Here's how to run a fast OCR process on your own computer.ConceptOCR stands for opitcal character recognition. It's the ability for a computer to read something that's not in text but contains text, like an image or a pdf, and turn it into text, like an ascii text file.There are hosted services that...

MCP clients can render UIs as iframes inside ChatGPT and Claude, but getting Auth0-verified identity into that UI is trickier than it looks. Skybridge's auth0Provider fixes that in eight lines.

Learn how implementing an Auth0 custom domain, capturing user metadata via Universal Login partials, and configuring custom transactional email workflows secures your identity pipeline for production.

Sean Goedecke wrote a post arguing that you should never be angry at work — a post with which I strongly agree. Anger can be a useful signal, but being angry at work rarely improves the situation. More often, it makes life worse for the people around you, many of whom have no more power over the sou...

In Modeling State Transitions in Postgres, we replaced a status column on users with an append-only user_statuses table. That design gives us full history that can be queried efficiently for the most common cases. But it introduces an edge case worth addressing: what happens when two transactions tr...

I’ve had a Synology NAS for a very long time, and recently I started moving its contents to a new Ubiquiti UniFi UNAS Pro 8. This seemed like it ought to be a fairly boring operation. Both devices speak SMB, I have a fast network (recently upgraded to 10 gigabit internally), and Windows has had tool...

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July and August are often when people take a break or go on vacation. But for me, this summer has been super busy, full of writing and improving LernerPython based […] The post AI seminars — just one of the big changes at LernerPython appeared first on LernerPython.

When we moved into our new office, the team had to decide where we’d sit. There were two real options: an area all the way across the floor from the managing partners, or the area right next to them. I said I wanted to be next to them. I was the only one. The pushback […] The post Pick the Desk Wher...

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I've had a lot going on recently. So much so that I'm questioning whether or not it's the right time to finally break the blogging streak. I think about this regularly, and tend to blog about it when I'm having a bit of writer's block. But then I remind myself, when you're at a massive streak that e...

Learn how to tune Linux kernel parameters using sysctl and /proc/sys for better network throughput, memory management, file I/O, and server security. Includes a ready-to-use baseline config.Continue reading...

There has been a long gap between posts (again!), and a lot of the stuff that I’m going to talk about in this post is fairly old too. Oh well, life keeps getting in the way of blogging. Anyway, I’ve recently submitted a talk for the FOSS4G UK 2026 conference in Leeds in October, and […]

This is part 8 in a series of posts on writing concurrent network servers. In this part, we'll switch to Go and see how it tackles the challenges described earlier in the series. All posts in the series: Part 1 - Introduction Part 2 - Threads Part 3 - Event-driven Part 4 - libuv Part 5 - Redis case ...

What building a Three.js lab around my own music taught me about the renderer.

When and how do you surface a concern to your team? We all observe risks, constraints, or areas for feedback on a daily basis: an estimate that the developers feel is unrealistic, a consensus that’s gathering momentum without a team agreement, or a process that’s become more of a hindrance than a he...

In short: Vim has a joke autocmd called UserGettingBored that doesn’t do anything. Vim’s automatic commands feature, usually shortened to “autocmd”, lets you run code when various events occur. For example, you could implement an auto-save feature by binding the TextChanged event to the :w command. ...

One of the memes on Twitter is that “programming is solved now.” I’m not sure to what degree it is, but one thing is pretty clear: the act of familiarizing yourself with a language no longer matters and some of the friction that mattered for humans does not matter for agents. As a result, LLMs make ...

Cloudflare's new Bot Preference Sync automatically aligns your robots.txt file with your AI bot policies for Search, Agent, and Training. Easily manage which bots access your content without maintaining static files.

Laravel AI 0.11 gives every agent run one invocation ID plus step and tool events with wall timings, so you can trace, log, and time a run end to end. The post Laravel AI: Trace Agent Runs With Lifecycle Events appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like ...

The Laravel AI SDK exposes the provider's underlying HTTP response on $response->raw, so you can read rate limit headers, request ids, and payload fields. The post Laravel AI: Get Raw HTTP Responses and Rate Limits appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles l...

AWS Glue 6.0 is built on a fully modernized runtime, Apache Spark 4.1, Python 3.12, and Scala 2.13, delivering 30% lower pricing than previous AWS Glue versions.

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Deftform is a no-bloat Typeform and Jotform alternative built on Laravel. Generate forms with AI, wire them into your stack with a REST API and webhooks, and pay from $5 per form — no mandatory subscription. The post A simple form builder that stays out of your way appeared first on Laravel News. Jo...

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