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Recently, I started building an automated video pipeline for my projects, and one piece of it needs an AI model that knows my face, so it can generate consistent pictures of me in any scene without a photographer. The usual way to do that is training a LoRA, a small add-on file that teaches an… Continue reading How to Train a FLUX.2 Klein LoRA on 8GB VRAM (Windows): Three Failures and the Working Config

Recently, a WordPress and WooCommerce site I manage stopped responding and started returning a Cloudflare 522 error. The server looked healthy. CPU was low, memory was free, disk space was fine, and Apache, PHP-FPM, and MariaDB were all running. Nothing in the usual first places pointed at a cause. The clue came from one comparison.… Continue reading WordPress Down with Cloudflare 522? How I Traced It to SQL Injection

When Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 this week, my feed filled up with the same benchmark charts within hours. SWE-bench scores, agentic coding numbers, the Stripe migration story. All impressive, and all numbers published by the vendor itself. I wanted to know something those charts cannot tell me: how does this model behave on bugs… Continue reading I Tested Claude Fable 5 Against Private Benchmarks It Has Never Seen, Here Is Where It Failed

Last week, I decided to switch from Cursor to Claude Code after hitting some frustrating rate limits. I’ve been using Claude Code on WSL for a while, but with the recent native Windows support that just dropped, I figured it was time to try setting it up directly on Windows with the VS Code extension.… Continue reading Your Missing Guide to Claude Code on Windows & VS Code

Recently, I found myself in a situation where I needed to migrate data from MongoDB to Supabase (PostgreSQL). Initially, MongoDB was the quickest way to get up and running on a single VPS, it was simple, flexible, and did the job. However, as our project grew and we moved more processes to AWS, it became… Continue reading How to Migrate Data from MongoDB to Supabase

Creating external backups of your MongoDB database is essential for data safety. This tutorial demonstrates the process of backing up a self-hosted MongoDB database. The same backup commands will work with any MongoDB instance (including MongoDB Atlas) once you have the connection URL. The only difference is in how you get the connection URL, for… Continue reading How to Create External Backup of Your Self-Hosted MongoDB Database