News
Beating Tail Latency: A Guide to Request Hedging in Go Microservices
2+ hour ago (430+ words) In distributed systems, we often talk about "The Long Tail." You might have a service where 95% of requests finish in under 100ms. But that last 1% (the P99 latency)? Those requests might take 2 seconds or more. In a microservice architecture where one user…...
I Built a Tool to Stop Losing My Claude Code Conversation History
2+ hour, 1+ min ago (325+ words) A few weeks ago I needed to revisit a debugging session. Claude had walked me through a nasty race condition in my app " it took over an hour, and the fix was subtle. I knew exactly which session it was....
The Distribution Problem Nobody Talks About
2+ hour, 23+ min ago (1778+ words) Let me explain how I got here. Last week I built a full content automation pipeline. About 20 hours of work. I also built a road trip planning app with Maps integration (3 hours), set up a music production pipeline with AI…...
What Is Spec-First Development? (Complete Guide)
2+ hour, 21+ min ago (409+ words) Spec-first development becomes clearer when the team makes the hidden decisions visible before coding starts. This article focuses on those decisions and why they matter in delivery. ## 1. Why Teams Usually Get This Wrong The problem appears the moment more than…...
Stop Paying $0.10/Image for Product Photography APIs — Here's a 2¢ Alternative
2+ hour, 24+ min ago (122+ words) We built PixelAPI " a self-hosted AI image API running on our own GPU cluster. Here's what the same workflow costs with us: $0.01/image (1 credit = $0.001, background removal = 10 credits). The pipeline handles the two biggest rejection causes on Amazon India and Flipkart:…...
I Published a Python SDK for SEC Financial Data (and It's 6 Methods)
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (183+ words) I recently posted about an API I built for SEC EDGAR data. While writing the example code for that article, I kept looking at all the boilerplate " setting headers, building URLs, parsing responses " and thought, this should just be a…...
Designing a Personal AI Assistant - Architecture & Design
2+ hour, 20+ min ago (334+ words) I wanted a personal AI assistant that I could actually keep running on my own machine. That meant it had to stay understandable, work well with local models. In this post, I'm going to share more technical details of how…...
From Classroom Theory to Cutting-Edge Research: What I Learnt Studying Two AI Papers
2+ hour, 24+ min ago (1194+ words) Why Research Papers Matter for CS Students This is what I want to share in this blog " not just a summary of two papers, but the actual connections I found between our textbook AI and modern AI research. Paper 1: The…...
I Was So Angry, I Actually Shipped It
2+ hour, 30+ min ago (675+ words) A while ago I wrote about how I was fed up enough with project management tools to build my own. No URL. No code. Just a rant and some screenshots of a half-baked UI. Several people in the comments called…...
I Had 47 Tabs Open Just to Buy a Monitor. So I Built a Solution.
7+ hour, 5+ min ago (537+ words) We've all been there. You decide it's finally time to upgrade your home office setup. You want a new 4K monitor. Next thing you know, your browser looks like a barcode. You have 12 tabs open on Amazon, 8 on Best Buy, a…...