blog archive

2024

Sep 13

Some Reflection on What OpenAI o1 Reasoning Launch Means

Aug 16

Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B is a Smaller and Accurate LLM

Aug 16

Prompt Caching with Anthropic Claude

Jul 24

🐐 Llama 3.1 405B Matches Or Beats The Top Foundation Models

Jul 22

Llama 3.1 Leaks: SoTA Open Model 405B & What We Know So Far

Jul 16

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI - A Book Review

Jul 14

Vibe Checking Claude 3.5, DeepSeek-Coder-V2, and GPT-4o for "Alien" Coding Skills

Jun 21

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Jun 17

Jun 10

Cutting through to what matters

Jun 10

Why You Should Learn C: Uncovering the Hidden Benefits

Jun 4

May 16

Designing Machine Learning (ML) Systems Book Summary

May 16

The Bitter Lesson by Rich Sutton

May 15

Google Gemini 1.5 Vibe Check

May 15

The Assembly Language Period of LLMs and Generative AI

May 14

Deconstructing GPT-4o

May 14

GPT-4o: HER Went From Science Fiction to Reality

May 14

Voice AI Research

May 12

May 12

Generative AI Engineering

May 12

State of GPT 2023

May 10

Tradeoffs Between Long-Context LLM and RAG

Apr 27

Evaluating Llama 3 on Code Tasks

Apr 26

The Intuition behind Rotary Positional Embedding (RoPE)

Apr 19

Meta releases Llama 3 Large Language Models (LLMs) 🦙

Apr 13

Rebutting Devin: "First AI Software Engineer" Claim is Not True

Apr 12

AI Agents and Agentic Behavior

Jan 24

Early Thoughts on Large Language Models

Jan 22

What Defines an Advanced AI Coding Assistant?

2023

Sep 9

A First Look at Bun 1.0

Sep 9

What Is Software Engineering?

Aug 12

Software Enshittification

Aug 11

Leaked System Prompts

Jul 27

Llama2.c — The rise of micro-LLMs

Mar 30

What I've Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry

Mar 22

Creating a chatbot using Alpaca native and LangChain

Mar 13

4 Steps in Running LLaMA-7B on a M1 MacBook

Feb 14

HuggingFace Transformers inference for Alpaca

Feb 14

Hacking LLaMA Models

Feb 14

Node.js Good Practices and Mastering Node.js

Feb 10

Learning GitHub Copilot

Jan 3

Turbopack Experiment

Jan 3

Creating a new monorepo with Turborepo

2022

Aug 31

How to Design and Fix Tech Hiring Processes

2021

Dec 4

Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know

Nov 24

LiveView and React in Contrast

Jul 10

Use the Right Tool for the Job

Jul 6

Microservice Chassis

Jul 5

SICP Reading Project

Jun 29

Getting Better at Elasticsearch and Backend Development in General

Jun 28

Apache Kafka: A Primer

Jun 9

React 18 Alpha is Out

Jun 7

Onsi Haiku Test

May 26

Rethinking "Clean Code"

May 20

System Design Cheatsheet

May 20

Hot Topics in Operating Systems

Jan 7

My Year In Review report since 2017

Jan 4

2020

Jul 19

First Taste of Generics in Go

Jul 19

GPT-3 Application Ideas

Jun 25

Effective Software Testing Practices

Jun 24

When Might Microservices Be a Bad Idea?

May 30

Summary of "Clean Code" by Robert C. Martin

May 18

Different Ways to Create Objects in JavaScript

May 8

May 7

Dynamic Websites - "Everything old is new again"

Apr 21

A Career and Code Retreat Retrospective — 16 years working in tech

Apr 21

Hire Cedric Chee

Mar 7

The Dangers of Shiny Technology in Software Engineering

Mar 6

Go is my shell script/scripting language in Linux

Mar 2

WebAssemby with Rust and Emscripten

Mar 2

Mar 1

Learning WireGuard

Mar 1

Feb 29

Technical Writing

Feb 5

What is Software Engineering?

Jan 7

Go Programming Resources

2019

Oct 18

Secret to Write Good Software Documentation

Oct 9

Accidental Complexity in Software Engineering

Sep 13

My Journey to Learning Go Programming

Sep 6

Non-fiction Books to Read

Jul 17

Singapore A.I. Day 2019

May 9

My notes for Google I/O 2019 Developer Keynote Day 2

May 9

My notes for Google I/O 2019 Keynote Day 1

Jan 13

TypeScript Type Notation

Jan 13

2018

Dec 15

Nov 23

What are some things that only someone who has been programming 20-50 years would know?

Nov 3

Building another "Not Hot Dog App" using PyTorch: FastAI 1.0 Baseline + Demo

Aug 14

Sharing My fast.ai Course Notes

Aug 12

About fastai_v1

Jul 16

How to get notifications of 'end of training' on your mobile phone

Jul 11

Discriminative learning rate using LARS

Jul 11

Jun 19

Jun 11

Building the Software 2.0 Stack

Apr 14

AMSGrad Optimizer

Jan 18

Google Colab makes free GPUs available for folks to try out

Jan 18

The Art of Getting into Machine Learning

2017

May 20

Computer Science and Mathematical Reasoning

May 8

Fifth 'Hello World' Post