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Building Three Privacy-First Mini Apps That Feel Like Standalone Products

Building Three Privacy-First Mini Apps That Feel Like Standalone Products PureHub is an open-source collection of 22 free, ad-free mini apps. This release focuses on a simple product question: can a mini app inside a hub still feel dependable, focused, and complete? QR Studio The web scanner now supports a live camera and uploaded images through local decoding. Scan history stays in local…

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RAG Retrieval Accuracy: 38%. After the Fix: 87%. The Model Was Never Touched.

That's a rebuild I shipped. The system: a RAG assistant for fraud analysts — ask it "how do we handle card testing followed by a successful auth?" and it should answer from the team's own SOPs and case history. The complaint: the answers were wrong, therefore the model must be dumb, therefore procurement should buy a bigger model.

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Atomic Money: Making a PHP/MySQL Wallet Safe Under Concurrency

The lost-update bug that quietly corrupts homegrown wallet balances — and the five disciplines we used across PayWithToken to make money movement correct under concurrency. There is a bug that lives in a large share of the world's homegrown wallet systems. It doesn't throw an error. It doesn't show up in tests.

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