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ExtensionDash: tracking a browser extension from your agent

After shipping two browser extensions this year — Reverse Image Search Anywhere and Stackpeek — I still could not answer the simplest question about a listing: is it working?

• ExtensionDash tracks Chrome and Firefox browser extensions
• Scrapes stores nightly for installs, ratings, rankings
• Reports three states: never scanned, scanned found, scanned absent

2h ago ·dev.to

The Capacity You Paid For But Never Used

The capacity you paid for and the capacity your business actually consumed are almost never the same number, and the gap between them is where this hidden cost lives — not in a utilization dashboard…

• Paid capacity often doesn't match actual consumption
• Hidden cost stems from capital commitment before demand forecast
• Capacity models ignore downside risk of unused capacity

2h ago ·dev.to

Mesa 26.2.2 Enables Intel Nova Lake Graphics By Default

Mesa 26.2.2 is out today as the newest bi-weekly stable point release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers...

2h ago ·phoronix.com

The last mile of a scraper is a human copying a spreadsheet

I scrape product cards from online stores for a content bank with an Actor of my own . The Actor finishes, the dataset fills up, and then a person exports it, checks it, and pastes it into the tool…

• Last mile of scraper performed manually by human
• Apify MCP connectors aim to eliminate manual process
• Connector enables Actor to communicate with third-party services

2h ago ·dev.to