If you're building on top of any LLM API, knowing what happens to your request data after the response lands is not optional - it's a design decision with compliance implications. The Mechanism Behind Zero Data Retention Most API providers, by defa...

Every year, smartphone manufacturers take the stage to announce a breakthrough in display technology. One year, the new model is “four times more shatter resistant” than its predecessor; the next, it is “three times more scratch resistant”. While the...

Five statistics about AI failure are doing heavy rotation this year. You have probably met all of them. Forty-two percent of companies abandoned most of their AI initiatives in 2025, up from seventeen percent the year before. Ninety-five percent of g...

Everyone repeats that semantic chunking beats fixed-size chunking for RAG. I wanted to know if that was true for my corpus, or just a thing people say. So I built the comparison into EvalBench: one corpus, one query set, three chunking strategies, an...

Most of the AI posts here lately are about agents and coding assistants, so this one goes the other way. It is about the quiet routing and scoring work sitting inside almost every app we build, and why a language model is usually the wrong tool for t...

Recently, I've noticed that my colleagues go to Confluence and use the old-school way to search for info. So I decided to share the way I search Confluence now. A full example with instructions can be found here: https://github.com/stjam/mcp-conflue...

In this episode of Continuous Delivery Office Hours, Tony Kelly, Bob Walker, and Steve Fenton discuss some of the tangled pathways around AI, the search for efficiency and productivity, and the need to re-focus on effectiveness and outcomes. You'll ...

Your team is playing tonight, your cable subscription just hit $120/month, and you're staring at the bill wondering if any of this makes sense anymore. The short answer: you don't need cable to watch sports. Millions of fans have already cut the cord...

I've spent the last few months building MOT History Free, a UK vehicle history checker — think "paste your number plate, get the full MOT/tax/mileage story" — and wanted to share some of the technical decisions behind it. The problem The UK governm...

Developers get asked this constantly: "I want to move off Wix — what's it going to cost me?" The frustrating truth is there's no flat answer, because Wix simply doesn't offer a clean export. Every migration is partly a manual rebuild. Rough numbers ...

Deception Has an Expiration Date. Here's How to Measure It. Why "false completion paths" for AI-driven attackers stop working — and how to know exactly when yours will. There's a moment every defensive deception eventually reaches: the trap that u...

Turn data into a competitive advantage with end-to-end data analytics services1. From data strategy and integration to AI-powered analytics, reporting, visualization, and DataOps, organizations can uncover actionable insights that improve decision-m...

TerraformAgent turns a plain-English infrastructure request into validated Terraform. Six nodes: an orchestrator plans the domains, a researcher pulls AWS docs, a set of domain subagents write code in parallel, an aggregator stitches it together, a r...

https://dev.to/thegamersbaxechief/arokooro-preserving-indigenous-languages-with-gamification-elevenlabs-this-is-a-submission-for-1dl61 What I Built For this weekend's challenge, I built ArokoOro a desktop Scrabble-style word game engineered to help ...

Software quality is often discussed as if it were mainly an engineering preference: developers want cleaner code, more tests, better architecture and additional time before releasing. From the business side, this may look like a conflict between qual...

5 Docker Security Mistakes That Leave Your Applications Exposed Docker · Security · DevOps · Self-Hosted · Web Security Docker has become the default way to deploy modern applications. Whether you're running a personal project, an internal dashboa...

Your customers don’t care if you use React or Angular. They care if your checkout works, your app loads, and your data is safe. Everything else is a vanity metric. Yet, I see founders and business owners every day losing sleep over framework debates...

The online card gaming industry continues to expand, and Teen Patti remains one of the most popular choices among players who enjoy strategy, competition, and entertainment. As mobile gaming technology improves, developers are introducing all-in-one ...

> Learning C++ has been a journey full of traps. Here are three I hit — hope they save you some debugging time. 🎣 Trap 1: new + deleteinstead of delete Wrong Code int a = new int3; // delete a; ❌ --> undefined class MyClass{ public: ~MyClass...

In Part 1 of this series, we covered the uncomfortable truth about modern NVMe storage: vendor firmware is built on performance-based deception. Between Flash Translation Layer FTL redirection and flawed Cryptographic Erase implementations, relying o...