How We Built Fast Search for ZyVOP Without Elasticsearch or Algolia
ZyVOP searches posts, authors, tags, and series with PostgreSQL and Redis. Here is how stored search vectors, trigram indexes, query expansi...
Nov 3, 2026
6 min
Your VPN Doesn't Make You Private
VPN ads promise privacy, but a VPN mostly moves trust from your ISP to a company you've never met. Here is what it really does, what it can'...
Oct 26, 2026
5 min
How a GPU Actually Works
How does a GPU turn millions of pixels into images and power today's AI models? Explore GPU architecture from the ground up, including CUDA ...
Oct 15, 2026
12 min
Architecture Case Study: Migrating a Developer SaaS from Serverless to a $10 VPS with Docker
Serverless platforms like Vercel and AWS Lambda are the default choice for modern web applications.
Sep 26, 2026
8 min
Jev's Boring Use Cases Are the Ones That Actually Work
Jev is a lightweight model that runs far faster and cheaper than larger LLMs, delivering competitive accuracy for tasks such as reranking, j...
Sep 24, 2026
3 min
Pi‑warden: Using Jev to Block Destructive Commands in 48 Hours
Jev, a decision‑only AI model released on September 15 2026, was quickly adopted by developers: pi‑warden, built within 48 hours, blocked 42...
Sep 24, 2026
4 min
Google Slides AI is laughably bad
I was making a slide in Google Slides recently when a small button appeared at the bottom: Beautify the slide.
Sep 3, 2026
3 min
Fun Project: I Built a Compressor That Thinks in Tokens
Field notes from a weekend spent teaching an entropy coder to speak LLM. LLMs spent billions of dollars learning the best subword dictionary...
Sep 1, 2026
10 min
How Netflix's Architecture Works in 2026: A Developer's Guide
Netflix's architecture has evolved from a monolithic DVD business into a globally distributed platform built around EKS, Envoy, Open Connect...
Aug 30, 2026
11 min