A year ago I started building a calculator website called SpeedCalcs with a pretty simple premise: most calculator tools on the internet are either paywalled, cluttered with dark patterns or just plain ugly. I wanted to build ones that were fast, free and actually useful.
Fast forward to today: 300+ calculators across niches from candle making to turtle tank sizing to fursuit fur yardag...
Anthropic just shipped claude-fable-5, its most capable widely released model. It is a Mythos class model made safe for general use, with a 1M token context window, adaptive thinking, and a safety classifier that quietly hands risky prompts to Claude Opus 4.8. Here is what actually matters when you wire it into a ...
How AI is changing not just how people learn software development, but who gets to participate in it.
A few months ago, a beginner with an idea for a game had two choices.
They could spend weeks or months learning programming fundamentals before building anything meaningful.
Or they could try to follow a tutorial and hope they understood enough to eventually create somet...
Strict mode in TypeScript turns on 8 safety checks at once with one line: "strict": true in your tsconfig.json. It catches null errors, missing types, uninitialized class properties, and more before your code ever runs. Always enable it on new projects. On older projects, turn on the 8 flags one at a time and fix errors as you go.
Naive RAG passes the demo and fails the audit. The citation-guard pattern keeps fintech AI honest: retrieve with citations, quote numbers, abstain when unsure, verify before shipping.
A wealth platform demoed an AI assistant that answered client questions in plain English. It worked well until someone asked about early-withdrawal penalties and it returned the wrong number. The number re...
Your monitoring tool detects an outage. It sends an email. Nobody sees it for 4 hours.
This is the number one reason monitoring setups fail — not detection, but delivery.
Different incidents need different urgency levels: