https://ajaydandge.dev Ajay Dandge's Blog https://ajaydandge.dev/blog/local-llm-inference-benchmark-gpu-vs-cpu-only Benchmarking Google Gemma 4 (MoE, dense, PLE) and Mistral Small 3.2 on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB VRAM, Intel Core i7-12700F, 32GB RAM) vs an Intel Core i5-13420H (16GB RAM, no discrete GPU) across VRAM offloading, prompt eval, and token generation. Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://ajaydandge.dev/blog/optimizing-mobile-pagespeed-insights-how-i-reached-99-on-performance A practical breakdown of how deferring analytics scripts, code-splitting client components, and updating transpilation targets boosted this blog's Mobile PageSpeed score from 85 to 99/100. Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://ajaydandge.dev/blog/deploying-claude-usage-sqlite-postgres-or-mysql-and-google-sign-in The follow-up to building Claude Usage: making it deployable — splitting a session's history into per-turn timestamps, running on PostgreSQL or MySQL as well as SQLite, and adding Google sign-in alongside Microsoft Entra ID. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://ajaydandge.dev/blog/building-claude-usage-per-person-cost-tracking A plugin, a FastAPI and SQLite server, and a dashboard that track per-person token usage and cost when a team shares Claude accounts. Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://ajaydandge.dev/blog/using-claude-code-with-non-anthropic-models-via-litellm Setting up Claude Code to use non-Anthropic models, including free ones on OpenRouter, by running a local LiteLLM proxy in front of it. Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://ajaydandge.dev/blog/burrow-adds-read-only-guard-and-agent-skills Three additions to burrow: per-profile read-only access that blocks write statements at the client level, a non-interactive config set command for scripting, and skill installation across multiple coding agents via the Agent Skills standard. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://ajaydandge.dev/blog/burrow-adds-mysql-secure-passwords-and-claude-code-skill Burrow now supports MySQL alongside PostgreSQL, stores passwords securely outside config.toml, and ships a proper installer for the Claude Code skill. Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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