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Spec Script Deal: "Canopy"

Netflix preemptively acquires horror thriller spec script "Canopy" written by Brandon Feldman. Via Deadline:Comped to films like Apex, Predator and The Shallows, Canopy follows a botanist searching for a rare medical cure in the uncharted Amazon canopy who must survive a terrifying, undiscovered apex predator after she is offered as a sacrifice by a local village.The script generated interested by receiving an 8 rating on the Black List website. It sold in an auction for a reported mid

JavaScript Production Errors: How Minified Stack Source Maps Guide Fintech Rollouts

JavaScript production errors happen six minutes after a new pricing rule reaches a flagged React cohort. The page shows a rising count, a minified function name, and a stack frame that points into a hashed asset. What the on-call does not see is the decision they need to make: did the new rule break checkout, or did unrelated background noise rise at the same time?TL;DR: keep source maps private but available to the release pipeline, attach an immutable release identifier and flag variant to eve

On Writing

“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial view of the universe. The writer lives between the upper and lower worlds: he takes the path in order eventually to become the path himself.”— Henry Miller from “Reflections on Writing”For 100s more On Writing posts, go here.The Protagonist’s Journey: An Introduction to Character

How are you centralising AI for development at your company?

I'm asking this because I'm seeing some frustrating patterns and if I may be bold, I think my answer is the correct one.Here's one I'm seeing: its the SDLC agent pattern and I think its wrong.Step 1: you have good AGENTS.md documentation for your code and other principles. (this is good)Step 2: There's a somewhat strict workflow and steps enforced like planner agent, reviewer agent, critique agent and directly create a PR from a ticket. Every human intervention here is c

Firefox DevTools Console: Power User Guide from Formatting to Logpoints

The Firefox DevTools Console is more than a place to log messages. It supports live JavaScript execution, multi-line expressions, DOM inspection, and CSS experiments. This guide covers the features that save the most time. Basic Console Methods// Loggingconsole.log('Basic message');console.info('Informational');console.warn('Warning — yellow highlight');console.error('Error — red highlight with stack trace');console.debug('Debug — only visible in DevTools (not user-facing)');// Groupsconsol

JavaScript ES Modules: Native Browser Modules, Dynamic Imports, and Import Maps

JavaScript modules (ESM — ECMAScript Modules) are the native module system built into browsers. They let you split code into separate files with explicit imports/exports, enable tree-shaking, and work without a bundler in modern browsers. Firefox has full native ES module support. The Basics: export and import// utils/math.jsexport function add(a, b) { return a + b; }export function multiply(a, b) { return a * b; }export const PI = 3.14159265358979;// Default export (one per file)export def

CSS Custom Properties: Beyond Variables — Theming, Animation, and @property

CSS custom properties (CSS variables) are far more powerful than just storing colors. They cascade, inherit, can be updated with JavaScript, and enable dynamic theming without class swapping. Firefox has full support including @property for typed custom properties. The Basics:root { --color-primary: #3B82F6; --color-primary-dark: #2563EB; --spacing-sm: 8px; --spacing-md: 16px; --spacing-lg: 24px; --border-radius: 6px; --font-body: 'Inter', system-ui, sans-serif;}.button { background

Fetch API: Streaming, Cancellation, CORS, and Retry Patterns

The Fetch API is the modern way to make HTTP requests in the browser. It replaced XMLHttpRequest with a cleaner, Promise-based interface. Firefox has full Fetch support including streaming, request cancellation, and custom headers. This guide covers practical patterns beyond the basics. Basic Fetch// Simple GETconst response = await fetch('/api/users');const users = await response.json();// Always check the status — fetch only rejects on network errors, not HTTP errorsif (!response.ok) { t

Buy Verified Poloniex Accounts With Authentic KYC ... PDF

Buy Verified Poloniex Accounts With Authentic KYC ... PDF24 hours response/(Contact US)➤ WhatsApp: +1 (903) 702-9701➤ Telegram: @usasvcit➤ Email: [email protected] The phrase “Buy Verified Poloniex Account” is associated with online searches about cryptocurrency exchanges, identity verification, and access to digital financial services. Understanding this topic from an educational perspective requires learning how cryptocurrency platforms operate, what Know Your Customer (KYC) procedures mean,

React Query Best Practices: Build Faster and More Reliable React Apps

Managing server state in React becomes challenging as applications grow. Fetching data, handling loading states, synchronizing updates, preventing duplicate requests, and keeping cached information fresh can quickly make components difficult to maintain.TanStack Query, formerly known as React Query, simplifies these challenges by providing caching, background refetching, request deduplication, and mutation management out of the box. Instead of manually coordinating API calls with useEffect and u

Construction continues at Fremont tech campus that could provide as many as 1,000 jobs

Construction is underway on the second stage of an East Bay tech campus that could produce 1,000 or more jobs once the property is fully built and occupied by a Taiwan-based electronics firm.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1654170324374-8c15c4783978?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MXx8VGVjaCUyMEpvYnN8ZW58MHx8Mnx8MTY1NDIwNDA3NQ&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=1080' />

48 of our functions are POST endpoints, and the three that read the host page are deliberately not

PubTrivia has 11 files with a use server directive at the top and 48 exported functions inside them. Thirteen of those 48 only read. And then there is one more file of reads, sitting next to the page that uses them, that is deliberately not one of the 11.Its header comment is the shortest useful thing in the repository:/** * Server-side reads for the host page. * * Deliberately not a "use server" file: these are called from the page's * Server Component only, and must not be reachable as POST en

The biggest file on our website is the terms of service, and nothing imports it

I ran wc -l over every file under src/ on Notifio's website this week, expecting the answer at the top to be a page with a lot of product on it. It was not. It was this:567 src/app/terms/page.tsx548 src/lib/alerts/sites/europe.ts472 src/lib/articles/guides.ts456 src/app/page.tsx431 src/lib/alerts/sites/netherlands.ts426 src/lib/compare/targets.ts403 src/app/privacy/page.tsxThe largest file in the project is the terms of service. The seventh largest is the privacy policy. Between them that is 970

wrap, break, minPresenceAhead and fixed: the four react-pdf props that decide where a report splits

CogniPrep generates four PDF reports with @react-pdf/renderer: one per practice session, one master analysis across sessions, one per mock interview, and one per assessment centre exercise. I have written before about why the engine is imported on click rather than at module load and about the one download helper all four share.This post is about the part nobody thinks about until a document gets long: where the pages break.On screen, a card that is too tall just scrolls. In a PDF it has to be c

Six exercise types, two layouts, and a phone that gets three tabs instead of three panes

CogniPrep's assessment centre practice covers six exercise types: e-tray, in-tray, written, presentation, group discussion and role-play. You can read what each one is on the assessment centre practice hub, and there is a free guide per type, for example the in-tray guide and the group exercise guide.Six types do not need six runners. They need two, and one small function to decide which. The mapping is four lines, with an override/** Resolve the runner layout for an exercise (explicit, els

Three platforms&#039; logos, three sets of brand rules, and one SVG id that can blank the rest

Nakodo shows brands creators from YouTube, Instagram and TikTok in the same list. Every row has the creator's platform next to them, and that little mark turned out to be the most rule-bound component in the codebase.The reason it exists at all is not design. YouTube's Developer Policies (III.F.2) and the YouTube API Services Branding Guidelines require the YouTube logo next to data that came from the API, as a link to the content on YouTube. We decided that if YouTube's data gets an attribution

You can now download and 3D print full-sized cars at home

You wouldn’t download a car, 3D print it at home, and then assemble the pieces into a life-size replica… right? That’s the idea behind Print Your Vehicle, a project with lofty ambitions of making life-sized 3D-printed car models a reality.

Is Your Organization Messing Up AI Adoption?

The way I see most organizations roll out AI feels more like a farce than a strategy. If it were turned into a movie, reviewers would say it was unbelievable. Nobody could be that stupid.Yet here we are. And what makes it all the more frustrating is that we have been here before.Back in 2014, I wrote a book for Smashing Magazine called Digital Adaptation, looking at the mistakes being made in how organizations were approaching digital transformation and what they should be doing instead. The sim

Beyond the Prototype: Engineering Reliable AI Agents for Real-World Applications

AI agents are becoming an important part of modern software development. They can interpret user requests, retrieve information, call external tools, and coordinate multi-step workflows. From developer assistants to customer support automation, agents offer new ways to build software that can respond dynamically to changing requirements.But building an agent that works in a controlled demo is very different from building one that behaves reliably in production.An agent may select the wrong tool,

Two Small Apps, Two Hard Problems: What Amir Ali&#039;s Side Projects Teach About Frontend Engineering

You can learn more about a developer from one well-documented side project than from a long list of skills on a résumé. When I want to recommend someone, I read their code first.So this post is a code review of two recent projects by my friend Amir Ali, a full-stack developer in Karachi, Pakistan who works mainly in React, Next.js and TypeScript. Each project takes on a problem that looks simple and isn't:MatchReady: how to get smooth animation on a canvas where the preview and the exported GIF