Today
- I’ve been using the Irish energy provider Energia for 5 years or so (as of writing, 2026) and they used to have a useful insights dashboard that let me analyse my power usage. Well, they seem to have removed it so I built a handy dashboard that anyone can use. It’s at...
- In AI coding, tests become the actual source code. Agents ‘compile’ programs from tests. The quality of AI generated code depends on feedback. Tests. Linting. Evals. Benchmarks. Insights. Recent advances in AI coding occurred because of stricter harnesses with richer feedback....
- The interesting part of moving kentcdodds.com to npm workspaces was not the file moves. It was everything the file moves broke....
Yesterday
- Tech firm fined $1.1m by California for selling high-school students’ data I agree with Brian Marick’s response No such story should be published without a comparison of the fine to the company’s previous year revenue and profits, or valuation of last funding round. (I could...
- I’ve been doing a series of live streams with Emmz Rendle over the last few weeks, getting up and running with Claude Code and using AI agents to write software. It’s been really interesting, but it’s also up to 15 hours of video and still running, and, well, quite a lot of it...
- Autoresearch lets an AI agent run hundreds of model training experiments overnight. Learn how it works, early results from Karpathy and Shopify, and how to apply it....
- How I moved Call Kent podcast episode processing off my primary Fly.io app server and onto Cloudflare Queues and Containers: what broke, what I missed, and whether it was worth the complexity....
This week
- A recurring concern I’ve seen regarding LLMs for programming is that they will push our technology choices towards the tools that are best represented in their training data, making it …
- Its convenient to have a lexical score normalized from 0 1 Sadly BM25 scores tend to be all over the......
- I like pie. And I’ve learned that if I want a pie done right, I gotta do it myself. Somewhere along my pilgrimage to pie perfection, I began taking a photo of each bake — pic or it didn’t happen. Despite all my rhetoric for “owning your own content”, I’ve hypocritically used...
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. A sentence that I never really liked, and what is happening with AI, about software projects reimplementations, shows all the limits of such an idea. Many people are protesting the fairness of rewriting existing...
- You may know BM25 lets you tune two parameters k1 how quickly to saturate document term frequency’s contribution b how......
- If you’ve known me for long enough, there will be a point where I’m going to pitch you the concept of Obsidian. I adore that program1, I basically live my life in it. Everything is connected, and ideas just bubble up on their own. That love for Obsidian is always amplified when...
- There is enormous variability in the frequency with which teams have emergencies. Some teams have emergencies regularly. We need a new report; someone has to put together a presentation; we need to change plans to incorporate new feedback. Other teams essentially only have...
- BM25 odds vs probabilities: a tour of Bayesian BM25 and what it means for hybrid search calibration....
- I recently started a new platform where I sell my books and courses, and in this website I needed to send account related emails to my users for things such as email address verification and password reset requests. The reasonable option that is often suggested is to use a paid...
- In 2021, being a good software engineer felt great. The world was full of software, with more companies arriving every year who needed to employ engineers to write their code and run their systems. I knew I was good at it, and I knew I could keep doing it for as long as I wanted...
- “The Tim Ferriss Show” is one of the most popular podcasts in the world and follows a form of lengthy interviews with top performers from multiple areas, like business, tech, sport and finance. I don’t follow it religiously, but I listened to some of these chats before and I...
- I’m interested in helping to create a shared JavaScript library for letting Electron apps authenticate with Netlify (and potentially GitHub/GitLab pages) via OAuth for the purpose of creating new projects and uploading files to existing projects.
- An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis...
- Over the past few months it’s become clear that coding agents are extraordinarily good at building a weird version of a “clean room” implementation of code. The most famous version …
- Learn how to systematically test and improve agent skills using deterministic checks and a real-world Gemini API example....
- Naresh Jain has long been uncomfortable with software patents. But a direct experience of patent aggression, together with the practical constraints faced by startups, led him to resort to defensive patenting as as a shield in this asymmetric legal environment. more…...
- Hi friends, In February, Scour scoured 647,139 posts from 17,766 feeds (1,211 were newly added). Also, 917 new users signed up, so welcome everyone who just joined! Here's what's new in the product: 🔮 Inferring Interests from RSS Feeds If you subscribe to specific feeds (as...
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