Agentic Coding Things That Didn’t Work Some of my attempts to make agents work better that just didn’t work.
My 2,718281828459045235 Cents - State Of AI: Year 3 of the hype. Things I learned. What about coding People don’t get tired of announcing that AI will replace developers. Mostly salespeople. Microsoft claims that AI is already writing 30–50% of their code. They also admit, that quality of C+ is behind expectations. In 2030 they plan to ...
Using LLM Embeddings to Normalize User Data How cosine similarity in embedding space can power high-quality normalization.
In the name of progress - Dmitry Kudryavtsev Few months ago, the internet has been flooded with AI generated images in the style of Pixar and Ghibli. I didn't even know that a new AI model was released, be...
How to Setup Puppy Linux With Ventoy Like many people in the 2020s, I travel a lot. I work in a different city to the one I live in, and spend a few days in one place and a few days in the other. I don't really mind travelling, but it comes with a few inconveniences. One …
It's not you, it's their bullshit. LinkedIn reports that "the majority of U.S. professionals (58%) believe they have a wide range of skills that are being underutilized in their current roles." I see you. I know you. I am you. I have felt this in every job I've had in the last ten years....
Daniel's Blog · Cyberpunk is Now Our Reality We are living in a pre-cyberpunk world, actively paving the groundwork for corporate-government fusion. Worse, we’re doing it while thinking we’re resisting it.
Valley of Despair The following is an entry from the project journal for : I’m feeling a little bummed and not particularly motivated to work on my compiler today. ...
Juan Rodriguez Donado - sjdonado Web Development, Mobile Development, Distributed Systems, Embedded Systems, Software Engineering.
TELO Trucks | The All-Electric Mini Truck Say hello to TELO, the all-electric mini truck. Designed from the ground up for efficiency and practicality.
Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz) The current administration in the US has, through various funding agencies such as the NSF and NIH, has recently suspended virtually all federal grants to my home university, UCLA (including my own personal grant, although that is far from the most serio...
Coffeematic PC – Coffee Maker Computer by Doug MacDowell A 1980s GE coffee maker converted into a working computer. Part art, part absurd machine, fully functional.
Anthropic Revokes OpenAI's Access to Claude OpenAI lost access to the Claude API this week after Anthropic claimed the company was violating its terms of service.
How to Survive The Sprint - Dev Leader Weekly 104 Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss how to survive your software development sprint or... consider moving on!
This Month in Ladybird - July 2025 - Ladybird Hello friends! July is done. We merged 319 pull requests from 47 contributors.
I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself After joining Mintlify (which acquired my previous company), I finally fixed a search bug that had bothered me for over a year as a user - the debounced search queries weren't being aborted, causing race conditions and poaor search quality. By adding an A...
Weekly Recap - 2025-08-01 Check out this week from Dev Leader! Here's a list including articles and videos on software engineering, career development, and programming in C#!
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At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.
How to Keep Your Data Boundaries Intact in a Modular Monolith Want real boundaries in your modular monolith? This article shows how to enforce them at the database level using Postgres schemas, roles, and EF Core — so your modules can't step on each other's data, even by accident.
Attendance at English football: a tale of tragedy and recovery Blog on management, statistics, and data.
Patricio Del Boca - vibe coding is the fast fashion industry of software engineering TL;DR: My take on AI for programming and "vibe coding" is that it will do to software engineering what fast fashion did to the clothing industry: flood the market with cheap, low-quality products and excessive waste.
Why Won't Anyone Use the Beautiful Corporate Spaces I'm not talking about the rebranded cube farms (Open floor plan TM). Companies spend an inordinate amount of money making objectively beautiful spaces for...
Fingine: Thoughts on Side Projects and Financial Simulation One ambition of mine is to retire relatively early (around 55) and in the period prior to that to take jobs without consideration for their financial compensation. To achieve that, I pay attention to how my net worth, savings rate, and investments track w...