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How I verify my Ente Photos backups without copying 230 GB.
Self-hosting 230 GB of family photos on a decade-old box means one question keeps you up at night: what happens when a disk dies? Here's how I built a trustable, fully verifiable backup system.
Aswin Pradeep C
•Sep 10, 2026• 2 min read
Aug 22, 2026
Razorpay Buildathon: AI Growth & Agentic Commerce (Track 01)
Aug 22, 2026
Google AI Plus for Students: 12 Months Free Access
Aug 7, 2026
KCC Programming Guide: Zero to Job Ready
Aug 6, 2026
Why Every Developer Should Learn AI in 2026
Aug 4, 2026
How we took a CPU-heavy API from 9 seconds to under 2.
Aug 1, 2026
What Developers Really Think About Claude: Insights from Kerala Coders Cafe
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Flipkart WiRED X: Why Kerala B-School Students Shouldn't Miss This
Ten years ago, Flipkart set out to find the brightest business minds across India's B-schools. That effort has now grown into India's largest B-School competition — Flipkart WiRED. The 10th edition, WiRED X, has just opened registrations, and the window closes on August 2, 2026.
Here's why this is a real opportunity for us — B-school students from Kerala.
Akhil A
Jul 31, 2026
Community News
OpenAI Student Collective: Applications Open for Campus Leads
OpenAI has launched a new program called the Student Collective, and it's currently accepting applications for Campus Leads — students who help their peers get comfortable with ChatGPT, Codex, and other OpenAI tools, and who organize a community of builders on campus.
If you're a college student in Kerala studying at a university abroad, or just curious about how a program like this works, here's a quick rundown.
Akhil A
Jul 28, 2026
Community News•2 min read
Why rule-based trip planners fail (and what I built with LangGraph instead)
The Ottamind trend went viral because everyone hates the trip planning process. While it’s a real pain to get your friends aligned on a trip, it’s even more painful to plan one properly — half the search results will be closed or outside your trip timings, and GPT will suggest visiting Anamudi Peak, which was never even open to the public.
Aswin Pradeep C
Jul 28, 2026
Technical Insights•2 min read
Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3, Largest Open-Weight Model at 2.8 Trillion Parameters
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a massive 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model. Featuring a 1 million-token context window and native multimodality, it rivals proprietary giants but requires significant hardware to run locally.
Moonshot AI Team
Jul 28, 2026
Tutorials•2 min read
What is an MCP Server? A Complete Guide for Beginners
Discover the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard by Anthropic that bridges the gap between AI models and your external tools, data sources, and APIs. Learn how to build your first MCP server step by step.
Akhil A
Jul 25, 2026
Technical Insights•2 min read
Loops vs Graphs: How AI Agent Engineering Is Changing (A Simple Explainer)
If you work with AI agents, you've probably been hearing terms like 'Ralph loop' and 'Directed Agentic Graph' a lot lately. Here's a simple breakdown of what it all means.
Akhil A
Jul 24, 2026
Technical Insights•2 min read
Laguna S 2.1: A Surprisingly Efficient Open-Weight AI Model
Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 is a 118B-parameter Mixture of Experts model that activates only 8B parameters per token, delivering impressive coding benchmark results with remarkable efficiency — and it's completely free to try.
Akhil A
Jul 23, 2026
Technical Insights•2 min read
NVIDIA Just Removed One of the Biggest Barriers to Building AI
NVIDIA Build simplifies AI development by providing access to over 80 frontier models through a single, OpenAI-compatible API, featuring free serverless endpoints for experimentation.