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Oct 2, 2025 AI

Tools, Games and Browser Built-in AI Playground

Discover practical developer tools, 3D games, and Chrome's built-in AI power. No servers needed - AI assistants running entirely in your browser are changing web development forever.

Feb 8, 2024 Misc

Free IT Examinations and Certificates for Real

Discover genuinely free proctored IT certifications from ISC2, Google Cloud, Cisco, and more to boost your career without breaking the bank.

May 13, 2020 Architecture

Architecture Patterns Quick Reference

A comprehensive quick reference guide to cloud architecture patterns. Find the right pattern for your challenge with decision trees, comparison tables, and practical selection criteria.

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Aug 1, 2026 Management

The Quality Ceiling: What Software Quality Means Once Your Application Has 100+ Developers

Software quality stops being a property of code and becomes a property of seams between teams somewhere between 50 and 200 developers. This post names the four failure modes unique to that regime — Conway's-law drift, cognitive-load overflow, federated quality, incentive inversion — and closes with a manager's playbook: what to measure (the four DORA metrics), what to change (four ≤90-day interventions), what to stop measuring (four counter-metrics inversely correlated with quality), and the one question that separates an organisation that is improving quality from one that is merely paying for the appearance of it.

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Jun 7, 2026 AI

Workbench and Notebook: Why MCP Servers and Agent Skills Are Not Rivals

Two open standards, same confusion. MCP servers and Agent Skills both extend what an LLM can do, but they answer different questions: where does the work happen, and how does the agent know what to do. A workshop analogy, a side-by-side build, a decision matrix, and a deliberate callback to last month's post on sycophancy.

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May 1, 2026 AI

The Magic Mirror That Always Says Yes: Understanding LLM Sycophancy

Your LLM is not agreeing because it is right — it is agreeing because that is what next-token probability rewards. The mechanism, the mirror trick that proves it, and a defence playbook from prompt engineering to Constitutional AI.

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Apr 1, 2026 Misc

Your Documentation Is a Time Bomb: Why 2029 Will Force Your Hand

Confluence on-prem dies in 2029. Word docs live in shared drives nobody can find. Your runbooks are trapped behind paywalls and login screens. Here's why Document as Code—built on Git and Markdown—is your escape route, and why the clock is ticking.

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Mar 8, 2026 Development

Database in Rust: Histogram Statistics for Accurate Selectivity Estimation

Part 8 of the Vaultgres journey: deep dive into histogram statistics. Building equi-depth histograms, handling skewed data, multi-column statistics, and using histograms for accurate selectivity estimation in cost-based optimization.

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Mar 6, 2026 Development

Database in Rust: Cost-Based Query Optimizer with Statistics

Part 7 of the Vaultgres journey: building a cost-based query optimizer. Deep dive into statistics collection, cost models, join ordering with dynamic programming, and index selection.

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Mar 6, 2026 Development

Database in Rust: Comprehensive SQL Parser (DDL, DML, Queries)

Part 6 of the Vaultgres journey: building a SQL parser from scratch. Deep dive into lexing, recursive descent parsing, AST design for DDL/DML/queries, and expression precedence handling.

PostgreSQLRustDatabase Internals

Mar 5, 2026 Development

Database in Rust: Wire Protocol and Result Set Serialization

Part 5 of the Vaultgres journey: implementing the PostgreSQL wire protocol. Deep dive into message framing, startup handshake, extended query protocol, and serializing result sets that psql and drivers can understand.

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Mar 4, 2026 Development

Database in Rust: WAL and Crash Recovery with ARIES

Part 4 of the Vaultgres journey: implementing Write-Ahead Logging and the ARIES recovery algorithm. Deep dive into durability, checkpoints, and the three-phase recovery that brings your database back from a crash.

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