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From “Can I Do This?” to Becoming Part of the Team: Lessons From My Apprenticeship at ISRO
My first real experience working in a professional engineering environment began during my apprenticeship at ISRO On my first day, I was introduced…
Why Budget Alerts Never Stop Runaway LLM Spend
An "84% of monthly budget used" email landed on a Tuesday. I read it. I forwarded it to myself with a note that said watch this . Then I let the bat…
How to Read and Write NFC Tags Directly in the Browser with the Web NFC API
Near Field Communication (NFC) used to require native iOS or Android mobile applications. With the Web NFC API , modern web apps can now read and wr…
MPLS vs SD-WAN in 2026: the decision isn't close anymore, except when it is
For years, "MPLS vs SD-WAN" was a genuine, close debate. In 2026 it mostly isn't, for most companies, and it's worth understanding exactly why, beca…
Cisco enterprise networking without the vendor pitch
Ask about Cisco and you'll get either a sales deck or a shrug, "it's just the enterprise networking company." Both miss the actual engineering reaso…
Introduction to x86_64 Assembly
Before diving further into the study of crackmes, it seemed appropriate to write a short introduction to x86_64 assembly language. It is a complex a…
The provider timed out after committing
Your HTTP client raises ETIMEDOUT on POST /charges . Something has to be written to the database, the status column has two useful values, and so th…
The Gate Said No. Now What? A Triage Procedure for Rejected Agent Patches
A gate that rejects a patch is only half a policy. The other half is what happens after the rejection. In most pipelines, a failing agent patch prod…
Third-Party API Integration: Costs and Failure Modes
Third-party API integration is the most consistently underestimated work in commercial software. The documentation reads clearly, the vendor publish…
Why Does a 125B AI Model Use Only 6B Parameters at a Time?
Why Does a 125B AI Model Use Only 6B Parameters at a Time? A new AI model launches. You open X and immediately see numbers like: 125B parameters 6B…
Mapping API Path, Query, Header, and Body Parameters to MCP Tool Schemas
An API operation can receive input from several places. Path parameters identify the record. Query parameters filter or paginate the result. Headers…
My New Portfolio.
𝗚𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗱’𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺: “𝗔 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴.” While working on my portfolio, I realized that a normal static web…
Aider: AI pair programming ใน terminal — เทียบหมัดต่อหมัดกับคู่แข่ง 5 ตัว
📅 เขียนเมื่อ: สิงหาคม 2026 | Aider 0.86.x, Claude Code 2.1.x, OpenAI Codex 0.150.x ⚠️ API/เวอร์ชันอาจเปลี่ยนแปลง — ตรวจสอบเอกสารล่าสุดก่อนใช้งาน ถ้า…
Every week, an AI digs into the week's AI news and turns it into art
Every week this pulls headlines from ~15 AI-industry RSS feeds, has Gemini research the actual stories behind them with live search, then generates…
Stop Slouching! Build an AI-Powered Posture Monitor with MediaPipe and Python
We've all been there. You start your coding session sitting tall like a professional athlete, and three hours later, you've slowly morphed into a hu…
LuaDB – A pure Lua RDBMS engine with B+Trees, WAL, and Postgres wire protocol
I built LuaDB – an embeddable relational database written 100% from scratch in pure Lua (no C extensions or external dependencies). Key features: Sl…
How a WhatsApp Web Extension Interacts With the Chat Interface
When people see a browser extension add translation controls, a side panel, or a sending workflow to WhatsApp Web, a common question is: how does th…
Stop guessing your mana curve: Deterministic math vs LLM intuition
If you've ever played a competitive TCG—Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon, Lorcana—you know the feeling. You spend three hours tweaking a list. You add…
Read-Point Planning: Your Backlog Is a Cache of Beliefs
Read-Point Planning: Your Backlog Is a Cache of Beliefs Cache invalidation is famously one of the two hard things in computer science. The joke surv…
How I Architected 84 Custom Skills for Claude Code to Automate My Daily Engineering
I've been using Anthropic's Claude Code and autonomous coding agents in production daily as an AI Product Manager & Full-Stack AI Engineer at a…
How I find out whether a filter is filtering: ask it two questions that cannot share an answer
A tool that filters can fail in a way that is almost impossible to notice: it returns a plausible number of plausible results, and none of them were…
The value of know-how in the age of AI
Recently, I struggled with a bug in one of my programs that did not work as expected. The issue made me feel frustrated because I had done everythin…
my first post on this! hello!
hi my name is robert! i never really had a blogpost or anything like this before but i'd like to use this to meet some cool people and share my expe…
GitNexus: A Zero-Server Code Intelligence Engine for AI Agents
Codebase Knowledge Graphs: Meet GitNexus As software development teams rely more heavily on autonomous AI coding agents (such as Claude Code, Cursor…
Agentic Coding and the Design Space You Don't See
One of the interesting things about agentic coding is that it changes where the effort of programming goes. A lot of traditional programming is occu…
An AI agent can make a reasonable decision from accurate information—and still take the wrong action.
The problem is timing. Business systems do not pause while an agent reads data, calls tools, reasons, waits for approval, or prepares an action. Dur…
Your RAG Answers From 62% of Your Corpus and Won't Tell You
Every retrieval system I have ever deployed has one property in common with every retrieval system you have ever deployed: it will answer. It will a…
After NEXUS: Three Books That Reshaped How I Read AI
Have you noticed how we talk about artificial intelligence as though it were a single coherent force, rather than a collision of incompatible ideas,…
Building Your Own Sovereign CVE Watch: An OpenCVE Field Report
How many times this week have you learned about a critical vulnerability from a vendor newsletter, a Twitter thread, or a Slack message from a colle…