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For years, I thought success was all about building a great product. But after earning my first income, I realized growth comes from visibility, not perfection. Now I’m focusing on showing up as myself, not just through my projects.

I noticed a traffic spike on my Cloudflare dashboard and thought something was wrong. Turns out bots were crawling everything due to a broken sitemap. A quick review, a small fix, and things are back to normal — with improved security as a bonus.

A guide to setting up a private VPN server on Linode using the IPsec protocol to bypass internet restrictions and secure your data in countries like Turkey.

As large language models (LLMs) become essential for work and personal projects, many users are seeking local solutions instead of relying on cloud-based options. Thanks to advancements in open-source tools, setting up a local GPT-like experience is now easier than ever, offering freedom from internet connectivity and subscription fees. Today, we’ll explore two tools, **Anything LLM** and **Ollama**, that allow you to create a private, customizable LLM setup for enhanced privacy and control.

A month ago, I decided to feature some of my traffic-generating open-source projects on my personal websiteAlmost immediately, I noticed an “M” pattern in the traffic analytics..

Wouldn’t it be cool sending HTTP requests to a LLM model on your own infrastructure, and turning it an API to use on any desired purpose?

I got curious about this and made a Chrome Extension named InstaFollowup that shows you who stopped following you on Instagram