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React: avoid hooks that set default values, use getters with defaults
A colleague of mine helped identify a pattern that has turned out to be a bit of a footgun. The goal was: when a customer opens mysite.com/?urlParam=foo, I want to load the correct FooComponent. However, if mysite.com is opened with no param is set, I want it…
SEO is Dead? How I Optimized My Next.js SaaS for ChatGPT & Perplexity (AEO)
Everyone is still playing the Google SEO game: stuffing keywords, buying backlinks, and fighting for Page 1. But if you are building a B2B SaaS in 2026, your target audience (developers, founders, CTOs) has already changed their behavior. They aren't Googling…
Tokenizasyon Nedir? API Güvenliği İçin Kapsamlı Rehber
Tokenleştirme, hassas verilerin token adı verilen hassas olmayan yer tutucularla değiştirilmesi sürecidir. Bu token'lar orijinal verinin formatını veya uzunluğunu korur ancak kendi başlarına istismar edilebilir bir değere sahip değildir. API güvenliği bağlamı…
An LLM Is Not a Deficient Mind
I called it "the perfect bullshitter." This was GPT-2, maybe early GPT-3. I was feeding it prompts and getting back text that looked like answers — structured, fluent, confident. The kind of output that would survive a casual reading. It was not grounded in a…
How Developers Can Prevent Frontend Wallet Drainer Attacks: A Case Study of the BONK.fun Hack
The Solana ecosystem recently experienced a security incident involving the launchpad BONK.fun. Attackers compromised a team account and injected malicious code into the website that triggered a wallet drainer attack. The breach tricked users into signing a f…
Connecting power bi to SQL databases locally and through cloud service.
Power BI is a powerful tool designed for cleaning data ,creating reports and dashboards.It is preferred over other tools due to its ability to handle large data sets,create real-time dashboards and its beginner friendly.Power BI desktop is a free version prov…
ما هو التوكن؟ الدليل النهائي لأمن API
الترميز هو عملية استبدال البيانات الحساسة بعناصر نائبة غير حساسة تُسمى الرموز (Tokens). تحتفظ هذه الرموز بتنسيق أو طول البيانات الأصلية ولكنها لا تحمل قيمة قابلة للاستغلال بحد ذاتها. في سياق أمان واجهة برمجة التطبيقات (API)، يعمل الترميز كآلية دفاع قوية. عندم…
Tokenização: Guia Completo para Segurança de API
A tokenização é o processo de troca de dados sensíveis por espaços reservados não sensíveis, chamados tokens. Esses tokens mantêm o formato ou o comprimento dos dados originais, mas não possuem valor explorável por si só. No contexto da segurança de APIs, a t…
I built an IDE for Video Engineers
I've worked in video engineering for the greater part of my career and one thing in common amongst many colleagues are the set of tools we use. ffmpeg, mp4box, gpac, bento4, ffprobe, mediainfo to name a few. Most of them are open source, some are commercial a…
How I Built an AI Content Detector Without Using Any AI
Everyone's paying $29/month for GPTZero. I built my own for free using nothing but math and pattern recognition. Here's exactly how. The Problem I was reviewing freelance writing submissions and couldn't tell which ones were AI-generated. The commercial detec…
I started learning programming about 3 weeks ago, and this is my first open-source project.
Hey everyone 👋 I recently built a small toast notification library called Nova Toast. The goal was simple: create a lightweight, dependency-free toast system that works with modern frameworks. ✨ Features Zero dependencies Smooth animations Very small bundle s…
Demystifying Strapi's Populate & Filtering
Introduction Hello everyone! This discussion is based on Richard's Strapi Conf talk on demystifying Strapi's populated filtering which was originally based in Strapi 4. Now that we are on Strapi 5, I've updated this blog post to cover what has changed and hig…