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@alpsakaci.com

Software engineer specializing in high-scale distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and vector search. Writing Go, designing for simplicity.

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Fragments: October 4

In response to my last fragments (probably the bit about us worrying if LLMs have consciousness when we when we should be wondering why they don’t have a conscience) “Metalanguage” replied: we shipped the id and forgot the superego. classic…

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Principles for effective slides

Not every presentation needs slides, but when they earn their place, they work as a visual channel that complements the speaker rather than replacing them. Sumeet Gayathri Moghe sets out the principles that follow from that idea — control over…

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Bliki: Sensible Default

A Sensible Default is a practice that, absent some overriding context, should be used when carrying out a certain kind of task. In software development such sensible defaults might include things like “use version control”, “separate UI logic from domain…

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Fragments: September 29

Simon Willison: The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge…

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Highlights from Git 2.56

The open source Git project just released Git 2.56. Here is GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time. The post Highlights from Git 2.56 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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