Neighborhoods: giving agents a map before they start walking
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John Ewart
Writing about software, systems, and things learned along the way.
Latest posts
Agents are the new compilers
We stopped reading machine code a long time ago. Maybe it's time to stop reading generated code the same way.
The right agent for the job
Specialization isn't just for humans
Stop the Edit Chaos: How Hashes Solve Agent Conflicts
Fail fast when the file moved under you
Launch plans, interns, and why I built Konstruct
Structured guidance beats heroic prompting
There's no place like ~
... if only I had just one
Observations on the complexity of software
...how does it not break?
Systems programming is hard
there are dragons everywhere
Sorry your tests are so slow...
who knew it could be so painful?
So... emacs? Can we hang out?
words I never thought I'd say
Things that I'm grateful for
this year has been weird and yet awesome
eBPF map lookup
it's a party in user-space
An introduction to ptrace
Constants of Software Development
things I learned along the way
AWS Glue Python Script Dependencies
AWS Batch with Spot Block
AWS Batch and GPU-based Workloads
Lambda routing
AWS How To Deploy static files to S3 and code to Lambda with Pipelines
High Throughput SNS with C#
VMWare AHCI Driver Woes
A personal photo gallery V1: S3, Lambda and Rekognition
Growing your FreeNAS USB root partition
Jenkins and Github
How to scope Filters for JAX-RS services
How to replace Faraday middleware
The value of boring
Using Hugo data files
Switching Publishing Platforms
SOA for Humans
The birth of the monolith
services have their place