IHC Overturns Ruling Against Naval Farms and Sailing Club

How I Run 114 Posts, 98 Tools and 32 Games on Firebase Blaze for $0 a Month

Firebase's Blaze plan has a reputation problem. People hear "pay as you go", picture the horror stories — the recursive Cloud Function that wrote back into the collection that triggered it, the…

• Site runs on Firebase Blaze plan with $0 monthly bill
• Powers 114 blog posts, 98 tools, and 32 games
• Utilizes Firestore and Cloud Storage for functionality

1h ago ·dev.to

Hitting an image size ceiling with Rust and WebAssembly

Many image tools expose a quality slider. Forms and government portals usually expose a different requirement: “the file must be under 100 KB.” Those are not the same problem.

• Implement HEIC converter in browser using Rust compiled to WebAssembly
• Outputbytes = targetkb 1024 invariant for image size control
• Separate conversion path from compression for clean implementation

1h ago ·dev.to

Moving image work into the browser took that bill to zero

For about two months last year I had a habit: check the API usage graph before anything else in the morning. Not because traffic was flattering — because every time that line went up I had to work out…

• Moved image processing to users' browsers to eliminate API costs
• Services like background removal, AI upscaling, and PDF processing ran locally
• Site became free, unmetered, but limited by free service constraints

1h ago ·dev.to

Samsung C&T Joins 1.2GW Swedish SMR Project as Strategic EPC Partner

Samsung C&T has been selected as a strategic partner for a 1.2GW small modular reactor project in Sweden, marking a significant step in the company's push to expand its nuclear power business across…

1h ago ·koreaittimes.com