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aie_2.1: building it — a conversation engine where the LLM 'remembers'
Meraki builds a Python conversation engine that shows how LLMs fake memory: every turn resends the full history so the model appears to remember, with practical notes on context and design.
9 min · 2,124 words
Custom Purchase Flows and Paywalls with RevenueCat on Android
A hands-on Android guide to building custom purchase flows and paywalls with RevenueCat’s Purchases SDK—PurchaseParams, callbacks, coroutines, and UI ownership.
19 min · 4,405 words
Building a RAG Pipeline for Semantic Code Search: A Developer Diary and Field NotesPart 1: Parsing, chunking, and vectorization
JetBrains engineer Dominique Rolink's field notes on building a semantic code-search RAG pipeline: parsing repositories, chunking strategies, embeddings, and the practical tradeoffs that showed up in evaluation.
17 min · 3,812 words
Needed 1+1, Built a Functional Programming LanguageFrom a data-structures homework tree to closures, a chunk allocator, and a mark-and-sweep GC in C
A playful systems write-up: starting from evaluating 1+1 as a binary tree, the author builds a graph-reduction language in C with closures, a chunk allocator, and a garbage collector that cuts fib(40) from 12GB to 1.7MB.
2 min · 422 words
Build Your Own AI Agent Harness in C#, the MafClaw Live Series
Bruno Capuano’s four-part .NET / Microsoft Reactor series builds a finance-education agent on the Microsoft Agent Framework harness—tools, file boundaries, approvals, skills, shell, CodeAct, observability, and Foundry hosting.
2 min · 349 words
Getting Started with MCP Apps in Node.js
Valeri Karpov (Mastering JS) walks through MCP Apps in Node.js: from a basic get-time tool to rendering interactive maps and widgets inside Claude.
8 min · 1,901 words
Alexandre Lamure walks through first-principles differences when porting a small OpenGL engine to Vulkan—bindless resources, explicit synchronization, and modern Vulkan 1.3 patterns—with pointers to nebula and further reading.
9 min · 2,040 words
Inside Forge: Writing a Container Runtime From Scratch
A from-scratch walkthrough of Forge, a container runtime built in Go on Linux primitives—covering namespaces, cgroups, rootfs setup, and lessons from building the runtime by hand.
16 min · 3,673 words
SwiftUI data dependencies and their effect on view updates
Natalia Panferova compares stored inputs, state, bindings, environment values, and observable models—and explains which changes actually re-evaluate a SwiftUI view body.
13 min · 2,954 words
Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet
Matt Keeter shows how Facet reflection plus naga lets Rust unit tests catch WGSL/Rust struct layout mismatches—padding on mat3x3, dynamic arrays, and field offsets—before GPU hangs force a reboot.
6 min · 1,444 words
Anthropic’s guide to prompting Claude Opus 5.5: how the model behaves, patterns that work for complex agentic and coding tasks, and practical prompt-engineering advice for builders.
17 min · 3,906 words
Reviving Valve's 15-year-old e-book
A technical write-up on resurrecting Valve’s The Final Hours of Portal 2 interactive e-book: reverse-engineering the aging app, restoring assets and playback, and publishing a Steam guide so others can read it again.
12 min · 2,690 words
RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop
For the last few days I have been playing with RFC8950 setup, which allows routing of IPv4 on top of IPv6. While logically it’s quite simple, it has a very powerful application towards making “IPv4 an optional” feature riding on top of an IPv6 network (but without any tunnels!)
5 min · 1,159 words
Simulating Airband AM Radios Warning: Contains many annoying sounds. In a slight departure from my usual code monkey content, let’s talk about airplanes! And radios!
15 min · 3,432 words
Magic Switch: Share a Magic Keyboard & Trackpad Between Two Macs (Free)
Joshua Rogers explains how he built Magic Switch, a free open-source macOS app that shares Apple Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, and Mouse between Macs without Apple ID or USB re-pairing.
11 min · 2,633 words
Giving Your Home AI Agent Real Tools: MCP Servers on a Mac mini M6
A walkthrough of the MCP servers James M runs on a Mac mini M6—filesystem, email, calendar, notes, home automation—and the permission choices that keep an always-on home agent from becoming a liability.
8 min · 1,743 words
Simon Sapin models Factorio Space Age quality upcycling with transition matrices and equilibrium equations, then builds an interactive TypeScript calculator for gambling, washing, upcycling, and asteroid reprocessing loops.
15 min · 3,372 words
Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C
Daniel Hooper shows a technique for type-safe generic data structures in plain C that uses unions to attach type information to a generic container, building up from a basic linked list and comparing it with macro and void-pointer approaches so the compiler catches type errors at call sites.
7 min · 1,691 words
Inline rendering with document.currentScript
A tutorial on using document.currentScript to render small bits of dynamic content inline in plain HTML without IDs, classes, querySelectors, or a templating engine, with real-world examples like random greetings and auto-updating footers, plus the catch around synchronous helper scripts.
6 min · 1,312 words
A Mere Mortal's Introduction to JIT Vulnerabilities in JavaScript Engines
Josiah Pierce demystifies JavaScript engine JIT bugs for mere mortals: how speculative optimization creates exploitable gaps, with a grounded intro to engine architecture and vulnerability patterns.
34 min · 7,849 words