04 · Writing
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Write-ups on software, open source and AI agents, published on Medium.
I Benchmarked 5 Ways of Feeding Webpages to an LLM. The Popular One Gets 20% of Answers Wrong. (opens on Medium in a new tab)
20 extraction tasks, temperature 0, real tokenizers, about $0.40 to reproduce. The results changed how I think about agents reading the web. Here’s the table.…
- web development
- artificial intelligence
How I Got My Code Merged Into Meta’s Pyrefly and ReductStore, a Database for Robotics (opens on Medium in a new tab)
When I started contributing to open source, I had the same vague advice everyone has: “just contribute to open source.” Nobody tells you the actual mechanics,…
- software engineering
- programming
Fixing a Redis Polling Bottleneck in Production (opens on Medium in a new tab)
At one company, I inherited a Redis-backed task execution system that looked fine at first glance and completely collapsed under real production latency. The…
- performance
- distributed systems
Next.js SEO in 2026: A Developer’s Practical Guide (opens on Medium in a new tab)
The complete, no-fluff guide to making your Next.js site actually rank on Google. Before We Start: What Even Is SEO? SEO, Search Engine Optimization, is the…
- seo
- web development
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