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I Built a Free Browser-Based File Converter Using Web Assembly " No Uploads, Ever
1+ hour, 29+ min ago (545+ words) Most online file converters have a dirty secret: your files get uploaded to a server you don't control, processed by someone else's machine, and sometimes stored for longer than you'd expect. For a quick GIF conversion or a PDF merge,…...
Chunked Prefill: Why One Long Prompt Freezes Your LLM Server
2+ hour, 3+ min ago (605+ words) You ship an LLM service. p50 latency looks great. Then a user pastes a 40-page contract into the chat, and for the next 400 milliseconds every other user's tokens stop arriving. Their streams freeze, then catch up in a burst. Your dashboards…...
System Design Chapter 1: Fundamentals: Servers, Latency, Request Flow and Throughput
4+ hour, 13+ min ago (1026+ words) You may have built some personal projects where you have a backend and a database, and everything just" works. You hit an API, the server does its thing, sends back a response, done. That's a perfectly fine way to build…...
Idempotent gateway sync: adopt on conflict, paginate for real, and never widen scope
4+ hour, 53+ min ago (390+ words) A gateway sync takes your desired state (routes, upstreams, plugins, consumers) and makes the gateway match it. The mental trap is writing that as "create each thing." Creates are one-shot; sync runs again tomorrow, and the day after. The correct…...
Git Hub - djkazic/bpub: encoding data on bitcoin using valid compressed pubkeys
7+ hour, 12+ min ago (41+ words) encoding data on bitcoin using valid compressed pubkeys - djkazic/bpub bpub bpub is a method for embedding data on Bitcoin using fake pubkeys that appear to be real compressed secp256k1 pubkeys \ --utxo txid: index \ --value 12345 \ --change bc1q. ....
Define Interfaces Where You Use Them: The Go Rule That Shrinks Your API
5+ hour, 19+ min ago (370+ words) Consumer-defined interfaces keep Go surfaces small, fakes trivial, and import cycles gone. The rule most Java-shaped Go code breaks. Tagged with go, testing, architecture....
In 1996, PNG developers released a new image format that kept web graphics sharp and compact
8+ hour, 17+ min ago (504+ words) The Times of India...
Angular performance optimization: change detection mistakes you should avoid
6+ hour, 20+ min ago (198+ words) Angular apps can stay fast for a long time, until they don't. A lot of performance issues i've debugged had nothing to do with bundle size or server speed. The real problem was change detection doing way more work than…...
Cache Misses " Why Your AI Costs Won't Drop (Even When Traffic Stays Flat)
7+ hour, 20+ min ago (241+ words) I've been seeing a pattern lately: teams invest in better models, tweak prompts, add tools" and yet their AI bill doesn't drop. Sometimes it even creeps up, even when user traffic stays stable. That made me wonder whether the root…...
Hardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies
9+ hour, 8+ min ago (503+ words) Live Webinar and Q&A: Building AI Agent Evals for High-Stakes Incident Response (Aug 6, 2026) Save Your Seat Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain of legacy PDF generation in regulated banking and manufacturing. He explains how transitioning from resource-heavy engines like Puppeteer…...