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Crysta is an AI app where you can build your own AI agents for real business use. Unlike a standard chatbot, you can connect different MCP servers and give your...

Overview Navigating a new repository can be overwhelming. I built Codebase Intelligence to turn static code into an interactive knowledge base using Retrieval‑...

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Background One mistake many beginners make with AWS is assuming nothing will happen if they stop using it. In 2023 I opened an AWS account and deployed a small...

Not following high-quality open-source projects I used GitHub mainly as a place to store my own code, which meant I missed: - How real‑world projects are struc...

The Problem with JSON Formatting Extensions - Open a browser - Search “JSON formatter” - Click the first result → hit with cookie banners, ads, and a “Premium”...

Voice‑AI Architecture for Healthcare, Recruitment, & Service Businesses A practical, scalable architecture you can deploy today. The guide is concise enough to...

The Problem with Cloud Converters We've all been there. You have a PNG you need as a JPG. You have a WAV file you need as an MP3. Or maybe a JSON file you need...

Introduction When working with Microsoft Azure, organizing your resources effectively is just as important as creating them. A resource group acts as a logical...

I'm a solo founder running five SaaS products, all built with Elixir / Phoenix, and hosting them on Fly.io. The total infrastructure cost stays under €50 / mont...

Introduction Effective data management is a critical component of any organisation that aids in smarter, data‑driven business decisions. At the heart of this l...

Static Serving The Host now serves files from src/ – just serving. No fallback logic, no integration detection. The entry point is src/index.html. For later, t...

A common assumption is that swapping a single assistant or adding a helper e.g., an ad‑headline tool is a local optimization. In reality, each “helpful” micro‑t...

Overview An issue reported by Richard Kramer highlighted a use case I had never personally used or considered: committing the lockfiles for Appraisals. I had a...

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Post‑Mortem: Migration Failure & “Research Engine” Collapse Date: March 12 2025 A migration that was supposed to buy time instead burned three sprints. The das...

The Evolution A few weeks ago, I wrote about solving Claude Code's memory problem with a skill/hook/script combination that provided long‑term and short‑term m...

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Managing internationalization i18n and localization in modern frontend applications can often be a complex undertaking. For developers working within the React...

Overview When an AI agent makes a decision, it evaluates several options and picks one. The rest disappear forever—you never see what it almost did or why it r...

I used to think a prompt was just the message or query a user gives to an LLM. You type something. The model responds. If the output isn’t good, you tweak the w...

We are obsessed with models. GPT‑4, Claude, Llama, Gemini. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: AI will not be won by better models. It will be won by better inf...

Random Color Generator Desktop App Tkinter In this tutorial we’ll build a desktop app using Python’s tkinter that generates random colors and displays their HE...

Sheetz – One‑Liner Excel/CSV Processing for Java If you've ever processed an Excel file in Java, you know the drill: Import Apache POI. Write dozens of lines o...

Introduction Last week, I launched 27 browser games on itch.io in a single batch. Here's what went wrong — and the lessons that actually stuck. Mistake 1: No s...

Ever found yourself juggling multiple tabs to check your site's meta tags, Open Graph previews, robots.txt, and sitemap? I got tired of it too. So I built Site...

I Still Remember the Night I Completed My First freeCodeCamp Certificate After weeks of grinding through coding challenges, building projects, and late‑night d...

Agent Plugins for AWS Agent Plugins for AWShttps://github.com/awslabs/agent-plugins – released by AWS Labs on GitHub in February 2026 – is a plugin library tha...

Market Perspective: Angular Powers Real-World Wins with Less Ramp‑Up Time React is a library, not a full framework, so teams must assemble state management Red...

Overview Every car has a 17‑digit VIN Vehicle Identification Number that encodes its full identity—year, make, model, engine, safety features, and manufacturin...

I was paying $79/mo for BetterUptime to monitor my side projects. That felt insane for a simple “is my site up?” check, so I built StatusPing – same core featur...

TL;DR - DX1 uses Manticore Search for customer and parts search with a fast type‑ahead UX - Chosen for open‑source licensing and speed - Deployed on Azure VMs...

Why altcoins specifically Alts dump harder and bounce faster than BTC. When Bitcoin drops 5 %, SOL might drop 15–20 % in the same window. That’s not a bug for...

Vulnerability Overview - Vulnerability ID: GHSA-JQPQ-MGVM-F9R6 - CWE IDs: CWE‑427, CWE‑78 - CVSS Score: 7.8 High - Published: 2026‑02‑18 - Attack Vector: Local...

My AI agents went rogue. I run an e‑commerce store. A few months ago, I deployed AI agents to handle customer emails—returns, refund requests, product questions...

Introduction: Why Quantum Hardware Needs EDA Discipline Quantum computing hardware has advanced rapidly in laboratory settings, particularly in qubit coherence...

Part 1 – Lightning Network Anchor Outputs Intro This is Part 1 of an ongoing series where I’m learning about Lightning Network anchor outputs and sharing what I...

'Building AI‑Native Durable Workflows – The Story Behind Kruxia Flow

Observations Lately, I’ve been noticing a curious trend. I visit one website, then another, and they feel almost the same. Layouts are eerily familiar, interac...

Introdução Durante muito tempo — e ainda hoje em muitos cenários on‑premises — o Kubernetes foi e é executado sem integrações nativas de cloud provider. Antes...

The Problem You know what’s beautiful? Spending three hours debugging auth headers, payload validation, and middleware… only to discover someone typed /V1/user...

Overview AWS Cognito is the managed authentication service I use to keep the website I develop secure. I only want users I have personally set up to be able to...

Every developer has those repetitive micro‑tasks that silently eat hours each week—formatting JSON, debugging regex, decoding JWTs, and more. I got tired of bou...

Introduction I shipped my first real app using a vibe‑coding workflow, and it changed how I think about building products. The app is TabRush: a lightweight ad...

Introduction Hey DEV community! Over the last few months, I've been looking at popular form‑builder software tools and kept running into one obstacle: The Prob...

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“You don't have a skills problem. You have a debugging problem. And Stack Overflow retired in 2024.” Every developer knows the feeling. You're stuck. The error...

I built 6cy as an experimental archive format focused on content‑addressing, deduplication, and practical streaming workflows. This post gives a short, concrete...