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Mastra vs LangChain: Building an AI Agent Pipeline and Analyzing the Data
A week ago, I saw this tweet: I had just shipped SupportMesh, a multi-tenant AI support platform built on Mastra, so I had opinions from production....
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What we've been playing – "What might well be the best video game tutorial ever"
Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Bertie fixates on a fiendish...
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How Large-Scale Platforms Handle Millions of Daily Transactions
Every day, millions of people order food, stream videos, send messages, book rides, make payments, and shop online. Most of these actions take only a few...
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The Saga Pattern in Node.js: How to Roll Back Distributed Transactions Across Microservices
Building reliable workflows across multiple microservices is challenging. In a monolith, a database transaction can ensure that multiple operations either succeed or fail together. But once...
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How to Build a Browser-Based PDF Crop Tool Using JavaScript
PDF files often contain unwanted margins, blank spaces, scanner borders, page headers, page footers, or unnecessary content around the main document area. Cropping allows users to...
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Geopolitical Risk Isn't One Thing. I Built a Python Framework to Prove It
On April 3, 2025, the US announced sweeping tariffs on Chinese imports. SPY dropped 4.8% that day. The next day, it dropped another 6%. Financial news...
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Here’s How AI Agents Can Protect EV Chargers
An AI agent system proposed by researchers in Spain promises to prevent energy theft and damage to EV chargers, as well as the critical energy infrastructure...
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U.S. Orders Anthropic to Suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Access for Foreign Nationals
Anthropic said on Friday it will "abruptly disable" its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for all users after the...
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AWS Introduces CDK Mixins for Composable Infrastructure Abstractions
AWS recently announced CDK Mixins, a new AWS CDK feature that lets developers add reusable capabilities like security, monitoring, and configuration to AWS resources. Mixins work...
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Deeply optimized MSX emulation on ESP32-S3 with VGA output
The ESP32-S3 is by many metrics quite the powerful little computer, which has led to it being used even for things like emulating retro consoles and...
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There is a New X11 Server, Written in Rust, With the Help of AI
Yserver is a vibe-coded project that ditches legacy code to work cleanly on modern Linux systems.
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