TECHNICAL INSIGHTS & SOFTWARE ENGINEERING NOTES
A curated collection of thoughts, guides, and recommendations on modern software development, architecture patterns, and engineering best practices.
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Benchmarks are a suggestion
Benchmark tables and launch-day demos are vendor-run, Goodharted, and blind to the harness you actually ship through. The only eval with predictive power for your work is your work.
Video transcripts on a Mac
Transcribe video locally on Apple Silicon with whisper.cpp at 5–8x realtime — no API key, no per-minute charges, no audio leaving the laptop.
PDF to Markdown on a Mac
Convert PDFs to clean Markdown locally on Apple Silicon with marker, so LLMs can ingest documents efficiently without rasterising every page.
The agent loop that ships while you are away
An opinionated set of agent skills that ships work from a Jira ticket to a deployed fix without you at the keyboard.
Spec Driven Development
A practical guide to turning plans into durable specs that humans and agents can review, approve, and implement.
Agent Skills
On skills as the missing layer in agentic coding — encoding tribal knowledge and keeping the context window focused.
Agentic Coding Survival Guide
Context windows, tools, modes, prompting, system prompts, skills, spec-driven development, and warnings.
Developing with Confidence
On using linters, type checkers, automated tests, and CI pipelines to build software with confidence instead of anxiety.
THOUGHTS
Perspectives on software development, tech stacks, and engineering philosophy
GUIDES
Practical tutorials and how-to articles for real-world development challenges
RECOMMENDATIONS
Curated resources, tools, and content worth exploring