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5 Watch Rings You Can Actually Buy If a Wristwatch Suddenly Feels Too Ordinary

A wristwatch already solves the problem of checking the time without pulling out your phone, but after decades of round cases, steel bracelets, resin straps, and smartwatch screens, even a good watch can start to feel familiar. If you want something genuinely different without giving up timekeeping altogether, the answer might be sitting on your […]

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Enforcing a style rule with a linter that actually fails the build

Background I run a fleet of static sites that publish new content every day, mostly unattended. One of the house style rules is simple: no emoji anywhere in our own copy.

  • Linter enforces no emoji rule in static site publishing
  • Author solves linter failing build with emoji in certain situations
  • Linter includes features to track exclusions and unused allow-list entries

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Don't validate the output. Validate that you were allowed to generate it.

Introduction I run a site that collects overseas viewer comments about individual anime episodes, translates them, and publishes them. It updates automatically every day.

  • Check function compares claimed air date with observed date from MyAnimeList (MAL)
  • Five-day tolerance accounts for time zones and streaming delays
  • Early exit if any episode fails air date check to prevent false information generation

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The Counter That Counted a Call the Preflight Never Reached

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup , powered by Sentry . Project Overview I was working on a small Python component that performs a preflight check and then, if the…

  • Bug fix alters Python component's preflight check behavior
  • Counter now accurately records normal callback invocation
  • Regression test confirms 0 return on preflight exception

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Why I Built an Ad-Free Alternative to Untappd

I've used Untappd for years to log the beers I drink. It works. It also drives me a little crazy every time I open it. Between the ads wedged into my feed, the check-in pressure that makes logging a…

  • Author created HopLog as ad-free alternative to Untappd
  • Inspired by Letterboxd's user-friendly design
  • HopLog launched at hoplog-web.vercel.app for preview

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