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😸Catbot Integration, AI Office, Cat Mode (AI Avatar v17: VS Code and Chrome Extension)

Intro AI Avatar is a free app where your VRoid (VRM) avatar cheers you with all its might.🤗 It lives in your VS Code sidebar (reacts to Claude Code / GitHub Copilot) or browser side panel (reacts to ChatGPT / Claude). Animations and speech bubbles all run without AI too. 🤝Catbot Integration 🏢AI Office 😺Cat Mode Let's see how they are! @annavi11arrea1 Catbot. Catbot is A galactic robot cat you can talk to from any device — and a harness that lets you switch between (or combine) all of your

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SafePal data breach impacts 39,798 customers, stolen info for sale

Cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider SafePal is warning of a data breach affecting about 39,798 customers after a flaw was exploited to steal customer order information, and a threat actor is now claiming to be selling the stolen data. [...]

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I built a production-ready Shopify Hydrogen theme and open-sourced it

Every Hydrogen project I've worked on started the same way — wire up a cart, build a PDP, add filters, then spend weeks on the "extras" that aren't really extras: wishlist, compare, quick view, proper i18n, RTL. After doing this enough times I decided to build it once and properly. ada ÉLAN is a Hydrogen storefront theme for fashion brands. It ships: — An editorial design system (Cormorant Garamond + Plus Jakarta Sans, documented design tokens) Stack: Hydrogen 2025.7, React Router 7, Tailwind 4,

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Nintendo Hotline – What can Product Managers learn?

Nintendo had a hotline where gamers could, at the time, call and speak with 'Game Counsellors' who provided them with tips and walkthroughs. It operated for quite sometime before Nintendo sunset it. There are a few (Product) lessons from this that I am sure will be of value to Product Leaders. 1- Necessity (Invention's mother): The necessity of a situation usually births the creation of something that stands out from the rest. While Nintendo was not the first to use a phone as a 'business' funct

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Banx Walk Safe: same sidewalk, two heat loads

This is a submission for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition. Same sidewalk. Two bodies. Two completely different heat loads. Banx is my French Bulldog. Born October 5, 2022. He weighs 35 pounds — seven above the 28-pound ceiling in the French Bull Dog Club of America conformation standard. I call him my XL. He is purebred and he has never had airway surgery. The face that makes him Banx is also the conformation that puts French Bulldogs at higher risk of obstructed breathing and heat-r

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Building AI Prompt Lab with Java 21, Spring Boot and React 19

AI Prompt Lab is a full-stack application I built around a simple idea: managing reusable AI prompts should feel like working with any other structured application asset, rather than keeping them scattered across notes, text files or chat histories. The project combines Java 21, Spring Boot, React 19, TypeScript, PostgreSQL and OpenRouter in a compact architecture that covers the main concerns of a modern web application: authentication, authorization, persistence, external API integration and m

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