The Prog Blog

Writing about software, occasionally about books.

The fastest way to learn is to be wrong in public.
  1. 6/14/2026 Agentic Mukbangers When models keep getting more expensive, it's time to trim the fat... ailearning in publicoptimization
  2. 5/31/2026 Agent Memory in an Open World What happens when you go grocery shopping with an AI agent? learning in publicaiagentsllm
  3. 1/12/2026 Info compress easy, see? Context compression is hard, how do we solve this? aillmparody
  4. 12/28/2025 Prime Optimization for LLMs Cranyon Crayons has had a breakthrough in optimized LLM prompting... parodyllmai
  5. 1/19/2025 The House Always Wins Around 8:00 pm PST on January 18th, 2025 TikTok's functionality came to a halt, with a message for anyone who opened the app... learning in publicpersonal developmentartificial intelligence
  6. 11/8/2024 Guardrails in Software I almost brought down production... learning in public
  7. 7/23/2024 Commitment in Times of Doubt and Frustration This field can be frustrating. Your job is to be a highly logical, precise, and accurate individual... careerconflict resolutionlearning in public
  8. 7/21/2024 Migrating my Personal Site to Contentful, Netlify, and Google Analytics This weekend, I started writing an exciting blog post about a project that a couple of friends and I recently... contentful2024learning in publicblog
  9. 4/9/2024 Improving our Jest execution time by 300% Learn about how our team was able to reduce our Jest test execution time by over 300% jest2024learning in publicoptimization
  10. 2/16/2024 A level-headed evaluation of generative AI's true potential I want to discuss the use of generative AI for creative content such as images, video, and, in general, non-fictional content... digital lifeAI2024learning in public
  11. 1/26/2024 Own Your Development Process. Larger companies face issues with agile which small companies don't have to consider. When a company is large... careersoftware engineering2024learning in public
  12. 1/22/2024 ChatGPT: Accessibility and Convenience in Exchange for Authenticity ChatGPT has taken over the world. In less than two months, the AI tool stormed the web and revolutionized... ChatGPTAI2023learning in public
  13. 6/15/2023 The End of The Endless Scroll Since 2020, my average screen time has probably been over 7 hours a day, and probably double that on weekends. The pandemic situation... digital lifetrends2023internetlearning in public
  14. 8/11/2022 The Modern Approach to Getting That First Job Landing your first industry job can be quite confusing. It’s your first time navigating the landscape... career2022learning in public
  15. 2/22/2022 Create a Command Line Python Application for a Rotational Cipher I don't have a background in cryptography, but it sure is fun. I was sitting in class, bored... pythoncryptography2022learning in public
  16. 1/15/2022 Create 3D Art For The Web With Spline This week, I felt an urge to re-visit a concept that I learned a while ago. Around this time last year, I was introduced to three.js... spline2022learning in publicJavaScriptcomputer graphics
  17. 1/6/2022 A Week Of Learning Docker This week, I took a few hours to really sit down and understand the core concepts of Docker. I've used... docker2022learning in public