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Image Search Captions vs Pixels: What Is Actually Available for Clinical Cropping

TL;DR: Caption and metadata search is the practical answer on this surface. Pixel-level search is not available, so do not promise reverse-image lookup or visual similarity. For a healthtech crop pipeline, retrieve by caption plus dimensions and format, then send the selected asset into smart cropping for each required aspect ratio. That split matters. A good caption can make text retrieval feel…

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How Did We Get Here? A Decade of Building on Qlik

Let me get something out of the way first. This is a frustration post. I have been working in software engineering for more than 13 years, and I have been building with and extending Qlik since Qlik…

  • Author frustrated by Qlik's evolution over a decade since 2016 Qlik Sense 2.2 release
  • Trusted Extension Developer community of ~30,000 members created open-source tools

One UI, Any Agent: Proving Framework Independence with AG-UI, Mastra, and React

How I built a single React client that renders a Mastra agent and a hand-rolled emitter with zero client changes — and the cancellation bug that almost broke the demo.

  • AG-UI protocol defines standard events for framework independence
  • Demo uses single React client with two backends
  • Server and client communicate via Server-Sent Events

Your Uptime Monitor Says 200 OK and Your Site Is Still Broken

If you run production web apps, you have probably watched a green dashboard during an outage at least once. This post covers the gaps a basic uptime check leaves open, and the few settings that close…

  • Standard uptime monitors only check for 2xx status codes, not content correctness.
  • Implement keyword checks and response assertions to verify page body content.
  • Monitor critical pages and flows to detect payment step failures.

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