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Idiot Proof Git
Aliases, etc that have made rebase-based workflows in Git much less advanced feeling.
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Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop
Contrasting how each language handles iteration helps understand how to work effectively in either.
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Preferring throwaway code over design docs
If you have discipline to throw away your first idea, draft, throwaway PRs often drives more progress than a design doc.
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Don't classify, hallucinate
A useful pattern for LLM classification at scale is to let it hallucinate plausible, fake entities. Then resolve to real ones.
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Why write code in 2026
A bunch of reasons to write code in 2026
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Coping with dumb LLMs using classic ML
Taking the output of many dumb LLM search relevance judges and feeding the output to a decision tree to improve precision
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I made a search engine worse than Elasticsearch (2024)
Integrating my BM25 pandas search library, SearchArray, into BEIR, in order to embarass myself in public.