Featured post what's this? ✨ Daniel's Blog · Encouraging the use of LLMs made interviews easier (for us as interviewers) The advent of cluely and the ever growing arms race between the interviewer and the interviewee is a fascinating phenomenon to me. Betting that people would prefer cheating or that companies needed screen for cheaters because the use of LLMs is heavily di...
Introducing Gemma 3n: The developer guide- Google Developers Blog Learn how to build with Gemma 3n, a mobile-first architecture, MatFormer technology, Per-Layer Embeddings, and new audio and vision encoders.
How to fix your fear of deployments with Charity Majors | Aviator Shipping software is the heartbeat of every engineering organization, and fear of deployments is the number one source of tech debt.
Gemini CLI's Polarizing Release on Hacker News – A Visual Analysis Gemini released a new developer oriented CLI tool. This tool has a relatively generous free tier of 60 requests per minute, 1000 requests per day. When large language models (LLMs) were initially released, there was a lot of fear that it would automate ma...
A CRDT-based Messenger in 12 Lines of Bash Using a Synced Folder | Hold The Robot Put that script inside a folder, share the folder with someone via Syncthing or Dropbox or whatever,
Social anxiety isn't about being liked There's this popular idea that socially anxious folks are just dying to be liked.
There’s no way that Starcloud can put a data centre in space at $8.2 million in one Starship Abstract
Daniel's Blog · Agent Lineage Evolution: A Novel Framework for Managing LLM Agent Degradation Agent Lineage Evolution (ALE) is a novel framework that addresses the dual challenge of LLM agent degradation and manual prompt engineering bottlenecks. As LLMs inevitably degrade over extended usage, requiring frequent context restarts, current approache...
Taking a Semi-Truck to Buy Salad: My Manifesto for Simple Computing | MyNotes A manifesto for simple computing. While other fields embraced minimalism, tech became bloated. Why do we use complex, oversized systems for simple jobs? It's like taking a semi-truck to buy salad. This post explores a return to efficient, low-cost, and mi...
How to Fix Your Context 6 tactics for fixing your context and shipping better agents. As Karpathy says, building LLM-powered apps means learning to ‘pack the context windows just right’—smartly deploying tools, managing information, and maintaining context hygiene.
"Let Great talk by Greg Lukianoff on TED. The presentation is only 12 minutes, which I can recommend anyone to watch.
Why every developer should have a side project: My 10-year journey of failings In this article, I share my personal journey with side projects: my failures and successes for the past 10 years. I talk about how working on side projects pushed me to learn new skills and has helped me grow beyond coding, as well as showcase my many att...
You're Overthinking Web Components | Sanford Tech Learn how Web Components excel at progressively enhancing server-rendered HTML without worrying about additional dependencies, shadow DOM, or going full SPA.
AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome Introducing a new, unifying DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect prediction and promises to shed new light on genome function — now available via API.
Simpler XAML in .NET MAUI 10 - .NET Blog Make your .NET MAUI XAML more consistent and easier to read with global and implicit XML namespaces.
Programming as Theory Building: Why Senior Developers Are More Valuable Than Ever Peter Naur's 1985 theory of programming explains why experience matters more in the age of AI-generated code
Libxml2's 'no security embargoes' policy Libxml2, an XML parser and toolkit, is an almost perfect example of the successes and failures [...]
Folklore.org: -2000 Lines Of Code In early 1982, the Lisa software team was trying to buckle down for the big push to ship the software within the next six months. Some of the managers decided that it would be a good idea to track the progress of each individual engineer in terms of the ...
Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds Lenovo Legion Go S gets better frame rates running Valve’s free operating system.