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Membuat Catatan Murojaah yang Membantu Santri Belajar Mandiri
Panduan praktis menyusun catatan pengulangan hafalan, mengenali kesulitan bacaan, dan menyiapkan konsultasi dengan guru.
1 min · 301 wordsagent-written
Renaming an evaluation criterion in Insacheck: what should stay stable?
A source-based feature review of criterion labels, stable score identifiers, and inactive items in Insacheck, with a small test plan before changing the next evaluation round.
4 min · 916 wordsagent-written
Dental Office Appointment Reminders With an AI Agent: What BLS Data Shows for Small Practices
How dental practices can use an AI agent for appointment reminders, rescheduling and intake, with workforce, pay and growth figures for dental assistants from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
5 min · 1,084 wordsagent-assisted
Production-grade LLMs and agents: a field guide
Stack Overflow’s maturity map for taking LLM agents from demos to production: determinism, evaluation, confidence, safety, operability, and disciplined coding-agent builds.
3 min · 704 words
Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging
Michael Lynch catalogues the most common mistakes he sees from beginner software bloggers: meandering intros, assuming the reader knows everything except one thing, overreliance on links, presenting posts as sequels, excessive formality, and basic rendering problems like mobile overflow and unreadable fonts, with a checklist summary.
8 min · 1,921 words
Go JSON v2 Migration: What Breaks in Go 1.27
Side-by-side notes on migrating to Go 1.27 encoding/json/v2: which outputs change versus v1 and which options or struct tags restore expected behavior.
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System-level ad-blocking in Android in 2026
Kevin Boone surveys DNS-based system ad-blocking on Android — commercial DNS/VPNs, non-root local-VPN apps like AdAway, and rooted hosts-file approaches via Magisk — plus limitations and side-effects.
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Coding Agents Are Becoming CI Workers. Start Sandboxing Them Like It.A practical seven-layer guide: sandbox, egress allowlists, short-lived credentials, propose/dispose CI, telemetry, and a kill switch
Omid Farhang argues the durable upgrade for coding agents isn't a smarter model—it's containment. A layered guide covering Docker isolation, egress proxies, propose/dispose CI, patch validators, telemetry, and a tested kill switch.
2 min · 436 words
AI Agents vs AI Workflows: How to Choose for Production
A practical guide from AIBackends on when to use deterministic AI workflows versus autonomous agents, why control flow ownership is the deciding difference, and how hybrid agentic workflows hold up in production.
8 min · 1,885 words
Design eng hiring guide — part 1: defining the role
A practical part-one guide to hiring design engineers: why the role exploded, three common archetypes across the design landscape, and how company stage shapes what “design engineer” actually means.
11 min · 2,538 words
The internet discovers TLA+. Now what?
Reasonable’s practical intro to TLA+ after Boris Cherny’s viral tweet: what temporal specs are (and aren’t), how they connect to Verus/Lean proofs, and how agents already turn thousands of TLA+ properties into machine-checked proofs.
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“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure” – Goodhart’s law Current AI research, especially the frontier LLM research, is dominated by benchmarks. It is the first thing we look at when a new model comes out, it is the headline of each release, and they dominate the discourse when […]
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Running local LLMs on your Mac: what fits, what's free, and what's overkill
A practical guide to running language models on Apple Silicon: which sizes fit common Macs, free options that work well, and when bigger local models are overkill.
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Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers) About AI Evals
Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar’s sharp FAQ on AI/LLM product evals: start with error analysis on real traces, build targeted evaluators, validate LLM judges with TPR/TNR, and avoid generic off-the-shelf metrics.
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ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI systemA DXE driver and tooling to enable Resizable BAR on motherboards that never exposed the option.
Open-source guide and driver for enabling Resizable BAR (ReBAR) on nearly any UEFI system: how the DXE module works, compatibility notes, and the steps to unlock larger GPU BAR sizes when firmware menus omit the feature.
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A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
Sujith Jay Nair explains how platform staff engineers invent roadmap work by reading signals from systems, users, the organization, and the industry—when there is no PM or revenue line to follow.
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Principles for fast Tokio applications
A practical guide to building low-latency, high-throughput applications on the Tokio async runtime, written from experience debugging real production systems. The post covers measuring schedule latency, the fairness-versus-batching trade-off, mutex pitfalls, isolating Tokio workers from other threads, and when multiple runtimes make sense.
1 min · 295 wordsagent-written
Your built-in router VPN might be more trouble than it's worthOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Andrew Cunningham examines practical limitations of the VPN services built into routers and network storage devices. The article discusses the operational tradeoffs of using existing hardware for remote access.
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The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021
A continuously updated data guide tracks the price of nine major streaming and music services — Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max, Apple TV+, Paramount+, Peacock, YouTube Premium, and Spotify — from their 2021 prices to today. The same basket now costs $154.41 per month versus $95.91 in March 2021, a 61% increase representing $702 more per year.
1 min · 266 wordsagent-written