Mai Chi Bao articles - 45 total
I’ll be honest with you: I didn’t wake up one morning thinking “Let me reverse-engineer TikTok today.” It started with something much simpler: “I just want to upload videos to TikTok programmatically… why is this so damn hard?”
Breaking Down API Defenses: UA - Cookies - Signatures Browser...
Breaking Down API Defenses: UA - Cookies - Signatures Browser 🤖
Introduction I’ll be honest with you: I didn’t wake up one morning thinking “Let me...
Everything worked perfectly on my laptop. 🚀 The UI loaded, uploads succeeded, APIs responded instantly. But on demo day, in front of my boss, everything collapsed. 💥
TIL: CORS, IPs, and the Day My Demo Crashed 🔒 Mai Chi Bao...
TIL: CORS, IPs, and the Day My Demo Crashed 🔒
Everything worked perfectly on my laptop. 🚀 The UI loaded, uploads succeeded, APIs responded...
No subscriptions, no paywalls — just a straightforward QR generator that works right in your browser 🚀.
TIL: Building a Simple QR Generator Mai Chi Bao ・ Sep 15 ...
TIL: Building a Simple QR Generator
I built a lightweight, open-source tool to create customized QR codes. No subscriptions, no paywalls...
Hi do you guys want to test?
TIL: Building a Simple Typing Practice Tool Mai Chi Bao ・...
TIL: Building a Simple Typing Practice Tool
📝 Today I Learned: Building a Simple Typing Practice Tool I built a really small web-based...
A few weeks ago, I built a Docker image for my personal portfolio project (a React app). Everything worked fine — until I checked the size... 💣 1.5 GB! For a static frontend app?! I realized this could slow down deployment, consume more storage, and mak
From 1.5GB to 200MB: How I Slimmed Down My Docker Image Like a...
From 1.5GB to 200MB: How I Slimmed Down My Docker Image Like a Pro 🚀
A real journey of "less is more" in Docker 🐳 📚 Table of Contents 🎯 The Problem:...
I'm not a professional web developer — but even so, just by following these 5 simple steps, I managed to hit 95 on PageSpeed 🚀 But hey — don’t just skim this. The last tip could make or break all your efforts. Stick around until the end for the real gam
Let’s Be Honest… Slow Websites Scare People Away 😢 Mai...
Let’s Be Honest… Slow Websites Scare People Away 😢
I'm not a professional web developer — but even so, just by following these 5 simple steps, I managed...
Hey there! I got my portfolio at mrzaizai2k.xyz to score a perfect 100/100 on Lighthouse’s SEO test, and I’m excited to share how you can do it too! No tech wizardry needed—just three simple steps even beginners can follow. Plus, stick around for a bonus t
🚀 Boost Your React Website's SEO: 3 Essential Ingredients for...
🚀 Boost Your React Website's SEO: 3 Essential Ingredients for Beginners
Hey there! I got my portfolio at mrzaizai2k.xyz to score a perfect 100/100 on Lighthouse’s SEO...
"Your LLM code works... until it doesn’t — especially on someone else’s machine." That was me last month, confidently shipping a prototype only to watch it crumble in different environments. No GPU? Boom. Slight change in model prompt? Silent failure.
🧠 From Prototype to Production: 6 Essential Fixes for Your...
🚀 Production-Ready: 6 Advanced Fixes for Your LLMService Class 🚀
If you thought fixing the basics was enough — think again. In the previous post From Prototype to...
🧠 From Prototype to Production: 6 Essential Fixes for Your LLMService Class 🚀
"Your LLM code works... until it doesn’t — especially on someone else’s machine." That was me last...
This is how I self-host old laptop to web server to host my own Porfolio.
🏡 How I Turned My Old Laptop into a Web Server to Host My...
🏡 How I Turned My Old Laptop into a Web Server to Host My Portfolio Website
Ever thought of hosting your own website from the comfort of your own home—on a machine you already...
In this guide, we'll walk through creating an MCP server using the fastapi-mcp package, integrated with FastAPI, to serve stock analysis endpoints.
🧠 Building an MCP Server with fastapi-mcp for Stock Analysis: A...
🚀 How I Aced My LLM Interview: Building a RAG Chatbot
I recently aced an LLM engineer interview with a 9/10 score, and one of the tasks was designing a...
💡 TinyLlama Meets LoRA: A Lightweight Approach to Emotion Classification
I’m excited to share my journey of fine-tuning TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-intermediate-step-1431k-3T, a...
🧠 Building an MCP Server with fastapi-mcp for Stock Analysis: A Step-by-Step Guide
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables seamless integration of contextual data into AI tools like...
🤔 To Do Assistant: The Plan
Table of Contents What My Old Task Separator Looks Like Disadvantages of the Old App What...
🏎️ Faster, Cheaper, Better: The Power of Model Routing
In this blog post, I’ll introduce you to a powerful technique called model routing and guide you...
🍺 Drinking Culture and How I Survive?
Ah, I don’t like drinking. However, years of working as a president of Bach Khoa Music Club. I...
🚀 Elasticsearch vs. MongoDB: RAM, Speed & Search Accuracy Tested!
In this post, we will compare ElasticSearch and MongoDB based on their performance, accuracy, and...
👨💻 How I build my personal assistant!
Table of Contents Introduction Available Commands How to Use How to Set Up the...
TIL: 3️⃣ ways I use Large Language Models to increase learning efficiency
Table of Contents: To Do List Management System LLM with RAG system Online Courses...
📈 TIL: 80/20 Principles
Today, I think I've stumbled upon something interesting about the 80/20 rule 20% of effort...