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How to Get Started with PocketBase: Build a Lightweight Backend in Minutes

Manish Shivanandhan |
If you’re a developer looking for a simple, fast, and self-hosted backend, PocketBase might be exactly what you need. It’s an open-source backend written in Go that lets you set up a complete backend with database, authentication, file storage, and ...... read more

Harvard CS50 prof David J. Malan on why you should learn programming slowly [Podcast #197]

Beau Carnes |
Dr. David J. Malan teaches computer science at Harvard. Over the past decade, millions of people have taken his CS50 course both in person and online. He joins us to talk about: Why he still recommends learning the C programming language in 2026 Ho...... read more

How to Implement Dependency Injection in FastAPI

Nneoma Uche |
Several languages and frameworks depend on dependency injection—no pun intended. Go, Angular, NestJS, and Python's FastAPI all use it as a core pattern. If you've been working with FastAPI, you've likely encountered dependencies in action. Perhaps yo...... read more

From Pixels to Predictions: How GPUs Started Powering Modern AI

Manish Shivanandhan |
When people think of artificial intelligence, they imagine complex models, data centers, and cloud servers. What most don’t realize is that the real engine behind this AI revolution started in a place few expected: inside the humble gaming PC. The sa...... read more

How Bluetooth Socket Settings Power Android’s Low Power Island: A Friendly Deep Dive into AOSP’s Hidden Energy Saver

Nikheel Vishwas Savant |
Picture this: you’re sitting in a café with your laptop open, phone on the table, smartwatch buzzing every few minutes, and Bluetooth earbuds playing music. From your perspective, life is peaceful. From your phone’s perspective, it’s juggling a ridic...... read more

The Secret Life of Your CPU: Exploring the Low Power Island in Android Bluetooth

Nikheel Vishwas Savant |
If your phone were a person, it would probably be that overachieving friend who cannot sit still. The kind who insists they are relaxing while secretly running errands, replying to messages, and checking the weather at the same time. Inside your Andr...... read more

How to Keep LLM Outputs Predictable Using Pydantic Validation

Manish Shivanandhan |
Large language models are powerful, but they can also be unpredictable. They might generate long explanations when you expect a short summary, skip fields in a JSON output, or change the format completely from one request to another. When you’re buil...... read more

What is TOON? How Token-Oriented Object Notation Could Change How AI Sees Data

Tapas Adhikary |
JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, was popularized by Douglas Crockford in early 2000. Since then, there’s been no looking back. JSON has become the standardized data exchange format between client and server technologies. JSON was built for humans...... read more

System Design Patterns in Android Bluetooth [Full Handbook]

Nikheel Vishwas Savant |
If you’ve ever opened the Android Bluetooth source code, you might know this feeling. You go in with the calm confidence of a developer who just wants to understand how things work. You open BluetoothAdapter.java and think, “Ah, this looks clean.” Th...... read more

How to Solve 5 Common RAG Failures with Knowledge Graphs

Kamal Kishore |
You may have built a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline to connect a vector store to a powerful LLM. And RAG pipelines are incredibly effective at grounding models in factual, up-to-date knowledge. But if you've worked with them long enoug...... read more