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AI Can Build Your App in One Shot. Here's Why You Shouldn't Let It.
Everywhere you look, there's talk of AI building entire applications from a single prompt. It's a seductive idea: you describe what you want, hit a button, and—poof—a ready-to-deploy app appears. It sounds like a dream, the ultimate productivity hack...
My Son's Secret Weapon: How I Built an AI Tutor for His Schoolwork No Code Required!
I. Kicking Off: From Dad Duties to Digital Dreams The "Aha!" moment hit me out of the blue. My son had just started middle school, and my work life was getting more and more tied up with AI—tools like Fireflies.ai were changing how I handled stuff. I...
Your Next AI Assistant Might Live in Your Pocket: The Future of LLMs at the Edge
Imagine an AI so fast, so private, it lives inside your device – your phone, your car, perhaps even your smart glasses. No internet needed, just instant, hyper-personalized intelligence. This isn't the stuff of speculative fiction; it is, rather, the...
How To Build Smarter Factories With Edge Computing
In today's competitive manufacturing world, relying on the cloud to process the massive amounts of data from factory floors just isn't fast enough. The delays, or latency, can mean the difference between catching a tiny defect on the production line ...
GPT-5 vs Gemini vs Claude (2025 Review): Which AI Platform is Worth Your Money?
Let's be honest, the AI platform comparison in 2025 is chaotic. Every week there's a new model, a new feature, a new claim of breaking the next benchmark. The hype is deafening. But as a pre-sales engineer who uses these tools in the trenches every d...
The Future of NPUs at the Edge
I believe Neural Processing Units (NPUs) are going to have a massive impact on the future of edge computing, and honestly, on technology as a whole. As edge computing grows in importance, NPUs will become a standard feature in many devices, eventuall...
How I Automated My Kids’ Lunch Updates on Dakboard Using a Raspberry Pi
As a parent, keeping track of school schedules, after-school activities, and—most importantly—lunch menus is a challenge. Every month, I receive a PDF that details my kids' lunches, and I wanted a way to integrate that into my Dakboard dashboard, whi...
How Edge Computing is Revolutionizing Smart Cities
Cities across the world are grappling with aging infrastructure. Roads, bridges, water systems, and energy grids—many were built decades ago and are now in dire need of repair or replacement. At first glance, it might seem like this is solely a civil...
I Built a Smart Calendar to Keep My Family Organized
Since I followed someone else’s idea for this project, I won’t be giving a step-by-step how-to. Instead, you can check out the YouTube video that inspired me right here. In this post, I’ll focus on how I took that concept and adapted it to fit my fam...
Pushing Innovation with Less: The Power of Edge Devices
The Innovation of Edge Devices: Pushing Boundaries with Less What fascinates me most about edge devices is the challenge they present in doing more with less hardware. Unlike traditional cloud computing, where we can throw vast resources at a problem...
Join Me at KubeCon 2024 – Let’s Talk Edge and AI!
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 in Salt Lake City! This is an incredible opportunity to explore the latest advancements in Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, and, most importantly, edge c...
cloud-init: An introduction
What is cloud-init? Cloud-Init is an open-source tool designed for configuring cloud instances (virtual machines) automatically at boot time. When you launch a new cloud instance, such as a virtual machine in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, ...
How to Enter a Container in EVE-OS: A Step-by-Step Guide
If you’re working with edge devices in the EVE-OS environment and using the Zededa cloud platform for management, you might need to access a running container to troubleshoot or monitor its activities. This guide will walk you through the process of ...