I Extracted the Audio From 20 Video Files in 2.2 Seconds — Here's the Batch Pipeline
I help maintain a small archive of recorded meetings and talks. The videos are useful, but nobody re-watches a 40-minute recording to find one decis…
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A guard that never fires is the same as a guard that does not work
Every guard has two states: working and green by accident. Both print “OK”. The difference only shows when you force the condition it was supposed t…
n8n-sync — Git-based version control for n8n Community Edition workflows
If you are self-hosting n8n Community Edition, you already know the pain: no built-in version control. Enterprise has Source Control at €667/mo, but…
Rebase Git Publication Finalization
An article can remain queued in the internal vault while its published version goes live on the public site if an unrelated commit arrives during th…
How I Built a Strict SOC2 Compliance Gate in Jira using Atlassian Forge & KVS
If you've ever gone through a SOC2 audit, you know the drill. Auditors want proof that every piece of code deployed to production went through a pee…
How Upload_Tracker.Py Stops Double-Posting When You Re-Run A Batch
I run my whole asset pipeline on a 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM box with no GPU. A few months ago I had a batch of 40 sticker assets ready for Adobe Stock, Vect…
Dry-Run Your Asset Pipeline: Validate Covers, Zips And CSVs On A 2 GB Server
Last March I lost a full evening to a header row. I had 60 JPGs ready for Adobe Stock, generated the CSV, uploaded the batch, and every single file…
Automating SSL Renewals in GitHub Actions with acme.sh
Automating SSL Renewals in GitHub Actions with acme.sh When our infrastructure team inherited a legacy deployment pipeline that required manual SSL…
Why AI Agents Fail: Pattern Matching Beats Reasoning Scaffolds
Why AI Agents Fail: Pattern Matching Beats Reasoning Scaffolds Everyone says an AI agent fails because it cannot reason well enough. The failure dat…
Runbook Rot: Three Fingerprints of Stale CI Docs and the Check That Catches Each
A runbook is the only document in your repo that gets read at 3 a.m., under adrenaline, by someone who trusts it. When the code is stale you get a b…
What is an AI agent harness?
By Harshith Vaddiparthy. Originally published in my AI agent harness guide . An AI agent harness is the software around a model that lets it do work…
Track new job postings from Naukri, StepStone and Job Bank Canada for a niche role (Python)
Disclosure: I built the Apify Actor used in this tutorial. This post was written with AI assistance. If you are watching the market for one specific…
How I Built a Multi-Agent Micro-SaaS Orchestration Engine in n8n (Zero Cloud Subscriptions)
Building scalable, multi-agent AI systems usually means falling into one of two traps: drowning in the spaghetti code of Python-based orchestration…
Group Chats Are Not DMs: Routing Rules for WeChat Customer Service Auto-Reply
E-commerce teams on WeChat answer customers in two different arenas: one-to-one direct messages, and group chats — buyer groups, VIP groups, store a…
DevOps Email Tests Need a Handoff Contract
DevOps Email Tests Need a Handoff Contract Email tests in CI often fail at the boundary between two jobs: one job creates a disposable inbox, anothe…
OpenAI launches always-on dots agents for Pro and Business
What dots are OpenAI has begun rolling out dots, its version of an always-on AI agent. According to a hands-on look from the Zapier blog , you talk…
Content Repurposer: One Article Becomes Seven Posts
The Problem With Cloud AI Every token costs money. Every API call adds up. And your data goes to their servers. The Local Alternative brew install o…
AI Agent for Home Services: Lead Intake That Prices Jobs
Home services break normal chatbot designs: emergencies can't wait, jobs can't be priced blind, and geography matters. Here is the triage, intake an…
AI system maintenance: what breaks after launch
Developing an AI system is always a custom story, and there are plenty of points where something can break. That is why after development - your own…
OpenAI Dots Could Support Always-On Incident Triage, but Limits Matter
OpenAI’s Dots are persistent AI agents designed to operate with dedicated cloud compute, memory, and a plugin ecosystem across apps and workflows. T…
Privacy-Preserving Active Learning for sustainable aquaculture monitoring systems for extreme data sparsity scenarios
Privacy-Preserving Active Learning for sustainable aquaculture monitoring systems for extreme data sparsity scenarios Introduction: A Lesson from a…
ChatGPT UTM Bug Sent Referral Traffic to Direct During the GPT-6 Rollout
A temporary change in how ChatGPT handled outbound links distorted a key marketing metric during the GPT-6 rollout in October 2026. UTM parameters i…
Playwright Email Tests Need Lease Expiry
A throwaway email address is useful in an end-to-end test because it keeps test mail away from real people. But an inbox that lives forever is not a…
Why GUI-Only Agents Waste Half Their Steps
Most computer-use agents operate like someone peeking through a peephole with oven mitts on. Every small action, such as clicking an icon, typing a…
Why Two Python Packages And Stdlib Scripts Keep My AI Asset Costs Near Zero
Last spring I lost a whole evening to a CSV header. I had 40 assets ready for Adobe Stock, generated the metadata file myself in a spreadsheet, hit…
How A Local Prompt Engine Replaced Paid Generation Across Three Stock Platforms
Last March I checked my generation spend and closed the laptop. Three stock platforms, two paid image APIs, and a month where the credits cost more…
Firefox for Testing and Automation: geckodriver, Playwright, and CI Pipelines
Firefox is an excellent choice for automated testing and web scraping — it has official WebDriver support (geckodriver), a stable API, and unique fe…
European AI Innovation Month 2026: A Practical Guide to the EU Event Series
European AI Innovation Month will run from 14 October 2026 to 17 November 2026 , creating a coordinated programme of online and in-person AI events…
Advanced Tools vs. Traditional Skills: Balancing Malware Analysis Training in the AI Era
Introduction: The Evolving Landscape of Malware Analysis Malware analysis remains a critical discipline in cybersecurity, where the battle against m…
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Stop Managing Infrastructure Manually
Imagine deploying an application to production, only to discover that the server configuration is different from your development environment. The a…