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Apache Airflow project repository on GitHub at github.com/apache/airflow, the canonical source for the open-source workflow orchestrator this tutorial installs and runs locally

Apache Airflow in 60 minutes: schedule your first data pipeline

Install Apache Airflow 3 locally with uv, write a DAG with the TaskFlow API, wire Python plus Bash plus SQL operators, schedule it, and monitor in the webserver.

Neural Tech Daily19 May 2026~20 min

A terminal showing dbt run output with staging, intermediate, and marts models building in dependency order

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dbt SQL Transformation Tutorial: From Raw Warehouse to Clean Marts

A SQL-fluent analyst's walkthrough of dbt-core 1.11: install, project structure, sources, models, seeds, tests, docs, macros, and materialisations end-to-end.

Neural Tech Daily19 May 2026~13 min

FastAPI's official 'FastAPI in Containers - Docker' deployment page on fastapi.tiangolo.com, which provides the canonical Dockerfile template this tutorial implements

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Docker fundamentals in 60 minutes: containerise a Python web app

Step-by-step tutorial: write a Dockerfile for a FastAPI app, run it with Docker Compose, and push the image to Docker Hub end-to-end in 60 minutes.

Neural Tech Daily19 May 2026~12 min

GitHub Actions feature page banner, the canonical landing surface for the workflow-automation service this tutorial builds against.

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GitHub Actions CI/CD: end-to-end pipeline for a Node.js app

Build a complete CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions for a Node.js app: lint, test, matrix builds, secrets, reusable workflows, and deploy.

Neural Tech Daily19 May 2026~14 min

The official 'Hello Minikube' tutorial page on kubernetes.io documenting the canonical kubectl + minikube deploy-and-expose sequence this tutorial implements

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Kubernetes for developers: deploy your first app on a local cluster

Step-by-step tutorial: spin up a local Kubernetes cluster with minikube or kind, deploy an app, expose it with a Service, and add liveness probes plus scaling.

Neural Tech Daily19 May 2026~13 min

The Next.js installation documentation page on nextjs.org showing the create-next-app CLI and Next.js 16.2.6 version banner, which this tutorial uses as the canonical setup reference

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Next.js App Router in 60 minutes: build a global-ready dashboard

Step-by-step tutorial: scaffold a Next.js 16 App Router project, build a dashboard with layouts, dynamic routes, server components, in 60 min.

Neural Tech Daily19 May 2026~13 min

OWASP Top 10 project repository on GitHub at github.com/OWASP/Top10, the canonical source for the A01 to A10 web-app vulnerability categories this tutorial walks through

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OWASP Top 10 secure coding tutorial: fix real vulnerabilities in a Python web app

Walk through six OWASP Top 10 categories on a FastAPI sample app: injection, broken auth, access control, misconfig, vulnerable components, SSRF, with the fix for each.

Neural Tech Daily19 May 2026~23 min

A Jupyter notebook cell showing a pandas DataFrame after CSV ingest, dtype coercion, and a group-by aggregation

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Pandas Data Wrangling in 60 Minutes: From CSV to a Clean DataFrame

A 60-minute pandas walkthrough: read CSV / Excel / JSON, coerce dtypes, handle missing data, group-by + agg, merge, resample, and plot — using pandas 3.0.

Neural Tech Daily19 May 2026~14 min

Playwright source repository on GitHub showing the microsoft/playwright project page header.

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Playwright end-to-end testing in 60 minutes: cross-browser auth flow

Install Playwright, record a login flow with codegen, factor out a page object, save auth state, run cross-browser in parallel, ship to GitHub Actions.

Neural Tech Daily19 May 2026~13 min

The postgres/postgres GitHub repository page, the official source-code mirror for the PostgreSQL project this tutorial uses, with documentation references throughout to PostgreSQL 18

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PostgreSQL for developers: install to your first production-ready schema

Step-by-step tutorial: install PostgreSQL 18, connect with psql, design a normalised schema with constraints, add indexes, and seed test data in 60 minutes.

Neural Tech Daily19 May 2026~16 min

pytest source repository on GitHub showing the pytest-dev/pytest project page header.

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pytest end-to-end: from your first test to fixtures, parametrize, and CI

A working pytest setup in 60 minutes — install, conftest.py, fixtures, parametrize, pytest-cov and pytest-xdist plugins, and a minimal GitHub Actions matrix.

Neural Tech Daily19 May 2026~13 min

The Redis homepage at redis.io, the project's official site and entry point to the Redis 8 documentation this tutorial follows

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Redis caching tutorial in 45 minutes: cache-aside, write-through, write-behind

Step-by-step tutorial: install Redis 8, connect via redis-cli, then implement cache-aside, write-through, and write-behind patterns in Node.js end-to-end in 45 minutes.

Neural Tech Daily19 May 2026~14 min

HashiCorp Terraform developer documentation landing page, the canonical reference used throughout this tutorial.

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Terraform on AWS in 60 minutes: provision a VPC, EC2, and RDS

Stand up a working VPC, EC2 instance, and RDS database with Terraform 1.15 and AWS provider 6.x, including S3-native state locking and a clean destroy.

Neural Tech Daily19 May 2026~13 min

anthropics/skills GitHub repository banner — the canonical Anthropic-hosted public Agent Skills implementation that this tutorial draws on.

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Extending Claude Code with skills and plugins: 5 essentials for a personal coding-agent toolkit

Walk-through of skills and plugins, the two-layer extension model in Claude Code: directory layout, five essentials to install today, and the marketplace workflow.

Neural Tech Daily8 May 2026~12 min

Cursor 3.3 changelog page header announcing PR Review, Build Plan in Parallel, and Split PRs, dated 7 May 2026.

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Cursor 3.3 parallel agents and Split PRs: how to break a refactor into independent slices

Cursor 3.3 (7 May 2026) lets Plan Mode fan tasks across async subagents and split the diff into independent PRs. When parallelism wins, when it costs more.

Neural Tech Daily8 May 2026~11 min

Hugging Face PEFT documentation page showing the LoRA adapter pattern that this tutorial walks through end-to-end on Colab's free T4 instance

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LoRA Fine-Tuning a 7B Model on Google Colab Free Tier: A Step-By-Step

A LoRA fine-tune of Qwen 2.5-7B on Google Colab's free Tesla T4 takes 4–6 hours. Step-by-step pipeline for devs: dataset, PEFT, training, inference.

Neural Tech Daily4 May 2026~14 min

Claude Code overview card from the official Anthropic Claude Code documentation — 'Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and integrates with your development tools'

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Claude Code + GitHub Copilot in VS Code: setup and workflow for developers using both

How to install, configure, and use Claude Code's terminal agent alongside GitHub Copilot's inline suggestions in VS Code without the two tools stepping on each other.

Neural Tech Daily3 May 2026~12 min