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5 JavaScript Features I Wish I Had Learned Earlier

JavaScript is one of those languages where you can build a lot without knowing every feature. But as I continue building projects, I've come across a few features that make my code cleaner and easier to maintain. Here are five JavaScript features I wish I had learned much earlier. ?.) Accessing nested properties used to look like this: const city = user && user.address && user.address.city; Now it becomes: const city = user?.address?.city; If any property doesn't exist, JavaScript simply ret

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I Was Spending 48 Hours Every Month Checking Supplier Prices. So I Built a Python Script to Do It for Me

About a year ago I realized I had accidentally turned myself into a very expensive copy and paste machine. Every morning started the same way. Open supplier website. Search for the product SKU. Find the correct variation. Copy the price into a spreadsheet. Move to the next supplier and repeat. At first it didn't seem like a big deal. Then I counted how much time I was actually spending on it. I was tracking around 25 products across 15 suppliers. On average it took about 90 seconds to find and v

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I spent 8 months building two production-ready SaaS platforms while finishing my Master's thesis — here's what I learned

A bit of background: I'm a Master's student at SRH Heidelberg Here's what I actually built and what I learned. Stack: Node.js 18 / Express 5.1 / React 18.2 / MongoDB / What it does: full multi-tenant booking platform — think What I'm proud of: 940 passing tests (328 backend, 612 What hurt: I submitted to CodeCanyon and got hard-rejected 🔗 Bookify on Gumroad (€99) Stack: Spring Boot 3.2.4 / Java 21 / React 19 / MongoDB / What it does: full car rental system — vehicle browsing, What I lear

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ACR Stealer: Two observed intrusion chains amid increased threat activity

From late April 2026 to mid-June 2026, Microsoft Defender Experts observed increased ACR Stealer activity across customer environments. These campaigns are successfully using ClickFix lures to steal browser credentials, authentication tokens, and sensitive documents from enterprise environments. The post ACR Stealer: Two observed intrusion chains amid increased threat activity appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

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Building a custom Contentful Rich Text editor: the round-trip problem

Contentful lets you replace the UI of a Rich Text field with your own App. That sounds like a front-end job — build a nicer editor, mount it in the field location, done. It isn't. The editor UI is the easy 20%. The hard 80% is a small file most people never think about: the layer that converts between your editor's internal model and Contentful's stored document — losslessly, in both directions. I built one on top of PlateJS (which is a Slate editor underneath), and this post is about that conve

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Maintaining the code of the man who wrote "How To Write Unmaintainable Code"

Today I accidentally became the maintainer of software that was already almost three decades old: reviving a 1990s Java utility to keep the last PAD submitter alive in 2026. I was looking for a way to submit my AI app RiverScript to old desktop software directories and ended up digging through the long-forgotten world of PAD files. There was one problem. The only batch submission tool I could find was a Java application that first appeared in the late 1990s. The last release was in 2017. It was

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Is your site ready to be cited by AI? A practical intro to GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)

More and more people search on ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. Being found is no longer enough — you need to be cited. For twenty years SEO had one clear goal: rank in Google's top results. Something deeper is changing now. A growing share of people, before buying or choosing a supplier, no longer open Google — they ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini. And to answer, these models cite some sources and ignore others. So the question for anyone with a website becomes different: is my site among the

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