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Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian

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Resetting Xbox

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How to reserve and change your WhatsApp username

WhatsApp now lets users reserve usernames ahead of the feature’s full rollout, making it possible to connect without sharing a phone number once usernames go live.

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Engineering project management without the overhead

Engineering project management is the practice of planning, tracking, and delivering software work: turning a pile of "we should do this" into scoped issues, moving them through a workflow, and knowin

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When one translation isn't enough: building konid for real language use

I wanted to tell my girlfriend 'I missed you today' in Farsi — her first language. Google Translate gave me one answer, no context, no sense of whether it sounded tender or clinical or weird. I had no

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What Did We Lose With Abundant RAM?

Reclaiming Efficiency: A Tutorial on the Core Memory Mindset In an era defined by terabytes of RAM, multi-core processors, and infinitely scalable cloud infrastructure, the concept of "reso

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What is better than your AI loop?

A blackboard architecture, modernized with event sourcing, content-addressed knowledge source (KS) firing and a few more enhancements. While working on improvements to various LLM-powered components

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LoRA Doesn't Approximate Fine-Tuning. It Changes What You Can Teach

TL;DR— Low-rank adapters are treated as a cheaper stand-in for full-parameter fine-tuning, but the rank bottleneck reshapes the optimization landscape itself. For preference optimization and distilla

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Building a Memory-Driven AI Tutor in 4 Days with Cognee

How we designed Continuum — an AI tutor that remembers students, adapts its teaching strategy, and improves over time Most AI tutors are good at answering questions. Very few are good at remembering

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Origin Part 18: The Layer That Wasn't There

The architecture I'd designed for v1 wasn't in v2. It hadn't been for months. Nobody had moved it across. Part 17 closed on an unfinished thought. The audit had surfaced the dispatcher ceiling and St

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How I removed the middleman, one phone call at a time

In the mid-2000s I worked on a content distribution platform that served over a hundred storefronts. Books, music, comics — different shops, the same underlying content, each store with its own brandi

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Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe’s hottest AI startups

Station F, a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to strengthen its positioning as a stepping sto

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How we built a live has_active_wishlist flag for Shopify (and why it was harder than it looks)

Most Shopify wishlist apps have the same quiet flaw: the wishlist data lives in the app, and the merchant's email platform never sees it. The store knows who wants what — but can't email on it. We bu

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Retrieval isn't memory: building a reasoning layer for AI

Anyone who codes with an AI agent knows the feeling. Inside a session it's sharp — it follows your patterns, respects your decisions, fixes the bug. Close the terminal, open it tomorrow, and it's a st

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50+ Final Year Project Ideas That Actually Get You Shortlisted!

Here is an uncomfortable truth. When a recruiter or a senior developer opens your resume, your final year project gets about four seconds of attention. In those four seconds, they either think "intere

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I got tired of watching 40 Kalshi tabs, so I built a self-hosted signal monitor

I kept hearing about Kalshi. The commercials, the mentions, and then one morning CNN was talking about Kalshi prediction odds like they were a weather report. So I went and looked. And I had no idea w

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NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta

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Road to Elm 1.0

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C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability

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"Software Engineering" Is Not Engineering (2005)

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