Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem
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Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem

Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.
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LLM Failover Isn't Just a Backup Model: Retry, Fallback, Cache, and Semantic Routing

"Just add a fallback model" is the kind of advice that sounds complete until you've actually shipped it. A single backup model handles one failure mode (the primary is down) and quietly ignores the other four that show up in production: slow responses, malformed output, rate limits, and a fallback model that doesn't accept the same context shape as your primary. Here's the pattern breakdown that actually holds up. The five patterns, and when each one is the right call P...
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The One-Line Bug That Broke Five People's Imports at Once

We're building a forum app in Go for our Zone01 Kisumu cohort — five of us, split by feature: auth, posts, comments, filters, and me leading the core/integration side. Two weeks in, everything was compiling fine. Then one morning I pulled the latest code and the whole project refused to build. The error looked something like this: internal/posts/categories.go:6:2: package forum/internal/models is not in std "Not in std"? My package isn't in the standard library. Weird flex, Go, but okay...
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Building Truly Reusable Components in React: Patterns & Best Practices

Creating UI components in React is easy. Creating components that are flexible, maintainable, and reusable across an entire enterprise codebase is a completely different discipline. A common trap developers fall into is creating "god components"—components that take dozens of boolean flags, bloated conditional branches, and deeply nested props to accommodate every single edge case. To build UI components that scale seamlessly as your application grows, you need design patterns focused on...
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OBS Alternatives for Linux

The best OBS alternatives for Linux are Screenix for polished tutorials, Kooha for simple Wayland recording, GPU Screen Recorder for gameplay, SimpleScreenRecorder for X11, and wf-recorder for the terminal OBS Studio is excellent software, I have used it, benchmarked it, and learned from it It is also the wrong tool for a surprising number of Linux screen recordings If you stream, manage several cameras, build scenes, route audio through filters, or use capture cards, OBS is probably st...
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Self-referral and coupon leaks: the affiliate fraud checks worth building on Stripe

Affiliate fraud in a small SaaS program is rarely sophisticated. It is usually one of two things: someone buying through their own link to pocket the commission on their own subscription, or an affiliate's coupon ending up on a deals aggregator where it converts people who were already going to buy. Neither one looks like fraud in your dashboard. Both look like growth. These are the checks worth wiring in before the program gets big enough for it to hurt. Self-referral: match o...
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Catch-all email aliasing: a different address for every service (Haraka + SRS + DKIM)

Most people use the same email address everywhere. One breach and it leaks for years. The known fix is a different alias per service — but every tool I tried made me create each alias upfront . I wanted the opposite: a subdomain where every address just works, and the alias is born the moment the first email arrives. This post is the engineering behind that: how to run a catch-all subdomain mail flow without becoming an open relay, and how to forward mail without nuking your delive...
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JavaScript Interview Questions Every Dev Should Know — Part 1: Fundamentals & Data Types

If you're prepping for a JavaScript interview, the fundamentals are where it all starts. Interviewers love probing this area because it separates people who've memorized syntax from people who actually understand how the language behaves under the hood. This is Part 1 of an 8-part series covering JavaScript interview questions with detailed explanations. Let's dive in. 🚀 If you're prepping for a JavaScript interview, the fundamentals are where it all starts. Interviewers love probing this ...
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What is an 'agent'? A class/instance definition, stress-tested against the 2026-07-28 MCP spec

Industry standards In the Gen AI / LLM space, two standards have emerged as the de facto choice in their domains: A2A (v1.0, Linux Foundation) defines how agents integrate and communicate with their peers. It defines the interface of an agent, but not the agent itself. MCP (2026-07-28 spec, finalizes today) defines how an agent uses tools. It defines the internal plumbing of an agent, but not the agent itself. One nuance to be fair to both: MCP can also act as an agent'...
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Building a Landing Page in Neleto: A Real Walkthrough (Mouse and Prompt)

Most "page builder" articles are demos that quietly skip the annoying parts. This isn't that. I built the same landing page twice — once by hand in our visual builder, once by asking Claude to do it through our MCP server — and timed both. Here's exactly what happened, including the bits that were slower than I'd like. What the page builder actually is Neleto's page builder is a block-based visual editor. You drag sections onto a canvas — hero, text, image, gallery, CTA, colu...
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Series Week 27/52 — Zero Trust for Databases: Rethinking Access in OCI

Series Week 27/52 — Zero Trust for Databases: Rethinking Access in OCI { Abhilash Kumar Bhattaram : Follow on LinkedIn } This article focuses on access control in OCI, and how I help you rethink who — and what — actually gets to touch your database. Database Access Control Access control does not change because your database moved to the cloud. What changes is who's watching, and how many new doors got added along the way. Least privilege isn't a policy s...
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Context Engineering Beats Prompt Engineering: How to Actually Get Good Output From Coding Agents

Most developers who tried an AI coding agent in 2023 or 2024 and bounced off it are still thinking about the problem as "prompt engineering" — finding the magic phrasing that gets the model to behave. That framing is outdated. The agents got smarter; the bottleneck moved. Today the difference between an agent that reliably ships correct code and one that hallucinates confidently wrong changes is almost entirely about what's in its context window and when , not how cleverly you phrased the ask...
How to Copy and Sync a MongoDB Collection to PostgreSQL
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How to Copy and Sync a MongoDB Collection to PostgreSQL

I tested a MongoDB-to-PostgreSQL sync with a visits collection. At first, I thought the hard part would be the sync itself. It was not. The harder part was making PostgreSQL understand the MongoDB document shape. MongoDB lets one document contain strings, dates, nested objects, arrays, and an _id . PostgreSQL wants fixed columns, clear data types, and a primary key. So before running the sync, I had to decide what the PostgreSQL table should look like. For this test, I used Visua...
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JWT + OAuth2 + OIDC + PKCE Complete small Guide

The flow will be: Authentication foundation Session vs JWT JWT deep dive JWT security Access/Refresh tokens OAuth2 relationship with JWT End-to-end production flow PKCE Storage strategies summary 1. Authentication Fundamentals Every secure application needs answers to two questions: Authentication "Who are you?" Example: User enters: username password MFA System verifies identity. Result: User is Bha...
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Writing a Linux Driver From Scratch to Watch Free TV on a Raspberry Pi

May 2026 There's a touchscreen mounted in my kitchen — I call it the WallScreen. It runs recipes, the chore board, a calendar, the usual smart-home clutter. One day I decided it should also pull in free over-the-air television. No subscription, no streaming app, just the local broadcast towers that have been beaming HD into the air for free this whole time. I had a Raspberry Pi 5, a $30 USB tuner, and what I assumed would be a boring afternoon. It was not a boring afternoon. T...
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I Built Flowstate Because We Somehow Made Productivity More Complicated Than The Actual Work

I Built Flowstate Because We Somehow Made Productivity More Complicated Than The Actual Work Live: https://flowstate.chromitedev.xyz/ GitHub: https://github.com/ChromiteDev/flowstate We have a strange problem. Humans built some of the most advanced technology in history. We created: Computers that fit in our pockets Instant communication across the planet Machines that explore space Software that can do incredible things And somehow... We sti...
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Learning Go the Slow Way: Building Projects Instead of Following Tutorials.

Like a lot of beginners, I started learning Go the usual way: tutorials, courses, and coding along with someone who had already solved every problem. It felt productive. I finished lessons, learned the syntax, and everything seemed to make sense. Then I tried building something on my own.I had no idea where to start. That was the point where I changed my approach. Instead of following tutorials, I started building small, messy, imperfect projects. I still use AI, but not to generate the ...
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Our incident-response agent got the root cause wrong 7 times out of 12. It still never made a bad rollback. Aayush Bharadva Aayush Bharadva ...
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Day 1 of Demolishing my Stack of Unfinished Projects

Originally published on 2022-07-04. Published on July 3rd, 2022 We have a ll been there.. We all have that long list of unfinished side projects that we hope to complete some day.. If you're anything like me, that 'some day' is always eluding you and never getting here.. Ripping up the bandaid Today I have decided to finally go ahead and finish one of my long list of unfinished tutorial projects. I recently read a long Twitter thread that gave me a lot of food for ...
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The Day My AI Taught Me That Passing Tests Means Nothing

I never set out to build VentureTwin AI as just another chatbot. The idea was much bigger than answering questions. I wanted to build a digital twin that could understand a student's entire journey—their projects, certifications, technical skills, academics, achievements, and career interests—and use all of that to provide meaningful career guidance. Instead of simply recommending jobs based on keywords or certificate counts, I wanted the system to answer a much harder question: What is th...
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1 Startup Series: Connecting my Admin frontend to the backend

Published on Feb 16th, 2023 My solar e nergy startup platform FasoLara has reached a new milestone recently and I decided to start a new blog series about it! The project management platform has been a long journey since I published my first commit to GitHub in October 2020. What started based on a simple idea quickly became a behemoth of a software engineering project for my beginner programmer skills. I have poured thousands of hours into research, tutorials and coding to figure out h...
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Without Exception: How Neander Programs Fail

Neander has no exceptions. No try , no catch , no finally . A call to one of the host application's APIs returns something closer to Rust's Result : either the answer, or the reason there is no answer. In place of a catch block there is one type marker, three operators, and a guarantee that every submission comes back in the same shape no matter what happened. Last time the foundational series closed with isolation. This is the first of two encores, and it takes the subject that came up...
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16 Redesigning my Portfolio Website

Published on Aug 18, 2025 A New Era of AI-Powered Coding Begins I have installed Cursor on my laptop this weekend, and I am amazed at how much it speeds up my coding. I have a new debugging buddy!! This week, I have made several updates to the Portfolio website. The Challenge: When OpenAI Falls Short In my previous post, I shared the excitement of implementing a chatbot based on ChatGPT for my portfolio website. The initial experience was promising - I succes...