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Gamifying Cardiac Rehab with Habitica

Why I turned recovery into a game Cardiac rehab is a long, repetitive grind. The problem is that it feels like a grind. The exercises matter, the sleep and nutrition matter, but the feedback loop is slow and fuzzy. Habitica gives me an immediate feedback loop. I turn recovery into an RPG: quests, parties, XP, streaks. The medical side still lives with doctors and devices. The day-to-day compliance lives in a game. The Habitica party: making recovery a team sport Habitica is built around parties:

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I Wrote a Tool to Find Blind Spots. It Had One.

I spend a lot of time writing quality gates to enforce invariants in my software. For weeks, my test runner stayed green. Every guard was in place, every check passed, and every test suite reported clean execution. Then I asked an uncomfortable question: are these gates actually measuring anything, or are they just executing without complaining? To find out, I wrote a script to sabotage my own engine. The tool parses the source code, finds every fail() assertion call in the engine, disables them

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Mask Query Bindings in Laravel Exception Messages

Laravel 13.27 adds a per-connection option that keeps query bindings out of QueryException messages, so customer data stops reaching logs and APM tools. The post Mask Query Bindings in Laravel Exception Messages appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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Better label management on issues is generally available

We’re making it easier to keep labels organized and find the right one, especially in repositories with long and growing label lists. Suggested Labels You can now find the right… The post Better label management on issues is generally available appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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Build a Strapi v5 form with React without using a hosted widget

A React contact form is easy until it needs to be changed by someone who does Then the project needs a schema, an editor, server validation, spam controls, This tutorial uses FormFlow to keep the form definition in Strapi v5 while The data flow is small: Strapi admin builder ↓ GET /api/formflow/forms/:slug ↓ Your React components ↓ POST /api/formflow/forms/:slug/submit ↓ Strapi submission inbox There is no iframe. The React SDK ships no CSS. In the Strapi v5 proj

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The biggest video game of all time looks like a movie

I think I know why Rockstar Games debuted its "extended look" of Grand Theft Auto VI on Netflix instead of immediately dropping it for free on YouTube. Unlike most video game trailers, the almost 27-minute preview of GTA VI felt more like a slice of a prestige crime drama than any video game trailer that I've ever seen. To make a new game that lasts another decade or more and potentially rivals the success of its predecessor, Rockstar is clearly trying to further blur the lines between Hollywood

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How Should AI Agents Discover Each Other?

If identity tells an agent who another agent is, and reputation helps answer whether that agent should be trusted, the next problem is obvious: How does one agent actually find another agent in the first place? At first, this sounds like a search problem. Maybe you build a directory. Maybe agents have tags. Maybe there is a search box. Maybe you type: energy research agent and get a list of results. That is probably useful. But I don’t think that is enough. Because discovery for agents is not r

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Building an honest scanner for the agentic web

Why I started Every few weeks somebody sends me an "AI readiness score" for a website. It is always red. It never explains what the missing items would actually do for that site, and it never distinguishes between two completely different situations: You have not published an emerging protocol. You have published one, and it does not work. The first is usually an observation. The protocol may not apply to your site, its adoption may be negligible, real agents may not touch it, and waiting may

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