https://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/https://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/https://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/images/design/softwaredude-02.pngen-usThatSoftwareDude.com News RSS Feed60https://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15330/should-you-switch-over-to-grok-bot ...]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:29:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15330/should-you-switch-over-to-grok-bothttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15329/password-hashing-in-nodejs-with-argon2id ...]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:34:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15329/password-hashing-in-nodejs-with-argon2idhttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15326/what-my-monthly-ai-bill-looks-like-in-2026 ...]]>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:58:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15326/what-my-monthly-ai-bill-looks-like-in-2026https://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15320/the-unexpected-costs-of-scaling-a-startup ...]]>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15320/the-unexpected-costs-of-scaling-a-startuphttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15316/godot-just-banned-ai-contributions-and-the-reason-isnt-what-you-think ...]]>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:20:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15316/godot-just-banned-ai-contributions-and-the-reason-isnt-what-you-thinkhttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15315/meta-finally-shows-up-to-the-terminal ...]]>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:56:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15315/meta-finally-shows-up-to-the-terminalhttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15313/wp2shell-the-wordpress-core-bug-that-let-strangers-run-code-on-your-site ...]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:59:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15313/wp2shell-the-wordpress-core-bug-that-let-strangers-run-code-on-your-sitehttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15312/gpt-56-sol-terra-and-luna-whats-the-difference Understand the differences between GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna. Discover which model fits your needs based on intelligence, speed, and pricing....]]>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:33:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15312/gpt-56-sol-terra-and-luna-whats-the-differencehttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15311/what-it-actually-costs-to-build-your-own-custom-coding-model ...]]>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:43:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15311/what-it-actually-costs-to-build-your-own-custom-coding-modelhttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15305/the-phone-number-problem-you-wont-catch-with-a-regex ...]]>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:10:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15305/the-phone-number-problem-you-wont-catch-with-a-regexhttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15304/developers-will-wait-15-minutes-to-avoid-10-minutes-of-typing Bigger context windows, more memory, larger models, tool calls, higher token costs, and extended reasoning modes all collide to increase latency. What used to take two or three minutes can now take ten, fifteen, or twenty....]]>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:57:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15304/developers-will-wait-15-minutes-to-avoid-10-minutes-of-typinghttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15298/how-to-use-packagejson-imports-for-node-aliases Use Node's package.json imports field for small private aliases like #db, #http/*, and #config without relying on a bundler alias....]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:17:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15298/how-to-use-packagejson-imports-for-node-aliaseshttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15294/how-to-use-the-cookie-store-api The Cookie Store API is the cleaner way to work with script-visible browser cookies. It gives you promise-based reads, object-shaped writes, deletes, and change events instead of forcing you to parse and assign `document.cookie` strings. ...]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:38:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15294/how-to-use-the-cookie-store-apihttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15283/how-to-use-uint8array-base64-helpers-in-javascript JavaScript now has native `Uint8Array` helpers for converting bytes to and from Base64 and hex. Use them when your data is actually bytes: file chunks, image payloads, cryptographic output, compact URL tokens, or binary API responses. They are cleaner than `atob()` and `btoa()` because they work with `Uint8Array` directly....]]>Thu, 28 May 2026 09:19:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15283/how-to-use-uint8array-base64-helpers-in-javascripthttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15284/why-html-in-canvas-is-big-news HTML-in-Canvas is big news because it targets one of the worst tradeoffs in web development: canvas gives you powerful rendering, but once you draw your UI there, you lose a lot of normal browser behavior. Chrome's experimental origin trial points toward a better model where a canvas app can draw real HTML while keeping browser-managed text, controls, focus, accessibility, and interaction....]]>Tue, 26 May 2026 12:09:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15284/why-html-in-canvas-is-big-newshttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15279/how-to-use-vite-environment-variables-without-leaking-secrets In Vite, a variable that starts with `VITE_` is public browser configuration, not a secret. Vite exposes it through `import.meta.env` and bundles it into client-side code at build time, so use `VITE_` for values like API base URLs, keep real secrets on the server, and only use `loadEnv()` when `.env` values need to shape `vite.config.*`....]]>Fri, 22 May 2026 10:04:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15279/how-to-use-vite-environment-variables-without-leaking-secretshttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15277/how-to-use-the-web-locks-api-to-stop-duplicate-browser-jobs Use the Web Locks API when the same web app can be open in multiple tabs and only one tab or worker should run a browser-side job at a time. It is a clean fit for sync jobs, cache refreshes, IndexedDB maintenance, and polling loops that should not stampede just because the user opened your app twice....]]>Thu, 21 May 2026 17:18:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15277/how-to-use-the-web-locks-api-to-stop-duplicate-browser-jobshttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15278/how-to-use-intldurationformat Use `Intl.DurationFormat` when your app needs labels like `1 hr, 4 min`, `1:04:09`, or localized equivalents. Keep the duration math in your code, pass a plain duration object to `new Intl.DurationFormat(locale, options).format(duration)`, and stop maintaining English-only string helpers for timers, dashboards, media lengths, and elapsed-time UI....]]>Thu, 21 May 2026 08:25:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15278/how-to-use-intldurationformathttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15275/how-to-set-up-fathom-analytics-in-your-web-apps Fathom Analytics can start with one script tag. That is part of its charm. But a useful analytics setup still needs engineering judgment: where the script loads, how client-side routes become pageviews, which actions deserve events, and how to keep your own staging traffic out of production reports....]]>Tue, 19 May 2026 10:48:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15275/how-to-set-up-fathom-analytics-in-your-web-appshttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15273/use-nodes-built-in-sqlite-for-local-app-features Not every database problem deserves a robust database server. Sometimes you just need a small, durable place to put local state: saved links, CLI cache rows, sync checkpoints, desktop app preferences, integration-test fixtures, or a tiny job queue that only one process owns....]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 19:00:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15273/use-nodes-built-in-sqlite-for-local-app-featureshttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15272/build-a-chrome-extension-that-saves-text-snippets-from-any-page The fastest way to misunderstand Chrome extensions is to build one that only says "hello world" and calls it a day. You learn that extensions have a manifest and a popup pretty much. Fine. But the first useful extension you build immediately asks better questions. ...]]>Wed, 13 May 2026 14:35:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15272/build-a-chrome-extension-that-saves-text-snippets-from-any-pagehttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15271/how-to-use-uuidv7-in-postgresql-18 ...]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 16:09:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15271/how-to-use-uuidv7-in-postgresql-18https://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15269/how-to-prepare-your-web-app-for-chromes-two-week-release-cycle ...]]>Fri, 08 May 2026 12:50:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15269/how-to-prepare-your-web-app-for-chromes-two-week-release-cyclehttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15268/how-to-try-nodejs-26-temporal-without-breaking-your-date-code ...]]>Thu, 07 May 2026 12:25:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15268/how-to-try-nodejs-26-temporal-without-breaking-your-date-codehttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15267/ibm-launches-an-ai-platform-called-bob ...]]>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:40:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15267/ibm-launches-an-ai-platform-called-bobhttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15266/github-copilots-new-pricing-model-has-got-some-developers-worried ...]]>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:21:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15266/github-copilots-new-pricing-model-has-got-some-developers-worriedhttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15265/why-ai-assisted-development-needs-video-receipts ...]]>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:03:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15265/why-ai-assisted-development-needs-video-receiptshttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15264/what-actually-went-down-with-claude-mythos ...]]>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:22:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15264/what-actually-went-down-with-claude-mythoshttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15260/github-copilot-vs-claude-code-which-is-right-for-you Two very different philosophies for AI-assisted coding. One stays in your editor and whispers. The other rolls up its sleeves and gets to work....]]>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:33:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15260/github-copilot-vs-claude-code-which-is-right-for-youhttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15257/the-3d-web-that-never-happened The 3D web never arrived. Most users never consciously encountered a WebGL experience when casually web surfing. And yet today, WebGL is quietly running inside some of the most-used applications on the planet....]]>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:08:00 GMThttps://www.thatsoftwaredude.com/content/15257/the-3d-web-that-never-happened