Latest News

What Really Happens When React State Changes?

You write this: const [ count , setCount ] = useState ( 0 ); Then the user clicks a button: setCount ( count + 1 ); And your UI changes: Count: 0 to…

A Beginner's Guide to Starting with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Everything you need to go from a blank text editor to a working, useful webpage Every website you've ever visited — no matter how complex — is built…

Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV

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…

Any true alternatives to electron JavaScript?

I see companies having codebase in Tauri going back to electron - is this a common thing?

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…