Category: Software
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Oasis, the team behind the Sapphire confidential EVM, has launched what might be one of the boldest blockchain security experiments in recent years: a public challenge to break their TEE-based system. There’s one Bitcoin (wBTC) locked in a Sapphire smart contract. If anyone can extract the private key controlling it, the funds are theirs. No…
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What are AI agents — and why they matter Think of an AI agent as a helpful assistant that doesn’t just reply to you — it actually gets things done. It understands what you want, figures out the steps, uses the right tools or APIs, and finishes the task without you clicking through every screen.…
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The DeepSeek API is compatible with OpenAI’s. You can directly use the OpenAI SDK to access the DeepSeek API by simply modifying the configuration. For compatibility with OpenAI, the base_url should be configured as https://api.deepseek.com/v1. The deepseek-chat model corresponds to DeepSeek-V3-0324 when using model=’deepseek-chat’. Using model=’deepseek-reasoner’ points to the DeepSeek-R1-0528 model. Once an API key…
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React is one of the most powerful and widely used libraries for building user interfaces with JavaScript. From small components to large-scale front-end and full-stack applications, React gives you the flexibility to create interactive, efficient, and modern features. But learning React can feel overwhelming. With so many new terms, patterns, and frameworks like Next.js in…
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Every developer has that project they build just for the fun of it. You know how it goes: you start by asking “what if?” and then you have something weird and wonderful hours later. This summer, we decided to celebrate that spirit with For the Love of Code, our first-ever competition for projects built purely…
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In this tutorial, you’ll build a To-Do list MCP server using TypeScript. You’ll learn how to implement authentication, persistence, and billing, to make the server robust and functional for real users. By the end, you’ll have a working MCP server that: Authenticates users with Kinde. Stores to-do data in a Neon Postgres database. Enforces billing…
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Editor’s note: Mat Marquis and Andy Bell have released JavaScript for Everyone, an online course offered exclusively at Piccalilli. This post is an excerpt from the course taken specifically from a chapter all about JavaScript expressions. We’re publishing it here because we believe in this material and want to encourage folks like yourself to sign…
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Game development has never been more exciting than it is today. With the rise of mobile phones, powerful PCs, and even browser-based platforms, the demand for high-quality games continues to grow at a fast pace. Developers now have access to a wide variety of frameworks that make it easier to design, test, and launch games…
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Timothy had written his hundredth Book class. Each time, the same tedious pattern: write __init__, define each attribute, write __repr__, write __eq__, write comparison methods. His simple data-holding classes had become exercises in repetitive boilerplate. class Book: def __init__(self, title, author, year, pages): self.title = title self.author = author self.year = year self.pages = pages…
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If you’ve ever tried feeding web pages into an AI model, you know the pain. Websites come with ads, navigation bars, and messy HTML. Before your Large Language Model (LLM) can understand the content, you must clean and format it. That’s where Firecrawl makes life easy. It’s an open-source API tool that turns any website…