AI Pair Programming – Learning Acceleration for Generalists
TL;DR AI pair programming doesn’t just fill knowledge gaps – it accelerates learning across domains. AI consistently explains context and reasoning, making you a better...
Category: Software Development
AI Pair Programming: On-call Subject Matter Experts for Generalist Developers
TL;DR AI pair programming solves the generalist developer’s biggest challenge: context-switching overhead. While you handle the core concepts, novel problem solving, and creative output, your...
Deep Dive Series: Fine-Tuning (Small) Large Language Models on a PC
Series Overview – What We’re Building Welcome to a technical journey through building a fine-tuning system on consumer hardware. The End Result: What Success Looks...
Fine-Tuning Small Language Models on a basic Desktop PC
Can you really fine-tune a language model on a medium-spec desktop PC? Spoiler: Yes, and it works better than you’d expect. TL;DR: The Results Here’s...
Project-Based MCP: Targeted on-demand AI Integration
Modern AI assistants are incredibly powerful, but they often lack the specific context needed to be truly effective on your projects. While general-purpose integrations help,...
Machine Learning / Glossaries!
A quick post – having found (and really liked) the Google Developers Machine Learning Glossary (good content, cross referencing between related topics) I thought it...
Migrating git to svn (subversion)
I’ve found that most documentation / forum discussion around the web for this topic tends to be about migrating svn to git – so here’s...
Increasing / decreasing number of xargs parallel processes (at run time!)
xargs makes it very easy to quickly run a set of similar processes in parallel – but did you know when you’re half-way through a...
Vim sub-replace-special – ampersands in substitute search/replace
Curious… While editing in vim you want to search and replace including a sub-string with an ampersand (&) – this doesn’t have an special regular...
stdbuf – Run COMMAND, with modified buffering operations for its standard streams
While piping together commands that only output intermittently we run into the pipe buffers created by the pipe() system call (also see overview of pipes...