5+ min ago (767+ words) When artificial intelligence systems lie with unwavering certainty, who's really to blame'the machine or the humans who taught it to never admit doubt? Ankit spent three weeks building his machine learning capstone project around a research paper that didn't exist. He was a third-year computer science student studying neural networks and transformer architectures. For his project on natural language processing, he asked an AI assistant for recent papers on attention mechanisms. He used all the available AI tools and finished the work in a few days. The tools gave him five paper summaries with examples, complete with authors and journal names. He built his entire review and paper around them. His professor found out during the first review ' none of the papers were real. None of the papers were real. The AI had fabricated everything'down to fake researcher names at…...

8+ min ago (122+ words) This project implements a simple Notes WebApp using Google Cloud (GCP) serverless services: Firestore, Cloud Functions, and a static frontend hosted on Cloud Storage. 1. NoSQL database: Firestore in Native mode, collection notes. 2. Serverless backend: Cloud Functions (Python) exposing a mini REST API: 3. Frontend: Web page (HTML/CSS/JS) hosted as a static site in Cloud Storage. Create the file main.py Includes functionality: create, list, edit, delete notes + CORS. Create the file requirements.txt Get and store the URL: Get and store the service account used by the function: Grant Firestore permissions to that service account Create the file index.html Create the file styles.css Create the file app.js " Replace API_BASE_URL with your Cloud Function URL....

11+ min ago (105+ words) A dev resume isn't just a list - it's a context + impact sales doc. After reviewing more than 25 developer resumes (mobile, backend, fullstack, career changers, etc.), the same 3 mistakes kept showing up. The most common error: the whole resume is written like this: That says nothing about: Recruiters read this all day. It turns into noise. Fix: turn each bullet into technical action + what + how + metric/scale Lots of people fell into these: Fix: One column only Saw this a lot: Fix: Only list tech you can defend in an interview and tie each one to a role or project....

13+ min ago (1432+ words) TL;DR: Scanners that run automatically, findings that aggregate in one place, reports that don't make stakeholders' eyes glaze over. For small-to-medium engineering teams who need real security without hiring a dedicated AppSec team. Who is this guide for? Teams without a dedicated AppSec function, platform engineers, or DevOps teams who want a practical, tool-agnostic blueprint for continuous security in CI/CD. Security scanners are cheap. Security architecture that developers don't hate is expensive. Most teams end up with a mess: SAST runs somewhere in Jenkins, Snyk emails get ignored, and pentest reports live in Google Drive where findings go to die. Developers don't ignore security findings because they're lazy'they ignore them because findings arrive in 47 different places with zero context. This is the architecture I built and actually use. Not a vendor pitch. Not enterprise theater. Just the stack that…...

15+ min ago (378+ words) The Grow A Garden Calculator is a simple online tool that helps you plan your garden with confidence. Many people want to grow fresh vegetables and herbs but they do not know how much space they need or how many plants will grow well in their soil. This calculator makes the process easy and removes the guesswork. The Grow A Garden Calculator is a planning tool that guides you on the right amount of seeds, plants and space required for your garden. You enter basic information about your garden including sunlight, location and available space. The tool then gives clear results that tell you what you can grow and how much you can harvest. The calculator works through a simple input system. You add the size of your garden. You add details about sunlight. You add information about soil type....

16+ min ago (798+ words) Unlocking Neural Network Secrets: Scale-Invariant Geometry for Smarter AI Are your deep learning models black boxes? Do you crave efficiency without sacrificing accuracy? Imagine a world where neural networks are not only powerful but also interpretable and easily optimized. The key might lie in a surprising discovery: the spontaneous emergence of geometric structure within networks during training. At the heart of this lies the concept of scale-invariant function representation. Think of it like fractals; the same fundamental patterns appear at different levels of magnification. In neural networks, this means the way the network processes information locally (small patches of the input) mirrors how it handles the entire input, creating a cohesive and organized computational landscape. This inherent geometric organization, appearing organically during the learning process, offers several key advantages for developers: Enhanced Interpretability: Understanding the underlying geometry reveals how the…...

19+ min ago (322+ words) Trying to understand JavaScript closures? Here are a few everyday analogies that make the idea instantly click. " 1. The Backpack Analogy You pack a backpack at home. Even after you leave the house, you're still carrying everything inside it. Later, wherever you go, you can open it and use what you packed. That's basically a closure " a function carrying variables even after the parent function is done. " 2. The Waiter Analogy You tell a waiter your order: table number, dish, special instructions. He walks away from your table, but he still remembers your order when he reaches the kitchen. That memory he carries along " that's a closure. " 3. The Note From a Parent A parent gives their child a secret note. Years later, even when the parent isn't around, the child can still read and use that note. The note = the variables preserved…...

31+ min ago (343+ words) To make this process much simpler, AWS released ECS Express Mode, a new way to deploy containerized applications without having to worry about all that complicated infrastructure. In this article I explain what it is, how it works, and why it can be very useful if you're learning AWS. It's a fast way to deploy a containerized application using Amazon ECS. The idea is simple: you just upload your image to ECR (or use one you already have), and ECS Express Mode takes care of the rest. In just a few clicks or commands, you'll have a running service with HTTPS, load balancing, monitoring, and autoscaling ready to use. ECS Express Mode configures infrastructure for you that normally takes quite a long time: " An Application Load Balancer (ALB) So your application can receive HTTPS traffic securely. The certificate is also…...

36+ min ago (200+ words) I've been tired of paying $60/year just to securely share Netflix and WiFi passwords with my family. I wanted to build a lightweight, secure alternative that runs entirely on the Edge and is only 5$ per year! Here is how I built EazyPasswords, a Zero-Knowledge vault that costs me almost nothing to run, thanks to the modern serverless stack. I wanted instant load times and zero cold starts, so I avoided traditional containers. Backend: Hono running on Cloudflare Workers. Database: Cloudflare D1 (SQLite at the Edge). Frontend: Vanilla JS (hosted on Cloudflare Pages). Why Cloudflare D1? For a side project, cost is everything. D1 allows for millions of reads/writes for free. This architecture allows me to offer a Free Family Plan to users because my overhead is practically zero. I need your feedback (Beta) I am currently in Open Beta. Since I'm a…...

37+ min ago (659+ words) This blog post will take you on a journey behind the curtain of a high-traffic spin-wheel promotion. We'll explore the serious technical challenges that even the biggest companies face and, most importantly, show you how they build a bulletproof system using AWS Serverless to manage prize giveaways at scale and prevent a critical flaw: prize duplication. Think of it like this: you have a single, highly-coveted prize " say, a brand new phone. You've announced that the first person to win on the spin wheel gets it. Now, imagine thousands of people are all spinning the wheel at the same exact time. In the chaos of this high traffic, two different users (let's call them Alice and Bob) hit the "spin" button within a fraction of a second of each other. The problem, known as a race condition, occurs when your…...