A tech week note covering Expo docs, blog redesign, switching to bun, and migrating linting from ESLint to Oxlint.
Guide to installing the dig DNS lookup utility on Debian Linux using the dnsutils package.
Exploring MariaDB Galera cluster multi-master setup, reproducing Jepsen report findings on data loss and lost updates.
Guide to building a benchmarking framework for AI coding agents using Claude's Agent SDK, focusing on security tasks.
Tips for successful OpenTelemetry adoption by minimizing changes, using JMX Metric Scraper to integrate existing JMX metrics.
Introduces tinyimg, an R package for compressing PNG images using bundled Rust crates, with lossless and lossy options.
Analysis of textConnection() slowness in R due to garbage collection from O(n^2) vector growth.
Optimizing a JavaScript isCJK() function using AI assistance and benchmarking techniques for faster text rendering.
Explores using NumPy as a synth engine to generate instrument sounds like plucked strings and tabla via math and DSP algorithms.
Summary of recent Azure, .NET, GitHub, and Visual Studio blog posts covering AI agents, DevOps updates, and developer tools.
Explores key AI ideas like autonomous component improvement, intent-based engineering, and transparency shaping the future of technology.
A critique of AI automating social media interactions, arguing it removes human authenticity and turns platforms into insincere machines.
Analysis of AI inference costs ending subsidies, predicting a split between expensive frontier models and cheap open-source alternatives.
Explores documentation discoverability for search crawlers, schema parsers, and AI agents, beyond just human readers.
Guide to using pgvector in .NET for vector search with PostgreSQL, embeddings, and semantic similarity queries.
Using tar with SSH as a simpler alternative to rsync for transferring files between hosts.
Exploring agentic growthhacking tactics using AI bots to automate lead scoring, sales alerts, and sourcing user pain points on social media.
Analysis of Kimi K2.5, Cursor Composer 2, and Chroma Context-1 reports on training agentic models with reinforcement learning.
A blog post about setting up a CDN-backed partial CTAN mirror for TeX Live, now used by TinyTeX by default.
Explores the confusion between Soft AGI (emulating human replacement) and Hard AGI (true human-level learning generality).
