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The zero-egress trick that lets me give away a media tool for free

I run a small free tool called imgi. You drop in two images, drag a slider to compare them, and get a permanent link to paste anywhere. Before and after shots, mostly: a photo edit against the untouched shot, a game mod next to vanilla, an AI upscale against the source file. Here's what nobody warns you about when you build one of these. The hard part isn't the slider. It's the bandwidth bill. Every viewer who opens a comparison pulls down two full-resolution images. One link that catches on, a

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Why Federal Reform Picks AI‑Native Outcome Integrators

Executive summary Federal procurement is shifting from labor-based buys toward fixed-price, outcome-focused contracts—and that change alters who wins work. This article summarizes the third piece in a six-part Orange Slices series arguing that AI-native Outcome Integrators are structurally advantaged by recent acquisition reform, prototype-driven RFIs, and managed-service delivery enabled by Zero Trust and cloud-native architecture. Read the original article. Recent executive direction and the

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We Audited an E-Commerce Support Bot, Fixed the Bugs, Then Re-Tested It. The Score Jumped 86 to 91.

Most chatbot audits stop at "here's what's broken." We wanted to know if the suggested fixes actually work — so we applied them and re-tested. Here's the before-and-after, with transcript evidence. We ran an e-commerce customer support bot through BotCritic — order tracking, returns, refunds, sizing, general product questions — against 4 customer personas: Curious, Frustrated, Confused, and Technical. First run: 86/100 — Grade B. Solid, but with specific, fixable gaps. We applied BotCritic's sug

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How I Used Spec-Driven Development to Build a Game (TanStack Start)

I've been deep in spec-driven development (SDD) lately, and I want to walk through what it actually is, then show you how I used it to build a game for Kiro's first birthday. If you haven't run into spec-driven development, or SDD, don't worry, I got you. We'll cover what it is, where it helps, where it's overkill, and how I used it to make this game! Would you like to watch a video instead? Check it out! What is spec-driven development? SDD breaks down into three phases, and

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I graded my own ML option forecasts. Here's the Brier score.

In May I promised — out loud, on the internet, where people can screenshot you — that I'd grade Helium's published prob_itm forecasts when the June 2026 AAPL contracts expired. June 26 came. The contracts died. So I graded them. This is not a victory lap. Mean Brier loss on n=2 is 0.3846. A coin flip that always says 0.5 scores 0.25 when the world resolves to 0 or 1. We did worse than a coin flip. That is information. Contract Helium prob_itm Market-ish implied AAPL $310C 2026-06-26 0.42

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