May 1, 2026 Making APIs and Queues Bulletproof Idempotency keys, layered caching, transactional outbox/inbox, and DLQs - the patterns that keep money moving when half the systems involved restart in the middle.
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Token Efficiency: Where the Tokens GoApril 30, 2026 Karpathy's Wiki, OpenBrain, and Picking a Context Layer for AI Two memory models for AI work. One synthesises on write, one on query. Which to pick depends on whether you're a solo researcher or running multi-agent.
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April 28, 2026 Types of APIs and Event Queues: When To Use Each Four ways to move data between services. What each one buys you, where each one falls down, and when I reach for which.
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March 2, 2026 OpenVPN on an EC2 Bastion: Private Network Access Without the Complexity Setting up OpenVPN on a small EC2 instance as a bastion host for secure access to private AWS resources. No managed VPN service, no over-engineering.
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Conversational AI: From RAG Prototypes to Domain-Specific SupervisionNovember 20, 2024 Per-Channel vs Per-User: What Memory Model Works for AI Chat Slack conversations are collaborative. Persisting context per channel captures the full picture. Per-user memory misses half the conversation.
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