confirm the Setup /status Model: claude-sonnet-4-6 Effort: normal Plugins: security-guidance ✓ Thirty seconds. Sometimes the wrong model loads due to overload fallback. Sometimes a plugin fails silently. This check costs 30 seconds and prevents a surprise 30 minutes later. "A pilot's first action after sitting in the cockpit isn't to take off. It's to check all instruments are reading correctly." Step 2: /cost — Baseline /cost → Tokens used: 2,847 | Estimated cost: $ 0.004 Note this number. You'll compare it later before the expensive code review step. A surprise spike means something went wrong. Step 3: /plan — Design Before Coding /plan Build a password reset feature: - User enters email on /forgot-password - System sends a reset link (token, expires in 1 hour) - User clicks link → /reset-password?token=xxx - User enters new password - Token validated, password updated, token invalidated Claude responds with a plan — no code yet : Proposed approach: 1. DB: Add password_reset_tokens

A complete walkthrough of publishing Cartlify — a React e-commerce UI kit — to npm for the first time. The Milestone Yesterday I published Cartlify to npm. npm install cartlify It sounds simple. But getting to that one line took more decisions, more configuration, and more trial and error than I expected. This article covers everything — from setting up the build config to the actual publish command — so you don't have to figure it out the hard way. What Is Cartlify? Cartlify is a production-ready React + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS component library focused on e-commerce UI. 4 components that every e-commerce project needs: ProductCard — 3 layout variants, image gallery, wishlist, sale badges, skeleton loading CartDrawer — animated slide-in, focus trap, ESC dismiss, quantity stepper CheckoutStepper — horizontal/vertical, animated connectors, keyboard navigation PageLoader — 4 animation styles, 3 position modes Plus 3 utility hooks, 11 tree-shakeable icons, 40+ CSS design tokens, full dark mode, and 141 Jest + React Testing Library tests. Built so freelance developers and indie makers can skip the painful e-commerce UI layer and ship faster. Why Publish to npm? Before npm, Cartlify was only available on Gumroad as a paid download. That's fine — but npm adds something Gumroad can't: Developer sees Cartlify → runs npm install cartlify → evaluates the compiled output → trusts the quality → buys the full source on Gumroad npm is a credibility and discovery channel — not just a distribution method. A package on npm signals that something is real, maintained, and production-ready. Also: npmjs.com gets millions of developer searches every month. That's free traffic you can't get from Gumroad alone. The Build Setup — tsup The most important decision before publishing is how you bundle your library. I chose tsup — a zero-config TypeScript bundler built on esbuild. Here's why: Tool Config needed Speed Output Rollup Lots Medium ESM + CJS Webpack Heavy Slow CJS only Vite lib mode

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Following the launch of the surprisingly popular Kobo Remote, Boox has released its own device to ease the burden of reaching for an e-reader’s touchscreen that’s an arm’s length away. The Tappy isn’t Boox’s first page-turning remote, but its design takes a much different approach to the company’s slim but boring B.T. Remoter. The Tappy […]

AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round from a who's who of angels. It's betting companies will want power over, not lock-in with model makers.

There's a lot of impressive engineering inside Honor's Magic V6, but it's let down by software that desperately needs polish.

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