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Yatta JS launches Sunday, October 4

Quick heads up for the weekend. I am releasing Yatta JS on Sunday, October 4. It is a backend runtime for Bun that embeds the whole stack in your app process: relational DB, passkeys and MFA auth, storage, realtime websockets, durable job queues, transactional mail, plus observability. Boots in under 10ms. No Docker, no brokers. APIs read like plain English and you get full type safety with zero…

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Summing RSS Is Not Your WSL2 Memory Usage

Task Manager says "VmmemWSL" is holding 8 GB, while inside Ubuntu, "htop" shows something closer to 2 GB. At first, the difference is difficult to interpret because both numbers look perfectly…

  • Task Manager shows 8 GB memory used by VmmemWSL
  • Htop inside Ubuntu reports around 2 GB memory usage
  • RSS values from multiple processes do not equal WSL2 memory usage

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I Wanted YouTube's Simplicity in VLC — So I Built My Own Media Player

I Wanted YouTube's Simplicity in VLC — So I Built My Own Media Player I use VLC because it plays almost everything. MKV. MP4. WebM. AVI. MOV. Multiple audio tracks. Subtitles. You name it.

  • Author created "Simple YT Style Player" seeking YouTube-like simplicity in VLC
  • Media player supports MKV, MP4, WebM, AVI, MOV formats with audio/subtitle customization
  • Lightweight, open-source design functions as native app on Windows, Android, mobile

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I track protein, not calories. So I built a dead-simple tracker for lifters.

Every food-tracking app wants the same things from me: calories, macros, a subscription, an account, a barcode-scanning onboarding flow. I'm a lifter. I don't care about any of that.

  • Protein Pal focuses solely on protein intake tracking
  • Users log foods with protein grams, set custom goals
  • Offline, no accounts, simple design for lifters

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Debug Blurry Compressed PDF Images — 4 Resolution Checks Before Watermarking

TL;DR: When a compressed PDF looks blurry, debug embedded image resolution before changing compression settings. Keep the archival PDF unchanged, own the watermark template, and generate a separate…

  • Verify source image pixel dimensions and intended placement size
  • Examine template owner's behavior for stability in disclosure rules
  • Run four TypeScript preflight tests before watermarking

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