Flash drives aren’t the cheap choice that they used to be. Sure, you can still find some cheap flash drives around, but have you considered buying an external SSD instead? When you start to get to larger storage tiers, the pricing evens out and the external SSDs actually become a better buy.
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You typed "gabsy js" into Google and landed on a Gatsby site anyway. It is one of the most common misspellings of Gatsby.js, the React framework that made static sites interesting again.The harder question in 2026 is whether Gatsby still earns a place in a new project. It ships releases and runs in production, but it is also in maintenance mode after Netlify bought the company in 2023 and retired Gatsby Cloud.This guide covers what Gatsby JS is, how the build pipeline works, and how to get a sit
I built these six sites myself and I'm selling them because I don't have time to grow them. Revenue is small or zero, and I say so below. Each sale includes the domain, full source code, the backend (React + Supabase, or Shopify) and 30 days of handover help.72fm.com ($900): a browser radio player with 30,000+ live stations, podcasts and radio tools. Premium is one-time PayPal passes; the first one sold in November 2026. About 1,440 human visits a month from search, social and GitHub, rising.eve
A business-class trip in my demo produced four facts at the same time:the saved fields were valid;the request could be submitted;the cabin required review;nothing had been submitted.An assistant that compresses those facts into “approved” or “blocked” changes the meaning of the application.I added prepare_trip_review to Trip Workbench so a WebMCP client can bring the saved request and its findings into the React editor without performing the consequential action. The result explicitly includes s
Redux is a state management library for JavaScript apps. When your app grows past a few components, state starts living everywhere — in props, in local variables, in three different places at once — and bugs become hard to find. Redux fixes that by putting all your app's state in one store, and changing it only through clearly defined actions. It is strict, and that strictness is the point.The core idea has three parts: the store holds the state, actions describe what happened, and reducers deci
A dual-thumb price slider that works with a keyboard, a screen reader and a form, without fetching on every pixel of a drag.Every shop has one: a slider with two thumbs, "$200 – $800", and a product list that updates when you let go. It looks like a ten-minute job. It isn't.The usual first attempt is two <input type="range"> elements stacked on top of each other with some CSS to hide one track. That gets you surprisingly far, and then the details arrive:The thumbs cross each other, or get
As a software engineer, I love building tools that solve real problems. I noticed that traditional online testing platforms often feel dull and disconnected. I wanted to build something different—a platform where students could compete in real-time, and teachers could easily create secure, private assessments.That’s how King Ice Quiz was born. It is a full-stack web application with a React frontend, a Node.js/Express backend, and real-time chat capabilities powered by Socket.io.You can check ou
The client request I hear most often on home services sites is some version of "can the map show all the areas we serve?" The first few times I answered it with an embedded Google Map and a list of suburbs. It looked like every other contractor site and it did not answer the visitor's real question, which is not "where are you" but "will you come to me." The Service area block in Facade is the version I settled on after building this section for HVAC companies, plumbers and cleaning services. He
When building modern web apps, developers frequently reach for backend lambdas or Python microservices for calculations that modern browsers can execute in sub-milliseconds on client CPUs.Over the past week, I expanded ZeroBloatTools—a suite of privacy-first, 100% client-side web calculators—to solve two distinct computational engineering problems entirely in the browser:Sub-millisecond Web Audio API Delay & Reverb SynchronizationNational Electrical Code (NEC Article 220) Residential Service
Most online calculators and PDF/image utilities upload your sensitive data—unit costs, ad spend, or private documents—to a backend server and clutter the screen with intrusive ads.I built SwiftKitHub (swiftkithub.com) to solve this: a fast, 100% client-side utility workbench running entirely inside browser memory using React, TypeScript, and WebAssembly. Architecture Highlights0 KB Cloud Payload: All calculations, PDF merging, and image conversions run locally in the browser with zero serve
If you have ever built a sprite tool or dropped an "optimized" GIF into a custom game importer, you have met The Haunted Sprite Sheet:Frame 1 looks great.Frame 2 is just a floating pair of eyeballs and a sword tip.Frame 3 has three left legs stacked on top of each other like a Futurist painting.Then, right after you fix the GIF decoder, someone drops in an AI-generated character sheet with a solid lime-green background, uneven gutters, and a sword detached 4 pixels from the character's hand. Or
A bigger drive is one of the easiest ways to stop juggling which games and projects stay installed on your PC. The WD_BLACK SN850P 2TB Internal SSD is 50% off in a doorbuster deal at Best Buy, and it can give you the extra storage you need (whether on PS5 or PC) with a heatsink to spare.
17.8 yearsThat's how long the 50 BTC reward from Bitcoin's block 1 has been sitting unspent, according to the script below.It's a timely question. On November 13, 2026, two mining rewards from September 2010, 50 BTC each, moved for the first time in more than 16 years (Decrypt and The Block covered it; Whale Alert flagged the first move at 04:08 UTC). Each spend paid 1,110 satoshis in fees, and a later transaction combined coins from both wallets.If you try to check a wallet like that with
A tethered power tool gets in the way when you're trimming a 3D print or reaching into a tight PC case. A cordless rotary tool fixes that and lets you work wherever the light is best, instead of hunting for an outlet near the bench. The Fanttik F2 PRO Cordless Rotary Tool Kit is a small, beginner-friendly kit that will solve your problem, and right now it's availabl
Coffee has a way of going cold faster than you'd think, and reheating it is a chore. The Ember Mug 3 keeps your drink at the temperature you choose, and it's 33% off at Amazon right now as a limited-time early Black Friday deal.
The Raspberry Pi just got a massive price hike. You'll now have to spend around $500 to get a full Pi 5 16GB setup, which is just crazy to me. I really don't think the Pi 5 is worth it at that price, as you can do almost everything that a Pi can do with a mini PC (outside of GPIO pins).
It's been a great time for Netflix documentaries in November. So far this month, Netflix has released Taken: Natalee Holloway, a true crime series about a missing person's case, and Avedon, an informative movie about a legendary photographer. And if those don't pique your interest, here are three more documentaries to consider.
The Linux 7.5 source tree will introduce a new tool called hwpoison-panic that deliberately induces certain memory issues in your computer to cause a crash. Developers can use the tool to test the Linux kernel and ensure it crashes when expected
You probably have a Google Drive account, an Adobe Acrobat subscription, and a growing collection of files scattered across different cloud services. It's convenient until you're paying monthly fees for storage, PDF editing, and features you only occasionally use. But what if you could take control of your files instead?
