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RAG Retrieval Strategies on a 50k-Document Dataset: BM25 vs Dense vs Hybrid
Syed Ahmer Shah
One Seat, Two Buyers: Race Conditions, IDOR and Keys in a Cinema Booking System
Syed Ahmer Shah
The Discount That Knew You Were Hesitating: Rule-Based Personalisation in an Online Pharmacy
Syed Ahmer Shah
Zovita+: Building an Online Pharmacy That Adapts to Each Shopper
Syed Ahmer Shah
BookMyMovie: Building a Cinema Ticketing Platform
Syed Ahmer Shah
The Last Mango Problem: Race Conditions in a Real Marketplace
Syed Ahmer Shah
GleanGrid: Building a Pre-Order Marketplace for Farmers Markets
Syed Ahmer Shah
A Home on the Internet
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The Art of Object-Oriented Programming
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GPT-6 Astra: A New Era of Machine Intelligence
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The New Era of Software Engineering
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How Databases Work: From Tables to Query Execution
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I Tested and Compared the 6 Best AI Wireframe Generators With UI and Code Export
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Change One Number. Take Everything.
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The Kimi K3 Paradox: The World's Most Powerful Open AI Model Nobody Can Actually Run
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I Tested 8 Best AI Design Tools for UI/UX with the Same Prompt
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The Anatomy of AI: Deconstructing the "Brain" Into Vectors and Math
Syed Ahmer Shah
Top 10 AI Tools Every Frontend Developer Should Know (2026 Guide)
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The Edge Latency Lie: Solving Global Consistency
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Fable 5 vs Sol 5.6
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What I’m Actually Learning as a 19-Year-Old SWE Student (And Why)
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AI Writes Code. It Doesn't Do Engineering.
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Stop Writing Code AI Agents Can't Read
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Fable 5 Pwned: Inside the First Mythos-Class Leak
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