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𝚓𝚊𝚟𝚊𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚝 • 2026-08-02 14:19

[AskJS] Building a 2D Game Engine from scratch in pure ES6 Vanilla JS. Here is how I handle SpriteSheets & AnimatedSprites!

Hi everyone! I've been working on BeeEngine 2D, a lightweight HTML5 game engine built with pure Vanilla JS (ES6) and direct Canvas API—no external libraries, no build tools, and zero heavy frameworks. A lot of modern tools hide sheet slicing behind JSON files, but I wanted a bare-metal, highly efficient approach that gives 100/100 on Lighthouse Performance and instant loading times. I separated th...

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-08-02 14:17

The Seinfeld Chronicles: Digital Edition

Article URL: https://seinfeld.visualisingdata.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49144946 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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DEV Community • 2026-08-02 14:14

I built a zero-dependency Go CLI to package RPG Maker games

Releasing an RPG Maker game means a lot of manual, error-prone steps: check the project, strip debug/save files, build per-platform archives, and ship them to itch.io or Steam. I built RPG Maker Release Forge to make it one command. ## What it does Every engine — MV, MZ, XP, VX, VX Ace, and 2000/2003. Audit before build — finds missing engine files, broken asset references, invalid JSON, ...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-02 14:13

AI Shopping Agents Are Already Buying From Your Store. Here's How to Get Found

AI Shopping Agents Are Already Buying From Your Store. Here's How to Get Found You open your analytics dashboard and traffic from Google is down 18% this week. Your ads are running. Your SEO hasn't changed. So where did the visitors go? They asked an AI agent to shop for them instead. This isn't a prediction anymore. As of mid-2026, AI shopping agents are becoming the default way a gr...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-02 14:12

How I cut a 1.1 GB image gallery to 30 MB without touching a single database row

I run a small AI-photo-prompt gallery — a few hundred prompts, each with an example image. It started as a weekend project and grew faster than the infrastructure did. By the time I looked properly, the images directory was 1.1 GB across 2,650 files, and a single gallery page was shipping 2–3 MB of images to phones on Indian mobile data. This is the writeup of getting that under control, and the ...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-02 14:09

I ported Picomatch to Rust. It passed 1,977 tests and lost the benchmark by 18x

A Port Mortem 2026 write-up about a JavaScript to Rust port, one strange Unicode character, and what green tests do not tell you. The first benchmark result was not flattering. Picomatch, running under Node, handled about 7.18 million matches per second in my test. The direct Rust implementation managed about 395,000. That made the Rust version roughly 18.2 times slower. I kept the result becau...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-02 14:09

WebMask: 43+ OWASP-aligned website checks with a React UI

WebMask: 43+ OWASP-aligned website checks with a React UI I wanted a vulnerability scanner I could run myself — not a black-box SaaS — so I built WebMask. What you get 43+ checks aligned with common OWASP-style findings React admin UI for running scans and reading severity-rated results SSRF-safe design considerations in the architecture Node / Express / Vite stack ...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-02 14:04

What Happens If a Bank Transfer Fails Halfway? Understanding ACID Properties in SQL

Imagine transferring ₹1,000 from one bank account to another. Let's say Jeni has ₹10,000 in his account, and Dravid has ₹5,000. Jeni wants to transfer ₹1,000 to Dravid. If everything works correctly, two things happen: ₹1,000 is deducted from Jeni's account. ₹1,000 is credited to Dravid's account. Before the transfer: Jeni → ₹10,000 Dravid → ₹5,000 After the transfer: Jeni →...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-02 14:03

I Ran 8 AI APIs Through the Same 50 Prompts — Here's the Real Cost Breakdown

Disclosure: I'm 于侃 (Yu Kan), the developer behind NovAI, an API gateway for Chinese AI models. Every number in this article was measured by running the test script below. I tested DeepSeek's official API separately to verify the gateway adds zero overhead. The test prompts and full results are open-sourced — links at the bottom. Everyone publishing API pricing comparisons is either cherry-picki...

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The TechBeat: Prompt Engineering Is No More - Strategic Thinking Has Returned (8/2/2026)

HackerNoon • 2026-08-02 14:00

The TechBeat: Prompt Engineering Is No More - Strategic Thinking Has Returned (8/2/2026)

8/2/2026: Trending stories on Hackernoon today!

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202 Blog Posts To Learn About Frontend Development

HackerNoon • 2026-08-02 14:00

202 Blog Posts To Learn About Frontend Development

Learn everything you need to know about Frontend Development via these 202 free HackerNoon blog posts.

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DEV Community • 2026-08-02 14:00

ChoreQuest: Building a Custom App When Off-the-Shelf Software Fails

My two kids could not complete chores consistently. That's the whole problem. We tried several off-the-shelf chore apps. They all share the same design assumption: a recurring chore is a single task that resets when you check it off. Miss Monday? You're blocked. The platform won't generate Tuesday's instance until you either mark Monday done or manually dismiss it. For kids, that means one skipp...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-02 13:59

Ollama to vLLM: When to Migrate Your Local LLM Server

Ollama is one of the easiest ways to run a local language model, but convenience can conceal the moment when a local experiment becomes a shared inference service that needs better scheduling and observability. That is where vLLM becomes relevant. Migrating from Ollama to vLLM is not an automatic upgrade, however. It is a trade: you exchange some of Ollama's simplicity for greater control over ba...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-02 13:58

Wiring SlopScan into Claude Code — A Skill, a Hook, and a Bug I Almost Shipped

SlopScan is a small open-source API that checks whether an npm/PyPI package name is real before you install it. The problem it solves is specific and increasingly common: LLMs hallucinate package names — studies put it around 20% of AI-generated code referencing packages that don't exist — and attackers have started pre-registering those exact hallucinated names on the real registries with malicio...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-02 13:51

Laravel deployment with Dynamic Application Version Switching

Introduction Most Laravel deployment procedures assume one of two extremes: full root access on a dedicated server (and run composer install directly on the box) cPanel-style shared host where you shuffle a public/ folder into public_html and call it directly. Neither model fits a workspace that hosts multiple in-flight branches of the same Laravel 11/12 application and needs to s...

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Lobsters • 2026-08-02 13:49

I'm (mostly) picking models on speed now, not intelligence

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DEV Community • 2026-08-02 13:44

Implementing UUID v7 with nothing but crypto.getRandomValues()

Introduction I run a site of small browser-only tools. Each one does a single thing, loads no external resources, and sends nothing to a server. I recently added a UUID generator. Version 4 is a one-liner via crypto.randomUUID(), so there was nothing to build. Version 7 is the interesting one: it is still not in the standard API, and since the site loads no third-party scripts by polic...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-02 13:43

Why I Am Rebuilding Enterprise Low-Code for the AI Era

Low-code has become a familiar phrase. Drag-and-drop forms. Generated pages. Approval flows. Dashboards. Internal tools. We have all seen the demos, and many of them are genuinely useful. But after spending years around enterprise digitization projects, I became less interested in how quickly a page can be assembled, and more interested in a harder question: Can the system still be understood, ...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-02 13:43

How to control RGB on RAM sticks, motherboards, coolers, graphics cards programmatically with OpenRGB

When I was building my gaming PC a few years ago, I bought a second-hand pair of RAM sticks with RGB lights. It was entertaining to see them glowing and changing colors. I did not bother myself to control them. Some time later, I got sick of gaming and made a decision to rebuild it into a self-hosting server. The PC moved from my table to an under-TV shelf in the living room. And here, glowing li...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-02 13:40

My Comfort Food Project: Interactive Sri Lankan Spicy 🧀 Kottu Calculator! 🍜

Hi everyone! 🇱🇰 For the DEV Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition, I wanted to build a web page inspired by the ultimate street comfort food from my home country, Sri Lanka — *Spicy Cheese Kottu! * Kottu is a legendary Sri Lankan street food made with shredded parotta roti, aromatic spices, fresh vegetables, eggs, and meat. In this special version, we add a massive amount of melted cheese to b...

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