The Years I thought I Was Dying
dennis-hermosa
“For years, I feared that every pain was the beginning of my death. Only later did I understand that some pains were asking me to begin living differently.”
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The Hantavirus Outbreak Reinforced the Importance of Real Public Health Experts
Vincent Iannelli, MD
If you have ever doubted the importance of real public health experts, you saw their importance during the recent hantavirus outbreak. During the hantavirus outbreak, Secretary RFK, Jr enforced a mandatory quarantine in a Nebraska facility over the recommendations of public health experts for a...
Back to Write... Myself
Valentin Briukhanov
I started to use LLMs for writing before GPT got Chat- prefix. As English is the second language for me, AI helped me a lot to improve my writing and style. It was a huge boost to get your “personal editor”. However, the more I used LLMs less I enjoyed writing. Hobby became routine and boring...
Cómo NO determinar si un número es entero o decimal
alvarezp
Cuando era un niño, hace muchos años, en una tarea de matemáticas en la escuela nos pidieron encontrar todos los divisores de algunos números pequeños. Algunos años después, se me ocurrió hacer un programa para confirmar mis intentos. No imaginaba que ese programa me dejaría enormes enseñanzas...
Vertical Models are coming
Alessio’s Daily Thoughts
I find it fascinating that we are throwing massive LLM models at every problem these days. Claude Opus works incredibly well and we use it for just about everything. But that is not the future. The future is not about ever-larger general-purpose models. The future is vertical, specialized...
The 10,000 Hour Reset - you need side projects
Alessio’s Daily Thoughts
Remember that 10,000 hour rule from Outliers? The idea is simple: deliberate practice makes experts. The breakdown looks something like this: 2,500 hours = intermediate 5,000 hours = advanced 10,000 hours = expert 20,000 hours = master If you started coding young, congrats, by your...
SaaS will suffer in 2026
Alessio’s Daily Thoughts
I think we are about to see a massive shift in how companies approach software, and SaaS vendors are going to feel the pain. Up to a year ago companies would happily mold their processes around whatever SaaS software promised to solve 80% of their problems. Those days are over. Now, if your SaaS...
Teladoc and COVID Paved the Way for AI Doctors
Alessio’s Daily Thoughts
Teladoc and the pandemic made completely normal to discuss your health concerns over a video meeting. It is also normal now to have a conversation with ChatGPT. We ask it questions, get advice, and trust its responses more and more every day. Combine these two trends, and you can see where we...
Securing OpenClaw via Proxy
Alessio’s Daily Thoughts
An elegant solution for keeping OpenClaw from leaking credentials could be to put a proxy server between the bot and the outside world. The core idea is simple. The proxy intercepts authentication requests and secretly swaps passwords. OpenClaw thinks it knows the real credentials, but it only...
Startups Are Now Just MVPs for Tech Giants
Alessio’s Daily Thoughts
Until recently, startups had a genuine speed advantage. Big corporations were tangled in bureaucracy, committees, and endless approval chains. A small team could ship innovative products in weeks while enterprise companies took months (or years). But Large Language Models changed everything....
Attacks, Risks and LLM in the Build vs. Buy Equation
Alessio’s Daily Thoughts
LLMs have fundamentally shifted the calculus on whether to buy or build internal tools. The other day I wanted a simple Slack command that generates a Google Meet link and posts it to a channel. Sure, there are probably four apps in the Slack App Store that do exactly this, but I cannot verify...
Pumping the Brakes on AI-Driven Team Cuts
Alessio’s Daily Thoughts
LLMs are incredible for writing code faster. I have seen productivity gains that feel almost magical. Features that used to take days now come together in hours. That said, nobody is quite sure yet if that 10x speed boost comes with hidden costs. Does it also mean 1/10th the stability? After all,...
Fine Tuning LLMs to Company’s Codebase
Alessio’s Daily Thoughts
I have been thinking about how LLMs are trained on code, and honestly, the training data is probably a mess. Most code out there is not great (let’s be real), and I doubt the requirements used to generate that code were stellar either. The training sets for programming-focused LLMs are almost...
Mostly for LLM Consumption
Alessio’s Daily Thoughts
Here is a thought that has been bouncing around in my head lately: if LLMs become the primary consumers of our logs, requirements, specs, code, and tests, will we start optimizing all of that for them instead of for humans? I think the answer is yes. In fact, I bet we are already starting to see...
Running Claude Code in a Sandbox Environment
Charles Oliveira
Keep your data safe when running AI-powered tools! Introduction AI-powered development tools like Claude Code are incredibly powerful. They can read files, execute commands, modify code, and interact with your system in ways that boost productivity tremendously. However, this power comes with...
Python 3.14’s True Parallelism Finally Arrives!
Charles Oliveira
Achieve true multi-core parallelism in Python by disabling the GIL! Introduction When I was learning Python, I started using threads in some programs to speed up execution because I already knew threading in other languages such as Java and C. So I just assumed that things worked the same. For...
Boosting Python Performance with sendfile for Large File Transfers
Charles Oliveira
Send files 2x faster using Linux kernel’s sendfile syscall! Introduction When building web applications or file servers in Python, sending large files over the network is a common requirement. Whether you’re serving video files, database dumps, or large datasets, the traditional approach of...
Performance gain using targeted RegEx’s in Python
Charles Oliveira
Match strings 3x faster! Introduction Often times we use Python’s RegEx module re to handle more complex string matching. That is great and a no-brainer. It takes a bit of time to come up with a not-so-unreadable regex that works perfectly for your use-case. Specific use-cases that might...
Disqus: End of Discussion
Alexandre ZANNI
Introduction: the error of not choosing#Disqus is one of the major third-party commenting and discussion system.However, I never really chose to use Disqus.It was a bit of an imposition because it was more or less the only system supported for my theme.Indeed, hexo-theme-hueman was supporting...
Postmortem: Deeper
Chad++
Deeper is my second game for Tiny Mass Games as well as my second project in Godot and my second time using my phone to make a game. It is an action-esque, turn-based, extraction RPG. It is a GameBoy aesthetic party-based battle system with time bars instead of mana. Features An Extraction...
Running PostgreSQL on Docker
Charles Oliveira
No need to install PostgreSQL on your system. Introduction Often times we need to run local PostgreSQL tests and installing it on your system can be painful sometimes. Either by messing with your current PostgreSQL setup or just by leaving an extra process running because you forgot to remove...
Migrate Django ID field from int to big int with minimal downtime
Charles Oliveira
Don’t wait for your application run out of IDs! Act now! Introduction If you run a Django-based application created before 3.2 LTS, chances are that you might run into an ID overflow issue. Let me explain why: Before 3.2 LTS, Django used int as a data type for model IDs in the database. This...
Postmortem: Standoff!
Chad++
Standoff! is my first foray into the world of Tiny Mass Games. It is a card game about deceit and limited information. Attack the players to your left or right while trying to co-ordinate with others to become the last person standing. Part of my concession, was that I was actually too busy to put...
Using Temporal with Python
Alexander Thiemann
My recent side-project vindex is a semantic video indexing platform. Users upload videos that then run through a multi-step processing pipeline to prepare and index them. Finally, users can search specific locations in the video using natural language. The processing pipeline involves extracting...
Actually Useful Unreal Documentation
Chad++
Okay, no way to dance around this one. The official documentation for Unreal Engine isn’t all that useful. If it’s not just auto-generated from heaps of engine code, there is some really wrong. Rarely, if ever does the Unreal Documentation provide much help besides telling you which file to...
Compiling FreeRTOS Demo for LPC2106 using GCC on Linux
Charles Oliveira
Introduction FreeRTOS is an excellent Open Sourced Real Time Operating System, aka RTOS, supporting many different boards. The best way to learn it and start a new project is through their Demos directory, where you pick one that’s more appropriate to your use case. Needless to say, this will be...
AWS EKS+Fargate bug
Charles Oliveira
Introduction The purpose of this post is to expose a bug (at least I think it’s a bug) with Fargate + AWS EKS. The bug appears when a pod running on Fargate is OOMKilled multiple times. The pod is restarted over and over as expected but at some point, it loses networking configuration. How to...
Figuring out your Kernel configuration
Charles Oliveira
Introduction This post came out of an issue I had with an old Acer Aspire V5 Series. It was a 50-dollar laptop I got off Craigslist right before going to DEFCON 23. It ran Window 10 Home edition and I wanted to burn in any Debian-like ditro. First I tried to get Debian working. Got it burned...
Deixando seu terminal sensivel ao GIT
Charles Oliveira
Introdução If you landed on this page and have no clue on what’s written here, it’s basically a translation of the original tutorial. O GIT é uma ferramenta para se realizar controle de versão de cádigo fonte que substituiu o SVN (pelo menos na maioria dos projetos mais atuais). Pela facilidade...
ditching google
i'm special
I’ve been working on moving away from Google for a while now. I have a lot of reasons, but the primary one is that I don’t like the feel of being a product rather than a consumer. I want to be in control of my own data, and how it is used and disseminated. With Google in control of it, I never...
bye, blogger
i'm special
It’s been a good run, but when you read this, it won’t be hosted by blogger anymore. I’ve had hideous experiences with blogger being full of bugs in the past, and none of these issues ever seem to get any better. That, in conjunction with my not being happy with other people being in full control...