The AI craze is going strong. You would think it’d be over by now, but big boy companies keep throwing their money at Nvidia GPUs and overpriced LLM subscriptions. For the average Joe, GPT4 and GPT4o are more than enough to do your day-to-day tasks or if you’re a developer, you can just have OpenAI’s API do everything you’re too lazy to do. This all comes at a cost: Data privacy Are you okay sending your or your company’s data to OpenAI’s servers, even if they don’t use it to train their future model?

Sometimes, there are little things that solve so much that we take for granted. There’s also things that solve so much that aren’t used as often. Recently, I’ve been relying on ??, which is a very interesting operator called “null-coalescing operator”. A fairly seasoned programmer probably uses it very often and wouldn’t find this as fascinating as I did, but for me, it’s a game-changer. Take this for instance: const somevar = null; if (somevar === null) { console.

This is going to be a quick post, but it’s still something that I like. I love systemd, and try to (over)use it every time I can. This is one of those use-cases where I can use ngrok to freely demo my app without having to set up a cloud instance or open up a port in my router. The simple usage of running ngrok is fine for simple cases like hosting a minecraft server for an hour, but if you need to run it in the background you’d need a service.