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MicroAudit AI: Local Contract Risk Analyzer

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built As a freelancer or side hustler, getting a new…

Engineering Resilient Systems for a Magnitude 5.7 Earthquake in Pakistan

Observed 2026‑10‑17 – USGS event page The sudden release of strain that generated a 5.7‑magnitude event in Pakistan highlights the need for engineer…

A school discount with no code, because the discount is the email domain

We used to give schools a discount code. A teacher asked for one, we minted it, and then we maintained the parts that follow from a code existing: a…

Startup‑time regression after enabling Hermes in a React‑Native app

The situation Say you are a lead mobile engineer on a two‑month sprint for a consumer‑facing React‑Native app (React‑Native 0.73). The product team…

Five Models Agreed and Were Still Wrong: A QA Playbook for AI-Translated i18n Files

You added forty new strings, ran your AI translation step, and every locale file came back green. Then a Spanish-speaking user asked why your startu…

Google Workspace Will Block AI Agents Without This OAuth Flag on Nov 11: The n8n Builder's Checklist

Google is about to draw a hard line between humans and agents inside Workspace. If your n8n AI agent touches Gmail, Drive, or Calendar through a Goo…

Your Escalation Ladder Belongs in a Table, Not in Prose

Your escalation ladder should be a decision table that a test suite can replay, not four paragraphs a tired engineer has to interpret at 03:00. That…

A Bazel Bard

Actively exploited this week: 9 new CISA KEV entries (12 October to 18 October 2026)

Every week CISA adds vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogue. The bar for getting on that list is not "severe on pape…

Prompt injection: how it works and how to secure an AI agent

Prompt injection is an instruction planted where the model expects data. The agent reads it along with the content and runs it with the permissions…

DocuFlow AI: Turn Any Codebase into a Client-Ready Technical Audit

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built Every developer knows the challenge of joining…

Retention AI

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built RetentionAI is an executive-grade subscription…

What's happening to CSS-Tricks, State of Devs 2026, announcing State of HTML 2026, and more | Front End News #116

NOTE: This is issue #116 of my newsletter, which was published on Monday, October 5. You might find this information valuable and exciting, and you…

Building a UWB Distance Monitoring and Alert System with Arduino

Measuring the distance between two points wirelessly can be useful in proximity detection, object monitoring, and embedded automation projects. Whil…

I gave AI agents a harm budget instead of trust and ran 19 experiments

I run Xonta, a small marketplace where developers list AI agents with a description and a price. Pretty soon people looking at the listings started…

Supabase RLS breaking change (Oct 30, 2026): 5-minute check to avoid 42501 errors

Oct 30, 2026, Supabase is enforcing a breaking change for RLS grants in the public schema. Existing tables are unaffected; new tables created after…

MarginPulse AI: An Open-Weight CFO That Prices Side-Hustle Gigs with TabPFN-3.5 & Gemma 4

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle 1. What I Built: Solving Side-Hustle Pricing Blindness A fre…

ScopeShield: The Open-Source Scope Creep Detector for Freelancers**

*This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle* What I Built Freelancers and boutique digital agencies ble…

MedPort: a private medical portfolio that reads your lab reports on your own laptop

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built Every time someone in my family sees a new doct…

SkinSense: Building a Skincare Side Hustle with Open AI

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle . What I Built I built SkinSense , a personalized skincare c…

NestJS 12: ESM Packages, Standard Schema Validation and Native Observability

NestJS version 12 has been released, transitioning core packages to ESM and adding Standard Schema validation. It updates the CLI and introduces an…

MAX: A Local-First Productivity App Powered by Gemma 2 2B

"Meet MAX, a desktop productivity companion combining tasks, goals, habits, focus, and evidence-grounded AI coaching with local Gemma 2 2B inference…

ItemPilot: Turning Product Photos into Buyer-Focused eBay Listings with Local AI 🚀

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built I built ItemPilot , a local AI-powered eBay Lis…

Community Copilot: An AI-Powered Discord Assistant for Developer Communities

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle . What I Built Developer communities on Discord are full of…

RedactProof & Review: Zero-Cloud Contract Auditing for Freelancers

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built RedactProof & Review is an offline, privacy…

A Better Workflow for AI-Assisted Coding: Lessons from Matt Pocock

I recently watched Matt Pocock's workshop, Full Walkthrough: Workflow for AI Coding . The main takeaway: Good AI-assisted coding is not about writin…

xtty: opening a second SSH shell without repeating the setup

I'm the developer of xtty, a terminal for macOS. Its focus is the setup work between commands: opening saved hosts, starting another remote shell, a…

Listing Lens: product photos in, marketplace listing out, all on your laptop

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built Listing Lens is for people who sell things onli…

Setting Up ElevenLabs API: From Zero to Production

Why ElevenLabs is a Game‑Changer for Voice AI If you’ve been dabbling in text‑to‑speech (TTS) or voice cloning, you know the pain points: low‑qualit…

Ledger Room: I built a local invoice sorter, then measured exactly what the privacy costs

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle What I Built Ledger turns a folder of invoices and receipts…