2025-04-21
What Exactly is an AI Agent? Examples and Counterexamples
While "AI agent" is indeed a term enjoying significant buzz, understanding its core meaning – an AI tool capable of autonomous action towards a goal – is crucial.
When you should lie to the language model
Here’s an unreasonably effective trick for working with AIs: always pretend that your work was produced by someone else. The problem is that current-generation AIs are too agreeable. They’re trained...
Quickly Extract Month Values in Excel with the MONTH Function
The MONTH function in Excel is used to extract the month number (1 to 12) from a given input date.
Using Minute Function to Extract Minutes From Input Time Like a Pro
The MINUTE function is used to extract the minute portion from a given input time value and returns the output as the numerical value.
Why Golf’s Error Checks Might Save You From Yourself
Status of failed statements can be automatically checked if the developer forgot to check it.
Everyone Thinks They’re a Good Listener — Most Are Just Waiting to Talk
How to deeply and actively listen is a transformative skill that improves relationships, reduces conflict, and helps people grow.
Prometheus + Grafana Turns Your Go App into a Real-Time Dashboard of Truth
This Guide explains the steps to export custom Prometheus metrics (counter, Gauge, Histogram, Summary) from your Go application and query/visualize from Grafana. Also recommends some best practices to follow when...
Real Growth Isn’t About More Discipline — It’s About Deeper Clarity
The self-improvement industry thrives on a simple premise: You are broken and need fixing. Most people trying to "fix" themselves don't even understand what they're fixing. No productivity system, morning...
You’re Probably Cancelling Your Swift Tasks Incorrectly
Swift’s structured concurrency has transformed the way we write asynchronous code. To fully leverage Swift’S concurrency, you need a solid grasp of how tasks are created and managed.
What No One Tells You About Running Docker in Production
Docker is amazing — until it’s not. This article collects the *hard-won lessons* I’ve learned from building and running Dockerized platforms in production. What broke, what slowed us down, and...
The Environmental Impact of eSIM Technology
Traditional SIM cards are quietly harming the planet through plastic waste and emissions. eSIMs cut the clutter—no plastic, no shipping, just greener tech.
Amazon Q Developer: The Future of AI-Enhanced Coding Productivity
Amazon Q Developer is a new AI-powered coding companion that can be embedded in popular IDEs like Visual Studio Code. It is a smart pair programmer who sits inside your...
Fear of Publicity: Why Tech Startups Miss Out on PR Opportunities
From personal experience, I can say that many business owners have a near-panic fear of gaining too much publicity.
How to Use Ink-ui to Build Beautiful CLI Tools Like OpenAI’s Codex
Ink is a React-based command-line tool that lets you build terminal apps. It's been adopted by numerous projects, including OpenAI's Codex and Cloudflare's Wrangler. In this article, we'll see how...
Hallucinations by Design: Part 4 - Fine-tuning Your Way Out of Vector Nightmares
Fine-tuning embedding models is the key to fixing their inherent hallucination problems. This guide walks through the complete process: setting up your environment, generating targeted training data for specific issues...
Startup Fundraising, Fake VCs, and an Actual Stalker: My Founder Horror Story
The founder of Imii tells how a potential fundraising lead spiralled into one of the weirdest, most emotionally taxing startup encounters she’s ever had. The pitch turned into a rabbit...
2025-04-20
The Winning Formula For Talks With Iran
As every tourist who has strayed into a bazaar or souk knows, Middle Easterners drive a hard bargain. And the Iranians, with their long history of strategy and commerce, are...
SR-71 Blackbird Outran 4,000 Missiles Thanks to Mach 3.2 Speed
Summary and Key Points: The SR-71 Blackbird remains unmatched nearly 59 years after its debut, famous for outrunning over 4,000 missiles without a single loss. -Despite interceptors like the Soviet...
Boeing’s YF-118G Bird of Prey Stealth Fighter Had Just 1 Mission
Summary and Key Points: Developed secretly at Area 51 during the 1990s, Boeing’s Bird of Prey stealth aircraft, codenamed YF-118G, was a groundbreaking project designed by McDonnell Douglas’ Phantom Works....
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