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I Built a $0 Search Engine on Real Web Data (No Algolia or Elasticsearch)
I got tired of grepping through JSON. So I built a local search index over live Google data using Python, Typesense, and Bright Data — here’s how.
Jun 17, 202622 min read1
Turning Google into an Explorable Knowledge Graph Using Pure k-NN
How to run k-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) over a merged, multi-query Google SERP corpus to find hidden semantic connections no single search could ever surface.
Jun 17, 202624 min read1
How Failing at Fantasy Baseball Made Me Fix My Cron Jobs with Temporal
Why cron jobs break under real-world conditions and how to actually fix retries, failures, and data reliability.
Jun 17, 202614 min read1
5 Production Stacks for Live Data Ingestion at Scale (Without Getting Blocked)
TL;DR: Most teams over-engineer data ingestion. They use Kafka before they’ve hit their first rate limit, or Playwright before they’ve checked the network tab. This guide shows five production-tested
Jun 17, 202622 min read1
A Practical Guide To Entity Resolution in Python (No Database, No Machine Learning)
TL;DR: Learn a very simple way to normalize, dedupe, and fuzzy-match records that refer to the same real-world entity in Python, without a database or any ML pipelines. I was working on a Crunchbase
Jun 17, 202634 min read1
5 MCP Servers That Can Replace Expensive SaaS Subscriptions in 2026
Best MCP servers to replace PhantomBuster, ZoomInfo, Ahrefs, Zapier, Otter.ai, & Mixpanel with. Complete setup guides for Cursor and Claude included.
Jun 16, 202621 min read1