Category Archives: Computers

Essofore Semantic Search — Self-Hosted RAG Infrastructure That Keeps Your Data in Your VPC

Posted on April 4, 2026 by Siddharth Jain

Upload documents. Search in plain English. Your data never leaves your AWS account. Most vector search infrastructure has a hidden problem: your data lives somewhere else. Whether it’s Pinecone’s servers or a managed Elasticsearch cluster, your proprietary documents are outside … Continue reading →

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Note to self: For God’s sake stop renaming things

Posted on April 2, 2026 by Siddharth Jain

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. — Phil Karlton I don’t think there is anyone on the planet who renames things as much as I do. Stop it. Seriously. Its not worth … Continue reading →

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Site Refresh

Posted on March 31, 2026 by Siddharth Jain

Before and After: PageSpeed Insights (New): Please help me evaluate the old vs. new site by giving your feedback below: Old: https://staging.nuvoice.ai/ New: https://www.nuvoice.ai/ On a scale of 1-10 where: How would you rate each of them?

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Building the AWS Marketplace SaaS Fulfillment Flow (ResolveCustomer and Beyond)

Posted on March 27, 2026 by Siddharth Jain
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How to protect Cloudfront hosted website from malicious traffic?

Posted on March 24, 2026 by Siddharth Jain

Problem I was hosting a static homepage on Cloudfront and was surprised to see tens of thousands of requests to it per day: These requests are coming from malicious bots. How do we confirm? Investigation The best way to be … Continue reading →

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Cannot connect to localhost from Chrome

Posted on March 20, 2026 by Siddharth Jain

Ran into this issue where all of a sudden I could not connect to localhost from Chrome. It was working and then all of a sudden it stopped working. It (Chrome) just hangs waiting for response from server. I was … Continue reading →

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Connecting external domain to WordPress

Posted on March 14, 2026 by Siddharth Jain

Why do we do this? so we can host the blog at blog.siddjain.com instead of sidshome.wordpress.com The setting to do this is in Upgrades -> Domains Tip: do NOT use https://wordpress.com/domains/manage. You won’t be able to connect a domain on … Continue reading →

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Which is your favorite Chatbot?

Posted on March 13, 2026 by Siddharth Jain
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Stop social-media addiction

Posted on March 5, 2026 by Siddharth Jain

I am giving away a free app to help people combat social-media addiction. What it does? Blocks access to websites you choose and only allows access during specified time windows E.g., you can block Facebook and allow only it to … Continue reading →

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Hosting a Static Site on AWS S3 + CloudFront: A Complete Guide

Posted on March 4, 2026 by Siddharth Jain

Viewing S3 Storage Free-plan gives you 5 GB of storage

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