Posts by John Millikin

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John Millikin

I’m a Python focused developer. I enjoy building practical Python tools that s...
Joined October 2026
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5 days • Articles • 3 min read
Security Token Offerings STOs allow businesses to issue blockchain-based tokens that represent securities or rights linked to underlying assets. These assets may include real estate, company equity, debt instruments, and investment funds. Building a...
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5 days • Articles • 7 min read
In nearly every investment committee, annual portfolio review, or Board of Directors strategy retreat, the same fundamental dilemma emerges: how can a corporation efficiently and non-arbitrarily allocate tens of millions of dollars in CAPEX across bu...
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5 days • Articles • 2 min read
Animated GIFs are easy to share, but their file sizes can get out of hand quickly. A few seconds of animation may be too large for a chat message, a community post, or a website. The usual fix is to upload the file to an online converter, wait for a ...
Oct 28 • Articles • 9 min read
Introduction Booking a consultation should be straightforward for the person making the appointment. Behind the scenes, however, an automated booking system has to coordinate several moving parts: collecting customer information, checking availabi...
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Oct 28 • Articles • 1 min read
Saving an AI video prompt without its settings is a bit like keeping a command but losing the arguments. You can remember the idea and still have trouble repeating the experiment. For a small comparison, keep a record like this alongside each export...
Oct 26 • Articles • 2 min read
Prerequisites You should be comfortable with CSS basics overflow, writing modes and know where to edit the scrolling container and its children in your stylesheet. Familiarity with scroll-snap-type, scroll-snap-align, and the difference between phys...
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Oct 22 • Articles • 3 min read
Choosing monitoring software isn't always about finding the cheapest tool. For some users, a simple website blocker or screen-time application is enough. But when the requirement expands to activity monitoring, application controls, website filterin...
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Oct 22 • Articles • 10 min read
By jankes72 21 October 2026 I am developing SSI MultiQuant as the next stage of SSI V5: bringing model size, memory use and measured task quality into the decisions made by an agent system. One published comparison is deliberately narrow. An expe...
Oct 18 • Articles • 7 min read
Choosing an AI video tool used to be simple because there were hardly any. Now there are dozens of models, new ones arrive every few weeks, and every demo reel looks impressive. The real decision is no longer "which model is best," because that answe...
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Oct 18 • Tutorials • 1 min read
A crop box and an export size describe two different things. The crop box chooses pixels from the decoded source; the export size decides how many pixels to write. Keeping those numbers separate makes an image editor much easier to reason about. Sta...
Oct 15 • Articles • 5 min read
A support agent passes every eval in staging. In production the same agent is reached three ways: from an IDE over MCP, from the web app over the OpenAI Responses API, and from a triage agent over A2A. The dashboard stays green for weeks. Then a cust...
Oct 15 • Articles • 1 min read
Hi, I’m Sawyer — a web developer and digital creator. I’m currently building websites for people, brands, and projects that need a clean, modern online presence. If you need a website that is simple to use, responsive on mobile, and built with a pol...
Oct 14 • Articles • 5 min read
A renewal questionnaire came back from a client's procurement team with a question I had not seen on that form before: in which jurisdiction is the model executed, and who operates the hardware it runs on. It was between a question about SOC 2 eviden...
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Oct 14 • Articles • 3 min read
Today, an AI assistant can generate a working API endpoint, write a complex SQL query, or configure a multi-stage CI/CD pipeline in seconds. When code generation is nearly frictionless, it is easy to mistake generating an implementation for understan...
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Oct 10 • Articles • 10 min read
In a modern endurance car, every sensor talks to the same box. Tyre pressure, brake temperature, fuel flow, throttle trace. They all end up in one data stream that goes to the pit wall over a single radio link. The engineer on the wall doesn't care w...
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Oct 10 • Articles • 3 min read
In an era of cloud IDEs, instant AI code generation, and endless Stack Overflow tabs, developers have grown reliant on an always-online tether. But what happens when you Cut The Wi-Fi??😔🤔 Or Don't Have Mobile Data??😔🤔 Far from crippling your pro...
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Oct 10 • Articles • 3 min read
In the latest releasehttps://github.com/thingsdb/ThingsDB/releases/latest, ThingsDB introduces native support for UUIDs alongside a powerful new typed dictionary pattern dict that simplifies high-performance key-value lookups. While ThingsDB relies ...
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Oct 8 • Dev Stories • 11 min read
📝 DEV STORY
Featuring:Valentyn IvanovValentyn Ivanov•Software Engineer & Systems Architect
From Code to Systems Thinking — Valentyn Ivanov’s Developer Journey > “The goal of architecture is not to make the code perfect from day one. It is to make change affordable.” Valentyn Ivanov has spent more than 15 years building complex software ...
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