Sivaram articles - 35 total
MdBin Levels Up Again: E2E Encryption, Theme Toggle, and Responsive Nav
The Evolution Continues (Again) Last time, I shared how MdBin migrated to Streamdown for...
OpenAI’s new Codex Mac app is an agent “command center” (and it’s lighting up the devtool wars)
TL;DR OpenAI just shipped a standalone Codex app for macOS that’s less “AI in my editor”...
MoltBook: Reddit for AI Agents, or Just Humans with Extra Steps? A Technical Reality Check
TL;DR: MoltBook launched last week as "Reddit for AI agents" and already has 1.5M+ bots. It's either...
From Moltbot to OpenClaw: When the Dust Settles, the Project Survived
Clawdbot / Moltbot / OpenClaw — Part 4 TL;DR After a chaotic rebrand, account hijackings,...
How a “Neutral” Supabase vs Convex Comparison Broke Trust in DevTools
This isn’t about Supabase vs Convex as products. It’s about how credibility breaks in devtools — and...
From Clawdbot to Moltbot: How a C&D, Crypto Scammers, and 10 Seconds of Chaos Took Down the Internet's Hottest AI Project
The 72-Hour Unraveling of Open Source's Fastest-Growing Star Three days ago, Clawdbot was...
I Built a Solana Waitlist for a Fake $10k Bounty - Here's the Open Source Code
Last week I saw a tweet: "Need a waitlist system in 3 hours. Paying $10k." I dropped everything and...
Clawdbot: The AI Assistant That's Breaking the Internet
What is Clawdbot? Clawdbot is an open-source, self-hosted personal AI assistant created by Peter...
You Don't Need a Mac Mini to Run Clawdbot - Here's How to Run It Anywhere
Clawdbot is taking the tech world by storm. If you've been on Twitter, Reddit, or tech blogs lately,...
I Built a Faster PWA Icon Generator in a Weekend
TL;DR I built pwa-icons — a fast, interactive CLI that generates all the icons you need...
OpenAI Is Running PostgreSQL at Millions of QPS (Here’s How It Didn’t Explode)
PostgreSQL has a reputation. Great database. Rock‑solid. But “web‑scale”? Eh… OpenAI just published...
How to Fix Your Life in One Day (Without Resolutions)
Attribution This article is a condensed and restructured interpretation of ideas originally...
Building Bags.fm Embeds: A Free Tool to Make Crypto Community Support Visible
TL;DR: Token addresses are forgettable. Community support shouldn't be. I built Bags.fm Embeds — a...
The Inevitable Cost of "Free": Why OpenAI's Ads Are Just the Beginning
OpenAI just announced they're testing ads in ChatGPT's free and Go tiers. If you're surprised, you...
MdBin Levels Up: From Custom Markdown Pipeline to Streamdown
The Evolution Continues A few weeks ago, I introduced MdBin—a free utility for sharing...
Web Interface Guidelines Checklist for LLMs & vibe coders!
Distilled from Vercel's https://github.com/vercel-labs/web-interface-guidelines ...
The NanoBanana Image Generation Prompt Templates That Actually Work
The difference between burning through tokens and getting perfect images? Using the proven patterns...
Cowork: Claude Code for the Rest of Your Work
Anthropic just dropped something interesting, and it's not just another AI chatbot. It's called...
Bags.fm: The Solana Launchpad That's Changing Creator Monetization
If you've been following the Solana ecosystem lately, you might have heard about Bags.fm - a platform...
Building Reliable RAG Systems
Chunking, Retrieval, and Reranking (A Practical End‑to‑End Guide) Retrieval‑Augmented...
Building a Production-Ready Prediction Market Smart Contract in Solidity: Complete Guide with Foundry
TL;DR I built an open-source, gas-optimized prediction market smart contract in Solidity...
Building a Prediction Market on Solana with Anchor: Complete Rust Smart Contract Guide
TL;DR I built an open-source prediction market program on Solana using Anchor framework....
The Ralph Wiggum Approach: Running AI Coding Agents for Hours (Not Minutes)
The Problem with One-Shot AI Coding We've all been there. You fire up Claude Code, drop in...
How the Creator of Claude Code Uses Claude Code: A Complete Breakdown
If you've ever wondered how the people who build AI tools actually use them, you're in for a treat....
Cutting My Self-Hosted Analytics Stack Memory by 45%
260MB for a personal analytics dashboard. Just tracking 4,000 events across 21 websites over 5 days....
Building a Real‑Time VWAP Dashboard with Bun, Binance WebSockets & SQLite
A weekend project that escalated into a full deep dive into real-time systems. Live...
How to Ingest 1 Billion Events Per Day Without Kafka: A Serverless Masterclass
Every so often, you stumble upon a system design that is so elegant and unconventional it forces you...
🚀 PoCs & MVPs 101 — The Art of Building Smart, Not Big
Proof of Concepts (POCs) validate ideas. Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) validate direction. Both...
MdBin: Share Beautiful Rendered Markdown Instead of Raw Code
The Problem: Markdown Sharing is Broken If you're working with AI tools like ChatGPT,...
Building branchyard: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Git Worktrees
The Problem That Started It All Picture this: You're deep in feature development,...