Hexmos Journal

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The Newton of Engineering Management

Google's Misstep: Trying to Fire All Managers When people think of Engineering Management, they think it is this sort of fuzzy field, where definite statements or principles have no place. In 2002, the leaders at Google thought, the whole field of management was bunk, and they said, let's get rid

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Avoid logging into Listmonk for Campaign Previews. Use this hack instead

How I Added Discord Preview Feature to Our Listmonk Campaign? How do we schedule weekly emails? How to receive email Preview in the Discord server?

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Credits got depleted and can't create AI images anymore? How to run your own image generator for free

How I overcame the challenge of making AI generated images freely and in high quality without any credit depletion

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Want to Join the Top 1%? Accelerate Your Business Skills with This Habit

What makes some business people become the top 1%? We are going through a valuable habit that they all share and figuring out how to adapt it faster and with less effort.

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Bots Invaded My Newsletter. Here's How I Fought Back with ML ⚔️ 🤖

My newsletter was overrun by bots! I decided to try a machine learning solution. It was my first ML experiment and I learned a lot. Want to know how I built a bot detector and gained some ML skills along the way? The bot invasion I have a free newsletter

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How ML Model Data Poisoning Works in 5 Minutes

Training data poisoning on LLMs deals with injecting poisonous data during the training phase. In this article, we will be focusing on attack scenarios, previous successful attacks, and prevention mechanisms along with good examples.

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Build a Consistent Reading Habit by Investing 10 Minutes Every Day

Social media addiction is one of the main problems that many people face. Here, I'm discussing how to reduce this addiction by maintaining a consistent reading habit through FeedZap.

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Learn How Docker Works via Mocker, a Tiny Python Implementation

This article aims at enhancing the basic concepts of containerization and shows how a container can be practically implemented through a few steps in Python.

AI Featured

Training LLMs Taking Too Much Time? Technique you need to know to train it faster

Training and using LLMs can be a hefty task, By using this technique you can acheive more output with less time and performance.

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AI/ML Business Use Cases You Cannot Afford To Ignore

Unsure or anxious about your team's AI/ML strategy? Like many business leaders, I too was a bit confused and anxious. Every day I see new developments in AI/ML flowing into my feeds. And such deluge of activity can be overwhelming for business leaders. How a conversation got me

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Rickover Series #3: Engineering in Practice

What does it mean to be a professional or to practice a profession? There is no one better to define this for us than, Admiral Rickover. He truly walked the talk, and got the job done. These are my takeaways from Admiral Rickover's essay: "Engineering in Practice". What exactly is

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Rickover Series #2: A Talented Mind - Opportunity & Obligation

The rarity of a good mind A good mind is rarer than a full bank account. The bank account can be taken away from you. But a good mind is a secure possession capable of miracle-like feats. Nobody can take it away from you The origin & limits of intelligence However,

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Rickover Series #1: Engineering Opportunities

What follows are notes from Admiral Rickover's speech: Engineering Opportunities The Administrator's Job The most important function of an administrator is: * Selection of personnel * Training of personnel "If one chooses the right people, there is little else to do" Purpose vs Security On graduation, don't go for the job with

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How we made an AI Attendance System for better Team Performance

Our team at Hexmos had problems with absenteeism. When the team involved aren’t consistent, it leads to chaos in managing projects and lower team performance.

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Faster Blogging: A Developer's Dream Setup

Sharing our journey of transforming glee from Python to Golang.

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My Experiments with Open Source AI/ML to Improve Team Productivity (Part 1)

I saw everywhere recently that OpenAI's SORA is making waves across the web. SORA is capable of making videos out of textual descriptions. I went to their website, trying to give it a go. No way to try it immediately, though. I'd have loved to make some videos for my

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Tired of Slow Loading Pages? Speed Up Your Web App with This Technique

Have you recognized a sluggish component in your web app and want it to be more snappy? I was in the same boat until I tried Websocket. It helped me achieve faster load times and get real-time updates for my web app's feed. I'll be sharing my learnings, so stay tuned!

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Almost 50% of web pages have this bug. Learn How it is exploited in the wild

What we are up against. Have you ever wondered how hackers find bugs on websites? What does it take to hunt for bugs and responsibly disclose them? In this article, we will be focusing mainly on a single bug called DOM-based XSS (cross-site scripting), which is found very often on

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How I Raised My ML Skills Using This Simple Project

Are you new to machine learning, or have you ever struggled to upskill your machine learning skills? In this article, I'll guide you through a simple ML project that helped me raise my ML skills.

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How This Underrated Technique Saved My Team Hours of Debugging

The Hurdles of Debugging: Time, Effort and Annoyance Ever felt like you are stuck in a never-ending bunch of errors? The process of debugging can be frustrating, without proper methods it can cost us hours, effort and annoyance. Consider this scenario: You are dealing with a bug in your app

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6 Kubernetes Ports: A Definitive Look - Expose, NodePort, TargetPort, & More

Ever felt confused about server, docker, service, container, target or node ports in Kubernetes? This article breaks it down for you, explaining every port in your workflow, from development to deployment Dive in and simplify the complexity today!

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How I Built a Great Team Culture using First Principles (No Gimmicks)

Do you want to build a team culture that you can be proud of? If yes, you are in the right place.  My system will help you build the team culture you aspire for. Team culture means two things: First, the way in which the team faces challenges together. Second,

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Learning NLP: Text Similarity Analysis

Explore Similarity Search techniques. Learn practical methods for setting up an NLP pipeline for a similar movie recommendation system.

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Why Your CSS Code Is a Slow, Broken, and Hard-to-Manage Mess

This article will discuss how to create optimized, unbroken CSS code for web apps, including how to avoid common mistakes and tools for efficiently maintaining CSS code.

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🚀Hack Your Design Skills: Basic Rules of Design for Non-Designers 🎨🌎

Discover design essentials for non-designers from 'The Non-Designer’s Design Book' and Joe Natoli's 'Design Rules.' Improve your skills and make designs that have a strong impact. Take a quick guide to understand design principles better and boost your design abilities.