GraphQL’s poor developer experience
GraphQL’s touted advantages are numerous, including data retrieval efficiency, and flexibility that it can enable. This page even calls its developer experience its greatest benefit, but this is only true…
Hands on introduction to LLM programming for developers
In this post I will go over an approach to getting developers familiar with, and write code against LLMs. The aim is to get developers comfortable interacting and programming with…
LLM output is malicious user input
The most common programmatic interaction with Large Language Models (LLMs) and LLM APIs (ChatGPT, Claude) is to give it some natural language instructions and get a shaped, specific output back.…
Using a local LLM to Automate an Android device
While most well known Large Language Models (LLMs) are closed and behind paywalls, there exist open models such as LLaMa and its derivatives, available for free and private use. A…
?, a simple CLI lookup tool
As I spend a lot of time on the CLI, I often need to look up commands, even if I’ve used them before. I like to offload memory elsewhere if…
Using threat modelling to choose a password manager
Common ways of choosing a password manager are to see what everyone else is using, search for what’s popular, or just pick something convenient. I do the same, but also…
.NET’s underrated configuration feature
My favorite kind of features are usually ones that let you start simple and still let you build powerfully on top without being overwhelming. .NET’s ConfigurationBuilder being one, is one…