AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS AI/ML Scholars program, Agent Plugin for AWS Serverless, and more (March 30, 2026)
Last week, what excited me most was the launch of the 2026 AWS AI & ML Scholars program by Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AWS Agentic AI, to provide free AI education to up to 100,000 learners worldwide. The program has two phases: a Challenge phase where you’ll learn foundational generative AI skills
Keep_AS — The System That Refuses to Let You Miss Opportunities
This is a submission for the Notion MCP Challenge There is a moment we all know. You find an opportunity. You tell yourself: Later becomes tomorrow. And nothing crashes. Just… silence. And another opportunity dies. Keep_AS was born from that frustration. Not because we lack talent. execution systems
Your Rebrand Took Four Weeks. The CMS Updates Took Three Months. Here Is Why.
The rebrand was supposed to take six weeks. New logo, new color palette, new messaging framework, new domain. The design team finished in four. The copywriters delivered the new voice guide in three. The developers rebuilt the header and footer components in five days. Then someone opened HubSpot an
I turned a notebook full of handwritten math into a LaTeX paper — here's how
Here's a scenario I'll bet some of you recognize: you've been working through a problem by hand for weeks. Your notebook is full of half-finished derivations, scribbled integrals, matrices with question marks next to them. And now you need to turn that mess into a proper LaTeX document. I had exactl
Expo Router Has a Free API That Most Developers Dont Know About
Expo Router brings file-based routing to React Native with deep linking, typed routes, and universal app support. app/ index.tsx # / about.tsx # /about posts/[id].tsx # /posts/123 import { useLocalSearchParams } from "expo-router"; export default function Post() { const { id } = useLocalSearchParams
I Published a Book. Here's Why.
I wrote a book. It's called Don't Replace Me: A Survival Guide to the AI Apocalypse, and it's available right now on Amazon in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover. The announcement for Don't Replace Me survival guide dropped March 28, 2026 - press release picked up through AP News and everything. 235 p
HubSpot API Autopsy: What Breaks When Agents Try to Use It
HubSpot scores 4.6/10 on the AN Score — the lowest-rated CRM in Rhumb's dataset. A $30B platform used by 228,000+ companies. Execution 5.3, Access Readiness 3.5, Confidence 95%. This autopsy examines why. Quick verdict: Use HubSpot when the operator already has it and the agent needs to span CRM + m
AI Chat Widgets: Managing Product and Policy Answers at Scale in WordPress
I built this plugin to solve a common WordPress problem: most chat widgets can generate text, but they do not actually know your site content, product catalog, or support policies. On WooCommerce stores, that usually means bad recommendations, invented answers, and a support burden that never really
Can you stand the rain?
This is a submission for the 2026 WeCoded Challenge: Echoes of Experience The story of how Alicia Keys accidentally got me a career in tech That's what New Edition asked about love and life. I was listening to the song while reading about the WeCoded challenge, and it made me realize the rain in my
Why Enterprise Should Embrace Open Source
Open Source Is Not a Charity. It's a Competitive Edge. Most executives hear "open source" and think: free software made by volunteers. That assumption leaves money on the table. Open source is a global pool of production-grade software, maintained by thousands of contributors, that your team can use
Quantify Your Life: Building a High-Performance Health Data Lake with InfluxDB, Grafana, and Python 🚀
We live in an age of "The Quantified Self." Between our Apple Watches tracking heart rate variability, Strava recording every weekend century ride, and MyFitnessPal logging every gram of protein, we are generating gigabytes of personal health data. But here is the problem: this data is siloed. If yo
Mamba-UNet: UNet-Like Pure Visual Mamba for Medical Image Segmentation
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O que aprendi usando Lovable por 8 meses para criar sites bonitos, padronizados e fáceis de manter
Nesse final de semana decidi dar um upgrade no meu website e em poucas horas fui capaz de me repaginar a identidade visual utilizando Lovable. Bonito, estruturado, com vídeo no hero gerado por IA — e sem escrever CSS na mão. Mas antes de chegar lá, precisei resolver um problema que a maioria ignora
From Spreadsheets to Insights: How Excel Powers Real-World Data Analysis
A technical look at what Excel really is, where it wins in production workflows, and the formulas analysts lean on when money and operations are on the line. In a world of warehouses, notebooks, and orchestration pipelines, Microsoft Excel remains the default “operating system” for ad‑hoc analysis,
How do you measure the cost of your team doing things the slow way?
We recently did an exercise with a 10-person service team: tracked how many hours each person spent on tasks they knew could be done faster — reformatting reports, searching Slack for links, re-explaining processes to new hires. The average was 5 hours per person per week. At a $50/hr blended cost,
I Built AI-Powered Forms That Write Directly to Notion — Using MCP at Runtime
This is a submission for the Notion MCP Challenge Formlink — AI-powered intake system. Replaces static forms with natural conversations, writes structured data directly into Notion via MCP. Instead of a 20-field form 60% of people abandon, Formlink has a 3-minute conversation — asking smart follow-u
Why Your SFTP Transfer Is Stuck at 2 MB/s (and the Fix Is a Protocol from 1983)
Two minutes to copy a 274 MB file to a VM running on localhost. Not over the internet. Not to a cloud instance across the country. Localhost. The same machine, loopback, zero network latency. That was the experience a user reported in issue #290 on cubic, a lightweight CLI for managing QEMU/KVM virt
Self-hosting UK address lookup without paying per-query fees
UK address lookup APIs are convenient but they come with a cost - literally. Most services charge per query. If you're processing high volumes or just want predictable costs, those fees add up fast. If you already hold a Royal Mail PAF licence - or can get one - you have access to the full dataset o
State Isolation: Workspaces vs File Layouts - When to Use Each
Day 7 of my Terraform journey focused on one of the most practical Infrastructure as Code questions: how do you separate environments like dev, staging, and production without letting them interfere with each other? Terraform gives two main answers: workspaces file layouts I implemented both, compar
Alter Tables
Hi! 1. You have a table customers with a column email that currently allows NULL values. Modify the table so that future entries must always have an email. ALTER TABLE customers ALTER COLUMN email SET NOT NULL; here the alter is used to set the column email that should not be blank. 2. In the users