Citizens Seen Behaving Like Wild Animals in 14 August Celebrations

The Knock at the Door

The knock comes on a Tuesday, late afternoon, when the rice is still on the hob and the youngest is doing homework at the kitchen table.

• Caseworker unexpectedly visits family, initiating potential confrontation
• Algorithmic risk score triggers caseworker dispatch, operating unseen
• System disproportionately flags Black and low-income families

28m ago ·dev.to

Building Better Error Handling in Node.js

Error handling is one of those topics developers often ignore until production starts failing. A good error-handling strategy makes an application easier to debug, monitor, and maintain.

31m ago ·dev.to

When a String Assumption Broke Newsletter Tag Filtering in Ruby

A bug doesn't always need hundreds of lines of code to cause a real production problem. Sometimes, one assumption is enough.

• RubyEvents project malfunction caused by assumption every tag must be string
• Filtering issue discovered in Announcement::Collection#bytag method
• Fix implemented using tos, casecmp? and any? methods

32m ago ·dev.to

Your eval suite passes. I built the tool that checks whether it checks anything.

Three weeks ago I asked an uncomfortable question about my own LLM regression suite: if a model quietly got worse in a way I care about, would any check actually go red? I didn't reason about it.

34m ago ·dev.to