Building a Shielded Token dApp on Midnight: From Compact Contract to React UI
When I first looked at Midnight's privacy model, I kept tripping over the same question. If the chain hides balances inside zero-knowledge proofs, how…
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Pre-launch AI simulations are becoming the new model safety check
The next serious upgrade in AI safety may not look like a bigger warning label. It may look like a rehearsal. OpenAI published new work this week on p…
Lesson 1.3 - GraphQL for Screen Complexity and App Changes
Good morning, class! Welcome back. In our last lesson, we explored how GraphQL fundamentally addresses the issues of over-fetching and under-fetching.…
Lesson 1.2 - REST Problems and the First GraphQL Fixes
Good morning, everyone! Welcome back. In our previous lesson, we compared REST and GraphQL at a high, architectural level. Today, we are going one lay…
How much VRAM do you actually need to run Llama 3 or Gemma locally?
Every few days someone in a local LLM thread asks the same question: "will this run on my 3060?" And the answers are almost always vibes. "Should be f…
Building ccglass: the architecture of a local LLM reverse proxy
The 30-second pitch ccglass is a local reverse proxy that captures LLM API traffic from coding agent CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, DeepSeek, Kimi, etc.) a…
D1 read replicas returned stale data for 6 seconds — here's what I measured and how I designed around it
At p99, a D1 read replica in Tokyo was 6.1 seconds behind a write that landed on the Eastern NA primary. I found this out not from the docs, but from …
Cloud Architect's 2026 Guide to Cheaper, Faster LLM Inference
Cloud Architect's 2026 Guide to Cheaper, Faster LLM Inference Three months ago I opened our quarterly cloud spend dashboard and almost choked on my co…
Product Launch Telemetry: How AIKit Turns Feature Releases Into Agent-Readable Growth Loops
Product launch telemetry is the bridge between shipping a feature and proving that the feature created growth. AIKit can turn every release into an ag…
Airtable AI From Scratch: A Freelance Dev's Cost Breakdown
Airtable AI From Scratch: A Freelance Dev's Cost Breakdown I run a one-person shop. No co-founders, no VC money, no "growth team." Just me, my laptop,…
**Quick Tip: How to Choose the Right Model for Slack AI Workflows in 2026
Quick Tip: How to Choose the Right Model for Slack AI Workflows in 2026 I've been running Slack-integrated AI workflows in production for about three …
Developer take on: Running local models is good now
Developer take on: Running local models is good now Forget the days when running powerful AI models required specialized hardware, complex setups, or …
Fair Value Sweep Strategy for Polymarket Trading Bot (5-Min Up/Down) – Taker Edge That Exploits CEX Lead
In my core article Building a Polymarket Trading Bot Architecture: Key Technical Decisions , I showed how to build a modular bot with clean lifecycle,…
# Building a Confluence MCP Server for Claude Code: From Setup to Skills
Automate your Confluence workflow directly from Claude Code — publish pages, sync content, and upload images without leaving your terminal. GitHub: ht…
How I Architected a 99.9% Uptime RAG Stack with DeepSeek — 2026 Guide
How I Architected a 99.9% Uptime RAG Stack with DeepSeek — 2026 Guide I lost sleep over a single p99 spike last March. Our retrieval-augmented generat…
The Smart Contract That Handles Your Money. No Bank Needed
The Smart Contract That Handles Your Money. No Bank Needed. By Srashti Gupta |Blockchain Developer This is the part where it gets real. Not "real" lik…
Deploying Spring Petclinic Microservices with Docker Compose: A Complete DevOps Walkthrough
Introduction As part of my DevOps learning journey in DMI Cohort 2, I deployed the Spring Petclinic Microservices application locally using Docker Com…
Building a Natural Language Query Interface for Your Database: A Developer's Blueprint
Every product team eventually hits the same wall. Marketing wants to know which signups came from last week's campaign. Support wants a list of custom…
How I Cut My LLM API Costs by 70% Without Touching My Code
I was staring at my AWS bill, and my stomach dropped. $214 for AI API calls last month. That's more than my hosting, my database, my entire infrastruc…
Optional persistent data example:
If you’re still generating unit files with podman generate systemd , there’s a better path now: Quadlet . In current Podman docs, podman generate syst…
How I Tested 5 Small LLMs on a Weak PC (Intel i5, No GPU) – And Found a Winner
A practical guide to running LLMs on budget hardware: real speeds, real stories, and real conclusions 📌 Table of Contents My Setup (The "Weak" PC) Why…
Quick Tip: Tame Empty AI API Responses in Under 10 Minutes
I gotta say, quick Tip: Tame Empty AI API Responses in Under 10 Minutes I still remember the night I spent four hours debugging a chatbot that kept re…
How I built a live demo that breaks agent pipelines in 8 different ways - and why every team building on MCP needs one
TL;DR — The Gauntlet is an open-source Next.js app that connects 7 MCP servers through a LangChain multi-agent pipeline, then lets you toggle 8 failur…
Run GLM-5.2 Locally: The Open Model Nobody Can Ban
On June 9, Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 — the most capable coding model the industry had ever seen. Three days later, the U.S. government ordered …
Automate Your Healthcare: Building an AI Agent to Book Doctor Appointments and Archive Lab Reports
We've all been there: staring at a clunky, 10-year-old hospital web portal, clicking through endless nested menus just to book a simple check-up or do…
CKA Overview & Exam Pattern: The Kubernetes Certification That Actually Tests Your Skills
🚀 CKA Exam Overview: What Every Kubernetes Engineer Should Know Before Starting If you're working in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, …
Python's collections Module: Beyond defaultdict and Counter — 4 Hidden Gems That Solve Real Problems
Python's collections Module: Beyond defaultdict and Counter — 4 Hidden Gems That Solve Real Problems Every Python developer knows defaultdict and Coun…
How a Five Line Architecture Test Caught a Data Leak a Code Review Missed
TL;DR: Pest PHP can test the structure of your code, not just its behavior. Write your team rules as architecture tests and CI enforces them on every …
How to Cut Microsoft Agent Framework Costs With a Gateway Layer
Microsoft Agent Framework is built for production multi-agent systems, which is exactly why its LLM bill can grow faster than expected. If you are run…
Generating valid .ics calendar feeds at build time
A few weeks ago I shipped a feature I'd been putting off because it felt like it needed a backend: subscribable calendar feeds. "Add this holiday to G…