I didn’t expect it to happen. I built OrKa, a modular framework for orchestrating reasoning agents. It runs YAML-defined flows, stores memories in Redis, and lets you fork logic paths, join them, and replay every decision. The original goal was simple: make AI reasoning transparent. No black-box magic. No hallucinated chains. Just composable cognition. But…
Introduction I love Appwrite. My first hackathon was actually from Appwrite (using Appwrite) 2 years ago, and I’ve been using it ever since. It has basically every basic feature that you could want for a backend as a service and serves as a perfect base for almost any kind of app you could want to…
The morning started with promise. Stretching, good intentions, the whole setup for what could have been a productive day. Then reality kicked in, and I spent the entire afternoon doing everything except the one thing I actually needed to do: go to the library. The Social Minefield Here’s something they don’t tell you about college:…
Kobo recently pushed out a fully redesigned reading app for iPhones Several new features have been added, including a listening bar for audiobook control, vertical scrolling and guest mode Instapaper integration is coming soon to replace Pocket support on Kobo ereaders I’ve been a massive Kobo fan since I first started using the Kobo Glo…
Amazon is looking to make AI part of your daily life and has turned to the world of wearables to help. The tech giant has just acquired Bee AI, the maker of the eponymous device for your wrist or lapel that listens to everything happening around you. Bee’s microphones and built-in AI transcribe it all…
OpenAI is expected to release the Sora 2 AI video model soon Sora 2 will face stiff competition from Google’s Veo 3 model Veo 3 already offers features that Sora does not, and OpenAI will need to enhance both what Sora can do and how easy it is to use to entice possible customers OpenAI…
If you’ve built a TypeScript library recently, you know the pain. You spend more time wrestling with build configurations than actually writing code. Your tsup builds take 4 seconds. It’s 2025. We can do better. The TypeScript ecosystem has been missing a tool that combines: Lightning-fast builds (sub-100ms, not multi-second) Zero-config ergonomics that scale with…
Below are a couple of practices I implement to not only boost my own productivity & speed, but the speed of my team. Some of them are oriented around getting new devs up to speed quickly, while others are meant for enhancing current team members. 1. Invest in your Dev Environment For one of the…
FFmpeg’s biggest speedup yet affects only one function few people will have heard of Handwritten Assembly makes a comeback in a niche filter that most users will never even touch AVX512 gives FFmpeg an absurd 100x gain – but only if your CPU supports it The FFmpeg project, known for powering some of the most…
