Category: Software

The cursor blinks. The prompt box waits. You type: “Write a React component that fetches user data and displays it in a table.” Thirty seconds later, you have working code. Copy, paste, commit. Ship it. This is how most developers use AI today. As a syntax machine. A glorified autocomplete that speaks JavaScript instead of…

If you’re looking to deploy powerful AI tools, you’ve likely faced a key challenge: how to unlock their full potential without compromising the security of your sensitive data. Most platforms push everything to the cloud, which feels convenient at first but quickly raises red flags when you’re dealing with customer records, financial data, or internal…

Tripo AI Turn images and text into 3D models instantly with AI. Explore more at Textideo. Why AI Animation is the Future Animation has always been exciting—but let’s be honest, it’s time-consuming and expensive. Sketching, painting, editing… it can take months to complete even a short clip. Enter AI filmmaking. In 2025, tools like Textideo…

After scanning the barcode, it is a 13-digit numerical string. To cope with scanning errors, barcodes have a “check and verify” method used to verify whether the barcode is correct. The specific calculation rules are: Extract the first 12 digits of a 13-digit string, add the odd digits to obtain S1, add the even digits…

In many cases of Android applications employing Asynctask, the Activity that creates the Asynctask, may finish before the background job is actually done. In fact while the Asynctask is doing its job in the background, if we rotate the screen of the device, the previous Activity which created this Asynctask will be destroyed and a…

Have you ever found yourself staring at a production issue, wondering “What the hell happened here?” You know something went wrong, but the system has no memory of what actually occurred. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. In my years of building distributed systems, I’ve encountered this frustration countless times. Traditional architectures, while familiar…

In part 3 of our System Design series, we’re tackling caching and load balancing — the unsung heroes of performance. Without them, systems crumble under scale. We’ll cover: Caching – App/DB/CDN; write-through/write-back, TTLs Cache Invalidation – TTLs, versioning, stampede protection Load Balancing – L4/L7, round-robin, least-connections, hashing 1. Caching TL;DR: Caching is your first lever…

What is ACP (Agent Communication Protocol)? The Agent Communication Protocol (ACP) is an open standard designed to enable interoperable, low-latency communication between AI agents, regardless of the framework, programming language, or runtime environment they’re built on Think of ACP as the HTTP for AI agents a lightweight, REST-native protocol that allows agents to discover, message,…

This article describes a few settings that are useful when running tests with parallel_tests, especially for reproducing and investigating failures that occur during CI runs. parallel_tests In CI environments, we often run RSpec in parallel to speed things up. For that, there’s a gem called parallel_tests. It’s very handy for utilizing multi-core CPUs efficiently. While…

Here’s what happened when I got tired of unfair drawing games The Problem Was Driving Me Crazy You know those online drawing games? The ones where you spend five minutes making a perfect cat and nobody guesses it. But then your friend draws three lines and wins because their buddy “gets it.” That happened to…