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Patterns for building LLM-based systems and products
Evals, RAG, fine-tuning, caching, guardrails, defensive UX, and collecting user feedback.
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Help I accidently enabled HSTS on localhost
I ran into an issue after accidently enabling HSTS for a website on localhost. This was not an issue for the original website that was runni...
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Dear websites, stop asking for ransom sign-ups
A rant about websites that collect user data before revealing that a sign-up is required to see the results.
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Evading JavaScript anti-debugging techniques
Debuggers serve as invaluable tools that empower developers to halt code execution and thoroughly analyze its behavior at any given moment. By utilizing debuggers, developers can efficiently identify and resolve issues within their code, making it an indispensable part of their toolkit.
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Sigh, this is what browsing the web in the EU looks like nowadays (2021)
Just venting. Between GDPR dialogs, dark patterns, and invasive ads, browsing the web nowadays — especially from EU — is a miserable experience.
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Splitting the Web
Splitting the Web par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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Systemd auto-restarts of units can hide problems from you
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Nvidia H100 GPUs: Supply and Demand
This post is an exploration of the supply and demand of GPUs, particularly Nvidia H100s.
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Git files hidden in plain sight
I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to sign things in the repository in the repository itself
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The worst API ever made (2014)
A call-by-call look at context switch logging with the Event Tracing for Windows API.
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Occluding Contour Breakthroughs, Part 1: A Surprisingly Hard Problem
Exact line rendering of smooth surfaces is harder than anyone would think
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Can you trust a compiler to optimize your code?
More or less the title this time, but first, a story about SIMD. There are three levels of understanding how SIMD works (well, at least I am level 3 at the moment):
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My journey away from the JAMstack
The name is all but dead, nerfed by the company who invented it. Here’s why Netlify was ahead of its time and where everything went wrong.
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Free and open source software projects are in transition
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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Which vector database should I use? A comparison cheatsheet
Semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications require systems to be able to save lots of embedding vectors…
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The Fibonacci Matrix
When you think about the Fibonacci sequence, you probably imagine a swirling vortex of oscillating points stretching outwards to infinity: Okay, no, obviously you don’t. Yet.
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Cut out everything that's not surprising (2019)
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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So, you want to deploy on the edge?
Application developers often deploy their apps into a single area, generally represented by a handful of AZs in a single region. No matter where their …
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Curl Command Line Variables
If you are anything like me, you appreciate solving your every day simple tasks directly from the command line. Creating crafty single shot command lines or a small shell script to solve that special task you figured out you needed and makes your day go a little smoother. A fellow command line cowboy. Video…
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Fantasy meets reality
One of my favorite things to notice as a weirdo is when the good intentions of design slam into the hard reality of humans and the real world. It’s always interesting. Let’s start with …
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Free Public WiFi
Once, many years ago, I stayed on the 62nd floor of the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia. This was in the age when the price of a hotel room was directly correlated with the price of the WiFi service, and as a high school student I was not prepared to pay in excess of $15 a day for the internet. As I…
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The Right to Lie and Google’s “Web Environment Integrity”
This is a fundamental principle of free and open source software. The World Wide Web abides by this principle, although we don’t often think of it that way. The Web is just an agreed-on set of programmatic interfaces: if you send me this, I’ll send you that. Your computer can construct the “this” by whatever means it…
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Reasons Not to Be a Manager (2019)
Yesterday we had a super fun meetup here at Intercom in Dublin. We split up into small discussion groups and talked about things related to managing teams and being a senior individual contributor (IC), and going back and forth throughout your career.
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The Reluctant Sysadmin's Guide to Securing a Linux Server
I wrote a follow-up to this guide, which you should probably consider along with this article.
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Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator
CLICK HERE for our main page with download instructions and online documentation.