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DD Band Explained: A Simple Daily Price Range for ES and NQ Futures
This article details the DD Band, a charting tool that helps traders set realistic price expectations and identify unusual market movements in ES and NQ futures.
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Testreel: Turn Any GitHub Repo Into a Tested, Scored YouTube Video (Free and Open Source)
Testreel automates the process of creating YouTube videos for GitHub projects, providing accurate measurements and honest evaluations of software performance.
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I Built My Own Local Noise Cancelling App for macOS
Discover how to build a local noise cancelling app for macOS that keeps your audio private while effectively reducing background noise during calls.
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Meet Lumen, the Meeting Assistant That Lets You Actually Be In the Meeting
Think about the last important call you were on. Maybe it was a client pitch, a job interview, or a tense conversation with your team about a missed deadline. Now think about how much of your attention went to typing…
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What I Learned Building a Reusable Microsoft Cloud Foundation for a Large Enterprise
I spent the last few months building the Azure and Microsoft 365 foundation for a large enterprise. The shape of the work is the useful part anyway. The brief was not "set up Azure." The brief was "build the thing…
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I Was Diagnosed With Cancer. So I Built an Open-Source Platform
When I was diagnosed with oral squamous cell carcinoma, or OSCC, I started looking for answers. What I found was a field doing extraordinary work, but much of its knowledge was spread across expensive paywalls,…
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When the Code Writes Itself
On June 4, 2026, Anthropic published a report called "When AI builds itself." One number from it moved fast: more than 80% of the code Anthropic now merges into its own codebase is written by Claude, the company's…
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From BMW and Audi Luxury to Tesla: The Most Advanced Car I've Ever Owned
Over the years, I've owned some incredible vehicles. My journey started with a BMW 3 Series, then moved to a BMW X6, followed by a BMW 7 Series, and later an Audi A8 L. Every one of those cars had something special…
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WCWS Voice: Free AI Dictation for Mac With Local Whisper, Deepgram Streaming
There's a frustrating gap in the Mac experience that most people just learn to live with. You want to speak and have your words appear in your email, your notes, your code editor, your chat app and you want it to…
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I Built an AI Trading System Here's What I Learned
Honest lessons from building an AI-powered stock trading system. What works, what fails, and what every aspiring quant should know before starting.
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Your Phone Lines Don't Need to Sleep Anymore
Imagine hiring a phone agent who never calls in sick, never puts a customer on hold for 20 minutes, remembers every caller they've ever spoken to, and gives perfect answers about your products at 3 AM on a Sunday.…
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Automating Proxmox VM Deployment
In the world of virtualization and infrastructure management, efficiency is everything. Today, I'm excited to share our latest automation script that transforms the traditionally manual process of creating virtual…
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