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13 days ago

We're thrilled to announce our newest challenge with GitHub! Running through June 7, the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge invites you to finally give that abandoned side project, challenge submission, or hackathon creation the love it deserves. GitHub is looking for ways to empower builders to fini

Open Source Toolkit for Building AI Agents in 2026

13 days ago

It used to take a lot of effort to get your first PR merged in open source. Now you can ship something real in a weekend thanks to coding agents like Claude Code. But that also means the noise went way up. I saw the wave of openclaw repos a while back but the ratio of hype to actual maintenance is q

Graphify + code-review-graph: Build a Self-Updating Knowledge Graph for Claude Code and other AI ...

17 days ago

Every developer working with LLMs on a large codebase eventually hits the same wall: context windows are finite, but codebases are not. You start a new AI coding session, ask about the payment flow — and your agent starts re-reading dozens of files just to get oriented. Twenty thousand tokens evapor

How to Enable Windows K2 Performance Boost on Windows 11

22 days ago

What is Windows K2? Windows K2 is Microsoft's internal codename for a plan to address long-standing performance pain points in Windows 11. As part of this initiative, Microsoft is testing a hidden feature called the Low Latency Profile in the Windows 11 Insider Preview (Experimental Channel). The

My fully offline AI-assisted Linux development machine

23 days ago

Originally published at deepu.tech. One of my most popular posts of all time was when I wrote about my beautiful Linux development machine in 2019. I followed that up in 2021 with my sleek and modern Linux development machine. Since then, a lot has changed in my setup. I moved from Fedora and KDE to

⚔️ Go vs Java: The Minimalist vs The Enterprise Veteran

24 days ago

No sides. No agenda. Just two languages walking into a bar and us watching what happens. The Setup The Contenders A Quick Origin Story Language Philosophy: Complexity vs. Simplicity Performance: JVM vs Native Binary Concurrency: Goroutines vs Virtual Threads Ecosystem & Libraries: The Forest vs The

🧠 I Tried 100 Claude Skills. These Are The Best.

25 days ago

From PDF wizards to Slack-GIF generators, I went deep into Anthropic’s new Agent Skills ecosystem — mostly inside Claude Code, where the action really is. Here are the Skills actually worth installing, the Claude Code workflows that have quietly reshaped my dev loop, and the patterns that separate a

I Found LeetCode for Software Design, and It’s Awesome

Disclosure: This post includes affiliate links; I may receive compensation if you purchase products or services from the different links provided in this article. If you're preparing for FAANG interviews, you already know that Data Structures & Algorithms (DSA) and System Design are the two critica

How to Run Claude Code for Free with OpenCode Models

This post was originally published on my Substack publication as How to Use Claude Code For Free With OpenCode Models. Yes, you can use Claude Code for free by routing it through a small Cloudflare Worker and pointing that Worker at a free OpenCode Zen model like minimax-m2.5-free. Claude stays the

Join the Gemma 4 Challenge: $3,000 prize pool for TEN winners!

May 28 Update: Winner announcement delayed until June 18: read the update here Local AI is having a moment, and we want you to be part of it! Running through May 24, the Gemma 4 Challenge invites you to explore open models. With the release of Gemma 4, Google's most capable open model family yet, we

🔮 Hermes Agent 🤖 — Deep Dive & Build-Your-Own Guide 📘

A practical, end-to-end walkthrough of Nous Research's Hermes Agent: the principles it's built on, the architecture that makes it work, and a concrete checklist for building a similar self-improving agent yourself. Companion Reads: 🏗️ Building High-Quality AI Agents 🤖 — A Comprehensive, Actionable

CTF Writeup Silentium - HTB

This writeup details the complete attack chain for the Silentium machine, starting from a vulnerable Flowise AI instance to a privilege escalation using a recent Gogs vulnerability (CVE-2025-8110). Initial enumeration of the target IP revealed an Nginx web server redirecting to silentium.htb and an

📘 Spec Kit vs. Superpowers ⚡ — A Comprehensive Comparison & Practical Guide to Combining Both 🚀

A side-by-side look at two of the most influential frameworks for structured, agentic AI coding — plus a step-by-step playbook for using them together: github/spec-kit — GitHub's toolkit for Spec-Driven Development (SDD). obra/superpowers — Jesse Vincent's agentic skills framework for disciplined ag

Defluffer - reduce token usage 📉 by 45% using this one simple trick! [Earthday challenge]

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Earth Day Edition Fluffer: someone who helps people "get ready for work" in the adult film industry Defluffer: a simple script that removes "fluff" and "filler" from your prompts! Could save over a million trees worth of CO2 a year (but probably not). Don'

Turning the Raspberry Pi Zero into a Hacking Gadget

Single Board Computers with the ability to run a full-fledged Linux distribution can be used as portable devices for a wide variety of use cases. To my surprise, one of them is computer hacking. I was astonished about the creativity and ease-of-use how a Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi Zero or Pico can b

How to prompt Gemini 3.1's new text to speech model

Gemini 3.1 Flash text to speech (TTS) is a new model that you can direct to get the precise audio performance you want. In this blog post I'll share some tips on how to guide the model with prompts, and share some examples of its strengths. Out of the box gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview will natively i

The Claude Certified Architect Exam: 5 Domains, 6 Scenarios, and Everything You Need to Know

So Anthropic went and did something nobody really expected — they launched a professional certification program. Not a badge you get for finishing a tutorial. Not a "completed the course" PDF. An actual, scenario-based exam that tests whether you can architect production systems with Claude. It's ca

Pi Coding Agent: A Self-Documenting, Extensible AI Partner

Originally published at https://www.bampouris.eu/blog/pi-self-documenting/ Meta-lesson: One of Pi's most powerful features is that you can ask it to explain itself. The agent can read its own documentation, investigate its codebase, and help you extend or modify its behavior—all through natural conv

You’re a Real Software Developer Only If…

Uff, I’m finally done with my talk at jsDay 2026! And honestly? It went at least good. People showed up, they asked questions… what more could you want? 😄 During the talk, I felt like I was among my people — that beautiful species of nerds who laugh at programming jokes without needing them explain

Using GitHub Copilot CLI with Local Models (LM Studio)

Local AI is getting attention for one simple reason: control. Cloud models are strong and fast, but for many companies and developers, especially when experimenting or working with sensitive code, that is not ideal. This is where local models come in. Tools like LM Studio let you run LLMs directly o

[AutoBe] Qwen 3.5-27B Just Built Complete Backends from Scratch — 100% Compilation, 25x Cheaper

Qwen 3.5-27B Just Built Complete Backends from Scratch We ran Qwen 3.5-27B on 4 backend generation tasks — from a todo app to a full ERP system. Every single project compiled. The output was nearly identical to Claude Opus 4.6, at 25x less cost. This is AutoBe — an open-source system that turns na

AWS S3 Files just made Transfer Family SFTP obsolete for most use cases

AWS just launched one of the most impactful storage features in years: S3 Files. It puts an EFS-compatible file system interface directly in front of your S3 buckets. When I was introduced to S3 Files (as part of AWS Community Builder program), I immediately thought of SFTP as the most obvious use c

AutoBE vs. Claude Code: 3rd-gen coding agent developer's review of the leaked source code

TL;DR Claude Code—source code leaked via an npm incident while(true) + autonomous selection of 40 tools + 4-tier context compression A masterclass in prompt engineering and agent workflow design 2nd generation: humans lead, AI assists AutoBe—the opposite design 4 ASTs x 4-stage compiler x self-

A Claude Code Skills Stack: How to Combine Superpowers, gstack, and GSD Without the Chaos

One article to compare the frameworks, see where they overlap, and land on a stable three-layer practice. Claude Code has quickly become one of the most widely adopted AI coding tools. Individual developers, startups, and large engineering teams alike have integrated it into their daily workflows—wr

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