2026-04-30
The Classic Computer Vision Trick Behind Smooth Image Blending
This post explains Laplacian Pyramid Blending, a classic computer vision technique that blends images by separating fine details from broad color strokes. By using Gaussian Pyramids to blur and Laplacian...
7 Essential IP Geolocation API Features Every Developer Needs
Modern IP geolocation APIs are critical infrastructure, powering fraud prevention, personalization, and routing decisions. The best solutions go beyond location data, offering high accuracy, real-time updates, ASN intelligence, privacy detection,...
What I Learned Running Both SQL Server and PostgreSQL at Scale
SQL Server may fail over slightly faster, but PostgreSQL with Patroni offers a strong, production-grade HA stack at a much lower licensing cost.
AI Brand Visibility Might Be Measured Wrong. Here's What 6 Months of Data Suggest.
AI visibility tools measure mention rate - a binary metric that treats position #2 and position #9 the same. After 6 months of running forced ranking with reasoning across ChatGPT,...
A Long Story About How I Dug Into the PostgreSQL Source Code to Write my Own WAL Receiver
A developer’s curiosity about pg_receivewal turns into building a PostgreSQL WAL receiver, backup system, and deeper respect for C and database internals.
Git Was for Code. AI-Native Systems Need a Proof Layer.
AI is no longer just assisting software teams, it is participating in the engineering lifecycle itself. That creates a new architectural gap: we can ship faster, but we still struggle...
Building an x86 Gaming PC Without Intel, NVIDIA or AMD parts
This is an interesting challenge from the “why not?” files — [GPUSpecs] over on YouTube built a gaming PC without using a single component from NVIDIA, Intel, or AMD. That...
Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet
Great idea, guys. Let's keep all of the data in an Excel file with weak password protection PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we recount the...
Digital Marketer Then vs Now: From Campaign Planner to AI Prompt Operator
AI hasn’t ended marketing, but it has changed the job. Here’s why marketers now act as strategists, editors, filters, and prompt operators.
Iran Maps Hormuz Cables as Hybrid Warfare Threat
The IRGC just mapped seven critical undersea cables in the Strait of Hormuz. With 30% of Gulf internet traffic at stake and clear precedents for sabotage, Iran has officially weaponized...
Rocketry Helps Bitcoin Whether It Likes it Or Not
SpaceX is providing Starlink and is poised to provide Space AI services too. These two things, while seemingly unrelated to Bitcoin, help Bitcoin if we only stretch our imagination to...
AI Product Management vs Not Traditional Product Management
AI product management is not traditional PM with a model attached. It requires outcome-first thinking, eval-driven development, feedback loops, trust design, and a systems mindset.
AI Tools Read Your Code But Not Your Mind. I Built a Fix.
AI coding tools understand your syntax but not your intent. contextify-ai is an npm package that hooks into git commit, analyzes your code via AST parsing, asks what you changed...
NES Adventure Echoes Of The Unread Leaping Out On Steam This Year
We’ve been following the story of Echoes of the Unread, an upcoming NES adventure from developer Clever Cat Games and co-publishers Mega Cat Studios and 8-Bit Legit. We were impressed...
The Product Data Scientist Job I Hired for Three Years Ago Doesn't Exist Anymore
AI is automating ad-hoc analytics, forcing product data scientists to move beyond SQL and focus on strategy, rigor, and better questions.
Your Embedding Model Will Deprecate. Here's What to Do.
- Embedding model providers (OpenAI, Cohere, Google, AWS) deprecate older models on a regular cadence. When it happens, every vector in your index needs to be regenerated. - Embeddings from...
Challenges of Generating Fillable PDFs from HTML Using JavaScript
Learn why generating fillable PDFs from HTML is harder than standard HTML-to-PDF conversion and what developers can do instead.
Most Node.js Apps Using ClamAV Have the Same Bug. Here's What It Is.
Calling ClamAV from Node.js looks easy: spawn clamscan, check the exit code, done. But the standard implementation has a silent bug — exit code 2 means "scan could not complete,"...
Being an AI Lead at a 150-Person Company: Month 1–2 Survival Edition
Nobody told me the role came with a dispensary license.
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