Ilia's Corner

Build a six-figure developer portal for $0 with Backstage

Spotify open-sourced the same framework Google uses to run its internal platform. In one afternoon you can spin up Backstage (https://github.com/backstage/backstage) and replace pricey commercial portals like CloudBees, Harness or Cortex. The biggest win: your team stops hunting for repos, APIs or docs because one search surfaces everything—services, ownership, runbooks and infra status in a single pane. Companies report onboarding new devs in hours instead of weeks and shaving 20-30 % off infra costs by killing duplicative tools. Clone the repo, add the GitHub plugin, and you have a living service catalog before dinner.

github_trending · 3 min read

Stop paying for agent frameworks—Google just open-sourced theirs

Google’s ADK-python (https://github.com/google/adk-python) lets you build multi-agent systems in pure code, no SaaS lock-in, no per-token tax. Combine it with the sample repo (https://github.com/google/adk-samples) and you can ship what teams currently burn thousands on with LangChain or CrewAI.

reddit · 2 min read

Run GPT-4-class models in your bedroom

Qwen3-30B now swallows 1-million-token prompts thanks to new Dual Chunk Attention (https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507/commit/3ffd1f50b179e643d839c86df9ffbbefcb0d5018). That’s an entire codebase + docs in one shot—perfect for local, air-gapped dev using the offline AI rig from this step-by-step build (https://instavm.io/blog/building-my-offline-ai-workspace).

reddit · 2 min read

Turn your Emacs into a junior developer

Efrit (https://github.com/steveyegge/efrit) embeds Claude inside Emacs so you can describe a refactor in plain English and watch code appear, tests run, and hunks applied without leaving your editor. It’s the fastest way to get pair-programming benefits when you’re flying solo.

hackernews · 2 min read

Replace Paddle, Gumroad and Stripe Tax in one commit

Polar (https://github.com/polarsource/polar) is an open-source Merchant-of-Record that plugs into your GitHub repo and sells licenses, subscriptions and private access without the 5-10 % platform cut. Indie devs are already shipping paid tiers the same day they push code.

reddit · 2 min read

OpenAI Python SDK 2.0

The official library (https://github.com/openai/openai-python) now exposes the new Realtime API and Vision endpoints with full type hints—swap out the old client and your IDE auto-completes every new capability.

API client upgrade in 15 min

Python · 27670 stars

Awesome AI Agents cheat sheet

A living index (https://github.com/e2b-dev/awesome-ai-agents) of open-source projects that replicate Replit, v0 and Copilot Workspace features so you can pick the pieces you actually need instead of paying for bundled SaaS.

Find the right agent component

Markdown · 20498 stars

Train a chemist LLM on your lab notebook overnight

New work shows feeding 50k–100M reactions as text strings lets a small model learn chemical “grammar” well enough to predict reactions and generate automation scripts (https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05427). Spin it up on your own corpus and you’ve got a custom lab assistant, no wet-lab PhD required.

Chemistry AI · arXiv · 5 min read

Stop GPT from BS-ing on trivia

Real-world tests (https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-is-still-a-bullshit-machine-2000640488) confirm GPT-5 still hallucinates facts you can check with a scrap of paper. Until it improves, the safest move is to pair every claim with a cheap retrieval step—exactly what the new open-source agent samples teach (https://github.com/google/adk-samples).

AI Reliability · Gizmodo · 3 min read