A few weeks ago I was remembering an old PC game I played in my younger years and that I'd love to wander through again, listening to the soundtrack, seeing the colorful cities. On the game's subreddit, the community was talking about creating a spiritual successor and then my brain took a weird shortcut: What if I could help them speed up the development by lending the remaining tokens of my dail
Most "self-hosting" articles are basically a list of Docker Compose files. They tell you what to run. They don't tell you why the smart money is moving away from managed cloud services — or what a real production stack looks like when you do it right. The shift isn't about being cheap. It's about control. Your data. Your pipeline. Your infra. No vendor lock-in, no surprise pricing changes, no term
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The Model Context Protocol has transformed how we connect AI to tools. But connecting agents to tools is only half the battle — connecting agents to each other is where the real challenge begins. I recently read @raviteja_nekkalapu_'s excellent article "I built an AI security Firewall and made it open source because production apps were leaking SSNs to OpenAI" and it resonated deeply with challeng
A deeply-synthesized, opinionated reference distilled from five canonical sources: donnemartin/system-design-primer · ByteByteGoHq/system-design-101 · karanpratapsingh/system-design · ashishps1/awesome-system-design-resources · binhnguyennus/awesome-scalability Use it as: a study guide for interviews, a checklist for design reviews, and a vocabulary for cross-team discussions. 📖 How to Use This
Why Traditional URL Shorteners Are a Privacy Nightmare When you click a bit.ly link, here's what happens: Bit.ly logs your IP, timestamp, user agent They see the destination URL They track your browsing patterns They sell this data to advertisers Even if you trust the shortener, their database can be hacked. I built cryptly to solve this problem using blockchain and encryption. Encryption (Clien
I have a serious problem, I can't work on just one thing for too long. I lose interest really fast. Before agentic coding, my desire to work on different projects and components of a project was easily managed. I could work on a really large project with a mobile app, a dashboard, a backend, multiple micro-services, while I let my YOLO model train in the background. Apra Fleet — an open-source MCP
Lee Powell · Architect of Scrivener and Scapple · Lumen & Lever Most AI document pipelines fail before the model is ever called. Tables become paragraphs. Lists collapse into prose. Annotations are detached from context. Page references disappear. Source traceability is replaced by a confidence score. The structure that gave the document its meaning is gone before retrieval runs, and no retrieval