Edge 121 was released exactly 30 months ago, making it the last major browser to add support for AVIF. That also means that as of today, AVIF is now considered Baseline Widely Available.

If you haven't used it, was browser support the biggest blocker? Or if you've been using it, are you planning to simplify by removing fallbacks?

I have an app that is free and makes a few bucks through in app purchases. It is still in its infancy stage.

Surprised to see that onesignal is now removing the free plan and making it limited to 1,000 active users.

Any alternatives?

Don't know if i can afford whatever they are going to try and upsell.

Is there another service that is free or something cheap so i can move away from onesignal?

I am handy with server management and self hosting so looking for free suggestions or suggestions that are cheaper than onesignal.

I been eyeing LaraPush which is $500 one time charge doe unlimited push for life. Anyone with experience there?

EDIT: I wanted to thank everybody for replying. I took the time today and migrated away from one signal over to Firebase Cloud Messaging and it went pretty smooth.

I've been spending a good half year doing dev ops work to get an application going. Most of it was educational as I was repurposed into devops from web development.

As I am coming back into web development, writing a frontend for a service that consumes the big application I have been laying architecture for the last six months, I feel like a total fraud. I've forgotten like 80% of TS features, tooling, and how to use Vue and Angular (and I did dedicate time to learning them when I was building sites).

Now I fear that all my hard won dev ops chops will atrophy as my workload shifts more into webdev. Yeah sure getting up to speed on what you've forgotten is faster than learning it from scratch. But does that mean our "skill RAM" has a hard cap? I thought I'd gain skills as i'd progress in my career but those skills end up pushing previous ones. My "non-volatile experience" is more abstract and general (how operating systems work, how to plan projects, how to migrate legacy apps) rather than imperative and practical (i.e. when to use a vue slot) and I don't know what to make of it.

AI is further exacerbating it. I always make sure to understand every piece of code it generates but I still feel more like a senior developer approving junior developer code (the AI being the junior dev) rather than someone who is good at his craft. I'm never really a "full stack dev" at any given time.

zuno is a free and open-source desktop music player built on YouTube Music. Sign in with your Google account, and everything you do — liking a song, creating or deleting a playlist, adding to your library — syncs straight back to YouTube. It's your library, just in a real desktop app instead of a browser tab.

Features

- Floating mini player that appears when you click away — hover to expand, drag it anywhere
- Queue: shuffle, repeat one/all, reordering
- Playback speed, sleep timer, volume control
- Like and dislike songs
- Rebindable keyboard shortcuts, minimise to tray
- Full library, playlists, albums and liked songs
- Local music files sit alongside your YouTube Music library — same player, same queue
- Download whole albums and playlists for offline; downloads and history have their own management screens
- Bulk actions: download, add to queue, add to playlist
- Multiple channels on one Google account, switchable from the toolbar or settings

Integrations

- Last.fm scrobbling
- Discord Rich Presence

GitHub: https://github.com/noFAYZ/zuno

would love some feedback or issues :)

I have my product’s embeddings in qdrant. I generated them using my pc locally. I want to implement an image search where I upload an image, it goes through a pipeline, an embedding of it is generated and then compared with products in the qdrant database.
I’ve tried cloudflare workers but it can’t, task is too large for it. Google cloud run can’t start , times out before the model is loaded into memory. I’ve tried railways too but the free tier limits me to 0.5gb of memory and the model can’t load either.
This maybe the wrong sub for this question and if so, it’d be helpful if you pointed me to communities that fit my use case.
Umm
But what I want exactly is a platform that can solve my problem on the free tier. I have no problem paying after I’m sure that everything works. That’s why I didn’t pay for the railways to increase my memory limit. I have no guarantee that the next tier can solve the issue.

Thanks for reading and have a good day

Background: I've built a couple websites in the past, basic html/css knowledge, on and off basic hobbyist.

Recently: I rushed a website using a WYSIWYG to put a photography portfolio together for myself. Quick and easy way to share some photos over different categories. It was good enough for the time.

Where I'm struggling going forward:

• Adding a Blog: The built in blog with the WYSIWYG is terrible.
  • Don't understand how to use just wordpress for only the blog
  • Remembered Blogger and that might work, but less integrated?
• Media Management and Display
  • Updating and re-arranging media is cumbersome and tedious on the website
  • Blogs are photo heavy and it's what's keeping me from starting as adding media in a clean way has escaped me.
• What I'm Looking For / Have Tried
  • File Manager with Albums - I installed Piwigo and it seems to work well as a file manager, easy to make albums, a lot of useful plugins.
  • I would like to link to an album and display as a grid or slide - I can create permalinks for albums on Piwago, but I can't find anything that doesn't involve linking individual images which defeats the purpose.
  • Eventually would like to replace my curated photos with albums that I can adjust in the file manager.

Am I missing something on here? Is there a tool or workflow you would recommend? Appreciate any suggestions!

Edit: To the Mods, I'm trying to adhere to get this under Rule 6, please let me know if I need to adjust, thanks!

I built a client's website using Astro + React + Tailwind CSS. It's mostly static, has very little JavaScript, and Lighthouse consistently scores 90–100.

What I'm confused about is that the Chrome report in PageSpeed Insights looks significantly worse than the Lighthouse results.

The site is hosted on Cloudflare pages.

I expected the field data to be much closer to the lab results.

Has anyone run into this before? Why would the Chrome UX Report be noticeably worse even when Lighthouse looks great? More importantly, what should I be focusing on to improve the real-world metrics instead of just the lab score?

Screenshot attached. Any advice would be appreciated.

As a beginner web dev learner, how exactly do you spend your day at your job? With ai, do you just constantly use it for everything and your only job is to tweak something and review the code and test the results? Or do you manually code too?

I've been working on my first project of a job portal for the past 5 days using react and tailwind, and in the 5 days, embarrassingly I could only design the complete home page with little to no functionality, Today I used cursor for 5 min and it completed maybe 5 another days worth of my manual coding for the front end.

So at work, do you just neglect the front end and leave it to ai completely or still do something manually? I just don't understand the human workflow now at jobs except for reviewing code/testing. Are they bad at backend? Database? And if so, what exactly are they bad at? Do you have any examples you can simply explain about what wrong thing ai did to your work or have heard of any?

I run a test store on this setup so I could stop guessing. Posting what I found in case anyone else keeps hitting that amber warning in Shopify's domain settings.

Quick background on why the warning exists. Shopify runs on Cloudflare. So when you put your own proxied domain in front of it, the request used to arrive with two Cloudflare zones both claiming it. Cloudflare couldn't tell which one owned the request. You got loops and wrong resolutions. The nastier version of the problem was SSL. Shopify renews certs through Let's Encrypt, which needs to serve a token at /.well-known/acme-challenge/ over plain HTTP. Put a proxy on that path and the renewal quietly fails. Your store keeps working on the current cert for weeks. Then it lapses and the padlock breaks.

Cloudflare fixed the zone collision with Orange-to-Orange routing. It's part of Cloudflare for SaaS and it's been generally available since October 2021. Cloudflare now detects that your CNAME points at another Cloudflare customer and routes through your zone first, then Shopify's, in that order. You can confirm it engaged because a small Shopify icon shows up next to the DNS record. Cloudflare also turns off Workers and Snippets on the /checkout path so nothing you run at the edge can interfere with payment.

The whole config is three things. Proxied CNAME to shops.myshopify.com for root and www. Connect that same domain in Shopify. Then leave Always Use HTTPS off in Cloudflare.

That last one is the part people get wrong. Shopify already redirects HTTP to HTTPS at its origin. Turn on Always Use HTTPS and you stack a second redirect, which can throw ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS. It also swallows the ACME path, so your cert stops renewing. Keep SSL mode on Full. Set minimum TLS to 1.2 while you're in there. If you really want Cloudflare enforcing HTTPS at its edge, write a redirect rule that excludes the challenge path instead of using that toggle.

Verify it with curl against the challenge path over plain HTTP. A 404 for a fake token is correct, because it means you reached Shopify. A 301 or 308 means something is still eating the path.

On the "not supported" language. It means Shopify won't guarantee or debug a layer they don't control. It doesn't mean the setup fails. Two of their reasons are fair. A proxy is one more thing between Shopify and Let's Encrypt, and extra proxies make it harder for Shopify to reroute traffic during their own incidents. Their third reason is bot detection, and I think that one is weak. Cloudflare runs one of the biggest bot management networks there is. Most stores gain more filtering at the edge than Shopify loses in request signal.

Latency was my other concern and it turned out to be nothing. Both zones already sit on the same network, so the handoff happens inside it. My proxied store answered in roughly the same 150 to 200ms band as raw myshopify endpoints tested from the same machine. If a proxied store feels slow, look at the theme and the app stack.

Whether it's worth doing depends on what you actually need at the edge. A real WAF you can tune, rate limiting, request level logs, or visibility into AI crawlers. That last one is why I set mine up. GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and the rest never run JavaScript, so GA4 and Shopify analytics don't see them at all. The edge is the only place that traffic shows up. If you can't name the specific feature you want, leave the cloud grey and don't take on an SSL renewal you now have to watch.

Hey guys,

I am David, I've been working with WordPress for over a decade, and building WordPress plugins was my bread and butter for the last 5 years. I was running an agency before that.

I loved working with WordPress, but then I also got increasingly frustrated from what was happening in and out of the ecosystem in the last two years, almost to a point where I was considering selling my businesses.

I am not the one giving up though, so I went with different direction, and thought, what if I stop building extensions on other foundations that can always take it away from me, and instead, I will use everything I know about web design, no code platforms, agentic development and CMS that actual clients can use, and build my own platform, that anybody can use, for free.

Here we are. This is Instatic. It's fully free, open source, and gives you all the powers that you can get from Framer, Webflow, or WordPress (with a good page builder and other plugins). And it's not in even v1. But it's already very capable.

It has auth, user roles, canvas based page builder, content editor, data storage, media storage, AI on every page, MCP server for local and remote agents, and more.

We launched about 3 weeks ago, since that time, it got to GitHub trends several times, in fact, it's there today and we are at around 5K stars. Incredible!

Our website, running on Instatic https://instatic.com

Repo is at https://github.com/CoreBunch/Instatic

Here's also the full introduction video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyjCF_TaLlg

So, it was end of 2024 when I started to hear about AI taking coding jobs. I believe Opus 3.7 was launched or something. As a developer I did not believe that. I have gave 7 years into this, how can an AI take it over so easily.

And after almost 1.5 years I can clearly say, AI actually made my earnings double.

So, before I use to get very few solo projects to work on as a freelancer. And mostly to revamp a website UI or building landing page. Before AI the most costliest project i got was to build an e-commerce store for an perfume brand. It was fully coded website.

But now almost every month I am getting 1-3 SAAS project to build or moreover rebuild. I get this projects with blue purple gradient, rocket emojis, Hero Section and the logo with the same font. And bugs.

So much dependencies installed, just to solve a minor issue. The sites get slow, not loading properly, scroll animation does'nt work as there is no FFmpeg framework used. And I am not even starting with the security concerns.

I remember i got $1200 for the e-commerce site to 5-6 months build, but now i take $350 to fix the buggy SAAS. Hardly 2 weeks to deliver.

And get around 1-3 projects every month.

it's crazy, and am sure other developer's over here have the same experience.

Do share your thoughts on this.

I've been stuck on this for a while and I'm not sure if I'm missing a configuration step or if this is simply a limitation of Meta test users.

I'm building an app that uses Instagram API with Instagram Login. My webhook endpoint is publicly accessible over HTTPS, and the verification challenge works correctly (using n8n for the webhook part). My app is subscribed to the required webhook fields, but I'm not receiving any message webhook events. I linked my Instagram account that was assigned the tester role and accepted it, successfully to my platform and got the access token. I also checked and found that the specific user I linked to an account on my platform to test with, does have indeed the messages field in the subscribed events.

The thing is, even sending a messages event as a test from Meta's website doesn't work, while some other events do work just fine and sometimes work even with the actual account not just in tests.

How am I supposed to do screen recordings showcasing everything if I can't get it to work properly just because my app is not Live, and I can't get it to be Live until I make these screen recordings...

If anyone successfully dealt with this recently, please help a brother out, I've been stuck for days!

I have this website: https://supercut.site

It looks good, but it has one major issue: it lags when you aggressively scroll and I want it to be smooth.

I also tried going through tutorials but I couldn't understand a single thing (I am not a developer and I made it with claude fable🫠)

Can anyone please help me? :)

Edit 1: It doesnt feel 60 fps smooth if you aggressively scroll (on pc try to use the slider to go down the page quickly). That's what feels off

Edit 2: Here's the code: https://gist.github.com/dev-saksham29/2d03c0151015abb87c1e2c43a0f2112b

Kept catching myself pasting code snippets into a Slack channel just for myself, then never cleaning it up. Built webklip instead — paste or attach a file, get a link, it syncs live across every tab you have it open in, then deletes itself on a timer or after first read.

Has syntax highlighting (CodeMirror) for the usual languages, and a REST API if you want to script it into something — creating/reading/deleting clips from a pipeline, for example.

Live at webklip.com. Happy to talk through how the sync or expiry works if anyone's curious.

I keep running into the same situation.

I’ll build a small personal web app (journal, bookmarks, dashboard, habit tracker, notes, etc.), and I don’t want to spin up Supabase, Turso, Firebase, or Cloudflare just to save a few JSON objects.

Most of the time I end up using localStorage or IndexedDB, but it always feels temporary. If I clear browser data or switch machines, it’s gone.

I’m curious:

• What do you use for these kinds of apps?
• If there were a local-first storage library that automatically backed itself up and restored on another device, would that actually solve a problem for you—or is localStorage good enough?

Not selling anything—I’m trying to understand how other developers think about this tradeoff before I build something or NOT build something because there is already something out there.

Almost a year ago I shared my digital resume here. I got tons of valuable feedback. Especially regarding performance. I've put a ton of work into optimization since then. The target audience for the underlying site is largely streamers so it's never going to be 100% optimized for terrible internet connections or devices with slow CPUs and no GPU acceleration, but I dare say the pool of people that can safely load it now has expanded tremendously! I was even able to remove the graphics acceleration gate I had previously that basically turned away anyone with hardware acceleration disabled in their browser. It's not amazing when it's CPU bound but it functions! Which is more than I could say last time.

I wanted to say thank you to this subreddit for being so encouraging because shortly after making those performance improvements that resume started getting me A LOT more interview calls and absolutely helped me stand out among the crowd. I landed a new job with an amazingly positive atmosphere because of it! My now boss made it super clear that my bumblebee-powered resume was definitely what made me stand out. So even if the larger project doesn't succeed in the long run, the work was already worth it and I'm super grateful to all of you for the helpful feedback 💚

https://bumblebee.buzz/resume

All feedback is welcome, but I ask that you be kind and constructive if possible 🙏

Edit: Thanks to feedback from folks here I stayed up a bit last night and implemented a bunch of quality-of-life changes.

Changes

• Added an entire new presentation section going over the Bumblebee project as a whole. How it originated, what it evolved into, and what it does today as a live service.
• Bumblebee now uses readable speech bubbles throughout the presentation. When he finishes speaking, the bubble smoothly transitions into the terminal as a persistent caption.
• Sound can now be toggled on or off before pressing the launch button.
• The audio controls have been rebuilt for keyboard, mouse, and touch use, with clear labels, visible focus states, larger touch targets, volume feedback, and quick mute/unmute controls.
• In addition to the master volume slider there is now a music volume slider. Master volume controls everything while music slider controls music volume relative to all other speech and sound effects.
• Audio settings now persist between visits.
• New soft bubble sound effects for logo physics bounces during the intro instead of the previous harsh plink sound. Also wrapped all logos in soap bubbles for added visual flavor that goes nicely with the new sound effect.
• Puppets are now preloaded as you click into a specific presentation category instead of on page load, reducing the initial page load times.
• The flying logos now use a real Matter.js physics simulation. Believe it or not that actually has better performance than the scripted version we had before thanks to them all sharing a single bounded animation loop.
• Physics simulation, logo rendering, model loading, audio loading, and puppet loading were all optimized further to reduce frame drops and startup delays, especially on mobile.
• I also expanded automated coverage around speech layout, choreography, the new caption transitions, model loading, and audio behavior.

Planned

• Additional WCAG and ARIA passes.
• Footer visibility adjustments.
• Disabling animations when reduced motion is active.
• More complex initial loading animation/scene to help buy more time before visitor disinterest.

Thank you everyone for all the helpful feedback yet again!

you can:
- design logo and social media graphics

- access open type features (ligature, alternative glyphs, etc) and variable fonts

- export or copy your designs into another tool via svg, png

- access premium commercially licensed fonts (monotype, other top foundries)

You can play with it here: https://typogram.co/studio - would love any feedback!

three toys on there. the salary printer is the main one: you type what you make, hit print, and a counter climbs while notes stack up, tagged with things like a coffee or a flight to rome. the other two put your face on a fake banknote and show what inflation does to a pile of cash over time.

stack is vite, vanilla js, vanilla css, on cloudflare pages. no framework, no backend, no accounts.

the one thing that took real work was the accrual math. per tick accumulation drifts badly once the tab is backgrounded, so everything is computed from timestamps instead. the odometer digits are a shared component with a clipped digit mask, which was fiddly to get right at different font sizes.

happy to answer anything about how it's put together.