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I built a Chrome Extension that saves product images + context directly to Google Drive & Sheets

I built a Chrome Extension that saves product images + context directly to Google Drive & Sheets Most product research workflows are secretly broken. You just don't notice until you're drowning in 400 unnamed screenshots and a half-filled spreadsheet at 11pm. Four problems. One tool. ❌ Manual saving steals hours you don't have Here's how ImageSnap solves each one. The typical workflow: Find a product image you want Right-click → Save As Rename the file so it makes sense later Navigate to the r

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95+ browser-based dev tools that never touch a server

Every developer has a folder of bookmarks for one-off tools — I built Wizbit.to to fix that. 95+ free developer utilities, all running 100% in your browser. Data & encoding JSON formatter, beautifier, minifier & validator Base64 encoder/decoder CSV → JSON, CSV → Markdown, YAML ↔ JSON converters ENV file parser and ENV → JSON/YAML converter Security & crypto JWT decoder with expiry checker and claims differ Hash generator (SHA-256, SHA-512) RSA key pair generator & X.509 certificate inspector B

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Ghost Bugs Cost $40K: A Neural Debugging Postmortem

When AI silently fails for weeks A production RAG system handling 12,000 queries/day recently ran for three weeks delivering silent errors, resulting in an estimated $40K in flawed decisions before anyone noticed. The issue wasn't a crash or a syntax error. It was vector embedding drift—a silent failure state where the system returned incorrect results that appeared entirely plausible on the surface. These are often called "ghost bugs." They don't throw runtime exceptions, they don't trigger e

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SECPAC: A Lightweight CLI Tool to Password-Protect Your Environment Variables 🚀

If you are tired of dealing with plain-text .env files and manual editing, SECPAC is a lightweight Node.js CLI tool built to bring structured management and optional password encryption to your local environment variables. By serving as a faster, more secure alternative to traditional setups, it allows you to easily view, grab, or mask sensitive API keys directly from your terminal. Check out the project, join our growing community at r/secpac, and let me know how it improves your development wo

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PasteCheck v1.7 + v1.8 — Hints that tell you what to fix, and a nudge panel that tells you where to start

Most linters tell you what's wrong. They stop there. PasteCheck has always shown you the error and the line. But "var is discouraged" doesn't tell a beginner what to actually do about it. "Empty catch block" doesn't tell you why it matters or what to replace it with. That changes in v1.7. Every error and warning message now ends with one actionable sentence. Not a docs link. Not a vague suggestion. One clear fix. Prefer 'let' or 'const' over 'var' — use 'const' if the value never changes, 'let'

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8 Real Ways Developers Make Money in 2026 (Ranked by Effort)

Every "make money as a developer" post promises passive riches by Friday. This isn't that. I've tried most of these. Some paid rent. Some paid for coffee. One quietly pays me while I'm asleep. Below is an honest ranking — sorted from "most effort for the money" to "least" — with realistic timelines and the catch for each, because the catch is the part nobody writes about. Effort: High · Time to first dollar: 1–6 weeks · Ceiling: Very high Still the fastest reliable path. Upwork and Fiverr are cr

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I built a free AI-powered Git CLI that writes your commit messages for you

We've all been there. You just spent 3 hours fixing a bug, you stage your changes, and then you stare at the commit message input like it owes you money. You end up typing fix stuff and moving on. I got tired of it. So I built gritch. gritch is a free, open source CLI tool that uses Groq's free AI API (LLaMA 3.3) to help you write better commits, review your code before pushing, generate changelogs, and understand old commits all from your terminal. Generate a conventional commit message from yo

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sds-converter: Converting Safety Data Sheets to MHLW Standard JSON with Rust and LLMs

Background Safety Data Sheets (SDS) are mandatory documents for every chemical product — solvents, adhesives, industrial gases, cleaning agents. Every manufacturer that supplies a hazardous chemical must provide one. In Japan, the governing standard is JIS Z 7253, which defines 16 sections covering chemical identity, hazard classification, first aid, storage, transport information, and more. The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) published a standard JSON schema in March 2025 for el

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