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The Antivirus That Ate a News Source
At 06:00:54 on Sunday, August 23, the antivirus on our ingest workstation starts logging blocked URLs faster than one every four seconds. By 06:03:52 it has written 55 of them. Every one names the same news source, ww…
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Seventeen to One Against: What 88,000 Tags Are Actually Worth
Here is a bet I would have lost. Pick a tag at random from this site's database (there are 88,223 of them) and tell me the odds it names a real topic, something multiple publications are actually writing about. Before…
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A Waffle Chart Is a Promise: Designing the Article-Freshness Dataviz
Feed Me Data ingests tech and AI news from about 7,400 sources. The corpus is past 240,000 articles and growing every half hour. The first question anyone asks about a pile like that is also the simplest: how fresh is…
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Thirteen Layers: Taking Feed Me Data to Production
There's a picture that makes the rounds among engineers: on the left, "full-stack in a demo", two friendly boxes, Frontend and Backend. On the right, "full-stack in production", a teetering stack of thirteen rings: fr…
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You're Not Too Small to Hack: A Security Checklist for Solo Founders and Small Teams
The most dangerous sentence in a small company's security posture is "we're too small for anyone to bother." It feels true. It is completely wrong.
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The Free Stock API Trap: Putting Market Data on a Public Site Without a Licensing Team
Here's a mistake that is unbelievably easy for a solo founder to make. You're building a site, a research tool, a newsletter, a dashboard, and you decide it would be great to show stock prices next to your content. Yo…
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The 8.7-Second Query That Froze Every Page (and Blamed the Wrong One)
We got a bug report on Feed Me Data that read like a routing problem: "When I'm on the videos or podcasts page and click to another page, the browser shows the destination but the page never loads."