#open-source
65 episodes
#3801: Your Apartment in 3D: The Open-Source Stack That Works
Blueprint to VR walkthrough using free tools. No CAD degree required.
#3752: The Room Planning Tool Gap: DXF Support Without the Upsell
Browser-based room planners that actually handle DXF import/export without nagware or expensive subscriptions — do they exist?
#3661: What 1000 AI Podcast Episodes Actually Prove
Scaling an AI podcast to 1000 episodes reveals what no 10-episode pilot can teach you about sustainability, cost, and habit formation.
#3532: Inside the DSM: Why Standards Bodies Move So Slowly
Why do committees like the DSM take 14 years? The answer is more rigorous—and more interesting—than the cynics think.
#3510: Why Your Home Isn't Using Industrial Storage Standards
What if moving house meant clicking modules out and back in, done by lunch? The case for a DIN standard home.
#3234: Who Should Sponsor This Podcast? Open-Book Economics
We open the books on our AI-generated podcast: $200/month costs, 180K plays, zero sponsors. Who should we pitch?
#2961: Podcast Analytics Without Selling Your Soul
Three paths to listener data that respect privacy and actually work with object storage.
#2829: The Missing CRUD Framework for Real Code
What actually gives you a real starting point for internal tools — not a platform, not a service, but code you own and deploy.
#2822: Serverless E-Commerce: Medusa, Saleor, and Vendure
Three open-source headless commerce engines that make serverless e-commerce actually viable.
#2812: The Hidden Database of Everything You Own
Is there an API for product specs? Yes, but it's built for engineers, not homeowners — and Israel SKUs make it harder.
#2798: Why AI Tooling Finally Makes Static Frameworks Practical
From thumbnails to SVGs — how Astro changes the media game compared to WordPress.
#2774: Open Data That Actually Works
The gap between open data promises and reality, and the rare cases where it actually changes policy.
#2690: Where Agent Builders Actually Gather
The MCP community, A2A protocol, and Linux Foundation are building the professional identity of agentic AI right now.
#2604: Self-Hosted Screen Recording: Tools Beyond Loom
Practical tools and trade-offs for async video documentation with real data control across platforms including Linux.
#2599: The $200 Printer That Changed Everything
What $200 buys you for printing keycaps, cable housings, and small parts at home — with real material and environmental math.
#2535: Inside LangChain's Deep Agents: What's Actually in the Box
A deep dive into the batteries-included agent harness with terminal CLI, sub-agents, and production-ready evaluation.
#2526: How Peer Review Actually Works (and Fails)
The history of peer review, the Lancet's biggest scandals, and why arXiv is changing everything.
#2517: How Unsloth Makes LLM Fine-Tuning 2x Faster
Unsloth cuts memory usage by 50-70% and speeds up training 2.2x for models like Llama 3 and Mistral.
#2511: Measuring AI API Latency Through the Black Box
How to benchmark token throughput and debug slowdowns in closed CLI tools like Claude Code using OpenTelemetry and mitmproxy.
#2505: How Self-Hosted Search Actually Works for AI Agents
SearXNG isn't a crawler — it's a metasearch router. Here's how it works and why AI agents change everything.
#2476: Database Backups Without the Bloat
pg_dump, WAL archiving, and the free tools that beat expensive commercial backup software.
#2468: When Tokens Meet GPU Seconds
How to track AI spend across Open Router, Replicate, and more — without a unified dashboard.
#2466: The Hidden Trap of Embedding Model Lock-In
What happens when your vector database works great — until your embedding model gets deprecated and your vectors become useless.
#2459: Drizzle vs Prisma: Which ORM Wins for AI-Native Backends?
Comparing Drizzle and Prisma for AI-native backends, MCP servers, and the future of agent-centric development.