posts on software engineering
An 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.
Insights from the TWIML AI Podcast episode discussing LangChain and its role in AI development.
Explore 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.
Discover 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.
Discover 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.
If 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.
Subscribable stores are a pattern which is relatively new for React applications.
What 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.
When I first came across Strapi, I had some misconceptions about it which are not immediately clear when reading about the framework in their docs.
I wrote a simple, typed event emitter/subscriber system on the weekend.
MySQL won't let me authenticate as root user through an SSH tunnel in dbeaver.
SASS makes working with media queries / breakpoints easy, if you apply this pattern
Using HTTP callbacks with your API gives interesting possibilities to reduce client side javascript.
I discovered a valuable note-taking app I want to share with you
Since 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.
My blog is finally online again. This time as a statically generated page. Here is how I made it.
It's been about a month, since I released my initial version of hookrouter. Lots of things happened since then.
A quick experiment about using hooks for routing in a react app turned out to be very flexible and powerful.
There 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.