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What Building 77 Browser-Based Calculators Taught Me About Input Validation

Building one calculator is straightforward. Building dozens of calculators with different units, assumptions, ranges, and failure modes is where input handling becomes the real product.

  • Validate data domain, not just type; enforce range constraints with requireRange utility
  • Convert all units to base unit before computation, convert final result to display unit

Stuck on Casbin's model.conf? 5 mistakes beginners hit most

Stuck on Casbin's model.conf? The 5 mistakes beginners hit most (with a runnable fix) Casbin is one of the few permission frameworks that works across languages (Go / Java / Python / Node…), and its…

  • Matcher field names must align with request or policy columns
  • g() function checks subject equality, not just role inheritance
  • Policy effect and matchers may not yield expected results together

How I Audit JavaScript Regexes for Catastrophic Backtracking

I maintain CodeSwap , a developer-tools site with browser-based utilities and technical guides. While reviewing its regular-expression tools, I wanted a repeatable answer to a deceptively simple…

  • Systematic audit process identifies ambiguous repetition and measures performance growth.
  • Node.js 22 test reveals exponential growth in matching time with increasing input length.

Every typing site makes you type prose. I built one that makes you type code.

I have been typing for twenty years and I still slow down on =>. Not on words. Words are fine. It is {}, [], &&, ::, ?., !== — the keys my fingers only ever meet inside code, and never inside the…

  • Typre is a typing site exclusively for real code
  • Features include no repeated snippets, separate run lengths, language-specific pools
  • Offline functionality with bundled snippets and real-time syntax highlighting

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