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Algorithms Aren't Working for Me — An Anti-Algorithm Manifesto

From dating apps to social feeds, what algorithms actually optimize for isn't my life — it's my time on the app

#Essay#Algorithms#AI#Social Media#Dating Apps
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Deploying a Free pages.dev Domain on Cloudflare Pages — How to Avoid the Workers Screen Bait-and-Switch

Click Create application and you get a Worker creation screen, not Pages. The full process of hunting down the hidden Pages entry point and shipping a static Next.js site on a free domain

#Cloudflare#Cloudflare Pages#Next.js#Deployment#GitHub
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I Built My Own Ad-Free, Payment-Free Playground for My Kids — Kiosk Mode on the Web

An old MacBook, turned into a dedicated kids device with a web app I wrote myself — entering fullscreen, a parent lock, and a time limit, all built with nothing but browser APIs

#React#Next.js#Fullscreen API#PWA#Kiosk
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And Just Like That, Fable 5 Was Gone — Vanished at 3 AM

How the Fable 5 model I happily used on the Pro plan suddenly disappeared from my usage list one night, replaced by a credits-required message

#Claude Code#Fable 5#Pricing
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Syncing Obsidian on Mobile via Git Was Too Painful, So I Built My Own Note App (RepoNote Dev Log)

Git on mobile Obsidian was complex and conflict resolution unbearable, so I built a Flutter note app that auto-syncs with a GitHub repo — including the part where I built it in React Native first and threw it out

#Flutter#GitHub API#Obsidian#React Native#Riverpod
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Editing Video from Just YouTube Links — A Next.js + FastAPI + yt-dlp + FFmpeg Dev Log

What I learned building a personal web editor that pastes a YouTube link, lets you pick segments, and stitches them into one MP4

#FastAPI#Next.js#FFmpeg#yt-dlp#Claude Code
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