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Latest Articles
Fresh insights and lessons from our recent explorations.
Featured Course
Structured learning that grows out of our explorations and builds.
MonaKiosk in Action
A hands-on guide to building paywalled content sites with Astro using MonaKiosk and Polar.sh. Learn monetization from basic setup to advanced real-world patterns.
Latest Cards
Check out our quick notes and summaries
RAG vs KAG: A Comparative Analysis of Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Knowledge-Augmented Generation
PIKE-RAG: sPecIalized KnowledgE and Rationale Augmented Generation
A Survey on Agentic Security: Applications, Threats and Defenses
Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks
Agentic Context Engineering: Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models
Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy
Things We’ve Made
Small digital creations from us — stickers, emoji, and more along the way.
Lemon's Daily Little Blues
This is a set of expressive emoticons featuring an adorable clay lemon character. It captures the lemon's various emotions and funny moments in daily life.
Vibrant & Playful Emoticon Pack
This emoticon pack features a simple yet charming line art style with white-filled faces and harmonious color schemes.
Onigiri's Diverse Life
Cute onigiri emojis show diverse emotions: joy, shyness, thought, delight. Green background. No text/borders. Perfect for fun chats & sharing moods.
Latest Slides
Interactive presentations crafted for developers.