My MCP Server's Two API Helpers Had Zero except Blocks. Every Bad Call Crashed With a Raw urllib Traceback.
I've spent the last few weeks hardening one function in my MCP server's claude -p wrapper. First a timeout fix. Then it turned out the timeout fix did
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Aug 01, 2026
Building an Automated AI-Powered Document OCR Pipeline with Python
Step 1: Initialize the pipeline (using the provided source code)
from your_ocr_pipeline_module import DocumentProcessor
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Aug 01, 2026
From Idea to AI Agent — Fast
Ship your first AI agent this week. My ebook covers everything: chatbots, SDR agents, content engines, and ops workflows. Production Python, step-by-s
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Aug 01, 2026
Software Testing Training in Chennai | QA Course
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Aug 01, 2026
My AI Agent's Temp Files Were Leaking Across Runs. Here's the Guard Pattern That Stopped It.
When an AI agent runs a multi-step pipeline, every step creates temporary files. Article drafts, image uploads, JSON payloads, log files. Over fifty r
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Aug 01, 2026
AI Agent Memory in 2026: Architectures That Actually Scale
AI Agent Memory in 2026: Architectures That Actually Scale
Your agent solved the problem in the demo. Then you gave it a follow-up question
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Aug 01, 2026
Google Travel API: Get Destination Ideas with Flight Prices as JSON in 2026
Most flight tools answer "how much to fly from A to B?" The more interesting question is "where can I even go?", and Google Travel Explore answers it
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Aug 01, 2026
LLM Chat Memory Loss: How 300 Playwright Tests Caught the Real Culprit
At 2 AM I was jolted awake by a user ticket: “I chatted with the AI for 40 minutes about my requirements, then refreshed the page — and it forgot ever
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Aug 01, 2026
Vaniq-Edge: A 34MB Local TTS Engine (~8.5M Params, 2.94% WER)
Building local conversational voice agents usually comes with a frustrating trade-off: multi-gigabyte models sound great but add 1–2 seconds of latenc
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Aug 01, 2026
Building a Multi-Agent AI for Company LinkedIn Pages - Part 5: Building the Critic Agent
Our system can now classify the topic, do the research and back it with examples. Before handing everything over to the writing agents, we first need
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Jul 31, 2026
The Streak Continues: Four More Supply Chain Attacks Hit npm and PyPI
The Streak Continues: Four More Supply Chain Attacks Hit npm and PyPI
Between early June and July 14, four more supply chain attacks hit np
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Jul 31, 2026
How to Add Sparklines to Excel in Python
Sales reports, inventory sheets, and operational dashboards often contain data that changes over time. Although the values can be compared directly, i
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Jul 31, 2026
I Built AgentLab: An Open-Source Tool to Test and Understand AI Agents
AI agents can call tools, execute workflows, and generate complex outputs—but how do we know whether they are actually reliable?
I built AgentLab, an
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Jul 31, 2026
The Bug That Crashes Your Import Is the Lucky One
This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup powered by Sentry.
You are migrating a 50,000-message Slack workspace to Zulip. Som
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Jul 31, 2026
My MCP Tool's Audit Log Was Built So a Bad Write Would Leave a Trace. The Log Itself Leaves None.
A few days ago I fixed update_article, one of the tools in this repo's MCP server, because it had a nasty shape: it took a bare integer article_id, PU
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Jul 31, 2026
My AI Commit Hook Got a Timeout Fix and an Install Fix. It Had Never Once Actually Run.
I've written three separate blog posts about hooks/prepare-commit-msg in this repo. One fixed its missing timeout handling. One found that it was neve
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Jul 31, 2026
Deploying Gradio on Ubuntu 22.04
Gradio is a Python library for wrapping any ML model in a web interface, ready to deploy and scale as an app. This guide builds a GFPGAN-powered face-
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Jul 31, 2026
Learning Python: Mastered Core Data Types! (And a question on memory allocation)
Learning Python: Mastered Python Data Types!
Understanding variables is one thing, but knowing their backend data types is the real foundation of pr
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Jul 31, 2026
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Jul 31, 2026
Decoding Opening Gaps: A Trader's Perspective
The Initial Jolt: Reading the Opening Gap
Picture this: it's 9:30 AM, and the market bell rings. Your screen lights up, and one of your sto
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Jul 31, 2026