Quoting Ted Sanders
In general, LLM performance is incredibly multidimensional. There's no guarantee of a fixed ordering where the model that is best at math is also the model that's best at jokes. Despite that complexity, much of the…
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GitHub Octoverse 2026
GitHub Octoverse 2026 I'm at GitHub Universe today (GitHub gave me a free ticket through their "GitHub Stars" program). EVP Jay Parikh just announced this year's Octoverse report, and highlighted these numbers in…
The October inflection point for vibe game development
I've written before about how November 2025 was an inflection point for coding agents - the point where Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 crossed a tipping point that meant their respective coding agents became reliable daily…
Quoting Terk Terkowitz
If your work does not benefit from current AI tooling, that is a finding, not a failing. Document why, share it with your community of peers, bring it to your manager, and work to find solutions. An engineer who can…
Why I love building 100% client-side web tools (and how I do it)
I'm a solo indie developer based in China. Over the past year I've built more than 20 small web tools, and almost all of them share one design decision: no backend at all. Here's why I keep coming back to it. No server…
Making a JavaScript-Heavy Site Readable for AI Crawlers: Prerendering Options Compared
Googlebot renders JavaScript, eventually. Many AI crawlers do not render it at all, or do so inconsistently. If your marketing site is a client-side single-page app, an AI assistant may see an empty shell and decide you…
Why I Built 12 Zero-Bloat, Client-Side Developer & Trade Utilities
I got tired of modern web utility calculators that are cluttered with 15 ad banners, cookie popups, and paywalls locking simple PDF downloads behind an email signup. So I launched ZeroBloatTools — a collection of 12…
Redux Toolkit in React
What Is Redux Toolkit? Redux Toolkit (RTK) is a library used to manage global state in React applications. It is the official, recommended way to write Redux logic. In React, we use useState to manage data inside a…
Building an Ultra-Fast Suite of Free Web Calculators with Zero Frameworks (and 100/100 Core Web Vitals)
If you've ever searched online for a mortgage calculator, a pregnancy due date estimator, or a simple percentage change tool, you already know the frustrating state of web utilities today: Cluttered with 15 sticky video…
I got tired of slow, ad-infested calculators, so I built a 100/100 Lighthouse Utility Suite in Vanilla JS 🚀
Ever tried to quickly calculate a subnet mask, check a text diff, or generate a password, only to be hit by a site with a 5-second load time, cookie popups, and intrusive ads? I got tired of it. So I built Urban Mixo.…
Why Does Structured Output Fail? An Empirical Study of Prompt-Enforced Pydantic Schemas Across Nine LLMs
arXiv:2610.33949v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pipelines that require structured outputs from hosted language models often specify a Pydantic schema in the prompt, validate the response, and retry when validation…
"Michael Kennedy's Thoughts on Technology": Chameleon templates, modernized: chameleon-rs
tl;dr; chameleon-rs is my Rust implementation of Chameleon for Python web apps. It runs existing templates unchanged, with faster rendering, async support, and support for free-threaded Python. The Chameleon HTML…