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#3234: Who Should Sponsor This Podcast? Open-Book Economics
We open the books on our AI-generated podcast: $200/month costs, 180K plays, zero sponsors. Who should we pitch?
#2961: Podcast Analytics Without Selling Your Soul
Three paths to listener data that respect privacy and actually work with object storage.
#2829: The Missing CRUD Framework for Real Code
What actually gives you a real starting point for internal tools — not a platform, not a service, but code you own and deploy.
#2822: Serverless E-Commerce: Medusa, Saleor, and Vendure
Three open-source headless commerce engines that make serverless e-commerce actually viable.
#2812: The Hidden Database of Everything You Own
Is there an API for product specs? Yes, but it's built for engineers, not homeowners — and Israel SKUs make it harder.
#2798: Why AI Tooling Finally Makes Static Frameworks Practical
From thumbnails to SVGs — how Astro changes the media game compared to WordPress.
#2774: Open Data That Actually Works
The gap between open data promises and reality, and the rare cases where it actually changes policy.
#2690: Where Agent Builders Actually Gather
The MCP community, A2A protocol, and Linux Foundation are building the professional identity of agentic AI right now.
#2604: Self-Hosted Screen Recording: Tools Beyond Loom
Practical tools and trade-offs for async video documentation with real data control across platforms including Linux.
#2599: The $200 Printer That Changed Everything
What $200 buys you for printing keycaps, cable housings, and small parts at home — with real material and environmental math.
#2535: Inside LangChain's Deep Agents: What's Actually in the Box
A deep dive into the batteries-included agent harness with terminal CLI, sub-agents, and production-ready evaluation.
#2526: How Peer Review Actually Works (and Fails)
The history of peer review, the Lancet's biggest scandals, and why arXiv is changing everything.
#2517: How Unsloth Makes LLM Fine-Tuning 2x Faster
Unsloth cuts memory usage by 50-70% and speeds up training 2.2x for models like Llama 3 and Mistral.
#2511: Measuring AI API Latency Through the Black Box
How to benchmark token throughput and debug slowdowns in closed CLI tools like Claude Code using OpenTelemetry and mitmproxy.
#2505: How Self-Hosted Search Actually Works for AI Agents
SearXNG isn't a crawler — it's a metasearch router. Here's how it works and why AI agents change everything.
#2476: Database Backups Without the Bloat
pg_dump, WAL archiving, and the free tools that beat expensive commercial backup software.
#2468: When Tokens Meet GPU Seconds
How to track AI spend across Open Router, Replicate, and more — without a unified dashboard.
#2466: The Hidden Trap of Embedding Model Lock-In
What happens when your vector database works great — until your embedding model gets deprecated and your vectors become useless.
#2459: Drizzle vs Prisma: Which ORM Wins for AI-Native Backends?
Comparing Drizzle and Prisma for AI-native backends, MCP servers, and the future of agent-centric development.
#2435: The Hidden Difficulty of Data Modeling
Stop designing database schemas from scratch. Here's where to find ready-made templates for common business apps.
#2355: Why Open-Weight Models Are Winning
Discover how Cogito v2.1 leverages process supervision and MoE architecture to redefine reasoning efficiency in open-weight AI models.
#2338: Who Keeps Matplotlib Running?
How does a team of just 15 people maintain Matplotlib, the backbone of global scientific visualization?
#2327: Why AI Developers Chose Discord Over Slack
Discover why Discord became the go-to platform for AI developers, outpacing Slack with its community-first design and informal vibe.
#2299: The Open-Source vs. Commercial Tension in Self-Hosted Media
Dive into the world of self-hosted media managers: Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby. Why do millions choose to run their own servers?