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TutorialJune 4, 202614 min read

Building Kookachat: a Telegram Interview-Prep Bot with LangGraph + OpenRouter

I built Kookachat, a Telegram bot that generates interview questions and gives you feedback on how you answer them, using LangGraph to route the conversation and OpenRouter to call the LLM. Here's the architecture, the graphs and the full setup, from BotFather to ngrok to webhooks and all the rest.

By Almira

Building Kookachat: a Telegram Interview-Prep Bot with LangGraph + OpenRouter

TutorialFebruary 6, 202612 min read

Building CI with AWS ECR and Github Actions

A step-by-step walkthrough of setting up a GitHub Actions pipeline that builds a Django REST Framework app's Docker image and pushes it to AWS ECR, using OIDC instead of long-lived access keys.

By Almira

Building CI with AWS ECR and Github Actions

TutorialNovember 11, 20258 min read

Setting up my dev environment

A step-by-step walkthrough of setting up a GPU-ready dev environment on Windows: installing CUDA, WSL2, Docker Desktop with GPU support, Git with SSH and VSCode with container support.

By Almira#docker #cuda

Blog

Thoughts on software engineering, career and life in general.

TutorialJune 4, 202614 min read

Building Kookachat: a Telegram Interview-Prep Bot with LangGraph + OpenRouter

By Almira

TutorialFebruary 6, 202612 min read

Building CI with AWS ECR and Github Actions

A step-by-step walkthrough of setting up a GitHub Actions pipeline that builds a Django REST Framework app's Docker image and pushes it to AWS ECR, using OIDC instead of long-lived access keys.

By Almira

TutorialNovember 11, 20258 min read

Setting up my dev environment

A step-by-step walkthrough of setting up a GPU-ready dev environment on Windows: installing CUDA, WSL2, Docker Desktop with GPU support, Git with SSH and VSCode with container support.

By Almira#docker #cuda