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Cardstock – dynamic OG images from one URL (no render server)
2 months ago
- Cardstock's Open Graph API is free during the launch period with no credit card required.
- It generates polished, on-brand social previews from a single URL, rendered on the fly using Satori without a headless browser.
- Users can get an API key, add a Cardstock URL with query parameters (title, subtitle, theme) to their og:image tag, and deploy quickly.
- A live preview allows users to see the OG image update in real-time as they type.
DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
2 months ago
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash API entered public beta with improved benchmark scores across coding and agent tasks.
- DeepSeek-V4 Pro and Flash models released, supporting both OpenAI and Anthropic interfaces.
- Legacy model names deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner to be deprecated by July 2026.
- Multiple model upgrades (V3.2, V3.1, R1-0528, V3-0324, etc.) enhanced reasoning, coding, writing, and agent capabilities.
- New features introduced: JSON mode, Function Calling, Context Caching, and FIM Completion.
- Significant benchmark improvements reported, e.g., AIME 2025 +17.5 points for R1-0528, HumanEval 89% for V2.5.
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2 months ago
- Redis creator initially avoided modules due to concerns about API compatibility and system identity.
- Lua scripting was insufficient for extending Redis beyond its core capabilities.
- Direct exposure of internal APIs to modules leads to fragility and evolution problems.
- A new modules API was prototyped to ensure binary and API compatibility across versions.
- The API provides low-level access to Redis data structures, enabling native-speed commands.
- An example module implementing 'list splice' is shown, with automatic memory management.
- Modules will be stable in Redis 4.0 with backward compatibility guaranteed.
- A modules directory and community-driven ranking system are planned.
- The API is still malleable and open for feedback.
Exploring Gymflation with AI
2 months ago
- Project investigates 'gymflation' by analyzing deadlift PRs on YouTube over time.
- Uses YouTube API (via httr2) to collect video data from 2015 to 2025.
- Employs a local LLM (Ministral 3B) via Ellmer to extract weight, unit, and reps from video metadata.
- Improves extraction accuracy (92% on test set) using in-context learning with few-shot examples.
- Applies vision-language models (Gemini, MiniMax, Qwen) to classify lifter gender from thumbnails, achieving ~80% accuracy.
- Finds no evidence of gymflation: average deadlift weight has not increased over time; heavy lifts may even be decreasing.
- Highlights practical tips: caching API requests, using structured outputs, parallel processing, cost management, and manual annotation.
OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor
2 months ago
- Offers lightning-fast and low-cost bitcoin payments and payouts for businesses.
- Provides a powerful API, ecommerce plugins, or hosted payment pages for integration.
- Includes a code example using the OpenNode library to create a charge of 100 USD.
Has_not_been_viewed_much
3 months ago
- The Art Institute of Chicago's API includes a 'has_not_been_viewed_much' boolean field for artworks.
- This field indicates whether an art piece has been viewed fewer than 200 times on their website since January 1, 2010.
- The author invites browsing these little-viewed artworks, while questioning why they receive so few views.
ABI vs. API (2004)
3 months ago
- APIs are source-level interfaces specifying functions, arguments, and usage; example given is C's fopen with its header and function prototypes.
- ABIs are binary-level interfaces detailing how compiled code interacts, covering data layout like byte order, pointer sizes, and stack argument passing.
- Compatibility differences: Adding elements (e.g., to structs) may maintain compatibility; ABI breaks require soname changes, while API breaks necessitate source code updates, often avoided but can occur in major libraries.
The free IP Crawl API: detect if your IP camera is accidentally exposed
3 months ago
- API endpoint checks if a user's public IP is in IP Crawl's catalog and returns a JSON response with 'found' (boolean), 'ip' (string), and 'checkedAt' (timestamp).
- Use cases include monitoring for changes in IP exposure to detect potential security risks like exposed webcams, with alerts triggered when 'found' status flips.
- The API degrades gracefully by returning 'found: false' when IP resolution fails or the database is cold, avoiding server errors.
- Response caching is managed via 'checkedAt', where differences from 'Date.now()' indicate freshness, with up to ~5 minutes for browser cache.
- Example implementation shows hourly checks via JavaScript, with logging based on changes in 'found' status to alert users.

Cardstock – dynamic OG images from one URL (no render server)

DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

<antirez>

Exploring Gymflation with AI

OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor

Has_not_been_viewed_much

ABI vs. API (2004)

The free IP Crawl API: detect if your IP camera is accidentally exposed