I’m a software engineer, and a big part of my day is debugging issues reported by other teams. Most of the time I’m: checking tokens calling APIs comparing JSON responses and traces writing docs I kept jumping between different tools for all of...

Hash functions are everywhere in software: passwords, file integrity checks, digital signatures, caches, and data structures. Most developers use them without fully understanding what's happening under the hood. This article explains the key hash alg...

When we use AI in a chat window, a little extra text usually does not matter. If the model says: Sure, here is the result: before answering, we can still read it. If it adds: Hope this helps! after the answer, we can simply ignore it. But co...

> Originally published at https://www.vaines.org/posts/2026-03-24-the-comforting-lie-of-sha-pinning/ In March 2026, Trivy became the latest reminder that software supply chains are, at best, loosely held together with convention and trust. A typos...

> Originally published at https://www.vaines.org/posts/2026-05-09-why-hasnt-ai-improved-my-metrics/ I'm often asked about AI stuff as the rest of my blog might suggest. The world is currently scrambling around for how and where AI best accelerates ...

In my last edition, I talked about tutorial hell and how I escaped it. But after publishing it, I realized something. Not everyone actually understands what “tutorial hell” means. So let me explain it based on my own experience. What tutorial hel...

title: Meet Zappy, We launched an AI agent inside ZapDigits published: true description: Meet Zappy tags: Use a ratio of 100:42 for best results. publishedat: 2026-03-19 23:09 +0000 Your marketing data1 can finally talk back. Here is what the Z...

Upcoming Developer Challenge Table of Contents Introduction Developer Challenges How to Solve Them Conclusion 1. Introduction # Software development is full of challenges, especially for beginners who are learning programming concepts ...

More than 60% of all online purchases today are completed on a smartphone. Yet many eCommerce businesses still build their websites for desktop first — and then squeeze them down to fit a mobile screen. That approach is costing them sales. Mobile-fi...

git-lrc and the Rise of AI Code Review Anxiety AI coding tools have fundamentally changed software development. Developers can now generate entire functions, APIs, and architectures in minutes using tools like Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and GPT...

You built an AI feature. It works great in testing. Then someone types the wrong thing and your model does something it was never supposed to do. Here are the real attacks happening against LLMs right now, and how I built an open source system to c...

A story about showing people something impossible and watching them find a use for it. The rock was the size of a Volkswagen. Marcus had been building up to it all afternoon. He'd started small — a coffee cup hovering three inches above the kitche...

Hey folks! We've reached one of the most important posts in the My Broker B3 series. Up until now we built each piece of the ecosystem separately — the price synchronizer, the matching engine, the financial custody, the asset catalog. Now it's time ...

In the last article we talked about why ML is harder than regular software: code, data and environment all move at the same time. Today we're tackling the second one data with a tool called DVC Data Version Control. Why not just use Git? Git is am...

If you've ever trained a beautiful model in a Jupyter notebook, watched the metrics shine, and then realized you have no idea how to actually put it in front of users, congratulations: you've just discovered why MLOps exists. In this series, we are ...

Every AI coding setup I saw online looked the same: Mac, tmux, agents running in split panes, everything humming along perfectly. I was on Windows. It did not hum. The tmux wall tmux is the backbone of serious AI agent workflows. Persistent sessio...