Kelly Sutton on why his team views big front-end frameworks as a liability: Maybe it’s the changing interest rates or political winds, but I think the “fat client” era JS-heavy frontends is on its way out. The hype around edge applications is misplaced and unnecessary for building many different flavors of...

I started writing a post called "how to write AI apps" but it was over-reach so I scaled it back to this. Who am I to tell you how to write anything? But here's what I'll be applying to my own writing of AI-powered apps, specifically LLM applications. A battle I've already lost is that we shouldn't call LLMs "AI" at...

The second post on My Top 100 Tracks. Explosive. That's how this track's often described. One hit on the drum and then the song dives straight in fast and direct. It was released in 1978 as the opening track of The Clash's second album Give 'Em Enough Rope. I was 14. I saw someone say: "It's one of the greatest...

I was tagged by Bob Monsour to answer the challenge. I accepted. The challenge was started here Ava's Bear Blog Challenge Why Did You Start Blogging In The First Place? In those heady early days of the web we built sites for the fun of it - there were not that many people out there able to see our sites anyway. I...

A description and look at the productive trance that is the flow state (AKA zen state). An attempt at capturing in words the essence of complete cognitive immersion and the enthralling rush it brings.

One of my sporadic book reviews

I know there are so many posts on how to configure a bare-metal K8s cluster, but after studying a lot, here’s my take on it.

I have plans to eventually set up a VPN to access my home network, but in the meantime, I opted to set up a Cloudflare Tunnel to access certain local resources. I also just wanted to play around with Cloudflare Tunnel which is part of their Zero Trust platform. One might also want to do this if they're behind a...

Everyone is a victim of The Algorithm in one way or another. I'm still on Instagram (yes, I know) and I quite often fall into the trap of looking at Reels (super short videos) for too long. I don't even like most of the content it shows me, but I keep swiping just in case the next one is something funny. The...