Engineering Blog

Communicating our intent clearly is helpful in getting the results we want. I find the pattern Intention, Location Details as described by Emily Bache quite handy, It took me a while to find sources, I am collecting them here, before expanding on my own musings.

Converting an interactive site like a blog to a static site is now very easy. Static sites have a tiny attack surface. They are not great for interaction, but for blogs and marketing sites they may be enough, and let you sleep at night.

Earlier today I saw that the 17 October release of Deepseek v4 Flash is even more efficient than previous versions, threatening dominance of american AI labs. GLM 5.3 Flash is already very cheap, I dug out some numbers from my inference provider for you to check.

In which the author uses a local text-to-speech model to draft blog posts, starting from talking while sketch noting.

Will it Blend was a series of videos promoting a blender brand, in which various unlikely objects were put in a blender to see if they would blend.

I made a prototype and let it sit for over two months. why? attention is all i need - focus can be frustrating, because i can't do the other things, but it is also what lets me enjoy holidays and get good results out of my work.

It is a bit over three months ago that my linkedin post about cancelling my Claude Max subscription went viral. Time for an update. The first six weeks were uneventful, then I started missing some things from before, and yesterday I closed the loop.

At first I was bemused by Retort, Adrian Cockroft's whole stack coding agent evaluation tool. It is growing on me, and might be useful as a starting point for custom evals.

Every application has some kind of workflow. Understanding larger workflows, making them cohesive and understandable to users and developers is non-trivial. I re-discovered Ward Cunningham's Swim the Test approach, this is the Further Reading section of future posts.

I am making small contributions to tiny open source projects I have just started using, where I would let it be before coding agents.