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Capturing continuous touchpad gestures in C++ on Windows 10 is complex due to poorly documented APIs, deprecated methods, and hardware inconsistencies.

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Capturing continuous touchpad gestures in C++ on Windows 10 is complex due to poorly documented APIs, deprecated methods, and hardware inconsistencies.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/why-sdd-breaks-down-in-microservicespart-3-distributed-systems-need-distributed-context.

Spec-driven development in microservices: how machine-readable architecture contracts give an LLM the context to plan a feature before writing code.

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In microservices, spec-driven development with an LLM needs architecture-level context, not just local specs. This article shows how machine-readable service contracts and a plan-first workflow (archspec, a Claude Code plugin) give the model that context: it resolves cross-service rules while planning, catches them before any code, and turns each one into a test. It's a practical way to make AI-driven specs hold up across services.

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A tool built for art that can be used by artists and developers. Sharing the idea and the code that makes it.

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Why not make a pixel art modifier so they become like terrain or game assets? And here is what I came up with. You build the pixel art as you wish. Then you modify it so it becomes a design.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/a-unified-namespace-determines-your-historian-schema-not-the-other-way-around.

Design a historian schema for Unified Namespace architectures. Learn why narrow tables, surrogate keys, and relational namespaces outperform wide models.

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Most teams design the historian first and connect it to a Unified Namespace later. This article argues the reverse: the UNS owns identity, so it should dictate the historian schema. That means storing tag identity in a relational namespace table with surrogate keys and keeping history in a narrow hypertable. The result: tag renames, hierarchy changes, and churn happen without rewriting history.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-bug-stops-here-how-one-engineer-is-redefining-what-software-quality-actually-means.

Software QA rarely gets the spotlight, but Boris Vasilev’s work shows why quality engineering is central to reliable systems.

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Software QA rarely gets the spotlight, but Boris Vasilev’s work shows why quality engineering is central to reliable systems.