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25/05/2026

You can ship faster in an editor from 1991 than one from 2024.

Software Sauce Ep 5: breaks down his switch from VSCode to Neovim, and the setup that made it click.

→ The four modes that turn your keyboard into a language (Normal, Insert, Visual, Command)
→ Why month 3 is where Neovim pays off, not week 1
→ Anthony’s actual setup: Telescope, LSP, Treesitter, Oil, Lazy.nvim
→ Vim outside vim: tmux, Zsh vi mode, Vimium, Aerospace

Watch the full video, link in bio. What should we cover next?

15/05/2026

Your database works fine until it doesn’t.

Software Sauce Ep 5: .yakov break down database scaling from the ground up.

- Vertical vs horizontal scaling (and when each breaks down)
- Sharding, replication, and why your single server will eventually betray you
- Caching strategies that actually move the needle
- The architecture decisions you need to make before you hit the wall, not after

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07/05/2026

Your phone reconstructs 3D scans from 2D photos using math from 2009.

Software Sauce Ep 4: Jerry M breaks down computer vision from pixel arrays up to real time object detection.

→ Edges, corners and kernels (pure math, no ML)
→ How YOLO powers every speed cam and airport scanner
→ The “Building Rome in a Day” paper that turned web scraped Colosseum photos into a 3D model in about 60 seconds
→ Why the same geometric principles still run on your iPhone today

Watch the full video, link in bio.

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28/04/2026

Building auth without understanding risk?You’re 1 breach away from a bad day.

Software Sauce Ep 3 with Alan on auth and session management, and what breaks at every layer.

→ The 80ms trick attackers use to enumerate users
→ Passwords vs magic links vs SSO vs passkeys
→ Stateful vs stateless sessions, when JWTs earn their keep
→ The JWT exploit that hit Auth0
→ Why passkeys are the future but users aren’t ready

Shipping anything behind a login? Watch before v1.

16/04/2026

We asked our engineer how he turned a basic chatbot into a fully agentic assistant in 6 weeks.

Software Sauce Ep 2 is here and Bach is breaking down the full architecture from streaming, tool calling, RAG, prompt engineering, all of it.

The kind of video you bookmark and come back to when you’re actually building this stuff 🤖🔖

What do you want us to cover next in Software Sauce?

09/04/2026

Recap | Anthropic x Lyra

ps. don’t worry if you missed out we have new events every month🤍🎲

19/12/2025

Day 2 done. Finalists ready. Pitch night tonight to close out Lyrathon Season 1 🚀

18/12/2025

Ready, set, go on Day 1 for S1 of Lyrathon 🗣️

Our finalists are out & pitch night is this Friday, are you ready?

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