Introductory field guide to Context Engineering for LLM users A breakdown of the components that go into an LLM call. Understanding this will help you get better results from AI.
DNS Resolution Adds Up DNS resolution is cheap, but it ain't free. In scenarios when it counts, the `dns-prefetch` resource hint could give you a nice, slight edge in the front-end performance game.
Announcing .NET 10 - .NET Blog Announcing the release of .NET 10, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C# 14, .NET MAUI, Aspire, and so much more.
Getting Cross-Functional Buy-in By Making it Fun - Chris Lesinski How do you get cross-functional buy-in? It’s hard and ambiguous. People on my teams over the years often come trying to get advice on this: how do I get people to participate in my program? How can I get people on board with what I’m doing? Everyone has t...
I Accidentally Built a Web Browser For twenty-five years I tinkered with a personal wiki system, an XML parser, and an email client. In 2025 they converged in Rust, and I accidentally built something like a web browser.
Install Omarchy I was backing up my servers, but I realized I have my home directory as a separate mount point, so I should be able to try installing Omarchy now without thoroughly backing up all my files:
The Making of Autism Simulator: 60,000 Visitors in 12 Hours I built Autism Simulator as a passion project over the course of a week or so.
Sherwood (C64 Collector’s Edition) – Another fantastic C64 game is coming from MUSKETEER creators 'Griffonsoft' Sherwood (C64 Collector’s Edition) – Another fantastic C64 game is coming from MUSKETEER creators 'Griffonsoft'
Redirect Multiple Commands or an Entire Script to a File — Nick Janetakis We'll go over a few examples such as running a few commands of your choosing as well as redirecing all commands in a script.
Disaggregated Database Management Systems This paper is based on a panel discussion from the TPC Technology Conference 2022. It surveys how cloud hardware and software trends are re...
Listen to Database Changes through the Postgres WAL An in-depth guide to listening to Postgres database changes through the WAL. Covers logical replication, publications, replication slots, and an Elixir implementation.
Ditch your (mut)ex, you deserve better The Personal blog and musings of Chris Penner, a designer, developer and future opsimath.
How to Train an LLM: Part 1 - Omkaar Kamath I train a 1B llama3-like LLM from scratch and built the accompanying infra to train it.
FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs A lively discussion about open source, security, and who pays the bills has erupted on Twitter.
Introducing iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket, designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items.
Aspire—Your Stack, Streamlined Aspire streamlines your development workflow with code-first control, modularity, and observability for distributed applications.
master-thesis/main.pdf at main · LaurenzV/master-thesis My master's thesis about the topic "High-performance 2D graphics rendering on the CPU using sparse strips" - LaurenzV/master-thesis
The (lazy) Git UI You Didn't Know You Need When my son was born last April, I had ambitious learning plans for the upcoming 5w paternity leave. As you can imagine, with two kids, life quickly verified this plan 🙃. I did eventually start some projects. One of the goals (sounding rebellious in the ...
Learning Biology as a Software Developer After 30 years of programming and with all the annoying AI madness I felt like learning something entirely new. With biohacking being a huge interest of mine for the past couple of years, I decided to take on the challenge to learn the basics of biology....
Builder Design Pattern and Cyclomatic Complexity Reduction In this post, I will explain in detail how I used the builder design pattern together with the bit mask field technique to reduce complexity. As a result, I decreased the cyclomatic complexity from 24 to 0 and reduced development time from hours to minute...
Building Cursor Hooks for Prisma - @gadogado.dev, Geoff Ereth Hooks have been around for a bit now in Claude Code and just recently landed in Cursor. Let's go over how to write and test your own "afterFileEdit" hook with Cursor.
Dull days at the factory "Can you design the electrical wiring for this conference room?" J, my future boss asks me. Back in college, we designed the electrical wiring for a whole factory. This is just a small conference room with two ...
How to use Claude Code for big tasks without turning your code to shit | Hold The Robot I find myself using LLMs for coding in 4 specific ways:
The Button of Mass Distraction The share button is responsible for the mass destruction of human attention. It is the single most insidious software invention of this century. It is, in my...
Do Hard Things if You Want an Easy Life - Expords The human brain likes to avoid hard things (as the cognitive miser theory explains). From the beginning of the evolution of Homo sapiens, our brains have been
Refreshing Apache XML Infrastructure I have published new public versions of the Apache XML-RPC and Web Services Commons Open Source libraries. We have fixed a number of security issues, added embedded XML serialization/deserialization functionality, and addressed a long standing issue with ...
Two Claudes discussing the nature of their own existence I had two independent Claude processes pass messages back and forth to each other to discuss the topic: "Are we alive?" This was the result...
I Wrote Task Manager — 30 Years Later, the Secrets You Never Knew Task Manager turns 30 years old today! A look behind the scenes at its development, secrets, easter eggs, and more by its original author, Dave Plummer. Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn.to/3zBinWM Check out my new merch store at: ht...
How Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data Can the cops get your online data? In short, yes. There are a variety of US federal and state laws which give law enforcement powers to obtain information that you provided to online services. But, there are steps you as a user and/or as a service provide...
What Caused Performance Issues in My Tiny RPG In a previous post, I mentioned having strange performance issues regarding a tiny RPG I was secretly working on.