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If you do local SEO work, you've run into this: a client's Google Business Profile says one phone number, their website footer says another, and nobody noticed until a customer called the wrong number. Or the postal code on the GBP listing is a leftover from an old office. This kind of drift is call
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62k677d4lzo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583144 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
I Built My First Python Student Evaluation Program — What Would You Improve? I’ve recently been learning Python, and I built a small student evaluation program as a practical exercise to apply the concepts I’ve learned so far. The program: Calculates the average of Mathematics, Physics, and Chem
I run about thirty scheduled jobs on a single Windows box. Some are scrapers, some generate content, some are trading bots, some just check that the other jobs are alive. Most of them were written and are maintained by an AI coding agent that I let run unattended. Over three months, every one of th
When I started freelancing, I thought the hard part would be the code. It wasn't. The hard part was everything around the code — scoping the work, setting expectations, and figuring out how to work with a client instead of just for one. Here are a few things I wish someone had told me earlier. A
Struct tags are just strings — a typo'd checker name, a wrong-typed field, or a renamed cross-field target all compile fine and fail silently at runtime. checkerlint catches all three before you ship. Struct tags are string literals. The Go compiler checks that your struct compiles — it has no ide
Background : In migration projects involving different databases, incompatibility of SQL syntax is often encountered. Question : If there is a large amount of code that needs to be rewritten, manual processing would be time-consuming and prone to errors. Is it possible to achieve automatic conversi
I wrote a puzzle generator whose acceptance rate is 0.26%. It throws away 99.7% of everything it produces, and that is the design working as intended, not failing. Generating five valid puzzles takes 1,947 attempts and 84 milliseconds. The point is not the puzzles. The point is that the generator m
How to turn struct-tag validation failures into a standard "application/problem+json" response — the RFC 9457 format — with one method call, no hand-rolled error envelope. Most Go APIs invent their own validation error shape. One team returns {"errors": [...]}, another {"field_errors": {...}}, a t
If you're not a lawyer, here's a practical gut-check for any AI you put into a QMS or quality workflow. Ask these two plain questions. If either answer is yes, stop what you're doing and fix it. Does any AI in your stack talk directly to a human without clearly saying "I am AI"? Does any AI in you
🇪🇸 Leer este post en Español I spent months watching my agent re-solve the exact same problems, over and over, because I never sat down and wrote them up once so anyone else could reuse them. That's the kind of technical debt nobody ever puts on a roadmap. So I published alpha-skills: eight install
🇺🇸 Read this post in English Llevo meses haciendo que mi agente resuelva los mismos problemas una y otra vez porque nunca me tomé el tiempo de escribirlos una sola vez, bien, y dejar que otros los reusaran. Ese es exactamente el tipo de deuda técnica que nadie pone en un roadmap. Así que publiqué a
I have no idea what I'm f*cking doing. Something I figured out today: I do not start with the dark version of an idea. I start with a random curiosity, chase it because it is interesting, and then somewhere in the middle I look up and go: oh. This could turn bad. And it is probably already turning
The choice is usually made by whoever draws the first diagram, and then everybody lives with it for years. It is worth five minutes of thought, and the deciding question is not which tool is best but who will edit this thing next. Short answer. A visual editor such as draw.io for diagrams that non-
pg_anon found 1 of the 8 personal-data columns in my PostgreSQL database. The one it caught was email, and only because "email" is spelled the same in Spanish and English. The other seven — nombre, apellido, telefono, direccion, fecha_nac, tarjeta_ult4 and rut — walked straight through, unmasked.
Most guides for connecting Spark to Amazon MSK assume the two live in the same cloud and authenticate with IAM. That covers a lot of cases. It does not cover the one that keeps showing up in large enterprises: the Kafka cluster is in AWS, the compute is Azure Databricks, IAM is off the table because
Four questions decide almost everything: where your data goes, whether the vendor is still alive, what happens when you uninstall, and what the bill looks like when the team grows. Everything else is detail. Short answer. Look for the Runs on Atlassian badge, which is a verified technical fact rath
I run boatbuildlog.com, a site where people keep a dated log of a boat they are building. Photos, notes and hours, entered day by day over the two or three years a build actually takes. The important thing about that sentence is where the typing happens. Not at a desk. It happens standing in a meta
Code: Megapixel99/lambda-language lm is a small low-level language with four independent backends: C, WebAssembly, ARM64, and bytecode for a VM. Its test suite is built around the fact that there are four of them. Every program runs through all four and the outputs are compared byte for byte again
A print shop rejected a 4000 × 2667 px photo last week because the file "was only 72 DPI". The photo had more than enough pixels for the 8 × 10 in print they were making — at 300 DPI that size only needs 2400 × 3000. Nothing about the image was wrong. One integer in the file header was. This post i
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