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A customer holds up their phone at a shop counter in Addis. On the screen is a Telebirr receipt, and in the corner is a small square labelled Payment QR Code .
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I built a colour-season analysis app as one HTML file (with a live camera "drape" mirror)
Colour analysis is huge on TikTok right now: people hold coloured fabric ("drapes") under their face to see whether they're a Soft Summer, a Deep Winter, and so on.
- Paleta is a free color-season app in English and Spanish
- Runs entirely in browser with single index.html file
- Live camera drape mirror uses getUserMedia API
Don't write the prompt. Get interviewed
Everyone teaches you to write prompts. In practice, a person looks at a sample a couple of pages long, with a stack, constraints, formats and edge cases, and closes the tab: there's no way I'll write…
- Instead of writing prompts, conduct an interview with the agent.
- Ask targeted questions about system behavior and decision limits.
- Use interview insights to construct the final prompt.
Bitunix Increases Its Care Fund to $50 Million, Further Strengthening User Protection
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Browser MCP token cost: 68 runs of Playwright MCP vs Chrome DevTools MCP, and a proxy that cuts snapshots by up to 96%
You often hear that hooking a browser MCP server up to Claude Code burns tokens, and some posts put it at 10,000 to 50,000 tokens every time the agent looks at a page.
- Playing Playwright MCP 68 times cost 0.19 USD per run
- Chrome DevTools MCP cost 0.22 USD per run, totaling 0.236 USD per run
- Proxy tool tokensave-mcp-diet cuts tokens by up to 96%