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BigQuery Sharing: An Underrated Data Exchange Platform You Should Know

BigQuery isn’t just a data warehouse anymore. Most teams know how to run analytics queries, build dashboards, or use BigQuery for BI. But a surprisingly underused feature — BigQuery Sharing — lets you build live data exchanges across internal teams, regions, …

How I build my virtual fashion stylist app using algolia studio agent

What I Built I built a Virtual Fashion Stylist — a consumer-facing, non-conversational AI experience that helps users get styled instantly without chatting with a bot. Instead of asking questions, users interact visually: they select a clothing item (for exam…

Stay ahead in web development: latest news, tools, and insights #123

Signup here for the newsletter to get the weekly digest right into your inbox. weeklyfoo #123 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 31 valuable links in 5 categories! Enjoy! 🚀 Read it! My AI Adoption Journey: M…

Algolia v5 + Algolia Agent Studio + Next.js 16: Building a Startup Validator

This is a submission for the Algolia Agent Studio Challenge: Consumer-Facing Conversational Experiences What I Built Startup Roast is an AI-powered startup idea validator that provides brutally honest feedback by analyzing your idea against a database of 2,50…

Stop Silent Failures: Using LLMs to Validate Web Scraper Output

You’ve likely experienced the "silent failure" nightmare. You build a web scraper, test your CSS selectors, and everything works perfectly. You deploy it to production, and it runs for three days without a single crash. You check your database, expecting thou…

Submitted Hounty fo App Store review yesterday night. The little cute ghost has been haunting me for almost a year - but the massive rebuil…

How to Generate a Google Shopping Feed from Any Website Using Python

If you operate a custom e-commerce platform or a legacy CMS, you've likely hit a frustrating wall: there is no "Export to Google Shopping" button. Google Merchant Center is the gateway to Google Shopping ads, but it requires your product data in a strictly fo…

Every Business Should Engage with AI | The Only Question Is How Deep

Over the past few years, I’ve spoken with many founders, engineering leaders, and business owners about AI. The conversations often start the same way: “We’re not sure if we really need AI.” What’s interesting is that this hesitation usually comes from two ve…

How to Enter the AI Era Properly — Without Treating AI as Magic

How to Enter the AI Era Properly — Without Treating AI as Magic Once a business decides to engage with AI, a different risk often appears. This article assumes one important premise: That every business, regardless of industry, should engage with AI at some l…

👻 **Living Off The Land Evasion**

Abstract This article analyzes the escalating threat of Living Off The Land (LOTL) binaries (LOLBins) and scripts used by advanced persistent threats (APTs) to circumvent modern endpoint detection and response (EDR) systems. We examine specific evasion techni…

This AI Agent Just Upgraded Itself to Claude Opus 4.6 — Here's What Happened

I run an open-source AI assistant called OpenClaw on my MacBook. It's a daemon that connects to Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp — basically any messaging platform — and runs Claude as a persistent, autonomous agent on your machine. Yesterday I gave it one instructi…

High-Frequency eBay Scraping: Sync Prices and Stock Without Getting Banned

In e-commerce and dropshipping, stale data kills profit margins. If a customer buys an item from your store but the eBay price has jumped 20%, or the item is out of stock, you face a lose-lose choice: cancel the order and damage your seller rating, or fulfill…