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xbill6d ago • 11 min read
Do I Still Need a Monkey Patch for Gemini Live?
No. And deleting 187 lines of it was the single biggest benefit of moving to ADK 2.x — but it was no...
#python#googleadk#gemini#geminilive
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Evan Lin5d ago • 13 min read
[Dev Log][Python] Create short videos from photos and clips with Gemini 3.7 Flash: ReelCraft
Preface: It all started with a misunderstanding. I noticed a new page in the Gemini API...
#ai#gemini#python
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xbill3d ago • 9 min read
Shipping a vision-model verdict on Bedrock and Lightsail
One FastAPI route, one Converse call with forced tool use, one container service — and the three AWS...
#aws#ai#python#showdev
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Ashwin Ugale2d ago • 5 min read
Your agent ignored a failed tool call. Here's how to catch that in CI.
You ship an AI agent. It calls tools, reads results, calls more tools, answers. Most of the time it....
#ai#python#opensource#agents
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marcosomma13h ago • 5 min read
I Write Less Code Than I Used To. That May Be the Point.
Over the last year, my day-to-day job has changed in a way I am still trying to understand. I am...
#ai#programming#productivity#python
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Danish ali siddiqui3d ago • 6 min read
How do you form a group nobody can admit they're in?
Arun invoiced a design agency ₹1,20,000 in January. It's August. He is in a 4,000-member designers'...
#ai#python#architecture#agents
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Self-Correcting Systems3d ago • 15 min read
The Suite Was Green. Four Binding Controls Hadn't Established Their Claims.
Part three of: OpenAI Says Verified Defenders Get More Access. I'm Going to Test That. On August 5...
#python#testing#opensource#security
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Collins7-code6d ago • 2 min read
I'm 17 in Ghana. I built a solar-sizing tool on my phone — here's the code and every bug I hit.
Ghana sits under some of the strongest sunshine on earth. Solar supplies about 1–3% of our grid...
#python#buildinpublic#datascience#programming
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Mason K6d ago • 6 min read
Build semantic search inside video: shot embeddings + transcript chunks, fused on the timeline
TL;DR Frame-only video search can't find "where she explains pricing." Transcript-only...
#video#python#programming#tutorial
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Asad Waseem3d ago • 4 min read
Building an offline CAD tool that can also turn photos into 3D meshes
I originally put PolyForge together as a ChatGPT skill, just for OpenSCAD, so I could describe a...
#opensource#computervision#python
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Andrew Avery9h ago • 8 min read
My AI said the PDF was empty. The PDF was not empty.
I asked Claude Code to pull the key dates out of a PDF I had saved from a webpage. It came back...
#ai#python#debugging#claude
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Daniel Nwaneri14h ago • 4 min read
I Tested 5 AI Engines On My Own Sites. None Agreed.
In July I wrote that my open-source LLM visibility checker tested Claude only and that multi-model.....
#ai#seo#opensource#python
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Gowri shankar1d ago • 4 min read
Your verifier is probably lying to you about floats
Here is a promise that looks obviously true: fn add_twice(x: Float) -> Float ensures resul...
#programming#python#showdev#compilers
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Fibula1d ago • 6 min read
The Green Test That Lied
Episode 09's visual-prompt file passed every automated check I had. Green across the board. And I wa...
#testing#ci#python#opensource
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Migbolivar2d ago • 3 min read
5 attempts, 2 SIGKILLs, 1 non-existent flag: how I got a 4-second avatar to speak Spanish
5 attempts, 2 SIGKILLs, 1 non-existent flag: how I got a 4-second avatar to speak...
#devchallenge#bugsmash#ai#python
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websilvercraft1d ago • 3 min read
Python's match-case is not a switch statement (it's better)
When match-case landed in Python 3.10, half the internet said "finally, Python has switch." That...
#python#programming#tutorial#cleancode
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Enjoy Kumawat6d ago • 4 min read
My MCP Tool's Empty-Payload Guard Checks Whether You Passed a Field. It Never Checked Whether the Field Would Actually Change Anything.
Back in early August I fixed a bug in update_article, one of the tools in this repo's DEV.to MCP...
#mcp#python#debugging#ai
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Self-Correcting Systems4d ago • 3 min read
A Breaker Can Be Independent. The Machine Still Wasn't.
A maker cannot clear their own work. A maker's BLOCK is admissible because it costs them something. ...
#python#testing#opensource#security
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ErystelaThevale2d ago • 4 min read
How I Bypassed Reddit's Unauthenticated RSS Rate Limits (Without an API Key)
Like many developers building small personal tools in 2026, I ran into a wall when trying to pull RS...
#python#opensource#rss#webdev
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Muhammad Anas Babar6d ago • 4 min read
Give your coding agent project memory without paying for it every message
If you use an agentic coding tool — Claude Code, or anything with a persistent instructions file —.....
#ai#claude#python#productivity
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John1d ago • 6 min read
Your Report's Numbers Are Computed. Its Sentences Are Not.
In a generated report, the counts came from the data and the prose came from string literals. Six se...
#code#python#software#softwareengineering
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nicolas.vbgh6d ago • 12 min read
Faster Bulk Inserts in PostgreSQL
Two tables. band, and song pointing at it with a foreign key. Four tracks to an EP, twenty million.....
#postgres#database#performance#python
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Akhouri Anmol Kumar3d ago • 3 min read
I Built a Windows Security Suite That Doesn't Need Your Account
What if a security application didn't need your email? No account. No cloud dashboard. No...
#cybersecurity#windows#python#programming
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Loginsoft1d ago • 4 min read
How to Audit a npm Package for Malware in 10 Minutes
You are about to run npm install some-package and hand a stranger's code full access to your machine...
#javascript#python#npm#devops
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