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Hate changing your design to fit each platform? It can and should be the other way around.

Tired of pickers with rigid layouts, styling limits, and platform inconsistencies? That's why I created react-native-multicolumn-modal-picker , an open-source modal picker that's easy to adapt to any design and supports up to 3 configurable columns , optional search, theming, and localization. Now with a consistent look and feel across Android, iOS and Web . Try the web demo · Read the…

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ASUS ZenWiFi BN12 Is Now Being Shipped

Asus recently announced that its ZenWiFi BN12 mesh router system is now shipping. The mesh router was first unveiled during Computex 2026, and is the brand’s first Wi-Fi 8 mesh router.

·lowyat.net

Next.js API Route for Private PDF Export with Signed Object-Storage URLs (5 Rules)

When a developer tool exports a private PDF, tenant isolation changes the design: the API route must authorize the snapshot before it creates a short-lived signed download URL, and the object store…

  • Derive tenantID from authenticated session, not query string
  • Generate signed GET URL with 5-minute expiry and audit event
  • Separate API route responsibilities from object storage

·dev.to

Why do du and Finder show different sizes for the same folder

Run du -sh on a folder and compare it to the size in Finder, and the two often come out different, sometimes by several gigabytes. Neither one is wrong.

  • "du" calculates file size by counting 4 KB allocation blocks.
  • Finder shows file size based on actual bytes of data.
  • Small files appear differently: 2-byte file is 2 bytes in Finder, 4 KB in du.

·dev.to

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