A buyer finds you through a recommendation. Maybe a friend sent them your way. Maybe they saw one of your animals on social media and followed the link in your bio. They land on your website.
Something goes wrong in the first thirty seconds. The page loads slow on their phone. They can't find your available animals. There's no way to get on a list without sending a DM to a social media ...
I've been building AI agents for a while now. A few weeks ago I left one running overnight. Woke up to a $200 Anthropic bill. The agent got stuck in a loop — same API call, over and over, for 6 hours. Nobody noticed.
After digging into it, I realized this wasn't just a "me problem." Agents get stuck. Retries cascade. Budgets blow up. And most of the time you only find out when the invoi...
Beneath the ubiquitous "HTTPS" padlock in modern browsers lies a systemic vulnerability: the global web encryption infrastructure is overwhelmingly dependent on a single entity—Let’s Encrypt, a U.S.-based non-profit operating from a California datacenter. This dependency is not theore...
This is my first post on Dev.to.
After years of overthinking and procrastinating, I've finally decided to start building my own page and share my jou...
Today started deep in the backend… and ended with the UI finally catching up.
GraceSoft Story started as a way to turn commits into timelines.
But timelines alone aren’t a product.
To make this real, I needed:
Without turning the codebase into a mess of ...
There's a category of airport website that breaks my scraper in a specific, maddening way: they issue session cookies that are pinned to the IP address of the request that created them.
The symptom looks like this: you manually grab a working cookie from your browser, paste it into your server-side scraper, and it immediately returns a 401 or redirects to a login page. The cookie is val...