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Know Instantly When Your Site Goes Down: Automating Website Monitoring With UptimeRobot
How do website admins know when their website is down? Do they just wait until a frustrated user tells them, or do they constantly navigate their own site to find...
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How To Fix vscode merge editor not showing in 1 minute
Have you recently run into an issue where the three-way Merge Editor in VS Code just won’t show up, and instead, you’re stuck with the old inline UI? You are...
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Open Meteo archive free historical weather data
Have you ever wondered what the weather was exactly like on the day you were born? Or maybe you’re building an app that needs to know how much it rained...
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How to Find Places Where You've Logged In with Google
Using your Google account to log into external apps and websites is incredibly convenient. It saves you from creating new passwords and speeds up the signup process. However, over time,...
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Google Cloud TLS Certificate Changes in Q2 2026: Important Update for GCP users
If you manage client applications that interact with Google Cloud services, please take note of an upcoming infrastructure change. In Q2 2026, Google is updating the Transport Layer Security (TLS)...
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Google Cloud Security Best Practices
Managing service account keys and API keys securely within your Google Cloud environment is a critical responsibility for any organization. Recent security trends highlight a glaring issue: long-lived credentials lacking...
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Know Instantly When Your Site Goes Down: Automating Website Monitoring With UptimeRobot
How do website admins know when their website is down? Do they just wait until a frustrated user tells them, or do they constantly navigate their own site to find...
How To Fix vscode merge editor not showing in 1 minute
Have you recently run into an issue where the three-way Merge Editor in VS Code just won’t show up, and instead, you’re stuck with the old inline UI? You are...
Open Meteo archive free historical weather data
Have you ever wondered what the weather was exactly like on the day you were born? Or maybe you’re building an app that needs to know how much it rained...
How to Find Places Where You've Logged In with Google
Using your Google account to log into external apps and websites is incredibly convenient. It saves you from creating new passwords and speeds up the signup process. However, over time,...
Google Cloud TLS Certificate Changes in Q2 2026: Important Update for GCP users
If you manage client applications that interact with Google Cloud services, please take note of an upcoming infrastructure change. In Q2 2026, Google is updating the Transport Layer Security (TLS)...
Google Cloud Security Best Practices
Managing service account keys and API keys securely within your Google Cloud environment is a critical responsibility for any organization. Recent security trends highlight a glaring issue: long-lived credentials lacking...
Featured Posts
SpaceX Did It Again-Precision Engineering on Display
Just when you thought Elon Musk couldn’t surprise us anymore, he’s done it again! Elon Musk and his team at SpaceX have again successfully caught a 33-story building-sized rocket, the...
SpaceX Pioneering Rocket Technology
SpaceX, under the leadership of Elon Musk, has revolutionized rocket technology with several groundbreaking innovations: Reusable Rockets: Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy Falcon 9: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was the...
How AI Could Empower Any Business - Andrew Ng
In this TED talk by Andrew Ng, co-founder of Google Brain and deeplearning.ai, he believes that artificial intelligence (AI) systems should be more widely available and accessible, so that even...
A Chronological Look At AI: A Decade-by-Decade Evolution
Here we cut through the noise to deliver a clear, compelling history of this transformative technology; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. From the theoretical roots of the 1940s to the...
How Google forecasts Weather and Air Quality Data
Google’s weather forecasts are created using an internal forecasting system that combines weather models and observations from various global weather agencies. The primary data sources for Google’s weather forecasting include:...
How Google Turned 5 Million News Articles into a Flash Flood Warning System
Google just announced (March 13th, 2026) that it can predict urban flash floods up to 24 hours in advance, for most of the world, without building a single physical sensor....
Why Can I Pay for Netflix Instantly, But Not Send $5 To My Brother Abroad? Enter Revolut
In my last post, I wrote about a weird paradox: paying for Netflix with a card is a seamless, one-second breeze, but sending $100 to a friend or family member...
The Developer's Guide to Payment Platforms: Stripe, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle, and Paystack
Building an app is hard. Getting paid for it shouldn’t be. In 2026, the landscape of payment providers is richer than ever. Gone are the days when PayPal was your...
Personal Posts
Ronaldo Hits Gold in Less Than 24 Hours!
Cristiano Ronaldo recently launched his YouTube channel with an announcement on Twitter (or X) on August 21st. Take a look at the date and time on this post: In less...
The Titans of Sound: Inside the Big Three Music Labels
The global music industry is effectively an oligopoly. While it may seem like there are thousands of record labels out there, the vast majority of commercial music—estimates often cite over...
From Alan Becker Animation vs channel on Youtube
A message from Alan Becker. Celebrating 20 years of Animation. Twenty years ago today, on June 3, 2006, I uploaded the very first Animator vs. Animation. What started as a...
The Joke That Aged Poorly: Did Pavel Durov Predict His Own Arrest?
“Do you think a platform owner should be held responsible for what happens in private chats? “ Did Pavel Durov unknowingly predict his own predicament with this light-hearted post? Original...
Just Do The Thing - Chris Williamson on The Things That Are Not Doing The Thing
There’s this video on ‘Doing the Thing’ that I like so much so I’m gonna share it with you. Chris Williamson shares a perspective on productivity and procrastination. The video...
The Magnus Carlsen Gambit: Disrespecting Grandmasters for Fun With Gotham Chess
Magnus Carlsen is so good at chess that he often has to “nerf” himself just to make online games interesting, according to the YouTube channel Gotham Chess. While most of...
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I am a Computer Engineer and Machine Learning Enthusiast with a passion for Internet of Things (IoT) and AI applications. I specialize in building data-driven solutions and deploying low-cost technologies for real-world impact. Currently, I am expanding my expertise in Deep Learning and building on AWS.
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