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PostgreSQL Error 2200C: Invalid Use of Escape Character PostgreSQL error 2200C (invalid_use_of_escape_character) is raised when an escape character is used incorrectly within a SQL string context, most commonly in LIKE or SIMILAR TO pattern matching clauses. This error is closely tied to how Postgre
The most common Linux question I see from developers coming from a Windows or macOS background is some variation of "why does everything say Permission denied?" The answer is always the same: Linux permissions are strict by default and unforgiving when misconfigured. The good news is that once you c
I Had 6 Side Projects Open in One Browser Window. Here's What That Was Costing Me. I counted once, on a normal Tuesday. 41 tabs, one window, six different side projects. A repo here, a localhost there, a Stripe dashboard, two Notion pages, a half-read Stack Overflow thread I was scared to close. I w
Imagine you lose your work laptop on a commute. It holds 3 years of customer PII, internal product roadmaps, and access keys to your company's cloud infrastructure. Without full disk encryption enabled, anyone who finds the device can access every file in 10 minutes or less with a free bootable USB
Most AI agent systems start with a simple idea: "Let's give the Agent Memory". At first, this usually means saving previous messages, retrieving similar chunks, and injecting them back into the prompt. That works for demos. It does not work reliably for real organizational workflows. Because chat hi
The Framework Laptop 13 Pro is delayed. The new 13-inch Framework flagship was set to launch in June, but shipments from the first batch are now expected in July - and there's still a chance some shipments could slip to early August. If you're not in the first batch, your Laptop 13 Pro shifts from a
Bluesky will be getting "communities," which will function as smaller spaces where you can "go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff" sometime this year, according to head of product Alex Benzer. They will be built on the decentralized AT Protocol that underpins Bluesky, with
I wanted to see how both models would fare when dealing with OpenSCAD, and it was genuinely quite impressive.
It's still a great CPU, but its best days are behind it.
Google's Gemini in Chrome is now available in many more countries than before. The AI chatbot is now built into the browser on desktop and iOS in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. The full list of countries is available here. Unfortunately, the EU still isn't getting it. Maybe later. Gemin
Our smartphones can do a lot, but perhaps one of the most underrated things they can do is offer some serious peace of mind for families. That’s a big part of the reason that location sharing apps have been popular for years, but many of them can also be a privacy nightmare. That’s the problem HeyPo
When you’re using Apple hardware, you just want things to work – to feel native and seamless – and that’s exactly what MSI had in mind with the PRO MAX 271UPXW12G monitor. Boasting a pixel-dense 4K resolution on a 27-in screen with a QD-OLED display, this MSI monitor is designed for easy macOS integ
Have you ever wanted to put up a website without worrying about managing a web server, paying for hosting or wrestling with some complex configurations? There's good news: Azure Storage can host a static website for almost nothing, and you can get your hands on it. In this blog post, I will tell you
Executive Summary I built BurnLink, an open-source file sharing service that prioritizes privacy through client-side encryption and zero-knowledge architecture. This article outlines the technical approach, design decisions, and lessons learned from developing a production-grade privacy-focused appl
I pointed a scanner I wrote at my own network traffic for one afternoon. It came back with eight AI services I'd never sanctioned, running quietly in the background. One of them was DeepSeek, which routes data to servers in China. No alert fired. No DLP rule tripped. Nothing in the stack had flagged
I've written a lot of scrapers. The HTML parsing part is never the interesting part — and it's always the part that takes the longest. You know what data you want. You know where it lives on the page. Getting it out shouldn't require 40 lines of cheerio and a prayer. So I built StructAPI. You send a
Key Takeaways 82% of developers default to OpenAI GPT models (Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 2025), but 60-70% of production API calls don't need a frontier model. Switching classification calls from GPT-4o to DeepSeek V3 saves 18x on input tokens ($2.50 → $0.14 per million). Combining model routi
I've spent the last few years auditing Upwork profiles — first manually for clients, Here's what I found, ranked by frequency. 1. Main keyword used only 1–2 times total (25/30) The algorithm needs repetition to understand what you do. Not spammy repetition — 2. Title isn't a real autocomplete query
Companies Have Been Failing at This for 30 Years — AI Won't Change That by Itself Clients come to me and say, "We want to build a company-wide AI knowledge base." I used to take those projects on the spot. Today, nine times out of ten, my first move is to talk them out of it. It's not that knowledge
How to Get Hermes Agent to Use AgentMail (And Why It's Harder Than It Should Be) Someone on Reddit asked me this today, and honestly, we went through the exact same struggle. So here's the full breakdown of what's going wrong and how to fix it. You've set up AgentMail. You've got your API key. You'v
