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Agentic Design Patterns

May 24 · 32 min read · I've been working through Agentic Design Patterns: A Hands-On Guide to Building Intelligent Systems and here are my cliff notes on the core patterns, frameworks, and techniques. A good book that cover

Simplify your life

May 24 · 1 min read · David Yarrow: Non-complicated families; <10 Close friends to invest energy; Say no more offen; Claire Hughes Johonson: Don't say yes offen; Say yes to people over tasks; Don't compromise things are im

50 things

May 21 · 2 min read · Here are some of my favorites from Cate's 50 things she learned that resonate with me. It's something I'll comeback to. Have fewer, if unsure how to have better opinions. The 12-step program works,

Hugin

May 16 · 1 min read · Hugin is an open-source panorama photo stitcher for hobbyists. Unfortunately, macOS only ships a 2019 binary that's been broken since Sonoma. I spent ~500K Claude tokens wiring up a Homebrew tap that

Design a key-value store

May 10 · 3 min read · A Key-Value store is just a hash table, until it isn't. At scale, keys shard across servers via consistent hashing and the CAP Theorem becomes the constraint you design around. CAP Theorem Consistency