How to write an eval your AI app can actually fail
Your AI app builds, the endpoint responds, and Claude has run another smoke test. Let's find out whether the app actually does its job.
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Where should your AI run?
An interactive exploration of edge, cloud, and everything in between, where you build an architecture, change the constraints, and see what breaks.
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The slow death of open source in the age of AI agents
AI Agents are here; but the bigger question is... Is Open-source ready? If so, why are maintainers starting to close the door?
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How a Spotify track ID, album art, playback state, and listening history become a dithered generative composition.
The rise of XPUs: Exploring the hardware behind modern AI
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A practical guide to XPUs, comparing CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, NPUs, DPUs, VPUs, ASICs, and FPGAs across modern AI workloads.
Hello world: Vibecoding my blog
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How I replaced Hashnode with a personal Next.js and MDX blog, from design and typography to topic filtering, code blocks, and AI-assisted development.
All the ways you can self-host an LLM: 7 options from a laptop to a GPU cluster
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Compare options for self-hosting LLMs locally, on GPUs, in containers, at the edge, and across cloud or on-prem infrastructure.
Killing DeepSeek's bias
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Are models inherently biased? Read on to meet the middleware that decides what your AI is allowed to say; and how you can fight back!
What are AI gateways, and do you even need them?
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The AI gold rush has led to a very modern problem: too many shovels (models), too little gold (control). Are AI gateways the solution?
The ultimate guide to ngrok: The ngrok cheat sheet
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Presenting ngrok's new cheatsheet that walks you through some of our most interesting offerings, designed to scratch that itch of not just serving, but also securing endpoints in as little as two steps.
Leaked system prompts of popular LLMs and what they tell us
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Read on for actionable advice on crafting the perfect prompt for the LLM you love!
DeepSeek is here. Is it production-ready?
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Read on to learn more about this tech disruptor and how you can choose the right LLM for your project!
What the WordPress: Intimidation into compliance?
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Read on to uncover the power struggles shaking WordPress and the open-source community.
GitHub best practices for beginners
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Learn essential GitHub best practices for beginners, from Git basics and branch naming to protecting secrets and contributing to open source.
OpenTofu: The Terraform fork that exposed the dark side of open source
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Read on to find out how a bunch of companies made a once-open-source project open again, with hiccups here and there.
Unsolicited Amazon Echoes: A short story
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From Accidental Hoarder to Surround Sound Maestro
Deploying a Ghost site on DigitalOcean
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In this tutorial, we’ll look at how you can self-host Ghost on DigitalOcean, harnessing the capabilities of DigitalOcean’s Marketplace and 1-Click Apps.
Cloud snapshots vs backups: what’s the difference?
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Learn how cloud snapshots differ from backups, when to use each, and how to create snapshots for DigitalOcean Droplets and Volumes.
Pokémon and Kubernetes: How are they connected?
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Niantic and Google Cloud collaborated to build Pokémon Go, but they ended up scaling the world’s favorite container platform too. Read on to find out how.
Introduction to Auth0 Actions
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Actions are used to customize and extend Auth0’s capabilities with custom logic, read on to see how you can implement it effortlessly in your project.
How to add Auth0 authentication to a React app
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Follow a beginner-friendly walkthrough for adding Auth0 authentication to a React single-page application, including login, logout, and callback handling.
What is Prisma ORM? A beginner’s guide
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Learn what an ORM is, how Prisma works, how to set it up, and when Prisma is a good fit for a JavaScript or TypeScript application.
DigitalOcean Kubernetes challenge: Deploy an internal container registry
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In this post, I’m going to document my submission to the DigitalOcean Kubernetes Challenge and share how I built it.
Ghidra reverse engineering tutorial for beginners
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Learn the basics of software reverse engineering with Ghidra, including installation, project setup, and analysis of a Windows executable.