Someone stress-tested just under 300 SD cards over three years, and the results are surprising

New tabs are usually just… blank. So I built Cosmos, a new-tab workspace with something I haven’t seen done well: Developer + Designer widgets. 👨💻🎨 Your apps, bookmarks & useful info, right where you start working. cosmos-newtab.vercel.app

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What I Checked Before Shipping a Browser Game to itch.io

I uploaded a small first-person sci-fi demo to itch.io this week. The build already ran in a normal browser, so I expected the upload to be the easy part.

• Author verified game controls in clean environment
• Tested window resizing and tab switching for focus issues
• Disclosed AI-generated content on itch.io page

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Building Distributed Systems in Elixir: Part 5 — Supervisor From Scratch

In the previous part of this series, we explored process links. A linked worker that crashes sends an exit signal to the process linked to it.

• Supervisor process created manually in Elixir
• Two workers managed by supervisor, only failed restarted
• Utilizes BEAM's built-in features for failure detection

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I shipped a Tokopedia scraper that undercuts the incumbents 5x — here's the boring part

I shipped a Tokopedia scraper that undercuts the incumbents 5x — here's the boring part Indonesia's biggest marketplace has a data problem: everyone wants to know what sells, at what price, from which…

• Indonesia's largest marketplace lacks official sales data access
• Scrapers are costly, similar to enterprise software solutions
• Flat $0.005 per result pricing is five times cheaper than competitors

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