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₹1,20,000. That's how much a client spent building an automated follow-up system I had to tell him to rip out thirty days later. I'm an automation consultant. My entire business depends on people wanting to automate things. And yet, the most valuable advice I give — the advice clients actually remem
The Concurrency Collision As your B2B SaaS platform at Smart Tech Devs scales to handle thousands of concurrent operations, you will inevitably encounter the most frustrating database error in backend engineering: the Deadlock (e.g., PostgreSQL 40P01: deadlock detected or MySQL 1213 Deadlock found w
₹47,000 every month. That's what my friend Rohit was paying a fund advisory service to tell him which stocks matched his criteria. Six filters — RSI below 40, volume spike above 200% of 20-day average, 200-DMA crossover, sector rotation signals, delivery percentage above 60%, and promoter holding ch
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The Unmounted Component Trap In highly interactive dashboards at Smart Tech Devs, users navigate quickly. Imagine a user clicks a "Generate Heavy Report" button, which fires an API request that takes 4 seconds to resolve. After 2 seconds, the user gets bored, clicks the "Back" button, and navigates
You add a cross-encoder reranker to your RAG pipeline, measure answer quality on a test set, see a marginal improvement on 3 of 8 questions, and ship it. Six weeks later your p99 retrieval latency has climbed 200ms per query and you're paying Cohere API costs on every call. Nobody has revisited the
lode: Reimplementing DVC's core in Go without breaking the format There's a type of open source project that earns my immediate respect: one that clearly defines what it doesn't do. lode is one of those. When I first read the README, the sentence that stopped me was: "lode never invents a format; yo
x402 turns an HTTP 402 Payment Required into something an autonomous agent can actually act on: the server quotes a price, your agent pays in stablecoin, the request goes through. No human in the loop. That is the whole point — and also the whole problem. The moment a program can move money without
Hey, I am ANIRUDDHA ADAK. Over the past few years, I have been building in the open. When I first started on New Year's Day of 2024, I was just trying to figure out how Git worked. Today, with 348+ merged pull requests across dozens of repositories, I can say that open source has shaped who I am as
The problem: I loved AI summaries until I got the bill Last month I was working on a SaaS product that needed to summarize long articles for users. Think of it like a TL;DR generator. I built a first prototype using GPT-4 with a straightforward prompt: "Summarize this article in 3 bullet points." It
Dark mode sounds simple until you implement it. Then you discover the flash. On first load, before JavaScript runs, your page renders with the default theme. Then the theme switcher kicks in. For a fraction of a second — sometimes longer on slow connections — users see the wrong theme before it corr
I Built an AI Tutor in 48 Hours and Heres What Blew My Mind okay so I need to be honest with you — when I first started looking into building an AI tutoring app I was kinda overwhelmed. there are literally 184 models available through Global API, and prices ranging from $0.01 to $3.50 per million to
The Kia K4 Hatchback and Honda Civic Hatchback pair the utility of an SUV with the easy driving dynamics of a sedan, but there's one I'd recommend over the other.
Our real-world testing of the iOS 27 developer beta looks to see if Apple's claim that its new software is much more responsive than iOS 26. We put it to the test.
These flicks are hitting Tubi for the first time this February, so here's the movies you should start with.
It's already been an excellent year for new video games, and with 2026 at the halfway point, these are the best we've played so far.
The Geekom A9 Max 2026 Edition builds on what made last year’s mini PC a powerhouse but it still has all the upgradeability and ports you could ever need.
With iOS 27, you can get Apple Intelligence to design custom shortcuts — here's how.
I bombed a system design interview last year — not because I didn't know the architecture, but because I spent the first 5 minutes fighting Excalidraw. So I built SystemDesignBoard — a free, keyboard-first whiteboard specifically for system design interviews. You open it, press a key, and start draw
When people talk about AI agents, the conversation usually revolves around reasoning, planning, memory, and tool usage. What gets discussed far less is what happens when the agent is wrong. A few months ago, while experimenting with autonomous workflows, I noticed something interesting. The agent wa
