Ever had a great image idea but no idea how to create it? Maybe you imagined a movie-style poster, a fantasy landscape, or a product photo with perfect lighting. In the past, turning that idea into an actual image could take hours. Now, you can simpl...

"Who hosts this website?" sounds like one question, but it's usually several stacked on top of each other. A single domain can have its web hosting on one provider, its DNS managed by a completely different company, its email running through a third ...

If you run a business today, chances are your customers are already messaging you on WhatsApp. Doesn't matter if you sell clothes, run a clinic, or manage a small agency — people just prefer WhatsApp over calls or emails now. It's fast, it's simple, ...

“Make it work offline” often turns into a storage task: serialize the last successful response, read it when the network fails, and move on. That is necessary, but it is not the hard part. The hard part is deciding what the stored response means ac...

If this is your first time encountering my work, I want to introduce you to a project I have been passionately building: Folio. Folio is an open-source personal productivity and note-taking workspace. Think of it as a highly flexible workspace—simi...

Building a website used to be a project that required developers, designers, technical knowledge and a lot of patience. Now, the situation is very different. There are now website building platforms out there that give businesses, entrepreneurs, prof...

What happens when you submit a solo open-source project to academic peer review: the reviews were good, the paper was rejected, and the gap they found was the one I had no way to close on my own. I've been building DoSynchttps://github.com/giulian...

If you’ve ever wondered whether the same algorithms that power word embeddings in natural language processing can be applied to something completely non-linguistic – like chess moves – then this episode is for you. In the latest installment of In-Dep...

How to Block Bad Bots with SafeLine WAF Bad bots are everywhere: content scrapers, credential stuffers, vulnerability scanners, and spam senders. The trick is blocking the harmful ones without hurting good crawlers like Google. SafeLine does this w...

How to Block SQL Injection with SafeLine WAF SQL injection is still one of the most damaging web attacks: a single unescaped input field can let an attacker bypass login, read your entire database, or run commands on the server. SafeLine blocks it ...

> Still going strong, and hopefully we will be ready soon. The Divooka Story It's surprising to count—it has already been so many years since the first prototype in 2022, the later attempted updates in 2023/2024, the first "beta" in September 2024 ...

Over the past two years, the software industry rushed to add AI to existing applications. In 95% of cases, the implementation looked identical: an iframe or floating chat sidebar pinned to the right-hand corner of a traditional web app. While chat s...

Most shopping lists are not cool. Not because shopping lists are difficult to build. A basic shopping list is one of the easiest applications a developer can create. Add an item. Remove an item. Mark it as purchased. Store it in a database. Do...

What an adventure it has been 🤠 It all started with yet another attempt to configure NixOS as a replacement for Debian, which I use every day. I really like the idea behind NixOS: declarative configuration of the entire system and the ability to re...

Blogging has changed considerably. Publishing a few articles each month is no longer enough for many websites competing for search traffic, newsletter subscribers, leads, and sales. That workload is where modern SaaS and AI content tools can help. ...