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#2526: How Peer Review Actually Works (and Fails)
The history of peer review, the Lancet's biggest scandals, and why arXiv is changing everything.
#2525: Who Actually Reads Academic Journals?
Half of all papers are read by nobody but the author and reviewers. So why do 300,000 journals exist?
#2514: WebSockets vs SSE: Choosing the Right Real-Time Connection
WebSockets vs Server-Sent Events: when to use full-duplex vs one-way streaming, and why most developers pick wrong.
#2501: Describing a Neighborhood: Databases Without Screens
Can you design a relational database using only your voice? We coach a beginner through PostgreSQL from scratch.
#2498: Build Your First Python Program in 7 Lines
We coach a complete beginner through building a working Python game using only voice—no screenshare, no diagrams.
#2496: Are Hidden API Endpoints Leaks or Just Plumbing?
When LLM agents discover unauthenticated JSON endpoints in browser DevTools, is it a security breach or just reading the page?
#2493: Are You Writing for Humans or AI Agents?
How GitHub repos, JSON formats, and competing standards are reshaping who (and what) you're publishing for.
#2492: When AI Agents Collapse Stack Evaluation from Weeks to Seconds
How Claude Code and agentic AI are turning GitHub into a discovery layer and collapsing library evaluation from weeks to seconds.
#2486: Why Noise Reduction Can Ruin Transcription Accuracy
Cleaning audio before transcription can increase errors by up to 46%. Here's the right approach for your voice app.
#2478: MCP File Handling: Why Your Base64 Upload Breaks at 4MB
MCP has no standard file input. Base64 breaks at 4MB, presigned URLs need whitelisting, and MinIO workarounds aren't standardized.
#2477: Stop Polling: Push-to-Deploy for Solo Devs
Why your cron job is obsolete. Push-to-deploy with GitHub Actions and deploy keys — the simplest setup that actually works.
#2474: Private Container Registries: Docker Hub vs GHCR vs Self-Hosting
Comparing Docker Hub, GitHub Container Registry, and self-hosted options for private container storage.
#2473: GitHub Actions Beyond CI/CD: What You're Missing
Cron jobs, self-hosted runners, NPM publishing, and self-healing repos — GitHub Actions does way more than run tests.
#2467: The Time Tax on API Access
How OpenAI and Anthropic structure API tiers, rate limits, and why your billing history matters more than you think.
#2466: The Hidden Trap of Embedding Model Lock-In
What happens when your vector database works great — until your embedding model gets deprecated and your vectors become useless.
#2463: Tmux vs Modern Terminals: What Multiplexing Actually Gets You
What multiplexing actually means, why tmux still matters, and how WezTerm and Ghostty changed the calculus.
#2456: Choosing Between AI Cloud Providers
A practical guide to choosing between Modal, RunPod, Nebius, and Baseten for AI workloads.
#2452: When BIM Breaks the SQL Analogy
How BIM's cascading changes eliminate coordination errors — and where the SQL analogy breaks down.
#2450: The Time Zone King and the Database That Runs the World
How a missed train led to global time zones, why DST exists for bug hunting, and the volunteer database that keeps the internet on time.
#2444: Custom IDs: UUIDs vs Human-Readable Keys
How to design database IDs that balance security, human readability, and performance — with lessons from Stripe and TypeID.
#2443: How Podcast RSS Feeds Can Speak Every Language
One RSS feed, a transcript tag, and TTS voice cloning — the emerging standard for letting any podcast speak any language.
#2436: The One-in-Ten-Thousand Design Constraint
How survey-grade precision and Python tools shape local map projections — and the silent failures that break your analysis.
#2435: The Hidden Difficulty of Data Modeling
Stop designing database schemas from scratch. Here's where to find ready-made templates for common business apps.
#2434: From Spreadsheets to Databases: The Mental Shift
Stop treating databases like bigger spreadsheets. Learn the one conceptual shift that actually matters.