https://ajaydandge.dev Ajay Dandge's Blog https://ajaydandge.dev/blog/burrow-now-supports-direct-connections A small addition to burrow: profiles can now connect to PostgreSQL directly, without an SSH tunnel. Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://ajaydandge.dev/blog/the-os-knows-the-timezone-not-your-language The OS knows the timezone, not the language. Everything else — ambiguous strings, broken queries, wrong date partitions — follows from that. Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://ajaydandge.dev/blog/how-i-understand-llms A practical mental model of how large language models work — from tokens and probabilities to inference, context windows, and why they hallucinate. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://ajaydandge.dev/blog/building-burrow-cli-for-querying-databases-behind-bastion How I built a developer CLI that tunnels through a bastion host over SSH to query a PostgreSQL database — and the small decisions that made it feel right. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://ajaydandge.dev/blog/oauth-vs-openid-connect OAuth is about authorization (what an app can do), while OpenID Connect is about authentication (who the user is). Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://ajaydandge.dev/blog/building-ui-for-querying-chromadb Building a lightweight web interface for exploring and querying ChromaDB collections using Ollama-powered embedding models. Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://ajaydandge.dev/blog/what-cors-is-what-cors-is-not CORS is often misunderstood as a security mechanism, but it's really just a browser behavior filter. This post clears up common myths and explains what CORS actually does—and doesn't do. Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://ajaydandge.dev/blog/multi-account-git-config A guide to setting up multiple Git accounts (e.g., work and personal) across different hosting providers like GitHub and GitLab using SSH keys, directory-based Git configuration, and commit signing Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT