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Full-stack developer working with TypeScript, React, and blockchain. Interested in AI-powered dev workflows and open-source tooling.

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs V4 Flash: Beats Opus 5 on DeepSWE, 4.3x the Output Price
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs V4 Flash: Beats Opus 5 on DeepSWE, 4.3x the Output Price

#ai #llm #machinelearning #programming
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Is NIST P-256 Backdoored? Its Seed Was a 1997 Unix Timestamp
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Is NIST P-256 Backdoored? Its Seed Was a 1997 Unix Timestamp

#security #cryptography #ai #programming
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Mistral Timestral Forecasts in 140 ms on CPU. Here's How to Run It in Python
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Mistral Timestral Forecasts in 140 ms on CPU. Here's How to Run It in Python

#ai #machinelearning #python #datascience
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How to Run Tencent Hy-Memory-30B-A3B Locally (It Beats Opus 5 by 0.87 Points)
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How to Run Tencent Hy-Memory-30B-A3B Locally (It Beats Opus 5 by 0.87 Points)

#ai #llm #machinelearning #agents
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PostgreSQL 19 Release Date Moved to Nov 19 After AI Review Found Too Many Bugs
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PostgreSQL 19 Release Date Moved to Nov 19 After AI Review Found Too Many Bugs

#postgres #database #ai #programming
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Linus Torvalds Calls Rules That Police AI Tools 'Utterly Stupid'. Here's Linux's Rule Instead
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Linus Torvalds Calls Rules That Police AI Tools 'Utterly Stupid'. Here's Linux's Rule Instead

#discuss #linux #ai #opensource
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How to Run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next FP4 Locally (It Needs Blackwell and 55 Env Vars)
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How to Run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next FP4 Locally (It Needs Blackwell and 55 Env Vars)

#ai #machinelearning #llm #qwen
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How to Run Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Locally: You Need 128GB, Not a Blackwell GPU
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How to Run Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Locally: You Need 128GB, Not a Blackwell GPU

#ai #machinelearning #llm #nvidia
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Firefox Enterprise Is Here. How to Get Its AI Controls Free with policies.json
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Firefox Enterprise Is Here. How to Get Its AI Controls Free with policies.json

#firefox #webdev #security #opensource
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JPEG XL vs AVIF in 2026: Chrome Ships JXL, but AVIF Still Makes Smaller Files
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JPEG XL vs AVIF in 2026: Chrome Ships JXL, but AVIF Still Makes Smaller Files

#webdev #frontend #performance #html
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EmbeddingGemma 2 Speech-to-Text: 1 Hour of Audio in 12.6s on an 8 GB MacBook Air
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EmbeddingGemma 2 Speech-to-Text: 1 Hour of Audio in 12.6s on an 8 GB MacBook Air

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #python
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Best Coding Font in 2026: Iosevka Fits 20% More Code Than JetBrains Mono
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Best Coding Font in 2026: Iosevka Fits 20% More Code Than JetBrains Mono

#discuss #programming #productivity #vscode
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pg_vectorsearch vs pgvector HNSW: 42 Hours vs 49 Minutes. Here's the Catch
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pg_vectorsearch vs pgvector HNSW: 42 Hours vs 49 Minutes. Here's the Catch

#postgres #ai #database #machinelearning
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Are Passkeys a Trap? How to Back Them Up So a Lost Phone Can't Lock You Out
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Are Passkeys a Trap? How to Back Them Up So a Lost Phone Can't Lock You Out

#discuss #security #webdev #programming
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Google Is Linking Your Phone Number to Every Android Account. How to Turn It Off
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Google Is Linking Your Phone Number to Every Android Account. How to Turn It Off

#privacy #android #security #google
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How to Run LFM2.5-24B-A2B Locally: Only 2B Active, Still Needs 14.5 GB of RAM
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How to Run LFM2.5-24B-A2B Locally: Only 2B Active, Still Needs 14.5 GB of RAM

#ai #llm #machinelearning #opensource
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uv_build vs hatchling vs setuptools: Don't Ship uv_build in a Python Library
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uv_build vs hatchling vs setuptools: Don't Ship uv_build in a Python Library

#python #opensource #devops #linux
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Character.ai Filed for Bankruptcy. How to Export Your Chats Before the Sale
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Character.ai Filed for Bankruptcy. How to Export Your Chats Before the Sale

#ai #privacy #llm #tutorial
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Firefox Download Failed at 99%? How to Resume It Instead of Starting Over
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Firefox Download Failed at 99%? How to Resume It Instead of Starting Over

#productivity #linux #tutorial #webdev
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QGIS Banned AI-Generated Code. Here's an AI Policy Your Project Can Copy
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QGIS Banned AI-Generated Code. Here's an AI Policy Your Project Can Copy

#discuss #opensource #ai #github
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Cloudflare clef-omni: The Open Jev Alternative That Never Writes Text
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Cloudflare clef-omni: The Open Jev Alternative That Never Writes Text

#ai #cloudflare #llm #opensource
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WebSockets vs SSE vs Long Polling: WebSockets Won. Use SSE Anyway
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WebSockets vs SSE vs Long Polling: WebSockets Won. Use SSE Anyway

#webdev #javascript #programming #backend
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Youtu-Parsing-Omni vs MinerU and PaddleOCR-VL: Is a 5B PDF Parser Worth It?
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Youtu-Parsing-Omni vs MinerU and PaddleOCR-VL: Is a 5B PDF Parser Worth It?

#ai #machinelearning #rag #opensource
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How to Run Liquid AI's d1-omni-600M on a Raspberry Pi (It Never Writes a Word)
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How to Run Liquid AI's d1-omni-600M on a Raspberry Pi (It Never Writes a Word)

#ai #llm #raspberrypi #opensource
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How to Run LiquidAI d1-3B Locally (It's a Vision Model That Can't Talk)
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How to Run LiquidAI d1-3B Locally (It's a Vision Model That Can't Talk)

#ai #llm #machinelearning #opensource
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Is macOS Still Unix? Apple Has Dropped Off the UNIX Register Front Page
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Is macOS Still Unix? Apple Has Dropped Off the UNIX Register Front Page

#discuss #macos #unix #linux
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Python 3.15 vs 3.14 vs 3.13: I Benchmarked It. The JIT Barely Helped.
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Python 3.15 vs 3.14 vs 3.13: I Benchmarked It. The JIT Barely Helped.

#python #performance #programming #benchmark
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AI Coding Tools Made Us Faster. They Also Made Programming Lonely.
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AI Coding Tools Made Us Faster. They Also Made Programming Lonely.

#discuss #ai #career #mentalhealth
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Cloudflare Workers AI Free Tier Can Run Out in 35 Messages. I Did the Math.
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Cloudflare Workers AI Free Tier Can Run Out in 35 Messages. I Did the Math.

#ai #cloudflare #selfhosted #tutorial
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Claude Code Rounded Money Wrong in 5 of 10 Runs. An 11-Line CLAUDE.md Fixed It.
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Claude Code Rounded Money Wrong in 5 of 10 Runs. An 11-Line CLAUDE.md Fixed It.

#discuss #ai #programming #productivity
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DuckDB 2.0 vs 1.5: Is It Really 40x Faster? I Benchmarked It
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DuckDB 2.0 vs 1.5: Is It Really 40x Faster? I Benchmarked It

#database #python #performance #datascience
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Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo Isn't 7B: The VRAM You Actually Need to Run It Locally
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Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo Isn't 7B: The VRAM You Actually Need to Run It Locally

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #llm
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Deno Has One Year Left. Node Won Without a Fight.
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Deno Has One Year Left. Node Won Without a Fight.

#discuss #javascript #webdev #node
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Why your quantized LLM loses its MTP heads and how to keep them
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Why your quantized LLM loses its MTP heads and how to keep them

#machinelearning #llm #python #quantization
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How to build reliable geo-restrictions that actually hold up in production
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How to build reliable geo-restrictions that actually hold up in production

#webdev #security #backend #devops
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Why your VPS might be part of a botnet — and how to find out
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Why your VPS might be part of a botnet — and how to find out

#security #devops #linux #sysadmin
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How to Fix Tool-Use Loops in Autonomous Coding Agents
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How to Fix Tool-Use Loops in Autonomous Coding Agents

#ai #agents #python #debugging
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How to Work Around MySQL's View Subquery Limitation (Bug #11472)
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How to Work Around MySQL's View Subquery Limitation (Bug #11472)

#mysql #database #sql #webdev
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Why your browser multitrack audio drifts out of sync (and how to fix it)
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Why your browser multitrack audio drifts out of sync (and how to fix it)

#webaudio #javascript #webdev #audio
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Why LLM Coding Agents Drift on Long Back End Tasks (and How to Fix It)
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Why LLM Coding Agents Drift on Long Back End Tasks (and How to Fix It)

#ai #llm #backend #debugging
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How to Fix Context Loss in Multi-Step AI Agent Workflows
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How to Fix Context Loss in Multi-Step AI Agent Workflows

#ai #agents #python #debugging
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How to do partial page updates without shipping a framework
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How to do partial page updates without shipping a framework

#webdev #html #javascript #htmx
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Migrating off Google Analytics: Umami vs Plausible vs Fathom
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Migrating off Google Analytics: Umami vs Plausible vs Fathom

#webdev #privacy #analytics #opensource
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Why Your PyTorch Training Crawls on a Beefy GPU (And How to Fix It)
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Why Your PyTorch Training Crawls on a Beefy GPU (And How to Fix It)

#pytorch #performance #machinelearning #gpu
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How to sandbox AI coding agents without crippling them
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How to sandbox AI coding agents without crippling them

#ai #security #devops #docker
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Why your bash scripts keep breaking — and how to escape the trap
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Why your bash scripts keep breaking — and how to escape the trap

#bash #ruby #shell #devops
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Why one-shot LLM security audits keep missing real bugs
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Why one-shot LLM security audits keep missing real bugs

#security #ai #devops #opensource
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How to Defend Your Codebase Against GitHub Repo Poisoning Attacks
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How to Defend Your Codebase Against GitHub Repo Poisoning Attacks

#security #github #devops #supplychain
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sp.h and the eternal quest to fix C's standard library
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sp.h and the eternal quest to fix C's standard library

#c #programming #opensource #systemsprogramming
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Bumblebee vs OSV-Scanner: Two Takes on Supply Chain Scanning
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Bumblebee vs OSV-Scanner: Two Takes on Supply Chain Scanning

#security #supplychain #devops #npm
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How to cut Node.js memory usage by 40% in self-hosted apps
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How to cut Node.js memory usage by 40% in self-hosted apps

#node #performance #selfhosted #debugging
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Fixing yt-dlp Errors When Your JS Interpreter Gets Deprecated
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Fixing yt-dlp Errors When Your JS Interpreter Gets Deprecated

#webdev #javascript #devops #tutorial
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Migrating Away from Claude: What Actually Works
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Migrating Away from Claude: What Actually Works

#ai #webdev #productivity #llm
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Why LLMs Fail at OpenSCAD Code Generation (and How to Fix It)
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Why LLMs Fail at OpenSCAD Code Generation (and How to Fix It)

#llm #openscad #ai #tutorial
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SKIP: Not a developer-focused topic
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SKIP: Not a developer-focused topic

#skip
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How to Safely Trigger API Calls from an Email Link
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How to Safely Trigger API Calls from an Email Link

#webdev #javascript #security #api
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llms.txt and the Quiet Pact Between Sites and Crawlers
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llms.txt and the Quiet Pact Between Sites and Crawlers

#webdev #ai #llm #seo
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Why your AI agent loops forever (and how to break the cycle)
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Why your AI agent loops forever (and how to break the cycle)

#ai #agents #python #debugging
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How to fix OOM crashes when running large open-source LLMs locally
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How to fix OOM crashes when running large open-source LLMs locally

#llm #python #machinelearning #performance
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Privacy-First Analytics: Migrating from Google Analytics to Umami, Plausible, or Fathom
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Privacy-First Analytics: Migrating from Google Analytics to Umami, Plausible, or Fathom

#webdev #privacy #analytics #opensource
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