The Real Python Podcast – Episode #304: Configuring a Versatile LLM Harness & Scraping the Web With Scrapy
Which is more important, the model or the "harness" around an LLM? What are ways to assemble an efficient agentic developer workflow? This week on the
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How Clients and Servers Communicate: Full Handbook on HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, REST, WebSockets, GraphQL, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers
You've built and consumed APIs. You know what a GET request is, what a JSON response looks like, and how to add an Authorization header. You've used R
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Attention-to-Asset: Building a New Economic Layer for the Attention Economy
The internet has built one of the most powerful economic systems in human history around a single scarce resource:
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Building a Zero-Knowledge & Zero-Trust Encrypted Chat with Rust & WebAssembly
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I Built an MCP Server That Gives AI Agents Real A-Share Quant Power — Here's How
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Give Claude Code and Cursor access to professional-grade
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I Fixed a Bug That Took Down Production for 3 Hours — Here's Exactly How I Built the Fix
Every developer has that one bug story. This is mine — a silent memory leak that slowly choked a Node.js API until it crashed under load, and the exac
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Jul 23, 2026
Why your agent keeps repeating facts you already corrected
Every agent I build eventually does the same thing. It repeats a fact I already corrected, stated with full confidence, as if the correction never hap
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The DevOps Team That Never Sleeps
Everyone has discovered that AI writes code fast. The harder question is when you can trust what it wrote — especially if you weren't watching while i
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Jul 23, 2026
React vs Vue vs Angular vs Svelte in 2026: Which Frontend Framework Actually Wins?
Every year the "which framework should I learn" debate comes back — and every year the answer changes a little. In 2026, the gap between React, Vue, A
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Jul 23, 2026
How ChatGPT is Changing the Way Students Learn: Is AI Replacing Traditional Education?
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Jul 23, 2026
How to Detect Event Loop Freezes in Node.js
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Jul 23, 2026
OrderHub Day 32: exactly-once Kafka consumers — a dedup row in the same DB transaction as the effect, acked only after commit
Kafka only promises at-least-once delivery to a consumer. If the app commits its database work and then crashes before its offset is committed, the br
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Jul 23, 2026
Learn FastAPI in a Single Post: A Complete Tutorial From Path Operations and Pydantic to Async Databases and Production
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FastAPI is the modern
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The kernel trick: why you never build φ(x) — K(x,y)=φ(x)·φ(y) computes an infinite-dimensional dot product for one function call
Some data is hopelessly non-linear in its own coordinates — concentric rings, XOR — and no straight line will ever split it. The textbook fix is to ma
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Image to data URI: one FileReader call, a string split, and the ~33% base64 tax that decides whether to inline
A browser can render an image straight from a string instead of a URL. A data: URI like data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgo… carries the whole file inli
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How to Add Watermarks to PDFs in the Browser with Vue 3 and pdf-lib
Watermarking a PDF — adding semi-transparent text over pages — sounds like something only desktop software handles. But with pdf-lib and a bit of canv
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An image lightbox from scratch: a centered overlay is easy — the real work is scroll-lock, focus-trap, and returning focus
A lightbox is the pattern you meet on every gallery, product page and image feed — click a thumbnail, the photo blows up into a fullscreen overlay ove
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A word search that builds itself: eight words into a 12 12 grid, crossing only where letters agree, and a drag read as a line
A word search looks like a database problem — a dictionary, a lattice, a solver — but it is really just a 2-D array of characters and a pinch of vecto
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Why I Rewrote My Reverse Proxy from Node.js to Go
If you’ve read my previous posts, you know I spent months forcing Node.js to act like a production-grade API gateway.
First, I tried building an opti
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My Commit Hook Calls an LLM on Every Commit. It Had No Timeout, So Neither Did `git commit`.
I have a prepare-commit-msg hook in this repo that shells out to Claude Code to draft the commit message from the staged diff. It's been running quiet
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