There’s no need to over engineer a URL shortener
I came across an article on r/programming about handling creating 100k short URLs per second 1.
GitHub - marcboeker/gmail-to-sqlite: Index your Gmail account to a SQLite DB and play with the data.
Index your Gmail account to a SQLite DB and play with the data. - marcboeker/gmail-to-sqlite
These AI Agents Ain't It - Dev Leader Weekly 94
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss my experience using AI agents to refactor code.
llama.cpp/docs/multimodal.md at master · ggml-org/llama.cpp
LLM inference in C/C++. Contribute to ggml-org/llama.cpp development by creating an account on GitHub.
Reading "Business" Books Is A Waste Of Time
"Business" Books Are Cheap Entertainment, Not Strategic Tools
Vibe Coding: Building Code Commute With Agents - Engineering Manager AMA
Vibe coding and agents are all the rage! My most recent experience was quite lackluster with AI agents... but let's see if we can build the landing page for Code Commute in Blazor and Aspire using agents! As with all livestreams, I'm looking forward to answer…
From Anemic Models to Behavior-Driven Models: A Practical DDD Refactor in C#
A practical guide to transforming anemic domain models into behavior-rich aggregates in C# through incremental refactoring, enhancing code maintainability and business rule clarity.
Extending my edit web page bookmarklet | James' Coffee Blog
I have a bookmarklet called “Edit” which, when clicked, takes me to the editing page of GitHub that corresponds to the page on my website that I am viewing.
The Fix That Let Us Run the Biggest Open Models Overnight
We hit GPU limits with every new model until we found a better way. Here's how we cut costs and seamlessly swapped in open-source LLMs like Qwen3 and Llama 4 using Parasail.
Foreground segmentation with JBIG2 for improved PDF compression: pdf-segmented
JBIG2 is an efficient image compression format for bi-level (bi-tonal) images, which is supported by the PDF file format and common PDF viewers. To date, tooling for producing documents using JBIG2 (particularly open source tooling) has been limited; I have pr…
A Performance Investigation Challenge — Matthew Gaudet
I really liked matklad’s Performance Visualization challenge (partially because it didn’t take me long to find the line with samply, which made me feel good).
Too much magic
A common criticisms of frameworks like Textual is that they have “too much magic”.
Reason 1,000,001 why OpenAI sucks - blog.thms.uk
After days of debugging unexplained span usage in Sentry - despite an ultra-low sampling rate - I discovered `traceparent` headers in requests traced back to OpenAI. Turns out, it's always AI.
Shut up, Siri - Christopher Butler
Every day I see a new thinkpiece on “the post-screen future” or “UI-less design” or “the end of the click.” I even used to write things like that.
A decade of employment - blakewatson.com
I celebrate ten years of being employed by looking back at the difficult journey it took to get there.
On .NET Live Topic: Build and Run AI-powered .NET Apps Anywhere with ONNX Runtime
Do you need a cross-platform AI engine that optimizes and accelerates machine learning models, including large language models? In this week's episode, Microsoft MVP Hayden Barnes shows us how to build cross-platform AI-powered applications using .NET, Windows…
Notes on Zero by Rocicorp
I’ve been diving into Zero, the new query-powered sync engine, and I'm genuinely impressed. It’s still in alpha, so things are evolving, but the core ideas are incredibly compelling for building fast, reactive web apps.
Titles Don’t Matter (To You), But They Sure Matter to Your Client - David Raistrick
Why the title you use as a fractional leader can significantly impact your client's success
You should have private evals
Everybody should have a personal set of test prompts to try on LLMs.
Transactions as Transformers
Database transactions are traditionally modeled as a sequence of read/write operations on a set of keys, where each read operation returns some value and each write sets a key to some value. This is reflected in most of the formalisms that define various trans…
I've been here the whole time
A key inspiration for this post is Sam Reich, who lives in my general neighborhood. Reich has spent seven seasons of the show "Game Changer" (Wikipedia) reminding everyone of a single crucial detail: Sam: thanks for the reminder that there's always some troll …
Cheating my social anxiety with T-Shirts | Nayan Gautam
How funny t-shirts helped me overcome my fear of talking to strangers and make friends