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
The era of "chatting with an LLM" is officially legacy. I've attended the Google Cloud Next ‘26 Developer Keynote, and saw the pivot point. We aren’t just writing better prompts anymore; we are architecting Production-Ready Autonomous Systems. Google's showcase centered on a multi-agent system coordinating a full city-scale marathon simulation—Planner, Evaluator, and Simulator agents working in co
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
I audited 14 Shopify themes last quarter for speed. 11 of them blamed apps. None had touched Liquid loop count, capture-in-loop allocations, or image output. After optimizing 100+ Shopify stores over 12 years: the code-level patterns in your theme files account for 40-60% of total render time. Apps matter. Images matter. The template layer is where the compounding problems live. Here are the 5 Liq
This technical post walks through the design and implementation of Secure Playground: a local web app that simulates prompt-injection attacks against large language models and demonstrates simple defenses. Provide a minimal, reproducible environment to test payloads and defensive strategies. Make it easy to add new providers and run mutation-based red-team experiments. Offer a leaderboard and scor