Hands-on guides, protocol deep dives, and field notes on tunnels, SSH, reverse proxies, self-hosting, self-hosted LLMs, and AI - from the people building Pinggy.
Jev, Liquid d1-ultra, pplx-decider, Microsoft-Decision-1, OpenAI Decisions, Cloudflare Clef and Strands Decider 2B compared on price, inputs and three independent leaderboards, with one run locally on an M3 Pro.
Profound dropped its $99 and $399 plans in September 2026. Lumirank, Promptwatch, Peec AI, Otterly.AI and Scrunch compared on price, engines, how they collect AI answers, and crawler logs.
Design characters from musical instruments: read personality from shape and sound, choose how far to anthropomorphize, map tone to visual style, then generate and refine the character in Dreamina with Seedream 5.0 Pro.
Connect IoT devices to remote monitoring securely: size the link first, use unique credentials and mutual TLS, reach devices over a VPN or an outbound-only tunnel instead of open ports, segment the network, and keep monitoring and patching.
The best open-weight speech-to-text models you can self-host in October 2026, ranked on the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard: Qwen3-ASR, Cohere Transcribe, Granite Speech, Parakeet, Voxtral, Whisper and more, with licenses, speed and serving.
The best enterprise search platforms with AI agents in 2026: Glean, Onyx, Elastic Agent Builder, Sinequa and Guru, compared on connectors, permission-aware retrieval, agent builders, MCP support, deployment and pricing.
Deno's runtime gets one more year of fixes, Deno Deploy shuts down in six months, and the team is merging celld into workerd. What changed, what breaks, and how a Deno app moves to Node, Bun or Workers.
Netlify moved Edge Functions from V8 isolates to Firecracker microVMs and cut median warm latency from 25-40 ms to 5-6 ms. Here is how microVM snapshots, EROFS and rendezvous hashing make that work.
AI agents and webhooks let attackers automate phishing end to end: personalized messages, AI-built fake login and crypto portals, real-time follow-ups, and campaigns at scale. Here is how it works and what defends against it.
ChatGPT plugins are back, built on MCP servers. Build a working plugin in Node.js, test it in developer mode through a Pinggy tunnel, package plugin.json, and submit it to the directory.
