During the definition and planning phase of our current project, my team generated a lot of written specs. Seventeen feature specs, plus a PRD, a data model, and a handful of supporting reference docs. All of them are in Markdown, all living in the repo. That’s great for handing context back to an A...

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of How to Get Started With the GitHub Copilot CLI. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to install and authenticate the CLI, run one-shot and interactive prompts, use slash commands and agent modes, delegate work to subagents, and switch betwe...

As AI shrinks engineering teams and the EM role splits in two, the Technical Program Manager could be the most overlooked answer hiding in plain sight.

Meeting Notes is a free offline desktop app for 1:1s. Organise notes by person, tag topics, and transcribe meetings on-device with Whisper.

Showcasing the importance of open source innovation in American AI, Palantir’s new intelligent engine — introduced today — uses NVIDIA Nemotron open models to serve the needs of U.S. government agencies. Open source software has long been a pillar of U.S. technology leadership.  In 1969, DARPA conne...

As AI shrinks engineering teams and the EM role splits in two, the Technical Program Manager could be the most overlooked answer hiding in plain sight.

Meeting Notes is a free offline desktop app for 1:1s. Organise notes by person, tag topics, and transcribe meetings on-device with Whisper.

A behind-the-scenes look at how editorial composition, purposeful motion, and minimalist design create a portfolio that lets cinematic CGI take the spotlight.

Next.js creates OpenTelemetry traces automatically. Learn how to export them to Sentry or any OTLP backend with @vercel/otel.

New payment policy: what it means for energy suppliers and consumers

File path separators are a common pain point when writing cross platform software. Of course, not every programming language has a graceful API for handling that. For example, prior to C++ 17, you had to do some #ifdef preprocessor magic to handle that. Which people usually did (or they'd use the Bo...

Update (one year later): The verdict is in. I went with the TP-Link SG2210XMP-M2, and after a full year in the rack it's been running flawlessly: fanless, multigig, VLANs and not a single issue.Continue reading...

Want to check if a Python dict contains a key? Use “in” on the dict: ‘a’ in d # True‘x’ in d # False Searching in d.keys() is far slower: […] The post Python dict key lookup: Use in instead of d.keys() appeared first on LernerPython.

PostHog's original data warehouse had a single goal: delay the moment a company needs to hire their first data engineer. It did that job for a 2…

CakePHP 5.4.0-RC2 just dropped. The final 5.4.0 will follow shortly, so now is the time to pull the release candidate into your apps and surface any regressions while they are still cheap to fix. This post highlights the changes that are...

The identity stack is getting a new layer, and it’s already in your users’ pockets. Mobile driver’s licenses are live in dozens of U.S. states. The EU is mandating digital identity wallets for hundreds of millions of citizens. Apple Wallet and Google Wallet already hold government-issued credentials...

Cross-model guide to reducing LLM costs using prompt compression, semantic caching, chain-of-thought pruning, and output length constraints across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini. Continue reading Prompt Compression and Cache Tuning: Cut Your LLM API Costs by 60% on SitePoint.

I would bring my cats everywhere with me if I could, including to work. Since that’s not really an option, I decided to make them part of my Codex setup instead. I used codex-pets.net to turn my two tabby cats into a custom Codex Pet. To upload a Codex Pet, you need two files: pet.json […] The post ...

I’ve been quietly working on a small side project for the last few weeks, and it’s finally at a point where I can share it properly. Which-Fuji is a tiny website I built to help people figure out which Fujifilm camera to buy. That’s it. No reviews, no affiliate spam, no walls of text — just […] The ...

Want to create a Python dict? You have options; which is fastest? – Literal, with {‘a’:10, ‘b’:20}: 37.8 ns– Invoke dict(a=10, b=20): 58.5 ns– Invoke dict on a list of […] The post Python dict creation speed: Literal vs dict vs comprehension appeared first on LernerPython.

In 2022, I wrote about the damning fall of events tech company Pollen, founded by Callum Negus-Fancey. The short of it:Pollen seemed to have pulled off the improbable feat of building a business in the notoriously low margin industry of events, surviving Covid-19, and building a solid

The Ghost flees dawn: for the King there's no noontime. Hamlet kills himself in his cell when he hears of the...

LLMs are great at pattern detection. Use them long enough, and you get good at it too. Smoking guns, being absolutely right, it's not X but Y. They tend to be cute at first, but then these AI-isms become bad jokes after only a few conversations. Now that I can practically recite all of the dumb shit...

We've built agents, tools, a knowledge base, and streaming. Now how do you test it without hitting OpenAI on every run? In this episode we test the entire system with Pest and zero API calls using the SDK's faking system. Fast, deterministic, free. The post Ship AI with Laravel: Test Your AI System ...

Comprehensive guide covering this topic with practical implementation details. Continue reading Claude Code on Ollama: How to Run a Local Coding Agent Without Burning API Credits on SitePoint.