A 5-10 Minute Couch Vibe Code and a Fish Feeding Frenzy
I built a browser-based fish feeding game using Claude AI assistance to explore vibe coding. Around ten minutes in I had two versions, nearly 1000...
Category: Software Development
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...
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...