Reasonable Life Advice for Twentysomethings
I could probably give solid life advice to twenty-year-olds, right?
Posts
The Idea of Changing Beliefs
A visual and interactive guide to understanding Bayes’ Theorem, a fundamental tool for updating probabilities with new evidence.
Nginx is Probably Fine
Should you build your own reverse proxy to replace Nginx?
Comparing Kubernetes Gateway and Ingress APIs
Exploring the new Kubernetes Gateway API and comparing it with the existing Kubernetes Ingress API for handling external traffic.
One Nation, One Subscription, Many Problems
Access to publicly funded scientific research should be ubiquitous. But the current plan to achieve this is far from ideal.
A Comprehensive Guide to API Gateways, Kubernetes Gateways, and Service Meshes
A comprehensive comparison of API gateways, Kubernetes gateways, and service meshes with actionable insights.
Code Mode with Skills
An alternate proposal for Code Mode that replaces MCP servers and hosted execution with SKILL.md files and OpenAPI specifications.
The Fastest Way to Board an Airplane
Exploring different airplane boarding strategies with interactive animations and mathematics. Airlines hate this trick.
Clawdbot Got Agent UX Right
Clawdbot gives LLMs arms and legs and unleashes their full potential.
Live and Let Live
LLMs haven’t killed programmers, and they aren’t useless either. Arguments at these extremes mostly miss the point. What matters is whether they can build things that work.
The Ladybug Clock Puzzle
A ladybug walks randomly around a clock. What’s the probability that 6 is the last number she visits?
Notes on Recursive Language Models
RLMs are a novel way to keep the context of the main agent loop small, eliminating context rot for long-context tasks while reducing costs.
Migrating from Hugo v0.118.2 to v0.152.2
How did I migrate from Hugo v0.118.2 to v0.152.2? More importantly, why would I even attempt such an endeavor?
Three Days at IndiaFOSS
Notes from a weekend with hackers, maintainers, and wonks.
The Best Conferences
I like both niche and umbrella conferences: one for depth, the other for breadth.
Notes on ForecastBench
ForecastBench continuously evaluates the performance of LLMs against an automatically generated, continuously updated set of forecasting questions.
Lessons on Context Engineering
Practical guidelines on context engineering, like having an append-only context, using response prefill to remove/force tools, setting up restorable compression strategies, and more.
I Pi-holed My Whole Network
It was much cheaper and easier than convincing my family to use ad blockers. And it turns out, a quarter of all DNS queries were ads.
Sandbox MCP: Enable LLMs to Run ANY Code Safely
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets LLMs run code safely in isolated Docker containers.
Provide Tools to Your LLM Agents with Model Context Protocol
Notes on using OpenAI Agents SDK’s MCP support to integrate DiceDB MCP.
