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The practical craftsmanship of shipping software: backend frameworks, package managers, container tooling, and the plumbing that agents run on.

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Docker's Dynamic MCP and the Context Window Problem
Engineering

Feb 24, 2025 · 5 min read

Docker's Dynamic MCP and the Context Window Problem

Fifty tool definitions crammed into the context window costs tokens, degrades reasoning, and risks hallucinations. Docker's containerized MCP Gateway and dynamic discovery flip the model.

Apple's AI Coding Assistant in Xcode: Local-First Engineering on Apple Silicon
Engineering

Feb 18, 2025 · 3 min read

Apple's AI Coding Assistant in Xcode: Local-First Engineering on Apple Silicon

How Apple built predictive code completion directly into Xcode 16 using the Apple Neural Engine. Zero cloud roundtrips, offline privacy, and Swift specialization.

Running Google's Gemma Through Hugging Face
Engineering

Dec 25, 2024 · 2 min read

Running Google's Gemma Through Hugging Face

Gemma is capable and open source. Hugging Face is what makes getting to it straightforward.

AWS Launches Bedrock Studio for Building Generative AI Apps
Engineering

Dec 02, 2024 · 2 min read

AWS Launches Bedrock Studio for Building Generative AI Apps

A web-based prototyping environment with foundation models, knowledge bases, agents, and guardrails. Public preview, two regions.

Document Question-Answering with Pinecone and Gemini
Engineering

Nov 25, 2024 · 4 min read

Document Question-Answering with Pinecone and Gemini

Pinecone Serverless for sub-50ms vector retrieval, Google's Gemini for grounded synthesis. A complete end-to-end Python implementation with metadata filtering.

Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro API: Multimodal Intelligence and 2M Token Context
Engineering

Nov 18, 2024 · 4 min read

Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro API: Multimodal Intelligence and 2M Token Context

Massive context windows, native multimodality, and structured schema outputs: how developers can build production systems on Google AI Studio.

npm, Yarn, and pnpm: What Actually Differs
Engineering

Nov 10, 2024 · 2 min read

npm, Yarn, and pnpm: What Actually Differs

They all install packages. Where they diverge is the shape of node_modules, and that difference has consequences for disk space and for correctness.

Building Teams of AI Agents with CrewAI
Engineering

Nov 03, 2024 · 4 min read

Building Teams of AI Agents with CrewAI

Moving beyond single-agent prompt loops: orchestrating multi-agent collaboration with specialized roles, tools, and sequential or hierarchical processes.

The Rise of Go: Concurrency, Simplicity, and Cloud Infrastructure
Engineering

Sep 12, 2024 · 4 min read

The Rise of Go: Concurrency, Simplicity, and Cloud Infrastructure

How Rob Pike and Ken Thompson's deliberate refusal of language complexity turned Go into the undisputed operating system of the modern cloud.

Getting Started with Django
Engineering

Mar 12, 2023 · 3 min read

Getting Started with Django

From an empty Linux machine to a working Django app: environment, project, models, views, templates, and URLs.

How to Stop Conda Activating the Base Environment Automatically
Engineering

Mar 12, 2023 · 1 min read

How to Stop Conda Activating the Base Environment Automatically

Conda was slowing my machine down, so I stopped it from activating the base environment in every new shell.

Fixing pip's externally-managed-environment Error
Engineering

Mar 06, 2023 · 2 min read

Fixing pip's externally-managed-environment Error

Python 3.11 refused the install because the environment is externally managed. That is a deliberate protection, and there are three ways past it.

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