🗞️ AI News of The Week: OpenAI Gets Spicy
OpenAI has built its own custom AI chip with Broadcom, code-named Jalapeño, designed specifically for running inference at scale.
OpenAI and Broadcom have co-developed Jalapeño, a purpose-built inference chip that will power OpenAI's models going forward. This is OpenAI's first step into custom silicon, joining Google (TPUs), Amazon (Trainium), and Apple in building chips tailored to their own AI workloads.
Why This Matters:
Less NVIDIA dependence
Lower costs
Faster responses s
Industry trend — Every major AI lab is moving toward owning its own compute stack
🧠 AI Term of The Week: TUI
Definition:
A Terminal User Interface (TUI) is a text-based interface that runs inside a command-line window, using keyboard navigation instead of a mouse or browser.
Explain It Like I’m 5:
TUI is like using a secret codebook. You read a list of words, type the letters "B-U-R-G-E-R" on a keyboard, and the computer gives you your food.
Why it matters now:
More self-hosted tools (like Shlink, this week's tutorial) include TUIs so you can manage them without a separate web dashboard
AI coding tools like Claude Code are terminal-first, making TUIs increasingly part of the modern developer workflow
They're lightweight, fast, and work over SSH, which makes them perfect for managing apps on a remote server
💬 Quote of the Week:
"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”
🧰 AI Tool of The Week: Coolify
What is Coolify?
Coolify is an open-source, self-hostable platform for deploying apps, databases, and services on your own server, a free alternative to Heroku, Netlify, and Vercel.
What it does:
Deploys apps, databases, and services from GitHub or Docker with a clean dashboard
Manages SSL certificates, domains, and environment variables automatically
Supports one-click deployments for popular tools like WordPress, Supabase, and Plausible
Why it's interesting:
You own everything: no vendor lock-in, no surprise pricing, no platform shutdowns
Saves serious money for solopreneurs running multiple apps or client projects
Pairs perfectly with a $5/month VPS to give you a full cloud platform at nearly zero cost
🛠 AI Tutorial Of The Week: How I Migrated from Pretty Links to Shlink (Self-Hosted URL Shortener on VPS)
Description:
In this tutorial, you will learn the exact six-phase process I used to migrate from Pretty Links to Shlink, a free self-hosted URL shortener running in Docker on a Hostinger VPS. If you're moving away from WordPress and need to keep your branded short links intact, this video covers everything from exporting your old links to importing them into Shlink with a full tagging system.
🤖 What You'll Learn
👉 Pretty Links export workaround: generate a CSV using Claude without a paid plan
👉 Shlink install... deploy it in seconds from the Hostinger Docker catalog
👉 Docker Compose YAML: configure traffic labels, subdomains, and your API key
👉Cloudflare DNS: add A records for your Shlink API endpoint and admin panel
👉 Shlink web UI: add a server and connect your initial API key
👉CSV import: use Claude Code over SSH to bulk-import all your links
👉Tags and organization... keep every Shlink sorted from day one
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Helping creators & small businesses turn their content & documents into AI‑powered tools.
📚 TUI
❞ “Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection." – Mark Twain
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