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When working with coding agents such as Claude, Codex etc. we provide the prompts and context until we get to the final result.

There is an AI race going on.

When I was a child, I was gifted a stamp album for my 10th birthday.

I’ve always been curious about the Rust Programming Language.

In this age of AI generated everything, it is quite useful to understand the origins of content that you are consuming.

Have you ever wondered how folks are using AI ?

In case you have not seen it, the Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letters are in the public domain, all the way from 1977!

Caus, why not ?

In the next few years, approx $2T will be invested in AI !

In 1930, the English economist and philosopher John Maynard Keynes wrote an essay titled Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren.

A lot of focus thus far on AI has been on safety.

I was reading up some information on vector embeddings recently and started thinking about different use cases of it.

An easy way to boost the capabilities of AI models is to provide it with external information that it may not have. e.g. maybe your company has some proprietary data that would never be included while training the models.

AI is all the rage these days.

Today the most common way of getting feedback is via peer reviews.

Whenever a new technology becomes commonplace, there will be disruptions.

I don’t think we understand rates of change very well.

Some days can be exhausting.

Software is eating the world.

One on Ones (1:1) with your team members may be the single most important tool available to a manager.

Shipping products is hard.

I came across Tailscale recently.

It’s actually true.

Here are a list of ideas that I think would be great to build out as standalone products.

For most of us history is something that happened far back in the past, with no relevance to us now.

Table of Contents Disclaimer Introduction Assumptions Architecture Create a Project Enable APIs Create VPC Create Subnets Create Firewall Rules Create Private connection to DBs Create NAT Router Create DB Populate env vars Push container to gcr Create Ins…

We are all familiar with the usual way how software project deliverables work: requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring… However, how many times do we do a risk assessment of our projects?

I recently read a book called “The Gene” (by Siddhartha Mukherjee).

A ‘Remember Me’ type functionality is something that is available on most websites today.

Just released a new tool I have been working on: GoCVE GoCVE is a simple golang based command line tool to query CVE data.

I came across an interesting term in a book I just read.

If anyone is looking for a ubuntu based container with golang 1.13, I just pushed one up to docker hub: docker pull jimmyislive/goubuntu And this container has vim !

Recently I learnt morse code.

Many people, businesses don’t need a dynamic website. they just need a placeholder on the web that gives information to customers about their business, contact info, address etc.

AWS Config is a service provided by AWS to keep track of configurations (and their possible drift) of all the resources you bring up in AWS.

A while back I created some scratch exercises for my kids.

An integral part of the development licefycle is writing tests.

Table of Contents Preface Why Go Modules Philosophy Example Preface All the content for this post was gathered by reading the 7 part blog series by Russ Cox and other notes.

Working with go, sometimes you may want to run a deferred action on Exit.

Just came across Miyamoto Mushashi, the greatest swordsman to ever live.

When we build go executables, one common command is the version command.

A Go package can have an init function.

Just like .gitignore, there is another file that you can use in your git repos: The .gitattributes file.

You may be familiar with the “set -e” you typically see in bash scripts.

If you are using AWS and ALBs, you have the ability to add multiple certs to the ALB and terminate SSL there.

AWS provides a docker repository called ECR.