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September 25, 2025
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Frontend Development 🎨

A pretty clever way to build voice agents in Node.js (3 minutes read)
TENFramework NodeJS LLM

Script demonstrates building a voice assistant with TEN Framework in Node.js, using Python/C++ ASR, LLM, and TTS extensions while preserving JS logic. It covers project structure, a handler in index.ts for greetings, streaming LLM to TTS, synthesis, transcript logging, Docker.

Free Visual JSON Schema Builder – Generate, Validate & Export Schemas Instantly (2 minutes read)
GraphQL JSONSchema Redis

A free web‑based JSON Schema Builder lets users design, edit, validate, and export schemas in real time, offering a visual interface for common types and integrating with JSONPost for endpoint validation and automation.

Backend & APIs 🔧

How to Build a Minesweeper CLI Game in Node.js (Part 2/3) (5 minutes read)
NodeJS Minesweeper

The article details building a Node.js command‑line Minesweeper, covering a game loop, terminal clearing, grid display, input parsing, regex validation, bounds checks, reveal/flag actions, flag tracking, win/loss detection, and hints at Part 3 with high‑score storage.

PHP: a fractal of bad design (2012) (48 minutes read)
PHP

This comprehensive critique highlights PHP's strengths, such as ease of deployment and a large community, but also its weaknesses, including security risks like insecure-by-default features and poor handling of secure coding practices.

Kubernetes CPU Limits and Go
Kubernetes Go

Ardan Labs offers training services for engineers, developing business software solutions and applications for small startups and large corporations like Fortune 500 companies, catering to their unique needs with tailored solutions.

Products & Industry Moves 🚀

Use the Force (Feedback) to Solder Small Things (3 minutes read)
Soldering Tweezers

A tactile‑first soldering method uses fingertips to locate micrometer bumps, relying on cold tips before heating, and favors fine‑tipped tweezers, scalpels, and knife‑edge soldering tips with liquid solder droplets to ensure precise, liquid‑on‑tip joints.

Data Warehousing vs. Data Lakes (5 minutes read)
ETL SchemaOnWrite DataLakes

Data warehouses use ETL and schema‑on‑write, storing structured data for SQL reporting but at higher costs and lower flexibility; data lakes employ schema‑on‑read, storing raw structured or unstructured data for analytics, requiring governance, with hybrids combining speed and agility.

Building a Scalable AI-Powered Fintech Platform: Architecture with Java Spring Boot and Amazon Bedrock (3 minutes read)
SpringBoot BedrockAI PostgreSQL

The article details a multi‑cloud fintech stack on AWS, GCP, and Azure that balances bank‑grade security with near‑real‑time processing, using Spring Boot, React/Redux, Bedrock AI, Plaid, Stripe, Supabase PostgreSQL, Redis, JWT, and Micrometer for 99.98% uptime.

Built a Discord Bot to transform your community into business value and promote your socials
Discord Gleam

Discord giveaway creators built a bot replacing emoji entries with tasks such as following or watching videos, increasing entry value. Users can add paid sponsorships redirecting winners to sponsors’ servers for fees, similar to Gleam but native. Tool at scoplidrop.com

AI in Society & Economy 🌍

Human Oversight Remains Essential for AI Coders
AI GraphQL

Cursor’s AI assistant crashed during Web3 login because it called the API before MetaMask signed, missing a useSignMessage hook. Fixing the hook pattern ensured the signature prompt awaited, resolving the bug and revealing AI’s poor hook understanding.

Browser & Platform 🌐

On-device GenAI in Chrome, Chromebook Plus, and Pixel Watch with LiteRT-LM
GenAI LiteRTLM

Google has introduced a new feature utilizing On-device GenAI to enhance performance on Chrome, Chromebook Plus, and Pixel Watch with LiteRT-LM technology, enabling faster AI processing without cloud connectivity, resulting in improved security and reduced latency.

Industry & Trends 📈

Observability Without a Framework Is Just Noise (3 minutes read)
Observability

A unified observability framework merges logs, metrics, and traces, enabling engineers to resolve incidents faster, reduce ad‑hoc restarts, and uncover root causes with durable fixes. It equips teams with structured data, dashboards, and automation, trimming costs and improving reliability.

Box of bugs (emulated) (12 minutes read)
PVSStudio MSYS2

86Box v5.0 debuted on Windows 95’s anniversary, emulating legacy PC hardware with a Windows‑95 launch theme. Investigating its MSYS2/MinGW build via PVS‑Studio revealed subtle bugs—hard‑coded conditions, pointer errors, redundant flags—highlighting the need for rigorous QA and future engine refactoring.

Github Repos 🌟

klavis (Repo)
Python agents ai ai-agents api developer-tools discord function-calling integration llm mcp mcp-client mcp-server oauth2 open-source

Provides MCP client and server libraries that enable AI agents to reliably call and manage thousands of third‑party tools via standardized API integrations.

solana (Repo)
Rust bitcoin blockchain ledger performance-blockchain rust rustc solana

Builds and runs a high‑throughput, low‑latency blockchain in Rust that supports decentralized applications.

cai (Repo)
Python artificial-intelligence cybersecurity framework generative-ai llm pentesting

AI‑driven cybersecurity framework that automates threat detection, malware analysis, and pentesting using LLM‑powered models.

Infrastructure & Services 🏗️

how AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs (17 minutes read)
AWS S3

Amazon S3 scales to 400 trillion objects using inexpensive HDDs, 5‑of‑9 erasure coding, and eight read sources per object. Parallel multipart uploads, power‑of‑two balancing, and a log‑structured store deliver high bandwidth, low tail latency, and durability at low cost.

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