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Write, preview, publish: how a post becomes a page

Originally published at https://blog.galascribe.com/write-preview-publish-how-a-post-becomes-a-page/ . When you press Publish, your text passes through four places: your browser, our API, your site…

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Meilisearch is the easy part. The sync worker is where it hurts.

Suppose your product catalog lives in Postgres and search is ILIKE '%term%' . It works, nobody complains, and the table is small.

• Meilisearch's sync worker causes challenges due to cursor-based pagination issues.
• Switching to equal sign resolves cursor stalling but stalls worker at specific documents.
• Composite index with updatedat timestamp and id field fixes worker stalling issue.

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MackIAExpend -Hacktoberfest

Vending Machine: ESP32, Raspberry Pi Pico, NFC, n8n, Lovable & ElevenLabs This is a submission for the MLH x DEV Writing Challenge What I Built…..

• MackIAExpend submits IoT vending machine for MLH x DEV Writing Challenge
• Raspberry Pi Pico handles local user interface with TFT display
• ElevenLabs provides AI voice responses for successful dispensing

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Lossless PNG optimizing saved 11.4% on transparent icons and 24.8% on photos

My capstone project has a folder of PNG assets: app icons and stickers with soft transparent edges, plus a few photos that someone exported as PNG.

• Lossless PNG optimizer oxipng achieved 11.4% reduction on transparent icons
• Optimizer saved 24.8% on photos from Wikimedia Commons
• Reduction techniques include recompression and color type reduction

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Pay-per-event pricing on Apify: what I got wrong

I publish data Actors on the Apify Store as Yappman Data, all on pay-per-event pricing. This is a list of things I got wrong about pricing and charging, and what I did about each. It is not a recipe.

• Initial belief about tier-priced events was incorrect; charges applied after 13 October
• Platform limits max charge per run to account's remaining monthly usage
• Run restarts may cause misalignment between charged-event counts and maximum charge

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Retention Tools, Organized by the Job They Actually Do

"Retention" might be the most overloaded word in the subscription software catalog. Under it you will find analytics suites, cancel flows, dunning engines, loyalty programs, community platforms, and…

• Retention tools are often listed as competitors, causing confusion
• Organize tools by specific functions like prediction and analytics
• Focus on neglected retention jobs rather than individual tools

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