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Shy Ruparel tried an AI agent to turn STL files into editable CAD. What worked was less glamorous: generate candidates, measure them, and validate.

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Shy Ruparel tried an AI agent to turn STL files into editable CAD. What worked was less glamorous: generate candidates, measure them, and validate.

How Temporal powered Ignition, the workflow system that flashed 2,300 conference badges in two days using durable execution and retries.

A Wordle clone, an 8-foot keyboard, and a holographic fan display made Temporal's Durable Execution visible at AI Engineer World's Fair.

Shy Ruparel built an AI pipeline to translate Japanese toy manuals. Durable Execution keeps OCR, retries, and cleanup from starting over.

How Shy Ruparel built a Temporal Docker Desktop extension by identifying a gap and making it available for the community

We handed out 2,000 tiny hackable computers at Replay. Now the whole ecosystem is open source. Here's the story of how we built and shipped them.

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From a design prompt to a factory floor in Shenzhen: the story behind Temporal's Replay conference badge.

Watch me take a Japanese toy manual and turn its translation into a bulletproof, AI-powered ETL...

I'm a major fan of the ESP32-S2 platform of low-power, low-cost, Wi-Fi capable microcontrollers....

I'm cross-posting this article for my Colleague David Fateh. Check out the original post over on the...

I'm cross-posting this article for my Colleague David Fateh. Check out the original post over on the...

I'm cross-posting this article for my Colleague David Fateh. Check out the original post over on the...

Developer Advocate Shy Ruparel takes a look at ContentModel.io, a tool to visualize Content Models. C...

Want to post to Twitter every time you publish a blog post? Don't have the time to build a Twitter AP...

Every month Shy from the Contentful Dev Rel Team will share his favorite changes from the Contentful...

Contentful Developer Evangelist Shy Ruparel took a deep dive into figuring out how does GraphiQL buil...

Every month Shy from the Contentful Dev Rel Team will share his favorite changes from the Contentful...

Every month Shy from the Contentful Dev Rel Team will share his favorite changes from the Contentful...

Inspired by the [NYTimes Moveable Type installation](https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/arts/design/25vide.html), Contentful developer evangelist Shy Ruparel shares the low-powered E-Ink display that showcases the past Contentful blog posts using the AdaFruit MagTag built on a stream.

Every month Shy from the Contentful Dev Rel Team shares his favorite changes from the Contentful Chan...

Shy from the Contentful DevRel Team, shows us how you can get started with consuming GraphQL without any client libaries, using just HTTP Post requests in cURL, Python, JavaScript, Ruby and PHP.

For the last few months, I’ve been spending a lot of time building things with the Contentful GraphQL API. I had dabbled with it before, but having GraphQL become part of our free Community edition motivated me to create some cool new projects. To demonstrate how easy it is to use GraphQL while also taking the time to correct my assumptions, let’s take a look at how to query some data in a few different languages.

Need to use a database to store user data alongside content? I’ll show you how to use Hasura to do just that!
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