How to Avoid Unexpected AWS Bills: A 5-Minute Budget Alert Guide for Beginners

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I built a content recommender as a graph, and it found similarities I wasn't looking for
Most beginner recommendation projects are a dictionary lookup. You type "comedy", it returns the comedy list. That works
Ask the machine what it is before you change it
I spent today on a control plane that provisions plain VMs over SSH — the kind of app where a wrong answer doesn't rende
Caninography
This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition I built Caninography, a small digital archive for exploring
QH256 in C — A Deterministic 256-Bit State Structure for K501-AIONARC
QH256 in C — A Deterministic 256-Bit State Structure for K501-AIONARC A small, deterministic C reference implementation
Your agent's "not done" lies as often as its "done"
There is a well-worn rule for running agents: don't trust the agent when it says it finished. Go look at the artifact. G