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How We Added 15+ Cultural Name Origins to a Baby Name Generator (With SEO Results)
When we launched BabyNamePick a few weeks ago, it had names from about 8 cultural origins. Users kept asking: "Do you have Italian names?" "What about…
We built an AI agent to write cold emails. Then we used it to sell itself.
We built an AI agent to write cold emails. Then we used it to cold email our first customers — and it almost worked. The problem we were solving At An…
AI Alignment, Catastrophic Risk, and Why Governments Are Finally Paying Attention
In three years, AI safety went from a niche academic concern to a line item in national budgets. Here's what changed — and why the gap between capabil…
Setting Up Your Azure Environment: A Guided Project Walkthrough
Setting Up Your Azure Environment: A Guided Project Walkthrough Introduction Getting started with cloud infrastructure can feel overwhelming, but the …
Your Platform Team Needs an Agent Policy — Yesterday
On March 3rd, an attacker compromised the Xygeni GitHub Action by poisoning a mutable tag. Every CI runner referencing xygeni/xygeni-action@v5 quietly…
The Value of Value Objects
For years I’ve struggled with how to handle very simple validation scenarios. Most systems have identifiers with basic constraints — fixed length, all…
What If Online Discussions Were Structured Around Claims Instead of Posts?
Over the last few years I’ve been thinking a lot about a simple question: Why do so many online discussions fail to produce clarity? Most platforms st…
Keep Forms Simple, Silly
Online forms are one of the most common points of interaction between a business and its users. They appear in sign ups, checkout pages, contact pages…
# How I Built an AI That Controls Cloudflare WAF via Plain English
I've managed Cloudflare across multiple enterprise accounts for the past two years. I know the dashboard intimately — probably better than I'd like to…
Why Value-Based Pricing Works Better Than Anxiety-Based Pricing
Pricing is rarely just a financial decision. It is also psychological. Many businesses believe they set prices based on strategy, but in practice they…
Next.js Metadata API: Complete SEO Setup Guide
Modern SSR apps live or die by metadata quality. If search engines and AI crawlers cannot parse titles, canonicals, and schema, rankings stall and sni…
Stop Putting LLM API Keys in .env Files
You have five or ten LLM API keys sitting in a .env file right now. I know because I did too. OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-proj-... ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-... …
Stop Slouching! Build a TinyML Posture Guardian with ESP32 and TensorFlow Lite 🚀
As developers, we are world-class athletes... of sitting. We spend 8 to 12 hours a day hunched over our mechanical keyboards, chasing bugs until our s…
Docker commands
A practical, terminal-focused guide covering everything you need to know about web server deployment, Docker containers, GitHub-based hosting, and Bas…
Get Your Hands Dirty - AgentCore - Memory
Persistent Context with Bedrock AgentCore Memory Standard AI agents often suffer from "goldfish memory"—they forget everything once a session ends. Be…
MCP Design in the Real World
When we started Project Brain's MCP server, we followed a common pattern: every new need got a new tool. It felt productive at first. But after a whil…
When the Cure Is the Disease: New Zealand’s Health IT
Why New Zealand’s Health IT Systems Are Such a Mess (And Why Fixing Them Is So Hard) Every time there’s a hospital IT outage in New Zealand, the same …
Running LLMs Locally: A Rigorous Benchmark of Phi-3, Mistral, and Llama 3.2 on Ollama
Abstract This report presents a comprehensive evaluation of three small language models (SLMs) – Llama 3.2 (3B), Phi-3 mini, and Mistral 7B – running …
The Ultimate 2026 Vacation Calendar Hack: How to Turn 10 PTO Days into 55 Days Off
The Ultimate 2026 Vacation Calendar Hack: How to Turn 10 PTO Days into 55 Days Off Published by Holiday Optimizer — free PTO planning tool What if I t…
HTTPX Project at Risk: How Maintainer Disengagement and Security Concerns Threaten Its Future
Current State of HTTPX: Signs of Stagnation The HTTPX project, once a thriving initiative, now shows clear signs of maintainer disengagement, kinda ca…
How I Built Audeza — A Real-Time AI Pitch Coach with Gemini Live API and Google Cloud
I created this piece of content for the purposes of entering the Gemini Live Agent Challenge hackathon. #GeminiLiveAgentChallenge What is Audeza? Aude…
How to Build a Production REST API with ElysiaJS 1.4 and Drizzle ORM (2026 Guide)
Building a production-grade REST API in 2026 means choosing tools that are fast, type-safe, and maintainable. The combination of ElysiaJS 1.4 running …
Tokis: A Performance-First, Token-Native UI Library for Building Modern Design Systems
Tokis: An experiment in building a token-first UI library Over the past few months I’ve been experimenting with a side project called Tokis . It didn’…
Vibe Coding Gets You 70% There. Here's What Happens to the Other 30%.
I'll admit it. When vibe coding took off, I was completely seduced. You describe what you want, the AI builds it, you test it, prompt again, and watch…
Optimising Docker Builds for Go
This article describes how to improve build time for Docker containers with Go applications. It focuses on speeding up the build process rather than b…
Why AI agents forget everything (and how we fixed it)
If you've built an AI agent or assistant, you've hit this wall: the moment the session ends, it forgets everything. The user comes back the next day. …
I Built a Full-Stack Developer Platform From My Android Phone (No Laptop, No Excuses)
My entire development setup is my phone. No laptop. No desktop. No "I'll do it when I get home." Just a smartphone, Termux, and a GitHub web editor. I…