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🚀 I Cracked the YouTube Shorts Formula
🚀 I Cracked the YouTube Shorts Formula (For DevOps Content) A few days ago, I posted a simple DevOps short. No fancy editing. No viral trend. No clickbait. Just a technical observation that engineers could instantly relate to. The Result 👇 📈 4.5K views in under 4 hours ❤️ 2.1K likes 🔥 98.7% average percentage viewed 🏆 Ranked #1 out of my last 10 videos For a niche DevOps creator, these numbers were a pleasant surprise. What Was the Video? The short was based on a simple concept: A relatable
Streaming LLM Tokens to the Browser: The Production SSE Setup
A spinner is a lie. It tells the user something is happening without telling them what. When spectr-ai generates a security report, the LLM produces text token by token over 15 to 40 seconds. If I wait for the full response and then drop it on the page, the user stares at nothing the whole time. If I stream each token as it arrives, the report writes itself in front of them, exactly like ChatGPT. Same wait, completely different feel. A while back I covered SSE for progress bars: the server sends
Building AgentGuardian: A Local-First Security Scanner for Agentic AI Workflows
AI agents are quickly moving from simple chat interfaces to systems that can use tools, access data, trigger workflows, write messages, and sometimes take actions on behalf of users. That shift is exciting, but it also creates a serious security question: How do we evaluate the risk of an AI agent before we deploy it? That question led me to build AgentGuardian, a local-first AI security web app that scans agentic AI workflows for risks such as prompt injection, tool misuse, excessive autonomy,
Githubster free tool to track your GitHub followers and unfollowers
Ever looked at your GitHub following list and wondered do these people even follow me back? I built Githubster to answer that question. It's a simple, free, open-source web app that shows you: Who doesn't follow you back — people you follow who ignore you Who you don't follow back — your fans you might have missed Full following & followers lists — with search and filtering Why I built it I was cleaning up my GitHub following list manually. Clicking profiles one by one. After 10 minutes I th
Why Bitcoin Core RPC is Too Slow for High-Frequency Trading (And How to Fix It)
If you are building algorithmic execution models for Bitcoin, you already know the pain of latency. The moment you rely on polling a standard Bitcoin Core RPC, you have lost the race. The Bottleneck Standard nodes are built for consensus and safety, not speed. When a transaction enters the mempool, the node validates it, indexes it, and writes it to disk. By the time your Python script polls the RPC and receives the JSON, proprietary trading desks with direct network access have already executed
Why Reading Food Labels Shouldn't Feel Like Decoding a Chemistry Exam
Millions of people with dietary restrictions struggle with food labels every day. Here's the real problem — and how we built SafeScan to fix it. The Hidden Struggle at Every Grocery Aisle If you've ever stood in a grocery store, squinting at a tiny ingredient list, trying to figure out if something is safe to eat — you're not alone. For the 79 million Americans with food allergies, Millions of people looking for halal options, the growing community of vegans and vegetarians, and families managin