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Sending sensitive patient data to a cloud LLM API just to parse a voice request is a massive HIPAA compliance headache. With local Speech-to-Text and a 12B Gemma model, you can execute tool calls 100% offline on-device. Breakdown in the reply 👇

Instead of letting an agent guess which vector chunk matters, start with two things in the config: a sharp dataset purpose and a focused GROQ projection. That produces a clean outline for direct entry-path reads via Context MCP. See it in the reply 👇

Podcast S1E18 with Lauren Lee (@laurenlee.bsky.social): Fostering Developer Education We sit down with Lauren Lee (LoLoCoding) to talk about fostering developer education. We review how Lauren switched from being a teacher to become the Director of Community at Puppet

CodingCatDev Deep Dive: Cloudinary in Jamstack using Webp Create a single source for all of your posting needs, using the best format for the browser!

Offline On-Device AI Agents with Gemma & Local Tool Calls (feat. @shivaylamba.bsky.social) How do you run an agentic healthcare workflow without sending private patient data to the cloud? Run local Speech-to-Text + a 12B Gemma model on-device to execute pharmacy tool calls 100% offline.

Podcast S1E17 with Dan Ribbens: Payload CMS We chat with Dan Ribbens about Payload CMS a self-hosted, headless JavaScript CMS.

Podcast S1E16 with Sam Bhagwat (@calcsam.bsky.social): Delivering a Content Mesh On this podcast we talk with Sam Bhagwat, Cofounder & Chief Strategy Officer at Gatsby. We dive into Gatsby 3.0 and why Jamstack is allowing us

Running AI agents in production comes down to unit economics and governance. Combining a lightweight `initial_context` outline with scheduled build diffs keeps token costs low and catches source drift early. Production notes in the reply 👇

Podcast S1E15 with Shawn Wang (swyx): What's up with Svelte On this podcast we talk with Shawn Wang also known as swyx. We dive into what is happening with Svelte, the Svelte Society, and Svelte Radio.

CodingCatDev Deep Dive: Use Firestore to Build Hugo Content Use a frontend app (Angular), to update a Firestore Backend, trigger Firebase Function, while maintaining git commits, and buld/deploy your Hugo site.

Podcast S1E14 with Patrick Martin (@pcnmartin.bsky.social): Firestore for Unity and C++ We talk with Patrick Martin from Firebase all about game development and how Firebase's Firestore is now available in Beta.

Podcast S1E13 with Scott Tolinski (@tolin.ski): Creating a Learning Platform We talk with Scott Tolinkski of LevelUpTutorials all about his past and why he started his Learning Platform.

Shipping an MCP knowledge pipeline to production requires three guarantees: low token overhead, source drift protection, and strict read-only auth. Never let unvetted doc edits silently mutate agent answers. Production patterns in the reply 👇

What happens when someone edits a pricing or policy doc with an unverified claim? In standard RAG, the vector index ingests it immediately. With Sanity Knowledge Bases, the conflict is flagged before it touches agent state. Demo in the reply 👇

How do you keep AI agent context windows lean at runtime? Shape the dataset at build time. Use a narrow GROQ projection to strip UI metadata and compile a compact dataset outline so agents retrieve exact entry paths on demand. Details in the reply 👇

Podcast S1E12 with Joel Varty (@joelvarty.com): Agility CMS Joel Varty talks all about Agility CMS. Where DXP fits into the Jamstack.

CodingCatDev Deep Dive: NPM Tips and Tricks Adding NPM Globally, setting default values for packages, and stopping the dreaded sudo calls.

Podcast S1E11 with Jason Lengstorf (@jason.energy): Moving from WordPress to Jamstack Talking with Jason Lengstorf about how to use Wordpress to power the backend to any of your Jamstack sites.

Stop Wasting Tokens: Give AI Agents a Dataset Outline. Keep AI agents accurate and token-efficient by replacing broad similarity searches with a lightweight dataset outline and direct entry-path retrieval. Start with a clear purpose and a narrow Groq proj

Podcast S1E10 with Aaron Frost, Ali Spittel (@alispit.tel), Kelly Vaughn (@kvlly.com), Tyler McGinnis (@tyler.ui.dev): Creating a Startup Creating a Startup is hard! Learn from the experts who have created great startup companies. Everything from an LLC to Stripe's new C-Corp tool...

Podcast S1E9 with Elizabeth Wilson (@wilsones13.bsky.social), Brett Fitzgerald: SAFe is SCRUM on Steriods Chatting with Elizabeth Wilson and Brett Fitzgerald about Agile, SCRUM and SAFe practices when building products.

CodingCatDev Deep Dive: VSCode Extension Peacock Subtly change the color of your Visual Studio Code workspace. Ideal when you have multiple VS Code instances, use VS Live Share, or use VS Code's Remote features, and you want to quickly identify your editor.

Podcast S1E8 with Christy Ennis-Kloote, Zoë Wilson (@zoelwilson.bsky.social), Elizabeth Bush: Design for Developers Are you struggling to become a designer for web development? You don''t need formal web development training to be successful. Learn from the design group at OST how...

Broad vector similarity searches burn tokens on noisy chunks and miss structured context. Instead of dumping raw RAG hits into the prompt, give AI agents a lightweight dataset outline with direct entry-path retrieval. Full breakdown in the reply 👇