Robots need a way to control their various mechanisms to perform tasks, either step-by-step, or in parallel. Most FTC teams do this in a similar way. You might occasionally see some teams playing around with custom task queues and callbacks, but they usually h…
Split keyboards are the best, but no company offered one that satisfied me completely. What followed changed my life as a writer forever.
In May 2025, my wife and I spent 3-weeks in Japan with our 3-year-old son. These are my notes from the trip.
A decade of focus on adoption has payed off. Now it's time to innovate.
In this series of articles, I will implement a simple APL dialect named TinyAPL in Haskell.
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How I became an engineer at 38 thanks to AI
Disruption isn’t just change—it’s the bold reinvention of enterprise systems with cutting-edge technologies.
My favorite keyboard of all time is probably the Microsoft Sculpt. I actually own four (yes, 4) of them because I was afraid that Microsoft would stop selling them, and I wanted enough for a lifetime. However, around a year ago, I switched to a MacBook and so…
I have been working at a US company for almost a month recently. An interesting fact is that I have counted the SaaS services I have used for specific scenarios since joining, and surprisingly, there are as many as 23 of them. All of these SaaS services are pr…
A short rant on why I hate BLDC fans — they killed the fan regulator and now I have to deal with a stupid remote.
So, I'm assuming that if you are reading this, you use an LLM and probably use their Completions API to handle tool calls.
The one where I try to add reason to riot
One of the most common takes you see around, being it a joke or serious, is that the software development industry sucks. And I’m not talking about it bei
Seriously, just build it.
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I think a mark of a great engineer is being willing to change one’s mind when presented with new information. Here are four technological things I’ve changed my mind about.
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The console that has stayed with me even twenty years later is the PlayStation Portable. I still love this mobile device for various reasons. PSP is small enough to fit in a pocket and can be used on the move, which makes it incredibly convenient. In a…
Tox is a neat tool for helping test Python projects. It automatically creates “virtual environments” that include the necessary dependencies, and can then run user-defined tools for testing. Multiple environments can be created in a declarative manner to test …
Amazon Web Services (AWS) strives to deliver reliable services that customers can trust completely. This requires maintaining the highest standards of security, durability, integrity, and availability—with systems correctness serving as the cornerstone for ach…
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” - Arthur C. Clarke Today I’d like to talk about LLMs. But first, I’d like to talk about an impressive invention from the late 1700s. The Mechanical Turk The Mechanical Turk - or “The Turk” …
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Get my REST API course for free: https://dometrain.com/course/from-zero-to-hero-rest-apis-in-asp-net-core/ Subscribe to my weekly newsletter: https://nickchapsas.com Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I will talk about the new JetBrains ReSharper…
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It's not just Delta. The country's three largest airlines are charging some solo travelers higher fares than groups of two or more.
Amazing AI models from the Black Forest.
Are you still using new to create dependencies in your C# apps? It’s time to level up your code with Dependency Injection! In this beginner-friendly tutorial, I’ll show you how DI works, why it matters, and how to set it up in a simple C# console app using Mi…
Over the next eight years, it raised over $445 million, counted Microsoft and the Qatar Investment Authority as investors, and crossed the $1.3 billion valuation mark. By May 2025, it has gone bankrupt.