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Consider this your map and compass. A handpicked list of resources, datasets, and
foundational reads to guide your exploration into Artificial Intelligence.
How Small Language Models Are Quietly Powering the Next Generation of Agentic AI
A deep, friendly walkthrough on why small language models matter, how they unlock scalable agentic AI, and what this shift means for developers, enterprises, and the future of AI automation.
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Nov 22, 2025
TOON vs JSON: The Modern Data Format Showdown Built for the AI Era
A detailed, technical yet friendly exploration of why TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation) is emerging as a powerful JSON alternative for AI systems. Includes benchmarks, schema explanations, and real-world AI engineering use cases.
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Nov 21, 2025
Edge Functions: The Secret Superpower Behind Blazing-Fast Apps & Websites
A friendly, technical dive into edge computing, serverless at the edge, and how edge functions supercharge blazing-fast web apps.
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Nov 18, 2025
How to Architect Cloud Deployments with AWS Regions and Availability Zones
A technical‑friendly guide on designing AWS architectures using Regions and Availability Zones, complete with real-world scenarios, selection factors, and proven strategies.
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Nov 16, 2025
AI Agents vs AI Workflows: Understanding the Future of Automation
A deep dive into the distinctions between AI agents and AI workflows - how they make decisions, collaborate, and scale automation across AI-driven organizations.
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Nov 13, 2025
Model Context Protocol: The Simple "Recipe" That's Finally Making AI Useful
Tired of AI that just talks instead of does? This is your guide to the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the breakthrough standard that acts as a universal translator between AI and any app. We break down exactly what it is, why it's not just another API, and how it's creating a future where AI can finally get things
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Oct 29, 2025
AI Can Design? Think Again. The Brutal Reality Behind the Hype
AI design tools promise speed but deliver generic, uninspired layouts. This article dives into the reality behind the hype, exploring why human taste, intuition, and creativity remain essential for making a product that truly stands out.
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Oct 23, 2025
Reverse Proxy for Beginners: What It Is, How It Works, and Why You Need One
A reverse proxy is one of the most powerful yet least understood components of modern web infrastructure. Acting as an intermediary between users and backend servers, it handles incoming traffic, improves performance, and strengthens security. This in-depth beginner’s guide breaks down the concept of reverse proxies in simple terms - explaining how they route requests, balance server loads, manage SSL certificates, and protect sensitive backend systems from public exposure.
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Oct 15, 2025
A Practical Guide to AI Evals: How to Test Your Conversational AI
Don't just launch your conversational AI and hope for the best. Learn how top teams evaluate their models to ensure they're sharp, reliable, and ready for real users. This guide breaks down everything from automated evals like "LLM-as-a-Judge" to the gold standard: human-in-the-loop testing.
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Oct 9, 2025
LLM Tokens: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide
Why do some AI prompts cost pennies while others cost dollars? The answer is tokens, the hidden building blocks of LLMs. Master them, and you master both your AI's performance and your budget. This guide breaks it all down, simply.
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Oct 3, 2025
Why Do LLMs Hallucinate? A Beginner’s Guide to Safer AI
This beginner-friendly guide explains why LLMs hallucination happens and how to curb it with grounding, careful prompts, and RAG. Learn to spot errors and keep your AI outputs accurate.
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Sep 11, 2025
GraphQL vs REST: Choosing the Right API for Your Project (Beginner-Friendly Guide)
This beginner-friendly guide on GraphQL vs REST explains how to choose between graphql and rest and when each is the better fit. It covers over-fetching vs under-fetching, performance tips, and practical examples to answer whether GraphQL is faster than REST. Use this quick intro to pick the right API for your project.
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Sep 9, 2025
Redis for Caching: The Beginner’s Guide in 5 Simple Steps
Beginner-friendly, step-by-step guide to using Redis for caching. Learn cache-aside patterns, TTLs, and practical copy-paste examples to speed up your app today.
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Sep 6, 2025
DNS Records Explained for Beginners: A 2026 Guide to Domains, Nameservers, and Email Routing
DNS Records Explained for Beginners walks you through A, MX, CNAME, DMARC and more in plain English. This guide uses simple analogies and practical steps to help you manage domains, nameservers, and email routing with confidence.
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Sep 4, 2025
Git Rebase vs Git Merge: A Beginner's Guide to the Right Workflow
This beginner's guide explains git rebase vs git merge in plain English, with practical examples and practice. Learn when to rebase, when to merge, and how to resolve conflicts for a clean, linear history.
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Aug 31, 2025
Beyond the Hype: Vector Search Limitations and What To Do Instead
This beginner-friendly guide explains Vector Search Limitations, where it shines and where it breaks. It offers practical, ready-to-use strategies- hybrid search, reranking, and smarter embeddings—to avoid slow vector search and inaccurate RAG results.
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Aug 31, 2025
Mastering LLM Temperature: Control Creativity Without Losing the Plot (2026)
Learn how LLM Temperature shapes temperature creativity and coherence. This guide explains how to use temperature, top-p, and sampling to balance precision and imagination, with practical presets for precise, balanced, and creative writing.
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Aug 28, 2025
Nano Banana Hype: AI Image Editing That Feels Like a Conversation
Explore the nano banana hype and how this AI-driven tool handles text-to-image and text-to-edit tasks in seconds. Often associated with Gemini 2.5 image flash, it emphasizes identity preservation and conversational edits for image editing with ai.
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Aug 27, 2025
AI Watermarking for Beginners: The Ultimate Guide
AI Watermarking embeds invisible signals into content as it's created, detectable later with a secret key. This beginner-friendly guide explains what it is, why it matters, and how you can try it yourself.
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Aug 24, 2025
Em Dash AI Myth: Why em dash ai Isn't AI-Written
An accessible explainer that debunks the em dash ai myth and shows how to use em dashes correctly. It covers typing em dashes on Windows and Mac, plus practical tips to remove em dashes from AI answers without losing meaning.
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Aug 23, 2025
HTTP vs HTTPS: A Beginner's Guide to Secure Web Protocols
Discover the difference between HTTP and HTTPS, what HTTPS means for security, and how TLS and certificates protect your data. This beginner-friendly guide explains secure web protocols and practical steps to switch your site to HTTPS.
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Aug 22, 2025
Transform Your SEO Strategy with LLMs: A Beginner’s Guide
This beginner-friendly guide shows you how to adapt classic SEO for LLM-powered answers. Learn practical steps to appear in AI answers, keep rankings strong, and turn visibility into revenue.
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Aug 21, 2025
Chain of Thought Reasoning a mirage: A Beginner-friendly Guide to What Works (and What Breaks)
Is Chain of Thought Reasoning a mirage? This beginner-friendly guide explains what CoT can do, where it falters, and how to test and harden AI systems with practical steps.
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Aug 20, 2025
Learn LangSmith: The Ultimate Zero-to-Production Guide (2026 Edition)
This beginner-friendly guide takes you from zero to production with LangSmith, covering tracing, evals, LLM observability, and monitoring. Learn to observe, debug, and ship reliable AI apps with copy-paste code and plain-language explanations.
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Aug 19, 2025
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