Musician and entrepreneur Tom Vek is building a digital music player, but don’t call it retro

Hackers are targeting US water systems. Here’s what that means.

Government officials are warning about a wave of cyberattacks on water utilities in the US. Here's how hackers can impact water systems.

32m ago ·businessinsider.com

React Mastery Series – Day 31: Advanced React Architecture – Designing Large-Scale Applications

Welcome back to the React Mastery Series ! We've completed the first 30 days of our React journey. So far, we've covered: React Fundamentals Components & Props Hooks Context API Redux Toolkit API…

• High cohesion: Group related features in a domain (e.g., Payments)
• Low coupling: Features communicate through public APIs, not direct dependencies
• Scalability: Organize around business domains, use layered architecture, clean architecture

38m ago ·dev.to

Build, Buy, or Call an API: How We Actually Decide

Clients ask me why we don't just build our own model. It's a fair question, and most of the time the honest answer is that building our own would be the slowest and priciest route to a result slightly…

• Shanti Infosoft avoids building AI models to save time and cost.
• They opt for APIs on commodity capabilities like text generation or translation.
• Building only makes sense for unique selling propositions or proprietary data influence.

43m ago ·dev.to

Designing MCP tools an agent won't misuse

The first article in this series made a pair of claims. One: an AI-native product is an MCP server that lets an agent do things, not a chat widget that talks about them.

• Well-typed calls can still go wrong despite schema validation.
• Design MCP surface to prevent misuse by constraining input space.
• Use closed types like enums and provide clear tool descriptions.

43m ago ·dev.to