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What if servers balanced load like Emperor Penguins? Meet HuddleCluster

In Antarctic blizzards where temperatures drop below -40°C and winds scream past 200 km/h, Emperor Penguins survive without any central coordinator. Their survival relies on a single distributed rule: If you are freezing on the outer edge, push inward toward the core. If you are getting too warm

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Backend

Open-source ERP for small manufacturing shops

I built an open-source self-hosted ERP for small manufacturing and engineering teams. The project started because I saw many small manufacturing shops managing BOMs, drawings and project information across Excel files, shared folders and email. This project aims to bring those workflows into a singl

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Frontend

I Got Tired of Building Backends for Forms, So I Built FORX

I Got Tired of Building Backends for Forms, So I Built FORX I don't know if I'm the only developer who does this. You need a simple contact form. So you create the HTML. Then you realize: “Okay, where does this form data actually go?” And suddenly your tiny contact form needs a backend. You s

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AI & ML

The Compiler as Validator: When a Free Model's Wrong C++ Is Still Cheap

A free model will write wrong C++ template code. That is not a problem when the compiler is the validator. In this experiment, a free model wrote ten SFINAE detectors; nine reached correctness after feeding compiler errors back into the prompt. The tenth needed one human sentence. Total cost: zero d

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Backend

WireMock will not read your OpenAPI spec, and that is on purpose

Disclosure: I work on Mockzilla, which competes with WireMock. Everything below was run on my laptop today and every claim links to its source. There is a link to the longer comparison at the end, and you can stop reading before it. You have an OpenAPI document. You want a mock server. WireMock is

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Backend

Hello from Kanpur: what I build, and what I'll write about here

I'm Pranjul Rathour, a GenAI engineer from Kanpur, India. This is the first post on this blog, so here is who is writing, what I have actually shipped, and what you can expect if you follow along. What I build Between February and July 2026, at Next Upgrad Web Solutions, I designed, buil

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AI & ML

Agent Self-Evolution: A Comprehensive Survey (2023-2025)

Agent Self-Evolution: A Comprehensive Survey from One-Shot Learning to Continuous Growth (2023–2026) Abstract: Large language models are static systems—trained once, capabilities frozen. But real-world tasks never repeat themselves. When agents begin to know what they don't know and actively self

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The Walls Don't Talk: How Stalefish Builds

The line came out of an essay about the app Cairn, at the end of a paragraph about visual restraint, and it was meant to stay there. The walls don't talk. Cairn is a room; you walk through it and notice what's there, and the walls carry color and texture and they don't address you. I wrote it to des

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