How Prototyping Can Help You to Get Buy-In Building prototypes helped get buy-in when roadmaps & design docs failed.
CSV Is Never Just CSV Building CSV Unwrap taught me much less about CSV files than I expected — and much more about data, UX, and engineering.
The Half We Don't Measure Ask companies how AI is going and you'll get usage back. Seats filled, tokens burned, PRs opened. All of it is real, and none of it tells you if a single customer is better off.
How web browsers work - Arnau Camprubí A few years ago, I started going down the rabbithole of browser engines. I wanted to write one, so I started looking for resources. None were as detailed as I had hoped. So, I decided to simply read the official specification (rather, the set of interleav...
You don't hire juniors to do menial chores The delirious rantings of Frederick Vanbrabant. A blog focused on the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, product, and business strategy.
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Why $550 Million Medical Debt only Cost $5.5 Million Everyone gets to negotiate on your medical bill. Everyone, except you. One in ten Americans has crushing medical debt, yet the price is totally made up.
Lessons From Building My Own Products as a Freelance Engineer | Mazin Esam What building my own products taught me about MVPs, software quality, product focus, and how I approach freelance software engineering differently.
What Is LLM-as-a-Judge, Really? A Field Guide to the State of the Art in 2026 I wanted to actually understand LLM-as-a-judge instead of nodding along the way I used to with CAP theorem before I’d actually read the paper. So I built a proper research pipeline, tried to find something genuinely novel to say about it, and watched all ...
Lessons from crawling the web at scale 2026w17 Today I want to provide a project update on Greppr and all of the recent optimizations I have made.
What Is LLM Inference, Really? A Deep Technical Walkthrough An Engineer’s annotated tour through what actually happens when you hit send — from bytes to tokens to embeddings to attention to the word your model finally spits out. No skipped steps. No “and then magic happens.”
Code Review Is the Hard Part I don't have an actual solution for this. I'm just saying that the gatekeepers in my universe seem to be in short supply.
Will the RAM crunch force a return to optimisation? | MattCASmith Software bloat went unchecked for decades because memory was cheap. Now it isn't, and consumers can't afford those same specs. Which way the industry turns next depends on values, not just technology.
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The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models | Claude by Anthropic We removed over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for more advanced models. How to apply the lessons we learned to your own context engineering in Claude Code and with your own agents.
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