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Web Architecture is moving back in time because of AI For the past 3 years I've been responsible for architecting, writing and maintaining a Serverless backed for a SaaS solution.

If you are writing more powerful tools than add_two(a, b) or web_search(query_string) for LLM to call, you know that even the best models of today struggle with them.

There was a time when I could be naive on the Internet.

In my experience so far Python is by far the best language to use with an AI assistant.

My take on when and how to create an interface in any OOP code.

This is going to be a long blog post about a video game I just finished.

There are a lot of various docs and guides on running llama.cpp locally on Ubuntu, but they are all disjointed and provide only bits and pieces.

Cory Doctorow wrote a new book called "Enshitification".

I created this server back Tue May 21 13:47:57 2013.

I have been using AI for almost 30 years.

It was a lot of fun writing a Model Context Protocol Server so that an AI-enabled IDE was able to use my data.

I have recently spent some time on a call with a smart junior developer.

Java, a language that has stood the test of time, continues to be a cornerstone in the world of software development.

After looking at BitCoin and Ethereum a Software Engineer took a peek at the Solana source code.

I am a Software Engineer and I spent a couple of weeks reviewing popular crypto coins source code.

I have not been writing anything for my blog for quite a while.

It is fascinating to watch the disaster of YouTube channels.

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I play StarCraft II.

In this post I will walk you through unauthorized access to sensitive financial information.

nom is a great parser-combinator crate for Rust.

How to recover the data "accidentally" deleted by a snap command?

While working on our compiler and runtime I have wrote a decent number of macroses to help developers to write new kernels for the system.

While writing software there is often a need to write a parsed for a certain format.

I have not been writing much for my blog in the past year.

Pelican is a great site generator.

You must be running a Continuous Delivery pipeline for your code.

One way to completely disable circular bean reference resolution magic in Spring Boot is to replace in your main method SpringApplication.run(YourApplication.class, args); with new SpringApplicationBuilder(YourApplication.class) .initializers(new App…

I was happy to create my first PR targetting the Go language repository.

I have seen a genuine UUID (v4) collision.

The setting in git to make it push to the new branch with the same name git config --global push.default current For my blog's 100's record I am happy it returns to the original purpose.

I am having a lot of fun reading the landmark Taleb's book The Black Swan.

We had a task to solve - the continuous deployment pipeline to wait for human approvals before some crucial steps.

I have a reasonably unique skill among programmers - I can change the World.

Once in a blue moon I need to compute a classic confidence interval and every time I search the internet for a tool to which I can just give a series of data and ask for a CI and come back disappointed.

I got a great closure to my time with xMatters.

Every programmer writes either an OS or a programming language.

Back when I started to use Linux I did not care which terminal emulator to use.

For many ears I cared about the bigger picture of Software.

Long time ago many big corporations were very hostile towards OpenSource software.

When asked to evaluate a new technology to be pulled in I do a few things first, before even launching the application.

In our fight for more secure web we killed the open web.

If you want your browser back, you prably can find it on FTP: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/56.0.2/ P.S.

A friend of mine, who studies Chinese history, recently told me a story about Chinese generals and their wars.

It is surely a lot of fun to spend time in the tabs-vs-spaces conversations.

Oddly, the official Gradle documentation tends to force user into installing Gradle into the system to initialize the wrapper.

Neo4j is a powerful graph database, which can be ran in an embedded way.

I am reading "Algorithms to Live By" by B.

Whiteboarding (asking a candidate to write code on a white board during an interview) is a waste of time.

Universal suffrage is an important liberal achievement, and yet the fear of "mob rule" is not unfounded.