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Founder. Breaks things on purpose so readers don't have to.
Step-by-step guide to fixing CORS errors between a React front-end and .NET API. Covers AddCors policy, preflight handling, Vite proxy setup, and common mistakes.
Groq cut its free-tier rate limits roughly in half this week. What changed, what still works, and when to add a fallback.
Building a content site with core PHP, MySQL and 15KB of CSS on shared hosting — what the constraint taught us about modern web bloat.
Get a free Gemini API key in Google AI Studio in 5 minutes — with the real rate limits we measured and the data-training catch explained.
A year of daily prompting distilled: the patterns that survived are the ones that look like clear writing, not magic words.
OpenRouter reviewed after three months of daily use: real free models, measured latency overhead, and the rate-limit catch.
Run a local LLM on an ordinary 8GB laptop with Ollama — the models that actually fit, measured speeds, and the swap trap to avoid.
