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How I Fine-Tuned TinyLlama on My Laptop Using LoRA
A complete walkthrough of fine-tuning a 1.1B parameter model on a Mac using LoRA, merging the adapter, and serving it locally with Ollama.
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Building the Harness: How Real ML Systems Actually Run Models
You trained the model. Now what? This post explains model inference and harness engineering with real code and zero hand-waving.
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Cognitive Offloading vs Cognitive Surrender: One Makes Sense, the Other Doesn't
Cognitive offloading is smart. Cognitive surrender is dangerous. A Wharton study of 1,372 people shows most of us have stopped telling the difference.
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The Person Who Writes the Best Skills Wins
Skills are becoming the new language for AI tools. Write a better skill and the LLM doesn't just follow instructions, it starts thinking like you.
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AI Tells You What to Build. Engineers Know Why It's Complicated.
AI can generate a product plan in minutes. That doesn't mean it can be shipped in the same time. Here's the part the hype doesn't talk about.
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How I used Logistic Regression to Calculate Compatibility Scores in a Dating App
How can a simple statistical model make digital interactions feel personal? In a dating app project I worked on, I used logistic regression to turn user answers into meaningful insights. This blog shares my approach and the lessons I learned along the way.
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Asking Questions: The Most Underrated Skill
From everyday life to professional growth, asking the right questions can unlock understanding, insight, and opportunity.
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How I use AI tools like Cursor and Warp in my daily workflow
Practical examples of how I use Cursor (AI editor) and Warp (AI terminal) to refactor code, write tests, and speed up everyday tasks with prompts, examples, and images.
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Rails adds include_seconds option to datetime_field.
Rails now allows to omit seconds part in the input field by adding the include_seconds option to datetime_field.
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Rails preserves entry TTL when incrementing or decrementing an integer value.
Rails now preserve expires_in while incrementing or decrementing an integer value in MemoryStore to be more consistent with MemCacheStore and RedisCacheStore.
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How to set up a CI/CD workflow for Expo React Native application using Github Actions.
In this blog, we will see how to set up a CI/CD workflow using Github Actions for the Expo React Native application.
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Rails adds beginless range support to clusivity
Rails now adds support to include the beginless range in active record inclusivity/exclusivity validators.
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Rails avoids queries when performing calculations on contradictory relation
Rails now avoids making a query to the database if the calculation contains a contradictory relation.
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Overuse of Rails engines
In this post, we will see how the overuse of engines could lead to some serious issues.
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Rails for Multi database defines reading_request? in resolver
Rails moves reading_request? method from the DatabaseSelector to the DatabaseSelector::Resolver class so that we can override the method in custom Resolver.
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Rails allows specifying the maximum number of records that will be destroyed in a single background job.
Rails adds an active record configuration to limit the maximum number of dependent records destroyed in a single background job.
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Rails allows using aliased attributes with insert_all and upsert_all
Rails is continuously adding convenience to make active record queries more flexible. Now, Rails has added support to use aliased attributes with insert/upsert_all.
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Know how to rollout and rollback deployments in Kubernetes
As people and businesses increasingly depend on SaaS products, DevOps have started on creating reliable infrastructure. Reducing deployment downtime is at the top of their priority list. In this post, we will see how Kubernetes handles this gracefully.
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Ruby 3.1 introduces Variable Width Allocation for Strings
In this blog let us understand how Variable Width Allocation works in Ruby
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How does Ruby manage memory?
Each programming language has its version of memory management so, let us look into how Ruby does this under the hood.
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Rails 7 adds support for deferrable foreign key constraints in PostgreSQL
By default, foreign key constraints in PostgreSQL are checked after each statement. This works for most use cases but becomes a major limitation when creating related records before the parent record is inserted into the database.
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Rails 7 adds optional transaction arguments to with_lock
With Rails 7 we can pass transaction arguments like isolation, joinable, etc directly to with_lock.
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React State management - Part 2
Learn some of the inherent ways of managing state without using any external state management tool.
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Using Amazon Personalize to create a Recommendation System
A Step-By-Step Guide to Building a Recommender System using Amazon Personalize with its Similar-Items Recipe.
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Rails 7 adds caching? and uncachable! helper
Starting with Rails 7, we can add caching? helper to check whether the current code path is being cached and uncacheable! helper to avoid fragment caching.
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Different ways to handle state in React applications
Sometimes, it is better not to use any external state management tool unless our application is that complex. We can avoid complexities involved in state management using some of the inherent ways.
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Normalizing Redux state to ensure good performance in React apps
In complex applications, client apps have to store and manage a large amount of nested data, and if the data is not normalized, it can be incredibly time-consuming for a program to lookup nested data which could become a performance concern.
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My experience with Egghead Portfolio Project Club
A couple of months back I had won the full year of free egghead courses in one of the Gatsby contests and one fine day while I was enjoying my free premium access and watching some amazing tutorials on Redux and State Management I came to know about Egghead Portfolio Project Club and I found it interesting because I really believe in learning together.
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How we improved the Player's rank and Leaderboard calculations in trivia apps
The one most important element of game-based environments at which user will always look is Leaderboard. Implementing a leaderboard could be easy but, when the number of users raised to several
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Apple Sign-In and the issue we faced with Expo
Now, Apple has mandated to provide Apple Sign-In as an equivalent option if your app is providing other social logins(FB, Gmail Twitter, etc) as well. In this guide I tried to simplify the entire process and how we resolved an issue we faced while using Expo for Apple Signin
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Exploring GraphQL since 3 months
I have been hearing about GraphQL and its hype for a long but, finally, I got a chance to use this in one of the projects. It's been 3 months since I am exploring GraphQL. So, in this post I would like to share my experiences with GraphQL, things that I found worked great, and areas of difficulty I didn't expect.
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Why I chose GatsbyJS for my blogs
This year in ByteConf2020 I got to know about GatsbyJS, and I really found it interesting so, I thought of giving it a try. As developers, we always look out for some cool tech stacks which are powerful, practical and save us from some serious mundane tasks. So, in this post, I would like to explain why I chose GatsbyJS to build my blogging site.
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Converting Meteor Methods to REST Endpoints
In a recent project, we built an application on top of a legacy application’s APIS. The legacy application was built with MeteorJS, and we chose a MERN stack to extend it. We decided to leverage the existing codebase due to time constraints and wide areas of functional reuse.
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Setting up Repository Manager for internal NPM packages
In this post we will see how to setup a Repository Manager for internal NPM packages
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How matured your REST APIs are ?
When we say we are creating or consuming REST APIs. Does it really mean a REST ?. So, in this post I would like to describe how we can assess maturity of the REST API.
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Lifecycle Management of Reactive Subscriptions
Lets get deeper into the Rx, the another core key of Rx is the Reactive Subscription.
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Diving into RX Java
I am back with the another post which aims to introduce a beginner reactive programmer to the complete power of the Java implementation of reactive programming.
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Demystifying Reactive Programming
Nowadays we often hear the term Reactive Programming, Reactive Extensions, RXJava and all the hype around them but you can’t get your head around them or may be you’ve seen it used a few places but you’re still a little confused and would like some clarifications. I’ll try to make this post easy and simple for you.
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Demystifying Monad
Two years back when I started looking into the Functional Programming I came across a word Monad. I really tried hard to understand it but, didn't get succeed. I started asking people and it came like Monad seems to have a very bad reputation in many communities. I heard many times people saying that they are “too complicated” even if they really aren’t inspite of the fact that Monads are one of the most useful and powerful tools we have in functional programming.
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The Verbs who rule the City of Nouns
Now the time has changed. Verbs have shown their strength, Verbs are set free and people are now realising their powers. But, the question is how such transformation took place in the kingdom where verbs were treated as slave and the Nouns had entirely ousted the Verbs. so, there is a story behind this.
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