Prateek Rai

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine ...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady ...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle ...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass ...

A Telegram bot that reads bills with local Gemma and keeps reminding until you pay, with durable reminders on Temporal and Sentry agent traces that never see the bill.

At work I keep producing engineering diagrams and the occasional deck. They end up in whatever tool is closest — a whiteboard app here, a slides app there — never consistent, never durable, always ...

A Slack thread about our climbing AI bill, plus word that per-user usage limits were landing soon, sent me to check what I was actually spending on Claude Code. The answer was that I had no idea

A Python service I work on did something that shouldn't be possible. It wrote a directory full of files, turned around to upload them, and found nothing. The files were right there — ls saw them fr...

I spent months writing posts for this blog. Each one went live on the site, got maybe three readers (one of them me checking the RSS feed), and sat there in peace

I used the default macOS Terminal for years and thought that was just how terminals look

My TV spends more time idle than playing content. And every idle minute, Google TV shows me the same curated AI art or Google Photos memories — things I did not choose, do not control, and cannot c...

Ohara had been running quietly under my desk for weeks. Jellyfin streamed movies. Suwayomi downloaded manga chapters overnight. The server did its job without complaint, invisible and silent

I had an old PC lying around — one of those machines you keep meaning to throw out but never do. It was slow, loud, and completely useless for modern computing. No one was going to browse the web o...