The File Search tool in the Gemini API now supports multimodal retrieval by adding support for Gemini Embedding 2. This update allows images, such as charts, product photos, and diagrams, to be natively indexed and searched in the same store as your text-based documents. This post covers how to use the File Search tool end-to-end: creating a store, uploading documents and images, querying with gro
Zulip is known for keeping conversations organized. Topic-based threads, clear context, and async-friendly discussions make it a favorite for technical and distributed teams. Unlike traditional chat apps, conversations in Zulip stay readable even as teams scale. Recreating this experience can be a bit difficult. Real-time messaging, user presence, inline comments, and notifications usually require
Hey! Tell me if this sounds familiar. You built a login page in React. User fills in the details, clicks login, and — nothing happens. The page just sits there. You wanted to send the user to the dashboard after login. But how? You cannot just use a link — the user did not click anything. The redirect needs to happen from your code, based on logic. That is exactly what useNavigate solves. 1. What
Hi everyone, my name is P Swyom Sanjog. Welcome back to my blog—I hope you’re all doing well. Today, I’m bringing a new topic: Virtual DOM. Let’s understand what the Virtual DOM is in simple terms. We’ll cover key questions like what it is, why it’s used, and how it works. So, let’s get started! Virtual Dom So, let’s break down the topic into “Virtual” and “DOM.” Virtual means something that exi
Your phone will connect to the strongest tower it hears. It does not ask for ID first. It assumes trust, and that assumption is the entire problem. I first noticed this in 2019 outside a security conference in Las Vegas. My test Android dropped from LTE to 2G for 47 seconds, then returned to normal. No user notification. The baseband logs showed a cipher downgrade to A5/0, a location area code tha
It isn’t likely that most developers begin developing an e-commerce solution with the thought of “this commerce platform will be my biggest enemy”. However, it eventually becomes apparent to developers that they spend most of their time working around their commerce platform. It isn’t usually because of the tools or lack of expertise. The majority of e-commerce frameworks rely on a preconceived
If you run Kubernetes and want a wildcard TLS cert from Let's Encrypt — say *.example.com — you need a DNS-01 challenge. HTTP-01 cannot prove control over a wildcard. That single fact rules out the easy path most tutorials show. This post is what we actually run at Hostim.dev for our shared *.region.hostim.dev wildcard. We use cert-manager for per-app certs and a plain certbot Ansible playbook for
On April 30, 2026. I posted an update after 3 years explaining what I was doing and what new thing I have been working on. And In that I mentioned how AI has made frontend development robotic. Same design, same colors, same animation. It's as if software has lost all the personality and character that it had. I originally fell in love with web development because it gave developers a power create