002FEB 202640 MIN
Multi‑Agent Web Exploration with Shared Graph Memory
A multi-agent web exploration system that uses Monte Carlo Tree Search and shared graph memory to autonomously discover, map, and document complex web applications.
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003JAN 202636 MIN
Our Lessons from Building Production Voice AI
What broke when we shipped voice agents to real users, and what we learned fixing it.
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004DEC 202528 MIN
Reinforcement Learning, Memory and Law
How reinforcement learning teaches AI to reason, align with human values, and improve continuously.
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005OCT 202511 MIN
Automating Secret Management
How we built a secrets pipeline with AWS Secrets Manager and Terraform that distributes credentials to ECS services, frontend apps, and local dev environments automatically.
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006OCT 202511 MIN
The Knowledge Layer
Why 80% of AI projects fail and how to build knowledge systems that actually work.
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007SEP 202517 MIN
OTel Sidecars on Fargate
We replaced our Loggly with OpenTelemetry sidecars on ECS Fargate so all our services ended up with one trace. Dual export to SigNoz and S3 for debugging and SOC 2 compliance.
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008SEP 20255 MIN
Git Disasters and Process Debt
Scaling from 2 to 6 developers broke our Git workflow. These patterns fixed it.
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009SEP 202512 MIN
Is Code Rotting Due To AI?
AI generated code has a 12% survival rate... Are we cooked or is this a new dev methodology?
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010AUG 20258 MIN
The Integration Illusion
Stop building bespoke connectors for every platform.
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011AUG 202519 MIN
When MCP Fails
Most MCP implementations miss the entire point. By wrapping APIs instead of designing for intent you'll never build automation that actually works.
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012AUG 202519 MIN
Context Engineering
We are shifting from prompt engineering - crafting the perfect string - to Context Engineering: treating the information environment around language models as a proper engineering problem. This post is how to do exactly that.
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013AUG 20254 MIN
Stop Email Spoofing with DMARC
Anyone can forge emails from your domain. Here's how to fix that with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC.
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014JUL 20254 MIN
SOTA Embedding Retrieval: Gemini + pgvector for Production Chat
How we achieved 2x faster vector search with identical recall using Gemini embeddings, task-optimized retrieval, and pgvector's half-precision quantization.
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015JUN 202548 MIN
Agentic Design Patterns
Every major LLM loses 39% of its performance in multi-turn conversation, so how do you build agents that are nothing but multi-turn conversation with tools?
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016JAN 20256 MIN
Building AI Agents for Automated Podcasts
How I built an automated multi-agent system that transforms AI news into weekly podcasts, newsletters, and social media content using LangGraph, topic modeling, and TTS - all running autonomously on ECS.
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017DEC 20247 MIN
Rediscovering Cursor
A structured approach to working with Cursor AI that transforms frustration into productivity through proper workflow and context management.
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018AUG 202412 MIN
GraphRAG > Traditional Vector RAG
Traditional Vector based RAG has too many shortcomings. GraphRAG instead uses a Knowledge Graph for richly understanding text datasets, making RAG great again.
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019JUL 202426 MIN
Cultural Bias in LLMs
An experiment into cultural biases in LLMs using the Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map method - revealing unexpected value alignment across both Western and Chinese LLMs
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020JUL 202412 MIN
Mapping out the AI Landscape with Topic Modelling
Tackling information overload by using topic modeling techniques to map out the AI landscape, helping us access valuable AI news and trends!
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021JUN 202410 MIN
Sustainable Cloud Computing: Carbon-Aware AI
When selecting a cloud compute region for your ML workloads you will often need to account for latency, cost, services and features, compliance, etc. But in this article I explore how you can also consider your carbon footprint as part of your selection criteria.
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022JUN 202421 MIN
Defensive Technology for the Next Decade of AI
Exploring defensive technologies to mitigate AI risks and ensure safe and secure advancements in the next decade.
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023JUN 202413 MIN
Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead
As developers, we often just focus on the technical aspects of AI without ever considering the broader geopolitical implications. From Leopold Aschenbrenner's 'Situational Awareness', I summarise his insights on the rapid development of AI and the path to AGI & ASI, as well as the geopolitical and security challenges we face with AI.
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024JUN 202422 MIN
Mechanistic Interpretability: A Survey
Exploring how sparse autoencoders unlock interpretable features in language models to enhance AI safety and understanding.
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025MAY 20245 MIN
Why I Left Ubuntu
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, but my experience wasn't as smooth as I'd hoped. Here's why I decided to switch back to Windows and my setup process for an optimal development environment.
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026APR 20249 MIN
Multi-Agent Collaboration
Exploring how collaborative autonomous agents improve complex problem-solving through behavior simulation, data construction, and enhanced performance.
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027MAR 202411 MIN
Building Better Retrieval Systems
Explore how embedding models and vector databases can enhance retrieval systems in AI, with practical tips and insights for optimizing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.
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028FEB 202410 MIN
Building an Automated Newsletter-to-Summary Pipeline with Zapier AI Actions vs AWS SES & Lambda
Create an automated system that transforms newsletters into AI-generated summaries using Zapier and Telegram, then rebuild it with AWS SES & Lambda for a serverless solution.
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029JAN 2024Video
Deploy your own ChatGPT with Ray, AWS EKS, and Kubernetes
Deploy your own ChatGPT using Ray for distributed computing, AWS EKS for managed Kubernetes, and the power of scalable infrastructure for AI workloads. End-to-end walkthrough.
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030DEC 20233 MIN
Local AI Image Generation
How to generate stunning AI images locally using Stable Diffusion XL and checkpoints like Juggernaut.
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031NOV 20236 MIN
Deploying a Distributed Ray Python Server with Kubernetes, EKS & KubeRay
Complete guide to deploying distributed Python servers using Ray, Kubernetes, and AWS EKS with production-ready configurations.
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032OCT 20236 MIN
Making the Switch to Linux for Development
A comprehensive guide to switching from Windows to Linux for development, including setup procedures and essential tools.
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033OCT 20234 MIN
Scaling Options Pricing with Ray
Transform sequential Python option pricing code into a distributed application with minimal changes using Ray framework.
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034SEP 20233 MIN
The Async Worker Pool
When developing applications that require high-concurrency, efficiency, and robust error-handling, the Async Worker Pool pattern in Python can be a valuable pattern.
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035SEP 20234 MIN
Browser Fingerprinting: Introducing My First NPM Package
Browser fingerprinting with a zero-dependency NPM package that offers a swift, synchronous function for browser fingerprint computation without user permissions or cookies.
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036JUL 20233 MIN
Reading Data from @socket.io/redis-emitter without Using a Socket.io Client
In this article, we explore the challenge of reading data from @socket.io/redis-emitter without a socket.io client and present a clean and effective solution by decoding using the notepack.io.
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037JUL 20234 MIN
Socket.io Middleware for Redux Store Integration
Integrating Socket.io with Redux through middleware for a robust and elegant solution for handling real-time communication in React.
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038APR 20235 MIN
Sharing TypeScript Code Between Microservices: A Guide Using Git Submodules
Share TypeScript code between microservices using Git submodules, allowing for modular code management and easy updates.
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039FEB 20232 MIN
Efficient Dataset Storage: Beyond CSVs
Binary formats like Pickle and Parquet offer enhanced performance for both reading and compression compared to traditional CSV storage.
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040NOV 20229 MIN
Why I switched from Plain React to Next.js 13
Making the switch from React to Next.js? This article explores how Next.js 13 revolutionizes the scene with upgraded development, performance, and user experience functionalities.
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041NOV 202218 MIN
Deploy & Scale Socket.io Containers in ECS with Elasticache
Explore the process of deploying and scaling a Socket.io server in Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with Redis using Elasticache
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042SEP 20223 MIN
Implementing TOTP Authentication in Python using PyOTP
Build secure two-factor authentication with time-based one-time passwords using PyOTP and integrate with Google Authenticator.
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043SEP 20223 MIN
Simplifying Lambda Layer ARNs and Creating Custom Layers in AWS
AWS Lambda deployments using pre-existing Lambda Layers as well as creating custom Lambda Layers from scratch using Flask as an example.
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044JUN 20225 MIN
TimeScaleDB Deployment: Docker Containers and EC2 Setup
Complete guide to deploying TimeScaleDB locally with Docker passthrough mounts and on Amazon EC2 for scalable time-series data management.
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045DEC 20213 MIN
How to SSH into an EC2 Instance Using PuTTY
A step-by-step guide to securely accessing AWS EC2 instances using PuTTY by converting .pem files to .ppk format.
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