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Querying 3 billion vectors(opens in new tab)

Recently, I got nerd-sniped by this exchange between Jeff Dean and someone trying to query 3 billion vectors. I was curious to see if I could implement the optimal map-reduce solution he alludes to in his reply. A vector is ...

Magic Words(opens in new tab)

Skills are the newest hype commodity in the world of agentic AI. Skills are text files that optionally get stapled onto the context window by the agent. You can have skills like “frontend design” or “design tokens” and if the ...

Webspace Invaders(opens in new tab)

A couple of weeks back, I’m sitting at my desk when a direct message from my frontend friend Kevin Powell pops up. Kevin’s a genuinely kind guy. He makes CSS videos on YouTube and he’s got this way of explaining ...

Async database access in Rust with Diesel 101(opens in new tab)

Diesel, a database ORM in Rust, provides compile-time type checks for its database operations, seamlessly integrating with blazingly fast, robust API applications built with Axum. As always, when working with a new technology, some of the details are difficult to ...