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Why AGI is a Pipe Dream and what we should build instead

Feb 12, 20269 min read

Django pocket reference guide

Nov 29, 202521 min read

Golang: Building a windows parental control app using wails

C# is one of my favorite languages; if you're building Windows apps, you're probably better off with C#, but I'm kind of rusty, and WinForms is old school now, so I've no choice but to use WPF 😔. The

Mar 9, 202616 min read

Workhorse AI models you probably ignored

Nov 20, 20254 min read

~Zod and React Hook Form

Aug 30, 20257 min read

Hitchhiker's guide to AI for beginners

This will be more of an FAQ-style article, which is divergent from my regular content, but I wanted to write a guide for non-technical people or people unfamiliar with AI. You hear all these buzzwords

Aug 25, 202512 min read

Engineering 101: Understanding bits and bytes

In my early years, when my age was still single digits, I was tearing apart electrical things like there’s no tomorrow. I was trying to understand how they tick. How do they work? Where do sounds and pictures come from on TV? What happens when this V...

May 18, 202527 min read

Build a basic login system using Django

Many know and love Django admin (myself included). The problem is that it can be somewhat rigid, and well, let's be honest looks like it’s from 2010. Nevertheless, in Django, it’s stupidly simple to implement your own auth by extending the framework’...

Apr 14, 202511 min read

Demystifying the dark arts of AI Agents 🤖

Everyone is talking about AI agents; how great they are, and how they'll replace developers. Both hold some truth, but there's no need for concern. I am not an AI expert, but for the last few years, I have worked with almost every model that exists f...

Feb 10, 202514 min read

Tunnel Syndrome: AI's biggest weakness?

As a developer, are you worried that AI is going to replace you? This is a valid concern, but let me put your mind at ease, chances are this is highly unlikely in 2025, or at any point in the near future. Why am I so confident?! AI Tunnel Syndrome is...

Jan 13, 20258 min read

PostgreSQL for a rusty MySQL brain

I come from a PHP background, hence why I prefer MySQL but when you dealing with Django and other Python projects, PostgreSQL seems to be the most popular and preferred DB server. I have used PostgreSQL now and then throughout my career, it just feel...

Dec 12, 20246 min read

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