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One MCP server, eight AI clients: Apple Health setup that works everywhere
21+ min ago (134+ words) Most Apple Health MCP guides are per-client. Claude today, Cursor tomorrow, ChatGPT next week. That's the wrong abstraction. MCP is a protocol. The server command is identical across every client. Only the config file path and JSON shape change. Eight…...
I audited six token usage trackers. They disagree with each other by 2x to 8x.
4+ min ago (1143+ words) Over the past five months I took apart the folding logic in six token usage trackers and recomputed each one with an independent implementation. They don't agree. The gaps run from 2.00× to 8.09×, in both directions. Ten fixes have landed so…...
Rust For Linux 7.3 Begins Seeing Fixes To Prepare For Rust's GCC Backend
26+ min ago (186+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Rust For Linux 7.3 Begins Seeing Fixes To Prepare For Rust's GCC Backend Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded…...
I built a PDF merger that never uploads your files — here's how published: false
47+ min ago (318+ words) So I built MergePDF. It merges, splits, rotates, and rearranges PDF pages — and your files never leave your browser. No backend. No sign-up. No ads. No tracking. iLovePDF uploads your tax returns. We don't. This post is about how it…...
Setting Up End-to-End PDF Validation in Playwright and Cucumber BDD
32+ min ago (196+ words) Validating generated PDFs in automated end-to-end tests can be tricky. Here is a comprehensive guide on how to handle PDF downloading, parsing, and structured data assertion in a Web UI automation framework using Playwright, Cucumber (BDD), pdf-parse, and ajv schema…...
The hard part of batch date conversion isn't formatting — it's deciding what `01/02/2024` means
47+ min ago (915+ words) I used to think a bulk date converter was basically a dropdown wrapped around a date library. Paste a bunch of rows, pick YYYY-MM-DD, done. Then you look at real exports from spreadsheets, CRMs, logs, and old internal tools and…...
What the Easiest Replit Alternatives Owe to the Spreadsheet
8+ hour, 29+ min ago (1101+ words) "Spreadsheet errors are rare on a per-cell basis, but in large programs, at least one incorrect bottom-line value is very likely to be present." Ray Panko, 2016 For about fifteen years, very little. SaaS arrived and the answer to "we need…...
Cloud or Local Speech-to-Text? We Built the Same App Both Ways. Here's What We Learnt.
59+ min ago (1124+ words) One Electron app, two modes, one interface. What a two-day hackathon build taught us about on-device diarization, CoreML and DirectML, read against a production on-device engine. At this year's internal hackathon, our esteemed colleagues Georgios Hadjiharalambous and Stuart Wood set…...
Your verifier is probably lying to you about floats
1+ hour, 23+ min ago (489+ words) Here is a promise that looks obviously true: Adding a tenth twice is the same as adding two tenths. Every algebra teacher you have ever had agrees. Most program verifiers agree too. They are wrong, and so is the promise....
How to Audit a npm Package for Malware in 10 Minutes
1+ hour, 32+ min ago (616+ words) You are about to run npm install some-package and hand a stranger's code full access to your machine, your environment variables, and your CI pipeline. Last year alone, hundreds of malicious packages were caught on npm, many of them typosquats…...