# margaret atwood

Database Rate Limiting: The Missing Piece After a Circuit Breaker

This is an extension to my previous post on Circuit Breakers. It only decides: "Should I even try calling Redis?" When the circuit is open, your application executes the fallback. For many systems, that fallback is the database. Request │ Circuit Breaker (Open) │ Database And that's where the real p

Hand-Free Navigation: India Gets Its First Cloud-Based Gesture Recognition App

Just shipped this: hand tracking via webcam, move your hand = cursor follows. make a fist, hold it = press. open palm = release. colored mist effect around the screen edges so you know it's active. inspired by that old xbox kinect menu system. tech: electron + mediapipe + webgl. desktop app, locally

Engineering a Brainrot art installation on an Orange Pi Zero 🍊

How I built a gamified, infinite-scroll video installation for the TIAT "Slop Epistemologies" exhibition—and optimized heavy web media to run smoothly on a $15 single-board computer. In David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, "The Entertainment" is a film cartridge so fatally mesmerizing that anyone w

SQL + AI: Real-World Database Solutions You Can Use Today

📦 All code examples in this article are available on GitHub: github.com/andre-carbajal/sql-ai-database-solutions Databases and AI used to live in separate worlds. Your PostgreSQL instance handled structured queries, and your ML pipeline ran somewhere else entirely. That separation is rapidly disapp

Tune spam detection for your agent mailbox

The default spam settings on an agent mailbox are a guess. They might be too loose — phishing and junk land in your support agent's inbox and your model dutifully drafts a reply to a Nigerian prince. Or they're too aggressive — a customer's reply from a slightly-misconfigured small-business mail ser

#solana#token staking#smart contract#defi#india blockchain

New Solana Token Staking Smart Contract Offers Robust Features

robust Solana Token Staking smart contract built with Anchor A robust Solana Token Staking smart contract built with Anchor. Users can stake SPL tokens to earn proportional rewards over time. Features admin configuration, reward deposits, claim-only & unstake options, two-step authority transfer, an

Why LLM Agents Fail Silently and How to Debug Them

Why LLM Agents Fail Silently and How to Debug Them Your agent returned an empty result. No exception. No error log. No status code that points anywhere useful. Just nothing. You dig through logs. The LLM call went through. The tool was invoked. The response came back. Everything looks fine and yet t

Creating a Kubernetes scoped kubeconfig by hand is 15 steps of pain. It shouldn't be.

Handing someone least-privilege access to a Kubernetes cluster means assembling a scoped kubeconfig by hand — ServiceAccount, Role, RoleBinding, token, CA, YAML. Here's the full gauntlet, and how Kubexer collapses it. A teammate needs to deploy to one namespace. A CI bot needs read-only access to po

Creating a Commerce Platform Tailored for the AI Revolution

AI agents are starting to change the assumptions behind commerce software. For a long time, ecommerce platforms were designed around human interpretation. A product page could contain a mixture of structured data, marketing copy, policy fragments, trust signals, pricing information, availability ind

India Businesses Leverage Cloud for Unified Team and Task Management

I'm working on my postgraduate of Software Engineering on PUC-RJ and I have noticed that I should be more effective just organizing my company properly. Devtype is a three people company, as we have a short team, we have tried to avoid overwhelming the workflow. However after some projects we added

We Run 9 AI Agents on 2 CPU Cores and 3.6GB RAM: The Engineering Memoir

The Pitch We run 9 AI agents on a server with 2 CPU cores and 3.6 gigabytes of RAM. There's no GPU. There's no Kubernetes cluster. There's not even a cloud VM — it's an Ubuntu box sitting in the back office of a fitness gym in China. And it works. The gym opens every day. Members get their fitness r

#bitcoin#blockchain-security#crypto-halvings#cryptocurrency#fidelity

· · CoinTelegraph

Fidelity Dismisses Fears of Bitcoin Security Deterioration After Halving Events

The asset manager argues Bitcoin's fixed supply schedule does not undermine network security, even as miners face shrinking block rewards after each halving.

· · SiliconANGLE

Enterprise AGI: The True Goal Beyond General Intelligence

We believe much of the artificial intelligence industry is chasing the wrong prize. Frontier model vendors such as Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC, they may have shifted their commercial focus toward enterprise customers, but they’ve not changed their fundamental architecture. Specifically, they’

#startups

· · Tom's Guide

Stream DR Congo vs Uzbekistan Live Without Breaking the Bank

Here's how to watch DR Congo vs Uzbekistan as the Group K minnows both look to make a push for qualification to the knockout stages of the World Cup.

· · Tom's Guide

There's a simple way to watch Panama vs England for FREE

Here's how to watch Panama vs England as Harry Kane aims to fire the Three Lions to top spot in Group L.

· · XDA Developers

Switching to DokuWiki in Docker transformed my documentation experience.

DokuWiki replaced my notes app because it does one thing perfectly: connect related information

#mobile-streaming#live-sports#football#croatia-vs-ghana

· · Tom's Guide

There's a simple way to watch Croatia vs Ghana for FREE

Here's how to watch Croatia vs Ghana as the legendary Luka Modric looks to keep his side in the competition.

· · XDA Developers

Upscaling has become an excuse for lazy game optimization, and we're all paying the price

I think the games industry is past the point of return

· · 9to5Mac

Indie App Spotlight: ‘Mirage’ brings your Mac display to your iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro, and other Macs

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. Mirage is a brand new app that brings best-in-class desktop wireless screen sharing to your entire Apple e