Category Archives: Computers

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

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

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

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)

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How to protect Cloudfront hosted website from malicious traffic?

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

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

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?

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Stop social-media addiction

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

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

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