Your first real salary offer is the single highest-leverage conversation of your early career. One good negotiation can be worth more than a year of raises, because every future raise and bonus is calculated as a percentage of your starting number. Yet most first-job candidates either accept…
CodeBuddy: A Local AI Coding Companion I Built for a Friend 🤖 This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend. What I Built I built CodeBuddy , a small AI coding companion for a friend who is learning programming. When you're learning to code, getting stuck is…
The .env file contains all the credentials used across your application. It can prove fatal if received by any unauthorised entity. So, don’t share the credentials, or share them safely. Why .env and why should it be kept secure? To avoid unauthorised access to your services Keeping your code and…
What I Built I built CVstart—a local-first, AI-powered agentic LaTeX resume builder designed for anyone who loves the typographical beauty of LaTeX but dreads fighting syntax errors, brittle formatting, and margin spills. Demo Code hardikgaikwad / CVStart Local LLM AI Resume Builder in Latex…
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built FriendFocus is a small AI-powered study planner I built for a friend who often feels overwhelmed when there is too much to study and too little time. Instead of giving a generic timetable, FriendFocus…
How I Rediscovered Kepler's Third Law on a Phone, in 204 Lines A minimal symbolic regression engine that runs on Termux, with no GPU and no cloud. The problem with machine learning today Most ML models are black boxes. You feed them data, they give you predictions, but they never tell you why. For…
Nested Tableau containers can consume a surprising amount of dashboard-building time. In this experiment, I asked an AI to infer a layout from a screenshot, save layout JSON and use cwtwb to generate a workbook. The output deliberately used text placeholders. I explicitly allowed mocked…
If you’ve been comparing RDP vs VPS and aren’t sure which term applies to what you actually need, you’re not alone — the two get used interchangeably online even though they answer completely different questions. RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) is a way to connect to and control a computer remotely.…
PHP is not where anyone expects GPU computing to happen. I wanted to find out how far it can go without a Python sidecar, so I built php-gpu-tensors , a native PHP extension for NVIDIA GPUs. This post walks through the interesting part: training a small neural network entirely in PHP, and what an…
We run Docto24 , a German telemedicine platform: patients book online consultations, licensed physicians review medical questionnaires and issue e-prescriptions, and pharmacies fulfil orders. Almost everything that flows through the system is health data , the most sensitive category of personal…