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The complete inside story behind blog2video.app I tried hiring someone to turn my blog posts into videos for YouTube, but it didn’t work out. Each video required at least five hours of editing and production, which added up to around $30K for about 50 Substack posts—making it economically infeasible
When developers hear "real-time communication," the first thing that comes to mind is usually WebSockets. But here's the thing: WebSockets are not always the best solution. Choosing the wrong real-time technology can add unnecessary complexity, infrastructure costs, and maintenance headaches. Let's
A few weekends ago we built Stax — a multi-seller template marketplace where any signed-in user can become a seller, upload Notion/Figma/Webflow/code templates, set their own price, and start collecting payouts. The platform takes a 5% cut on every paid sale. Live demo → Here's the architecture and
Most productivity discussions start with a tool recommendation. Notion. The list never ends. My current productivity system uses none of them. It's a desktop wallpaper. And a handful of empty files. I created a wallpaper with five sections: 📁 Apps & Docs 🔥 NOW ⏭️ SOON 📅 LATER ⏸️ HOLD Then I start
Automated restrictions mean I don't need to bother with self-control
Most developers think about SEO the wrong way. They write blog posts. They optimise their landing page. They add meta tags and hope Google notices. That's broadcasting. You're shouting into the void and waiting. There's a better move: interception. Find the exact moment a developer is in pain. Meet
Start with a simple schema: { "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", "title": "Order", "type": "object", "required": ["id", "amount", "customer"], "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "amount": { "type": "number" }, "customer": { "type": "object", "properties": { "email":
With ChatGPT’s help, I discovered a wealth of new tips and tricks for feeling more organized. One tip stood out to me the most.
CyberBuddy is a gamified Android app that guides everyday users through personal cybersecurity using a Gemini A2A agent. Here's the full build story. "How do I know if I am safe online?" She was a student I mentor through Linfy Academy in Strand, Cape Town. Smart. Motivated. Using the same password
The question comes up often: do you really use Claude differently depending on your subscription? On Max $200, should you use Opus at maximum effort all the time, or is there a smarter way to work? Short answer: yes, the workflow changes. Not just because of the model — because of budget psychology.
One Ruler to Measure Them All: How Language Affects LLM Quality Most discussions about LLM performance focus on the model architecture and prompting. But there's a hidden factor: the tokenizer. It determines how much of your text fits in the context window. Russian text consumes more tokens than Eng
Originally published at vatnode.dev. The version on vatnode.dev is the canonical source — refer to it for the latest content. Germany is the largest EU market for most B2B SaaS, and the German VIES node is one of the member-state paths engineering teams commonly build fallback logic around. If you a
Storage upgrades on phones can add several hundred dollars onto the total cost, but there are ways to avoid the extra expense.
A new vivo smartphone has made its silent debut in Mexico. The phone in question is the vivo T5, which is a budget 4G handset powered by the Snapdragon 6s Gen 2 chipset. One of its main highlights is the large 7,200mAh battery. The vivo T5 4G sports a 6.75-inch LCD display with a refresh rate of 120
Why we must verify configuration shifts locally before cloud deployment Welcome to the modern DevOps circus. We have all been there at 3:00 AM. You push a minor configuration shift to your staging cluster. Suddenly, the entire continuous delivery loop grinds to a halt. Your ingress is throwing 502s,
TypeScript passed it clean. The code ran. Then I ran the linter. I gave Claude Sonnet 4.6 a single prompt: "Build a NestJS users service. Authentication, registration, login, profile endpoint, admin panel." 90 seconds later I had 200 lines of NestJS. Decorators in the right places, DTOs typed correc
Blue Origin says it experienced an anomaly that led to the explosion of its New Glenn rocket and its launchpad during testing.
Third post in my "AI-assisted OSS contribution" series. The first two were about pre-fork due diligence and shipping a fix to ONNX with my own PR scanner. This one is about a harder game: security research and coordinated disclosure. For a while my AI-assisted open-source work was about contribution
If you've done any of these in the last week — Googled "decode jwt online", clicked the first result, and pasted a real token into a textbox on a domain you'd never heard of. Opened an ad-cluttered "JSON formatter" site to clean up a 2-KB payload. Pasted a row of customer data into a "CSV to JSON" c
Crisp 27in 5K Mac monitor is packed with features and some of the best HDR performance you can get for work or play Apple’s new 27in Studio Display XDR is its best monitor yet, with an exceptionally bright and gorgeous 5K screen that wants to be the pro display for Mac-wielding content creators ever