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We recently did an exercise with a 10-person service team: tracked how many hours each person spent on tasks they knew could be done faster — reformatting reports, searching Slack for links, re-explaining processes to new hires. The average was 5 hours per person per week. At a $50/hr blended cost,
This is a submission for the Notion MCP Challenge Formlink — AI-powered intake system. Replaces static forms with natural conversations, writes structured data directly into Notion via MCP. Instead of a 20-field form 60% of people abandon, Formlink has a 3-minute conversation — asking smart follow-u
Two minutes to copy a 274 MB file to a VM running on localhost. Not over the internet. Not to a cloud instance across the country. Localhost. The same machine, loopback, zero network latency. That was the experience a user reported in issue #290 on cubic, a lightweight CLI for managing QEMU/KVM virt
UK address lookup APIs are convenient but they come with a cost - literally. Most services charge per query. If you're processing high volumes or just want predictable costs, those fees add up fast. If you already hold a Royal Mail PAF licence - or can get one - you have access to the full dataset o
Day 7 of my Terraform journey focused on one of the most practical Infrastructure as Code questions: how do you separate environments like dev, staging, and production without letting them interfere with each other? Terraform gives two main answers: workspaces file layouts I implemented both, compar
Hi! 1. You have a table customers with a column email that currently allows NULL values. Modify the table so that future entries must always have an email. ALTER TABLE customers ALTER COLUMN email SET NOT NULL; here the alter is used to set the column email that should not be blank. 2. In the users
_In an era where the "blank page" is the biggest hurdle to innovation, the tools we use to brainstorm, organize, and refine our thoughts matter more than ever. Enter IdeaForge—a modern, full-stack solution designed to take ideas from a fleeting thought to a structured reality. Whether you are a deve
From “Just Call the API” to Self-Evolving Ecosystems There’s a conversation I keep having with engineering teams. Someone has just shipped a feature that calls GPT-4o or Claude, the demo looks impressive, and then a product manager walks in and asks: “So when do we make it fully autonomous?” The roo
Solving the “Stochastic Parrot” Problem with Structured Logic There’s a criticism of large language models that has stuck around since 2021, and it still stings a little: the “stochastic parrot” argument. The idea is that LLMs are sophisticated pattern-matchers that produce statistically plausible t
This is part five in a series about wrangling the growing pile of skills, scripts, and context that AI coding agents depend on. In part one, I covered why progressive disclosure beats dumping everything into context. Part two showed how akm unifies your local assets across platforms into one searcha
Financial institutions face a tightening regulatory landscape. Data residency rules, third-party risk requirements, and the need to prove where sensitive data lives have made tooling choices more than a matter of preference. When teams test APIs that touch account data, transaction flows, or interna
SEO is dead. Long live GEO. Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the new discipline for ranking in AI search engines like ChatGPT, Google AI, and Bing AI. Here's how to get started. GEO is optimizing content for AI search engines. Instead of traditional keyword matching, AI engines use semantic u
Everyone's talking about which AI model is best. Nobody's asking the harder question: does your team know how to use any of them effectively? The average team spends $240/month per seat on AI tools. Most can't point to a single workflow that's actually faster because of it. That's not a tool problem
In this assignment, I practiced creating tables with different constraints like PRIMARY KEY, NOT NULL, UNIQUE, CHECK, DEFAULT and FOREIGN KEY. CREATE TABLE students ( id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT, age INT ); CREATE TABLE employees ( id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT NOT NULL, email TEXT NOT NULL,
It is strange how little we talk about APIs now. Not because APIs matter less. They matter more than ever. Modern software is held together by APIs: SaaS products, internal platforms, mobile apps, partner integrations, automation workflows, and now AI agents calling tools over HTTP-shaped boundaries
There is a page on the internet right now that anyone can visit. The URL is public. The server is unprotected. There is no login, no password, no firewall, no encryption standing between the world and what is on it. And almost nobody on earth can see it. Not because it is hidden. Because there is no
In this assignment, I worked on modifying existing tables using ALTER TABLE. This helped me understand how to update constraints without recreating tables. ALTER TABLE customers ALTER COLUMN email SET NOT NULL; ALTER TABLE users ADD CONSTRAINT unique_username UNIQUE (username); ALTER TABLE products
If you've ever had to manually type invoice data into a spreadsheet — vendor names, totals, line items, due dates — you know how painfully slow and error-prone it is. I needed to automate this for a project and couldn't find anything that didn't require training custom ML models or setting up heavy
When You're Reading CoT, the Model Is Thinking Something Else Thinking models are everywhere now. DeepSeek-R1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Qwen3.5 — models that show you their reasoning process keep multiplying. When I run Qwen3.5-9B on an RTX 4060, the thinking block spills out lines of internal reasoning.
The problem is that many LinkedIn scraping workflows have too much friction: they depend on cookies they break the moment setup is slightly wrong they return shallow profile data they make you wait until the whole run finishes before you can use anything I wanted something simpler. So I built a Link
