Two of my projects were about to jump a grade. Nobody had fixed anything.
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Preparing for AWS CI/CD Hands-On Project - Prerequisites
Introduction In the previous article, we learned how AWS CodePipeline automates the software delivery process. Before we start building our AWS CI/CD …
My bot detector said 95% fake. It agreed with me instantly — that was the tell.
Two days ago I closed a thread here with a line I meant as honest humility: The next thing will ship with the same defect in a fresh costume. Someone …
Why I Think Workflows Matter More Than Agents
If you've spent any time in the AI community recently, you've probably noticed one trend. Everything is becoming an AI agent. Need to summarize docume…
About Manab Protim Hazarika
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How to Test AI Agents Without Calling More LLMs
AI-agent testing often starts with an expensive loop: call the agent, send its answer to another model, ask for a quality score, and hope the score is…
Entry-Level Data Engineering Is Gone. Here's the Proof.
I've been on both sides of the data engineering hiring table for years. Interviewed candidates, been the candidate, watched the market shift underneat…
My AI reviewer found nothing for months. I read that as good news.
I build a hospital's internal tools as a non-developer, which means AI writes most of the code. So of course I did the responsible thing: I had AI rev…
Episode 7: Local Development
This series follows a fictional conversation between an experienced engineer and his nephew. Every episode explores one stage of how software moves fr…
How to Set Up a Professional Python Development Environment
How to Set Up a Professional Python Development Environment tags: python, tools, productivity, beginners tags: python, tools, productivity, beginners …
Smart Traffic Systems: Configuring Flow for a Smarter City
Smart Traffic Systems: Configuring Flow for a Smarter City Ever found yourself stuck in a gridlocked intersection, wondering why the lights aren't coo…
Learning to Learn: The Biggest Lesson I've Gained at Zone01 Kisumu
Learning to Learn: The Biggest Lesson I've Gained at Zone01 Kisumu When most people think about learning software engineering, they picture classrooms…
Common Mistakes Beginner Software Engineers Make (And How to Avoid Them)
Starting a career in software engineering is exciting, but it can also be overwhelming. With countless programming languages, frameworks, tools, and b…
The Most Enduring Skills of a Software Engineer
Understanding software architecture, adaptability, risk assessment, and writing readable code. There is a harmful myth that a developer’s job is solel…
My First Experience Learning Go During the Piscine
I started learning Go out of curiosity and because I wanted to experience a peer-to-peer learning environment. My journey began during the LakeHub Pis…
What OpenAI's New Task-Crossover Research Can Teach Freelancers About Owning the Handoff in 2026
The most useful line in today's AI news is not that AI can do more work. It is that AI is changing who does the work. In a new OpenAI Economic Researc…
How to Start Bug Bounty Hunting in 2026: The Complete Beginner's Guide
Everything you need to know to find your first vulnerability, get paid, and build a real reputation in cybersecurity — without breaking any laws. If y…
Receiving webhooks without getting burned
Sending a webhook is easy. You POST some JSON at a URL and move on. Receiving one is where the bodies are buried. The endpoint is public, so anyone ca…
Why Dependencies Are Your Biggest Security Risk
You install a package. It solves a problem. You move on. You do not think about it again. But that package is now part of your application. It has acc…
I Ran an AMA on Dev.to. Here Are My Favorite Questions
This month, my personal blog turned 8 years old...and my dev.to account turned 7. To celebrate it, I ran [an AMA session: I've Spent 10+ Years in Soft…
The Evolution of AI, Explained in Stages
AI feels like it "suddenly" got smart in the last few years. It didn't. It's been evolving in distinct stages for over 70 years — each one building on…
What Judges Actually Score: Notes From a Year of Hackathon Judging
I judged three hackathons over about ten days this July: MLH x DigitalOcean "AI for Social Good" on July 11, the Sports World Cup Hackathon in San Fra…
How to Collect Product Data from a Website with Python
In this guide, you will learn how to write a Python script that visits a website, grabs product names and prices, and saves everything into a spreadsh…
You're Not Blocked. Your Work Is.
What my grandfather understood about being indispensable Let me tell you about the most productive week of my career, during which I accomplished abso…
Python Is More Than Just print("Hello World"): Understanding the Fundamentals
I recently started learning Python, and in my first session, we explored some important fundamentals about Python, programming languages, Python versi…
AVIF vs WebP vs JPEG: Real Benchmarks (2026)
I compressed 100 photos through 3 formats. Here's the actual data. A 2MB JPEG photo. Convert it to WebP — now it's 480KB. Convert it to AVIF — now it'…
How To Know Whether AI Fixed The Bug Or Hid The Bug In 2026
The most dangerous sentence in an AI-built app is often: The bug is fixed. That sentence can mean several different things: the original symptom disap…
5 of the biggest mistakes i made in my first project.
Building my first website was exciting, but it taught me that creating something people actually enjoy using is much harder than just writing code. He…
Learn Data Minimization With a Tiny Python Health-Record Filter
Expected transformation: input keys: date, steps, sleep_minutes, medication, note purpose: activity_summary output keys: date, steps The learning ques…
How to Contribute to an Open-Source AI Trading Bot
How to Contribute to an Open-Source AI Trading Bot If you want to contribute to an open-source AI trading bot — and build on a real, running system in…