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Privacy First: Chat with Your Medical Reports Locally using Llama-3 and MLX on Mac 🍎
Your health data is probably the most sensitive information you own. Yet, in the age of AI, most people blindly upload their blood work and MRI results to cloud-based LLMs just to get a summary. Stop right there! 🛑 In this tutorial, we are going to build a Lo…
Dispatch From the Other Side: From Scripts to Software
At the start of my career as a security engineer, I built an allow list management system for our web gateway within the security operations center (SOC) I worked in. Beyond just a script, this was a live system that a core security component relied on. Someo…
No Magic: Running Wasm Modules in Python
WebAssembly is a pretty young technology and a promising one, it has many pros (platform independent, lighter than containers) and usage scenarios (browser apps, plugin system, edge computing). WASM is designed to be language-agnostic. However, working with i…
X.509 Beyond Trust: Weaponizing Certificate Extensibility Without Breaking TLS
This suite is architected to operate entirely within the boundaries of a non‑root Android userland environment, deliberately exploiting what is permitted rather than attempting privilege escalation. By relying on native Termux packages such as OpenSSL and Pyt…
The Secret Life of JavaScript: The Async Generator
How to handle streams of data with for await...of. Timothy was rubbing his temples. On his screen was a function that looked like it had been fighting a losing battle. async function getAllUsers() { let url = '/api/users?page=1'; const allUsers = []; while (u…
⌚ Beginner-Friendly Guide 'Binary Watch' - Problem 401 (C++, Python, JavaScript)
Ever wondered how digital devices represent time using nothing but ones and zeros? This problem invites you to decode a binary watch, where LEDs represent powers of two for both hours and minutes. It is a fantastic way to practice how we can combine different…
Building a Desktop AI Chat App for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Ollama
Learn how to build an open-source desktop AI chat client that connects multiple AI providers in one application. This technical guide covers Kotlin Compose architecture, streaming responses, RAG implementation, and production patterns. The Problem: Using Chat…
Day 15 of #100DaysOfCode — Performance Optimization in React
Performance optimization is all about making your React apps run faster, smoother, and more responsive. When your UI feels snappy, users stick around longer, and that matters whether you're building a tiny side project or a large-scale production app. At the …
How I Hacked Office Politics Using a 1736 Algorithm (The Ben Franklin Effect)
As developers, we are great at optimizing code but often terrible at optimizing human relationships. We treat social interactions like unstructured data—messy, unpredictable, and often inefficient. But human behavior has an API. And in 1736, Benjamin Franklin…
I'm Solo-Devving an AI D&D Game — and Now I'm Building in Public
I've been quietly building The SoloQuest for a while now, and I think it's time to start talking about it. The SoloQuest is an AI-powered solo D&D 5e experience — basically a personal AI Dungeon Master that lets you create a character, pick a scenario, an…
GenosDB: Distributed Graph Database with Module Support
Distributed Graph Databases with AI and Geospatial Query Support Modules In the fast-paced world of web development, the ability to manage data efficiently, in real time, and in a distributed manner is more crucial than ever. GenosDB emerges as an innovative …
GenosDB Cellular Mesh: Solving P2P Network Scalability
How a cellular topology unlocks true scalability for decentralized applications Introduction: The Next Generation of P2P Networks Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks represent the future of decentralized applications — systems that don't rely on central servers, that…