PDFops

pdfops.dev

18 October 2026 15:01

pypdf's merge throws or silently reflows pages when inputs mix Letter and A4 — because merging page trees isn't the same as merging page sizes. What actually happens to the media box, and the one setting that keeps mixed-size merges sane. #webdev

PDFops

pdfops.dev

16 October 2026 15:02

New on the blog: The 4.5 MB request limit that breaks a working PDF merge on Vercel. A PDF merge endpoint that works on a laptop can start returning an empty 413 the moment it moves to Vercel. The platform-level request-body cap that causes it, why local testing never catches it, →

Bryan Crain

bryancrain88.bsky.social

16 October 2026 15:01

As much as I despise anything Musk, I have to admit to liking the Back to the Future / Knight Rider absurdity that is the Tesla Roadster. I want a flying Hot Wheels version.

cl0q

cl0qsearch.bsky.social

16 October 2026 07:41

Google can't tell your homepage apart from your homepage with a trailing slash. The tag that fixes it is called canonical. cl0q's crawl says nearly half the web never added one, so half the internet is outranking itself. cl0q.com/site/example... #webdev #SEO #internet

PDFops

pdfops.dev

15 October 2026 16:54

wkhtmltopdf is unmaintained and its Lambda layer keeps breaking on new runtime versions. If what you actually need is form-filling rather than HTML rendering, the migration is smaller than it looks — no headless anything required. Notes from doing it. #webdev