Meandering Thoughts

Remember back before everything was SaSS and companies had original ideas?

TinyTown.ai has launched, if you haven’t yet, check it out and vote on what the town’s hero will do next!

This post is a direct continuation of https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/cooperative-multitasking-on-microsoft-band A State of Burnout State management is one of the most crucial tasks in software engineering.

If you're not leveraging DSLs with your LLMs, you might be missing out on significant performance and power.

The documentation for how to use the new beta tool call helpers API is pretty lackluster, so here is a very brief example.

(As with any of my posts this is all from memory and I was an IC at HBO Max and numbers are just hearsay I heard from other engineers) HBO Max launched as a nation's third largest streaming service with only 300 software engineers on staff.

So I decided to learn Python again.

A few months back I released Arcadia, a demonstration project of how multiple generative technologies can be brought together.

Disclaimer: This post is explicitly talking about running JavaScript UI frameworks such as React and Vue server side to generate single-page applications.

tl;dr This is going to be a very technical post, if you are not familiar with different concurrency models and subscription (pub/sub) systems, then I'll be throwing a lot of new knowledge your way.

When we last left off, I had just reduced the code size of the .net microframework by 50% and reduced the runtime memory requirements from 2 megabytes down to 60 Kibibytes.

(Image Credits: https://consolevariations.com/variation/prototype/xbox-watch-prototype) (Note: The below is a recollection from memory of events that happened 11 years ago.

My first job out of college was working on the Windows Mobile Compiler Team (which had previously been the Windows CE compiler team).

Junior engineers are told that programming paradigms are a way to accomplish new things!

Intro Microservices have become a widely used architectural approach for building and deploying applications.