New web tool aims to simplify Unix epoch conversions — is it the best?
TL;DR A browser-based epoch converter provides bidirectional translation between Unix timestamps and human-readable dates, handling both seconds and milliseconds and…
Benchmarks show JavaScript for-of loops can match classic for speed
TL;DR A set of microbenchmarks run on Chrome 143 (V8) found for-of loops can perform on par with a classic…
Show HN: Replaced Beads with tk – a faster, Markdown-based task tracker
TL;DR wedow published tk, a single-file, git-backed CLI ticket system that stores issues as Markdown with YAML front matter. It…
OSS Sustain Guard: Signals and metrics for open-source dependency health
TL;DR OSS Sustain Guard is an open-source tool that analyzes the sustainability of software dependencies across many ecosystems, surfacing maintainer…
Local-first: Why the Term Defies a Clean Definition and Needs Nuance
TL;DR The essay argues that 'local-first' resists a single neat definition and should be treated as a spectrum rather than…
Reverse engineering an abandoned app: restoring TileCreatorPro access
TL;DR A user relied on TileCreatorPro, a Windows-era design tool bought in 2017 from ThoughtFishMedia, and found the vendor site…
Brave’s Rust adblock engine refactor saves 75% memory with FlatBuffers
TL;DR Brave rebuilt its Rust adblock engine using FlatBuffers and other refinements, cutting memory use by about 75%—roughly 45 MB…
Why Refactoring Should Be Done In-Flow, Not As Backlog Stories
TL;DR Treating refactoring as standalone backlog stories is usually ineffective and hard to justify to stakeholders. Instead, incrementally clean the…
Refactoring — Why It Shouldn’t Be Put on the Backlog as a Story
TL;DR The author argues against treating refactoring as backlog work or a standalone story. Instead, teams should incrementally clean code…
How Twitch Managed Standards Across a Million Lines of TypeScript
TL;DR Twitch’s core engineering team addressed invisible exceptions in a million-line TypeScript monolith by treating lint rule violations as tracked…