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Resuming email verification after the app is closed — the pending_email state that prevents re-sending

Background On first launch, the desktop app asks the user for an email address, sends a confirmation email, and completes registration once the user clicks the link in that email. There was a trap here for anyone who closed the app before clicking the link. Email does not always arrive immediately. Closing the app with the intention of clicking the link once the email shows up, then reopening later, is a perfectly natural way to use it. But on restart the app decided that registration was stil

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Introducing platformgen: Build Platforms with AI — Now Open Source

Introducing platformgen: Build Platforms with AI We're excited to announce the open-source release of platformgen — a meta-platform builder that uses AI to generate production platforms in days instead of months. platformgen is not another SaaS platform. It's a tool that builds platforms. Give it a description, and it generates: ✅ Database schema ✅ REST/GraphQL APIs ✅ Frontend widgets ✅ Kubernetes deployment configs ✅ Docker images (ready to deploy) All powered by GitHub Copilot via the "Ask

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The Project Remembers, Not the Agent

I did not sit down to invent a framework. I was trying to build real software with coding agents, and after a while the same problem kept showing up: the work was bigger than the session. That was the actual issue. Not “which model is smartest.” Not “which IDE has the best agent.” Not even “does RAG help.” The issue was continuity. A feature would start in one session, continue in another, get interrupted by limits, get resumed in a different tool, and somewhere in the middle I would end up re

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What It Really Takes to Get YouTube Live and TikTok Publishing Approved

Building a social media integration is one thing. Getting the social network to actually approve it for production is another. Over the past several months, I have been building VidSyndicate, a social media publishing and video distribution platform. One of the goals behind the project is to give businesses a single application for managing content across networks such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, TikTok, and others. From a development standpoint, connecting an API is of

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Apple and Epic argue over how much Apple should get from purchases made outside the App Store

In a new filing in its long-running legal dispute with Epic Games, Apple has proposed a structure that would allow it to collect fees on digital purchases made via external links that don't use the company's in-app purchase system. Epic has already responded, saying that Apple's request is "far outside of the bounds" of the court's guidance. Right now, Apple cannot take a commission on external purchases after California district court judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled in April 2025 that found

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I Almost Quit Coding Last Year, Here's What Changed My Mind

There was a stretch last year where I seriously considered walking away from coding altogether. Not dramatically, not in one single moment, just a slow, quiet decision building up over weeks. I would open my laptop, stare at a project, and feel nothing but tired. I kept comparing myself to other developers who seemed to be moving faster, understanding more, building bigger things, and somewhere in that comparison, I started to believe I simply wasn't good enough to keep going. I didn't tell many

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