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Things I worked out the hard way, written down properly. Roughly one a month.
A versioned Gemini model name retired and started returning 404 on a key that worked fine, for a model half the tutorials online still reference. What that outage taught me about aliases, fallback, and treating conversation history as untrusted input.
By Jithin Roy, Full Stack Developer, Kerala, India
Most RAG breaks the moment somebody types a follow-up, because a short follow-up has almost nothing to embed. The fix is two lines. The harder problem is that chunk size is not an independent choice, and nobody tells you that either.
By Jithin Roy, Full Stack Developer, Kerala, India
Driving a video's playhead from scroll position is easy to demo and hard to ship. The easing, the seek threshold, two encodes instead of one crop, and the viewport units that stop the composition resizing under your visitor's thumb.
By Jithin Roy, Full Stack Developer, Kerala, India
A live draw on a big screen with the entrants in the room. Asserting it was fair is worthless if a loser cannot check. Commit and reveal, an unbiased shuffle, and the venue constraints that shaped every other decision.
By Jithin Roy, Full Stack Developer, Kerala, India
Most admin panels rebuild each section so editors can see their changes, which guarantees the preview and the real site diverge. Framing the actual site removes the duplicate entirely. The details that make it work, including the ones I got wrong first.
By Jithin Roy, Full Stack Developer, Kerala, India
A competitor who can enumerate your prices owns your pricing strategy. Rate limits do not stop them. What does is making the attempt cost more than the data is worth, and that is an economics problem before it is an engineering one.
By Jithin Roy, Full Stack Developer, Kerala, India
A used phone valuation engine where the prices, the deductions, the order they apply in, and even which questions the form asks are all rows in a table. What that buys, and the two things it quietly costs.
By Jithin Roy, Full Stack Developer, Kerala, India
A scroll-driven 3D scene that renders on a cheap Android and downloads on a bad connection, without looking cheap. What actually moved the numbers, and the WebGL trap that cost me an afternoon.
By Jithin Roy, Full Stack Developer, Kerala, India
Most of what I write about here came out of client work. If you have a problem in the same shape, get in touch.
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