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I built a 5-second CLI to check if your site is ready for the Japanese market

A monolingual team can ship for years without hitting the bugs that lose them Japanese users on day one. I kept finding the same five gaps while looking at foreign dev-tools, so I turned the check into a CLI. npx github:greymoth-jp/jp-ready-check your-site.com No install, no account. It fetches the page once and scores it 0–5. hreflang ja — without it, Google.co.jp / Yahoo! Japan can't reliably surface your Japanese pages. A Japanese locale path / switcher — the ja content often exists, but not

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How to Write a Software Request So the Developer Builds It Right the First Time

published: true "Hey, can you build me an app that tracks my leads?" That was the whole request. One sentence. And it sounds reasonable — until you try to actually build the thing and realize that sentence just handed you about fifty decisions and answered exactly none of them. What's a lead? Where do they come from — a web form, a phone call, a text? What fields do you want stored for each one? What happens when one comes in — does an email fire, does it write to a database, does it just sit th

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I manually checked 100+ startup launch directories — here are 16 free ones to start with

If you've ever tried to "submit your startup everywhere," you know the pain: you Google "startup directories", open a listicle from 2021, and half the links are dead, paywalled, or just gone. You waste an afternoon and still don't know which ones are actually worth it. So I did the boring part: I went through hundreds of startup / SaaS / AI launch directories, opened each one, threw out the dead links, and noted whether submission is free or paid and what's required. Here are 16 verified ones to

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How to Read Constraints and Immediately Know the Algorithm: A Jedi's Guide

The Quest Begins (The "Why") I still remember the first time I stared at a competitive‑programming statement and felt my brain short‑circuit. The problem talked about “arrays of length n where each element is at most 10⁹ and you need to count pairs whose sum is divisible by k”. I started scribbling brute‑force loops, then switched to sorting, then tried hash maps… and after twenty minutes I was still staring at a blank editor, wondering if I’d missed some hidden trick. Sound familiar? You’re

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Open Codex app from the macOS Terminal with the Current Project Selected

I wanted a quick way to open Codex app directly from the macOS terminal with the current project folder already selected. Add the following function to your local Zsh config file, such as ~/.zshrc. It opens a new Codex thread using the current directory as the workspace. You can also pass a directory path as an argument. This assumes Codex app is installed on macOS. It uses python3 only to URL-encode the local path safely. # Open Codex app with the current directory as a new thread workspace. #

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