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What 10 Years of Chess Taught Me About Writing Better Code
The strategic thinking, pattern recognition, and composure I developed over a decade of chess turned out to be the most valuable coding skills nobody talks about. Here’s how the board game made me a better developer — and how it can do the same for you.
7 Linux Security Hardening Steps I Run on Every New Server
The seven Linux security hardening steps I run on every new server — from SSH hardening and firewall setup to Fail2Ban and automatic updates. Takes 15 minutes, saves hours of headaches.
I Built an AI Water Meter Reader That Runs on a Phone — No Cloud, No OCR, Just Edge AI
I ditched OCR and built an AI water meter reader using YOLO, TensorFlow Lite, and Flutter. Here’s the full journey — from labeling 1,000 images to running inference on-device.