Building an AI-Powered Dog Breed Recommender with Flask, Nyckel, and Google Gemini Overview This application takes a photo or image URL of a dog and passes it to an external API to determine the breed. Once the breed is identified, a custom prompt is sent to Google Gemini and the results are returned to the user as a tailored list of care recommendations for that specific breed. Tech
How I cut my multi-turn LLM API costs by 90% (O(N²) → O(N)) If you build multi-turn AI agents, you know the pain: API costs don't grow linearly, they grow quadratically. Every turn in a standard agent loop replays the full conversation history. Token cost on turn N is proportional to N, so total cost across N turns is Θ(N²). I hit a wall where a single heavy day of coding consumed 97% of my weekl
Stripe is opinionated: a Price object has one currency. If your product is priced at $79 USD, that's what Stripe charges. But for conversion optimization, you want to display the price in the visitor's local currency — Argentinians see ARS, Brazilians see BRL, Germans see EUR — converted at the live FX rate. The math is simple. The trick is doing it without a 200ms client-side flash. Stripe holds
Showing prices in a user's local currency increases trust, reduces bounce rates, and improves conversions — especially for international audiences. Here's how to do it automatically in React. Detect the user's currency from their IP address (no user input needed) Fetch the live exchange rate for that currency Format the price according to their locale // hooks/useCurrency.ts import { useEffect, us
IP geolocation is one of the most accessible fraud signals available. It won't stop sophisticated attackers, but it catches a significant amount of low-effort fraud with very little implementation overhead. Impossible travel: A user logs in from Germany, then from Brazil 10 minutes later. Country mismatch: Billing address is in the US, but the IP is in a different region. High-risk region matching
A walkthrough of prompt injection attacks against OopsSec Store's AI assistant, bypassing its input filters to extract a flag from the system prompt. OopsSec Store has an AI support assistant with a secret embedded in its system prompt. The only thing standing between us and the flag is a regex blocklist. Spoiler: four regexes are not enough. Initialize the OopsSec Store application: npx create-os
RestCountries has been the go-to API for country data since 2013. It's free, open source, and covers the basics well. But as your app grows, you'll likely run into its limitations. RestCountries excels at basic country information: names, ISO codes, capitals, regions, flags, and population data. It's completely free, requires no API key, and has great community support. For simple country pickers
I have a confession. For years, when a developer proudly showed me their Python app — gray square buttons, a Listbox straight out of 1998 — I would politely nod. I've stopped doing that. Not because I turned mean. Because PyQt6 exists, and there's no excuse anymore. This article is my attempt to convince you — yes, you, the one still typing import tkinter out of habit — that something radically be