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The 5-File Portfolio That Gets You Hired (No Fancy Design Needed)
I've reviewed hundreds of developer portfolios. 90% of them are beautiful and completely useless for getting hired. Here's the truth: hiring managers spend less than 30 seconds on your portfolio. They don't care about your parallax scrolling hero section. The…
Building a Microservices Ecosystem: Stock Brokerage Simulator (My Broker B3)
Building a Microservices Ecosystem: Stock Brokerage Simulator (My Broker B3) Hello, everyone! I’m starting a series of articles to document the development of My Broker B3. This is a personal project where I’m applying advanced software engineering concepts, …
The Dark Side of 'Vibe Coding' That Nobody Talks About
"Vibe coding" is the hottest trend in tech. You type a prompt, AI writes the code, and you ship it without fully understanding what happened. Sounds amazing, right? Here's why it's actually dangerous. What Is Vibe Coding? Term coined by Andrej Karpathy. It me…
Stop Slouching! Build an AI-Powered Posture Monitor with MediaPipe & Electron 🚀
Are you reading this while hunched over your keyboard like a gargoyle? 🧙♂️ Don't worry, we've all been there. "Tech Neck" is the silent productivity killer of the 21st century. But as developers, we don't just complain about back pain—we code solutions for i…
The $5 Wrench Attack Goes Industrial: How Physical Security Became DeFi's Biggest Threat in 2026
The $5 Wrench Attack Goes Industrial: How Physical Security Became DeFi's Biggest Threat in 2026 72 physical coercion incidents in 2025. 14 more by mid-February 2026. France alone accounts for 80% of them. Your smart contracts are safe — but are you? We spend…
Create And Configure Azure Firewall
An Azure Firewall is a cloud-based network security service in Microsoft Azure that helps protect your virtual network resources by filtering and controlling traffic between your Azure resources and the internet or other networks. Scenario: Your organization …
I Was Tired of Parsing XBRL, So I Built a SEC EDGAR API
If you've ever tried to pull financial data from the SEC's EDGAR system, you probably know where this is going. I wanted to build a stock screener. Simple idea — just show me revenue trends for a few companies. Should take an afternoon, right? Nope. First you…
Using Python to Load Google Docs into AI — Drive API Minimal Permission Setup
Introduction: The Challenge of AI Not Being Able to Directly Read Google Documents "Please analyze this document" Have you ever encountered a situation where, when you submitted a Google Document URL to the latest AI models like Gemini 3.1 Pro or Claude Opus …
Hardware Selection for Local LLMs: Overcoming the VRAM Wall with Practical GPU, CPU, and Memory Configurations
Introduction: Gemini Flash Equivalent Locally? The Despair of a Slow Development Environment If you, like me, were thrilled by the explosive responsiveness of Google Gemini 2.5 Flash and dreamed of running it locally without privacy concerns, this article is …
What I Gained from Interacting with Shogi AI: The Path to 1st Place in Floodgate and My Approach to Distilled Models
Introduction As a practical testing ground for verifying reasoning optimization and model handling, I first touched an OSS shogi software in January 2026. As a result, I reached rank 1 by playing over 200 games with a rating exceeding 4500 on Floodgate (an on…
Turn Conversation Data into Assets with Gemini API: History Export, RAG, and Streamlit
Introduction: Taking Back Control of the AI "Brain" For modern engineers, LLMs (Large Language Models) like Gemini and ChatGPT are more than mere tools; they are a "second brain." From daily coding, debugging, and architectural considerations to career advice…
Automating Video Generation with Remotion and VOICEVOX: From Environment Setup to Performance Optimization
Introduction: An Approach to Automating Video Generation When attempting to generate videos programmatically with Remotion, you may encounter issues such as ffmpeg or ffprobe downloads never finishing, or processes stalling. The evolution of AI and LLMs is si…