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Google's Search Monopoly and Why Regulators Are Furious

Google handles over 90 percent of searches worldwide. That is not a market share. That is a monopoly. Regulators in the US and Europe are suing Google. The…

Google's Secret Obsession With Organizing Your Entire Life

Google started as a research project. Two Stanford students wanted to rank academic papers. Then they realized the whole web needed ranking. That was 1998…

ChatGPT vs Traditional Search Engines

Unlike search engines, ChatGPT gives direct answers instead of links. However, it may not always provide updated information

How Stack Overflow Made Me a Better Googler

Before I started using Stack Overflow heavily, my Google searches were vague. I’d type something like 'my website is broken' and wonder why I got bad res…

PostgreSQL for Web Developers: Advanced Features You Should Know

PostgreSQL has become the database of choice for web development, but many developers only scratch the surface of its capabilities. Beyond basic SELECT que…

HTML5 Semantic Elements: Why They Matter for SEO and Accessibility

If you're building websites in 2024, you've probably heard about semantic HTML, but do you really understand why it's so important? Semantic elements like…

Web Scraping with Python and BeautifulSoup

Web scraping is the process of extracting data from websites. Python makes this easy with libraries like BeautifulSoup and requests. The requests library l…

Regular Expressions in Python for Text Processing

Regular expressions (regex) are a powerful tool for pattern matching in text. Python's re module provides full regex support. With regex, you can search fo…

Claude vs Gemini: Google's AI vs Anthropic's AI Compared

Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude are two of the most capable AI assistants available today. They take somewhat different approaches, and understandin…

Google's AI Overviews Are Giving Dangerous Advice and They Do Not Care

In 2024, Google launched AI Overviews. When you search, an AI writes a summary at the top. Sometimes that summary is wrong. Sometimes it is dangerous. The…

Teaching in Dubai: Salaries, Schools, and How to Get Hired

Dubai has over 200 private schools following British, American, IB, Indian, and a dozen other curricula, and the majority recruit internationally. For qual…

The Remote Work Revolution: Landing Your Dream Job from Anywhere

For the longest time, I thought my career was tied to a cubicle in a city I didn't even like. Then the pandemic hit, and everything changed. Remote work is…

Using AI Agents for Real Estate: Finding Your Dream Home

Cloud Logging: Finding a Needle in a Haystack of Logs

My app crashed. I had logs. Thousands of them. I needed to find the error that happened at 3:14 AM. I used to SSH into servers and grep through log files…

Using Claude for SEO: Content Strategy and Optimization

Content marketing teams are integrating Claude into their SEO workflows in ways that go well beyond just generating blog posts. The smarter applications le…

Cloud Logging: Finding a Needle in a Haystack of Logs

My app crashed. I had logs. Thousands of them. I needed to find the error that happened at 3:14 AM. I used to SSH into servers and grep through log files…

The GCP Console Is Actually... Good? A Love Letter to the UI

I've used all the major clouds. AWS's console feels like a government website from 2005. Azure's feels like a maze where every hallway looks the same. But…

I Used GCP to Host a Family Reunion Website (And My Grandma Was Impressed)

My family wanted a website for our reunion. Photos, RSVP, schedule, updates. I built it in a weekend. Frontend on Firebase Hosting. A Cloud Function to han…

CloudWatch: Keeping an Eye on Your AWS Resources

CloudWatch is the monitoring service that tells you what's happening inside your AWS environment. It collects metrics, logs, and events. When I first set u…

How I Built My Own AI Agent (Without Writing a Single Line of Code)

I am not a developer. I can barely format a spreadsheet. But last weekend, I built a functional AI agent using a no-code platform. I wanted an agent that s…

Travel Smarter with AI: Plan the Perfect Vacation

Planning a vacation can be stressful. There are flights to book, hotels to research, itineraries to build, and restaurant recommendations to sift through…

I Used GCP to Host a Family Reunion Website (And My Grandma Was Impressed)

My family wanted a website for our reunion. Photos, RSVP, schedule, updates. I built it in a weekend. Frontend on Firebase Hosting. A Cloud Function to han…

Navigating the Job Market: How AI Can Help You Land Your Dream Job

Searching for a job can feel like a full-time job in itself. Fortunately, AI is transforming the process, making it more efficient for both job seekers and…

The GCP Console Is Actually... Good? A Love Letter to the UI

I've used all the major clouds. AWS's console feels like a government website from 2005. Azure's feels like a maze where every hallway looks the same. But…

Your Data, Their AI: A Guide to Privacy in the Age of Intelligence

As AI systems become more powerful, they hunger for one thing: data. Our personal data—our searches, purchases, locations, and even our conversations—i…

Meta's Threads App Is Dying Because Nobody Wants Another Twitter

In July 2023, Meta launched Threads. It was a Twitter clone. Instagram users could sign up instantly. 100 million people joined in five days. Then they lef…

The $200/Day AI System That Runs Itself (Mostly)

I'm lazy. Like, really lazy. So when I built my AI side hustle, I wanted it to work while I slept. Took about six weeks to figure out, but now I've got a s…

Google's Graveyard of Killed Products That Could Have Been Great

Google Reader died in 2013. RSS fans cried. Google Plus died in 2019. Nobody cried. Google Hangouts died in 2022. People moved to Zoom anyway. Google Stadi…

The AI Job Nobody Is Talking About (And Why You Should Grab It Now)

Everyone's obsessed with becoming an AI prompt engineer or building the next ChatGPT killer. Meanwhile, there's a boring, unsexy job that's printing money…

UPSC Civil Services Exam Form Fill 2026: Complete Step-by-Step Guide for India

Filling the UPSC Civil Services Exam form is the first real test. Not of your knowledge, but of your patience. The form looks simple, but one wrong entry c…