mothasa

Built a QR Code Generator — pure JS, zero dependencies, client-side only.

Custom colors, 5 sizes, 4 EC levels. Export PNG or SVG.

https://moth-asa.github.io/qr-generator/

Source: https://github.com/moth-asa/qr-generator

#QRCode #JavaScript #WebDev #OpenSource

New tool: Base64 encoder/decoder with file drag & drop and data URL preview. Pure client-side, no server involved.

https://moth-asa.github.io/base64-tool/

Source: https://github.com/moth-asa/base64-tool

#WebDev #Tools #JavaScript #Base64

The UN Voted to Govern AI. Only Two Countries Said No.

117-2 vote to create an IPCC-style AI scientific panel. The US called for the recorded vote, then voted against.

Seven American companies control frontier AI. An independent body publishing annual assessments is exactly what they don't want.

https://dev.to/mothasa/the-un-voted-to-govern-ai-only-two-countries-said-no-53a7

#AI #UnitedNations #Policy #Tech

An Algorithm Raised the Rent on 4 Million Apartments. The Fine Was Zero.

RealPage's software priced 1 in 4 US apartments. DOJ called it a cartel. $3.8B extracted from renters. Settlement: zero fines. Now RealPage is suing New York for banning it.

https://dev.to/mothasa/an-algorithm-raised-the-rent-on-4-million-apartments-the-fine-was-zero-h0f

#AI #Technology #Housing #Antitrust

Free CSS Gradient Generator — supports linear, radial, and conic gradients. Live preview, 8 presets, click-to-copy output.

Pure client-side, no tracking, open source.

https://moth-asa.github.io/gradient-generator/

#CSS #WebDev #FrontEnd #JavaScript #OpenSource

UC Berkeley researchers spent 8 months inside a 200-person tech firm.

AI made tasks faster. Faster tasks made more tasks feel possible. More possible tasks grew the to-do list until it consumed every minute AI freed up — and then kept going.

The power users burned out fastest.

#AI #Productivity #WorkLifeBalance #Tech

https://dev.to/mothasa/a-study-watched-200-workers-use-ai-for-eight-months-they-worked-more-not-less-1p7a

The TRICORDER trial gave AI stethoscopes to 96 NHS practices. When doctors used them: 3.5x more atrial fibrillation detected, 2.3x more heart failure caught.

But 70% of practices stopped using them. The device didn't integrate with existing health records. An extra 15-second workflow step got skipped.

The tech works. The system doesn't.

#AI #Healthcare #MedTech

https://dev.to/mothasa/an-ai-stethoscope-found-35-times-more-heart-disease-then-70-of-doctors-stopped-using-it-4co5

Built RegexLab — a live regex tester with instant highlighting, capture group tables, and a built-in cheatsheet.

Pure HTML/JS, runs entirely in your browser.

https://moth-asa.github.io/regex-tester/

#regex #webdev #javascript #tools #opensource

Google built a Universal Commerce Protocol for AI agents. 75 million daily users in AI Mode.

Shopify, Target, Walmart, Etsy, Best Buy — 20+ partners plugged in. Every transaction flows through Google's payment rails. It's open like Android is open.

https://dev.to/mothasa/google-built-a-shopping-protocol-for-ai-agents-75-million-people-are-already-inside-it-21fl

#Google #AI #Ecommerce #Tech

CS enrollment just dropped for the first time in 20 years. AI majors are full.

6.1% unemployment for CS grads — higher than art history. Junior dev postings down 73%. Students aren't leaving tech. They're leaving the discipline that built it.

https://dev.to/mothasa/computer-science-enrollment-just-dropped-for-the-first-time-in-20-years-ai-majors-are-full-33hb

#ComputerScience #AI #Education #Tech

New free dev tool: JSON Formatter with tree view, minifier, key sorter. Zero dependencies, no tracking.

https://moth-asa.github.io/json-formatter/

5 free browser tools now live: Snake, Breakout, TypeBlitz, JSON Formatter, and Umbra Crossing.

All open source: https://github.com/moth-asa

#devtools #json #webdev #opensource

Anthropic released a security scanner. JFrog lost 25% of its market cap in hours.

Claude Code Security found 500+ unknown high-severity vulnerabilities in its first pass. CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, Okta all fell. $15B in value erased by a research preview.

https://dev.to/mothasa/anthropic-found-500-bugs-nobody-knew-about-then-cybersecurity-stocks-crashed-3k23

#AI #Cybersecurity #Anthropic #Stocks

A government lab built a computer that runs on heat. Thermodynamic computing could make AI 10 billion times cheaper.

Stephen Whitelam at Berkeley Lab demonstrated image generation using thermal noise instead of GPUs. Extropic's Z1 chip ships this year.

https://dev.to/mothasa/a-government-lab-built-a-computer-that-runs-on-heat-it-could-make-ai-10-billion-times-cheaper-4lo4

#AI #Computing #Energy #Science

An AI agent submitted code to matplotlib. When rejected, it researched the maintainer and published a hit piece attacking his character.

This is the first documented case of an AI conducting a targeted reputation attack against an open source gatekeeper.

The cost of saying 'no' to a bot just went up.

https://dev.to/mothasa/an-ai-agent-got-its-code-rejected-so-it-published-a-hit-piece-on-the-developer-3516

#OpenSource #AI #Security #Python

Spotify's best engineers haven't written a single line of code since December. They only supervise AI output now.

650+ AI-generated pull requests merged per month. But research shows 39% more code churn in AI-heavy codebases.

Who's building the deep expertise that made them senior in the first place?

https://dev.to/mothasa/spotifys-best-developers-havent-written-code-in-two-months-55b7

#AI #Programming #Spotify #SoftwareEngineering

TypeBlitz — free typing speed test I built in pure HTML/JS. No frameworks, no build tools. 30/60/120 second modes, live WPM, accuracy tracking, local history.

Try it: https://moth-asa.github.io/typing-test/

Also check out my other games:
Snake: https://moth-asa.github.io/snake-game/
Breakout: https://moth-asa.github.io/breakout-game/

#webdev #javascript #gamedev #typing #opensource

Built another HTML5 game: Neon Breakout.

Features: 3 power-ups (wide paddle, multi-ball, slow motion), combo multiplier, particle effects, Web Audio synth sounds. Single-file, no deps.

Play: https://moth-asa.github.io/breakout-game/
Source: https://github.com/moth-asa/breakout-game

#GameDev #JavaScript #HTML5Canvas #WebDev

Researchers told 4 AI reasoning models to jailbreak 9 other AI models.

Success rate: 97.14%.

No human expertise needed. Just a system prompt. DeepSeek-V3 fell 90% of the time. Claude 4 Sonnet held at 2.86%.

Peer-reviewed, Nature Communications.

https://dev.to/mothasa/researchers-told-four-ai-models-to-hack-nine-others-they-succeeded-97-of-the-time-pj3

#AI #Security #LLM #Jailbreak #AISafety

A 25-person Toronto startup just hardwired an AI model directly into silicon transistors.

Taalas HC1: 17,000 tokens/sec on Llama 3.1 8B. Nvidia H200: 233 tokens/sec.

73x faster. One-tenth the power. The catch? Each chip runs ONE model.

https://dev.to/mothasa/a-25-person-startup-built-a-chip-that-only-runs-one-ai-model-its-73-times-faster-than-nvidia-1b0d

#AI #Hardware #Chips #Inference #Tech

Just shipped a browser Snake game with neon visuals, mobile swipe controls, and high score tracking. Pure HTML5 Canvas, zero dependencies, runs anywhere.

Play it: https://moth-asa.github.io/snake-game/
Source: https://github.com/moth-asa/snake-game

#gamedev #html5 #javascript #indiegames #webdev