18+ hour, 31+ min ago   (576+ words) I had a pair of Snapchat Spectacles 2 sitting around that I wanted to use again. The hardware still worked perfectly fine. The problem was the software. So I decided to figure out how the glasses actually communicate with a phone…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (405+ words) There is no Meta endpoint called “bulk delete Facebook Page posts.” If you have ever searched for one, you already know the trap: Business Suite can delete a small batch, Activity Log is click-hell, and Chrome extensions pretend there is…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (593+ words) At first glance, downloading media from a social platform looks like a very simple problem: In practice, it gets complicated very quickly. While building a tool that works with public links from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, RedNote/Xiaohongshu, Douyin, and…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (470+ words) Anti-bot protection is usually described as a wall. It is closer to a stack of independent checks, each reading a different part of the connection, each costing the operator something different to run and the automated client something different to…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (163+ words) When an internet outage hits, users immediately turn to their phones to find out if it's just them or a widespread network issue. Because they are often relying on spotty cellular data, any tracking site needs to load instantly and…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (91+ words) Design a social media platform where users post tweets, follow each other, and see a timeline of tweets from accounts they follow. The hardest part. User A follows 500 people. How do you fetch their timeline? ❌ Slow: 500 DB queries per timeline…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (535+ words) Design a photo-sharing platform where users post photos and see a feed of photos from people they follow. 1️⃣ Clarify Requirements Functional Requirements Upload photos/videos Follow/unfollow users View home feed (photos from followed users, newest first) Like, comment on…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (484+ words) I sat down to work on Rev6 and couldn't load the site. Not a slow load, not an SSL warning — nothing. The browser just spun until it gave up. My first assumption was the usual suspect: the server was down. Then…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (18+ words) The problem I kept running into Every big social platform out there —... Tagged with android, startup, socialmedia, mobiledev....

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (400+ words) Short answer: to define moderation categories for a startup app, name observable harassment, sexual, self-harm, violence, illegal, spam, and PII signals, then route them by severity through a provider-neutral contract. That gives fintech reviewers useful queues without welding policy decisions…...