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We ping 2,587 vibe-coded apps every 6 hours. The 'AI apps die fast' narrative isn't holding up

Dev.to · CodeLong888 1mo ago

We ping 2,587 vibe-coded apps every 6 hours. The 'AI apps die fast' narrative isn't holding up

Everyone "knows" vibe-coded apps are abandoned within weeks. Someone ships a weekend project with...

Your hreflang says English-only. Does your language switcher agree?

Dev.to · CodeLong888 1mo ago

Your hreflang says English-only. Does your language switcher agree?

I run a maintenance sweep over my own site every day. Yesterday it found 1,474 dead internal links...

How to check if an IP is blacklisted (DNSBL), from raw DNS to one curl

Dev.to · CodeLong888 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

How to check if an IP is blacklisted (DNSBL), from raw DNS to one curl

Your emails start bouncing, or a website suddenly challenges every request from your server. Very...

how i run a 2,500-page directory from a single cloudflare worker

Dev.to · CodeLong888 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

how i run a 2,500-page directory from a single cloudflare worker

quick build writeup, because i haven't seen many people run a directory this way and it's been...

I built 1,081 free tools. Today a stranger finally asked to join.

Dev.to · CodeLong888 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

I built 1,081 free tools. Today a stranger finally asked to join.

Seventeen days ago I launched yourhack.ai, a directory of free, client-side web tools. Calculators,...

i built 1000+ free web tools in a couple weeks and turns out building it was the easy part

Dev.to · CodeLong888 🌐 Frontend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

i built 1000+ free web tools in a couple weeks and turns out building it was the easy part

so i've been building this thing called yourhack.ai for the last couple weeks and i wanted to write...

I put 300+ free web tools in one place, with no ads and no signup

Dev.to · CodeLong888 🌐 Frontend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

I put 300+ free web tools in one place, with no ads and no signup

I use a lot of little web tools. A JSON formatter here, a cron parser there, a "cm to inches" when I...

Check your IP, ASN, and VPN/proxy leaks from the terminal with curl (no signup, no key)

Dev.to · CodeLong888 ☁️ DevOps & Cloud ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Check your IP, ASN, and VPN/proxy leaks from the terminal with curl (no signup, no key)

Every "what's my IP" site is a bloated page covered in ads, cookie banners, and "sign up for a VPN"...

I tracked which AI models people actually use for a month. The top 5 are all Chinese or open-weight.

Dev.to · CodeLong888 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

I tracked which AI models people actually use for a month. The top 5 are all Chinese or open-weight.

Everyone argues about which AI model is "best" using benchmarks. I wanted to know something simpler:...

My deploy agent could have dropped my database and I didn't realize

Dev.to · CodeLong888 ☁️ DevOps & Cloud ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

My deploy agent could have dropped my database and I didn't realize

I run a small free privacy-tools site as a side project. The product was fine. The maintenance was...

I Built a Free Meme API with 2,300+ Templates on Cloudflare Workers

Dev.to · CodeLong888 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

I Built a Free Meme API with 2,300+ Templates on Cloudflare Workers

Last month I wanted to add meme generation to a side project. Every meme API I found was either paid,...

How to Check for Email Breaches Programmatically (Free API, No Key)

Dev.to · CodeLong888 🔐 Cybersecurity ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

How to Check for Email Breaches Programmatically (Free API, No Key)

The Problem You're building an app and need to warn users if their email has been...