Transform Old Laptops into Home Lab Servers with VMs
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Remember to unplug the battery, and your laptop server will be just fine
Tata 1mg said its approach of building integrated healthcare platform is delivering results and now planning an expansion of retail presence
Windows 11 keeps getting better, but whenever it does, it seems like it's thanks to third-party developers rather than its in-house teams.
Not much has changed in this year's Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro, compared to its predecessor (review here). The new wearable still has a 1.74-inch display, but it's brighter at up to 2,000 nits. It also still comes with the same two-pin magnetic charger in the box. The Smart Band 10 Pro is also a bit t
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Most of us learned databases with auto-increment IDs. id INT AUTO_INCREMENT is in every tutorial. It works — until it doesn't. Auto-increment integers are fast, small (4 bytes), and naturally ordered. For a single-database app with one writer, they're perfect. But real systems rarely stay that simpl
The complete inside story behind blog2video.app I tried hiring someone to turn my blog posts into videos for YouTube, but it didn’t work out. Each video required at least five hours of editing and production, which added up to around $30K for about 50 Substack posts—making it economically infeasible
When developers hear "real-time communication," the first thing that comes to mind is usually WebSockets. But here's the thing: WebSockets are not always the best solution. Choosing the wrong real-time technology can add unnecessary complexity, infrastructure costs, and maintenance headaches. Let's
A few weekends ago we built Stax — a multi-seller template marketplace where any signed-in user can become a seller, upload Notion/Figma/Webflow/code templates, set their own price, and start collecting payouts. The platform takes a 5% cut on every paid sale. Live demo → Here's the architecture and
Most productivity discussions start with a tool recommendation. Notion. The list never ends. My current productivity system uses none of them. It's a desktop wallpaper. And a handful of empty files. I created a wallpaper with five sections: 📁 Apps & Docs 🔥 NOW ⏭️ SOON 📅 LATER ⏸️ HOLD Then I start
Automated restrictions mean I don't need to bother with self-control
Most developers think about SEO the wrong way. They write blog posts. They optimise their landing page. They add meta tags and hope Google notices. That's broadcasting. You're shouting into the void and waiting. There's a better move: interception. Find the exact moment a developer is in pain. Meet
Start with a simple schema: { "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", "title": "Order", "type": "object", "required": ["id", "amount", "customer"], "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "amount": { "type": "number" }, "customer": { "type": "object", "properties": { "email":
With ChatGPT’s help, I discovered a wealth of new tips and tricks for feeling more organized. One tip stood out to me the most.
CyberBuddy is a gamified Android app that guides everyday users through personal cybersecurity using a Gemini A2A agent. Here's the full build story. "How do I know if I am safe online?" She was a student I mentor through Linfy Academy in Strand, Cape Town. Smart. Motivated. Using the same password
The question comes up often: do you really use Claude differently depending on your subscription? On Max $200, should you use Opus at maximum effort all the time, or is there a smarter way to work? Short answer: yes, the workflow changes. Not just because of the model — because of budget psychology.
One Ruler to Measure Them All: How Language Affects LLM Quality Most discussions about LLM performance focus on the model architecture and prompting. But there's a hidden factor: the tokenizer. It determines how much of your text fits in the context window. Russian text consumes more tokens than Eng
Originally published at vatnode.dev. The version on vatnode.dev is the canonical source — refer to it for the latest content. Germany is the largest EU market for most B2B SaaS, and the German VIES node is one of the member-state paths engineering teams commonly build fallback logic around. If you a
Storage upgrades on phones can add several hundred dollars onto the total cost, but there are ways to avoid the extra expense.
A new vivo smartphone has made its silent debut in Mexico. The phone in question is the vivo T5, which is a budget 4G handset powered by the Snapdragon 6s Gen 2 chipset. One of its main highlights is the large 7,200mAh battery. The vivo T5 4G sports a 6.75-inch LCD display with a refresh rate of 120