Urgent.News

What's breaking now, across thousands of outlets.

Tech

VibeLivre: A Low-Pressure First-Book Picker Built with Gemma

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built Well, I never thought of it but one of my friends had been wanting to get into reading books but she has this strange fear that if the first book she chooses to start her reading journey, turns out to be boring then it'd convince her that she is not a reader. This is what she exactly told me - "I am just…

VibeLivre is a low-pressure first-book picker designed for people who wish to start reading but are uncertain about what to choose. The app caters to college students with busy schedules, allowing them to input their preferred genre, desired book length, daily reading time, and the book's cost (or availability). The idea behind VibeLivre is to help users find a book that will encourage them to continue reading, without having to commit to a lengthy novel right away.

Written by urgent.news from Dev.to's reporting — not their text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.

Read the original at dev.to →

More in Tech

Migrating off the remove.bg API: a field-by-field compatibility audit

TL;DR The remove.bg standalone site — and its self-serve API — retires on 1 December 2026, 9:00 CET . The official landing spot for API users, Leonardo.Ai, is a capable platform but not a drop-in…

  • Half of the parameters have full support in Leonardo.Ai API.
  • Error handling differs between APIs, with new platform using specific error body shape.

Week Notes: What the House Learned

Three things broke this week, and they broke the same way. One. A memory index grew past a hard delivery limit. Fifty characters over, and the overflow was not trimmed — it was dropped entirely, while…

  • A memory index exceeded its delivery limit, causing critical data loss
  • Weekly test had an impossible pass condition, triggering red alarm falsely
  • Unexpected commit attributed to external author, actually internal agent's work

More from Monday 5 October →