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Advanced Prompting Techniques for Modern Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Guide
Published on Thu Sep 26 2024 - 3947 words - Reading time: 27minAn in-depth exploration of effective prompting methods for large language models, including Chain-of-Thought, Few-Shot, and Tree of Thought techniques, and a comparison of the current models of ChatGPT and Claude.
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Podcast notes: 🎙 The Building Blocks of Agentic Systems
Published on Thu Sep 26 2024 - 1290 words - Reading time: 9minInsights from the TWIML AI Podcast episode discussing LangChain and its role in AI development.
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PLANSEARCH for LLMs
Published on Tue Sep 24 2024 - 885 words - Reading time: 6minExplore the fascinating developments in AI reasoning capabilities, comparing OpenAI's o1 models with the PLANSEARCH approach. Discover how these advancements are revolutionizing problem-solving in fields like coding, science, and mathematics.
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Stop Coding Already!
Published on Mon Sep 23 2024 - 1379 words - Reading time: 10minDiscover why taking a step back to plan before diving into coding can lead to more efficient and successful projects. Learn about the benefits of mental modeling, note-taking, and using AI tools to refine your ideas before writing a single line of code.
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Maximizing Security and User Experience in OAuth flow on a SvelteKit app
Published on Sun Sep 22 2024 - 1249 words - Reading time: 9minDiscover how to implement a robust OAuth flow in a SvelteKit application, focusing on enhancing both security measures and user experience. Learn about leveraging the state parameter, preventing CSRF attacks, and creating a smoother authentication process.
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Convert a MySQL or Postgres database to SQLite
Published on Mon May 30 2022 - 892 words - Reading time: 6minIf you want to convert old MySQL-driven websites to static sites, a SQLite database on your harddrive could be helpful. Here is how to convert MySQL to SQLite.
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Subscribable stores in React
Published on Sat May 21 2022 - 1075 words - Reading time: 8minSubscribable stores are a pattern which is relatively new for React applications.
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Limit access of Strapi users to their own entries
Published on Sun May 15 2022 - 995 words - Reading time: 7minWhat I wanted was that when a user requested a list of or a certain entity, the backend should only respond with entities which belong to the user. By default, Strapi would send all entities from everyone.
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Strapi quirks you should know about
Published on Sat Apr 30 2022 - 633 words - Reading time: 5minWhen I first came across Strapi, I had some misconceptions about it which are not immediately clear when reading about the framework in their docs.
A typed event system for Typescript
Published on Tue Apr 19 2022 - 885 words - Reading time: 6minI wrote a simple, typed event emitter/subscriber system on the weekend.
Access denied for 'root'@'localhost'
Published on Thu Dec 09 2021 - 398 words - Reading time: 3minMySQL won't let me authenticate as root user through an SSH tunnel in dbeaver.
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Media Query organization in SASS
Published on Fri Nov 19 2021 - 398 words - Reading time: 3minSASS makes working with media queries / breakpoints easy, if you apply this pattern
The Redirect Response pattern
Published on Mon Oct 04 2021 - 773 words - Reading time: 6minUsing HTTP callbacks with your API gives interesting possibilities to reduce client side javascript.
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Introducing and using Obsidian
Published on Tue Sep 28 2021 - 663 words - Reading time: 5minI discovered a valuable note-taking app I want to share with you
Mocking modules with jest and typescript
Published on Thu Dec 10 2020 - 509 words - Reading time: 4minSince it took me some time to understand the behaviour and the jest docs don't tell much about it, I wanted to write down how to mock modules with jest and especially update the return values of module functions across your tests.
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The new old school
Published on Wed Oct 14 2020 - 1455 words - Reading time: 10minMy blog is finally online again. This time as a statically generated page. Here is how I made it.
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Updates about react hook router
Published on Tue Apr 30 2019 - 819 words - Reading time: 6minIt's been about a month, since I released my initial version of hookrouter. Lots of things happened since then.
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Modern and clean routing with hooks
Published on Thu Mar 21 2019 - 1626 words - Reading time: 11minA quick experiment about using hooks for routing in a react app turned out to be very flexible and powerful.
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Create a react component as npm module
Published on Wed Mar 06 2019 - 1374 words - Reading time: 10minThere are a lot of guides out there that advise you to use webpack to wrap up your components before publishing them to npm. This is absolutely not necessary. I would even consider it bad practice. Its much easier without webpack, too.