Tools

Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool — a CLI that reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and plugs into your dev environment. It is also one of those tools w...

OpenClaw — formerly Clawdbot — is one of the more interesting open-source AI agent projects to appear in the past year: a long-running process that runs on your own hardware, sp...

You pick the same model in VS Code that you use in the Claude app, ask a similar question, and the editor's answer feels thinner. The usual conclusion — 'the IDE version must be...

Architecture decisions are the ones you make in the first week of a project and then live with for years. This primer is the working engineer's introduction — what architecture ...

An LLM reads text. Source code is text. So why isn't this trivial? Because raw .c files come with a preprocessor that has to be expanded before the code is meaningful, with #inc...

A 'skill' is the most underrated primitive in agent design: a folder of files — a SKILL.md, some examples, maybe a script — that tells the agent how to do one thing well. The fo...

There are two different questions you can ask of any LLM-powered system: where did this answer come from, and how long will the model remember it. The first is about knowledge —...

The companion to 'How LLMs See an Image.' Audio is more like text than you'd expect — a 1-D signal turned into a 2-D spectrogram, sliced into patches, and tokenized. Video is au...

There is no version of GPT-4o, Claude, or Gemini that 'looks at' an image the way you do. The model is a transformer; it reads tokens. So every image you upload is quietly turne...

CAN was designed by Bosch for early-1990s passenger cars and has, against all expectations, outlasted nearly every networking technology of its era. It runs the entire embedded ...

AI-assisted coding has changed the daily practice of engineering in ways the older how-to books haven't caught up with. This compendium is the long version of what I've learned ...

A field report from setting up an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super for AI development. NVMe migration, swap on a 1TB drive, GPU-aware Docker, MAXN power mode, and the small handful...

A 45-minute walkthrough for engineers who keep needing the terminal but never quite sat down to learn it. Five parts: what Linux even is, the file system, the essential commands...

A practical guide for engineers shifting from Claude Desktop to GitHub Copilot in VS Code. The same model, a different room — the three modes, project knowledge, file handling, ...

An interactive primer on CUDA for engineers comfortable with C but new to GPU programming. Twelve demonstrations covering thread hierarchy, memory model, warp execution, memory ...

Ten ideas about the gap between 'works on my laptop' and 'survives in production' — correctness across environments, performance under real load, resilience and operability, and...

Ten ideas about software engineering that have nothing to do with code — what you're actually building, the human surface around it, trust and law and data, and the long tail of...

A 36-chapter reference monograph covering the working vocabulary of the modern software stack — JSON, APIs, regex, parsers, JSON Schema, ReAct, tokens, embeddings, RAG, BM25, Ta...