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Found total of 23 articles.

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 4: The Technical Bar

Chapter 4 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The FDE is, first and last, an engineer. A teaser on the four technical primitives, the non-obvious skills, what you don't need to be, and the four-round interview that actually tests for it.
2026-05-30

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 34: Language-Specific Field Notes

Chapter 34 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Every programming language produces its own Vibe Coding texture. A teaser with field notes on TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java/Kotlin, Ruby, C#, and Shell — including the cross-language pattern that fixes agent default-to-stale-idiom in any language.
2026-05-20

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 33: Building Your Personal Vibe Coding Operating System

Chapter 33 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Every sustainable Vibe Coder has a personal operating system — tools, files, conventions, and habits that turn the practices in this book into your own durable system. A teaser on the five files, the three models, the two editors, the one discipline, and the wonder to keep.
2026-05-19

Azure Front Door: a practical introduction

What Azure Front Door is, who it's for, what it costs, how it compares to Cloudflare and CloudFront, and a walkthrough of the settings that matter when putting it in front of an Azure App Service.
2026-05-11

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 22: A Day in the Life — A Narrated Session

Chapter 22 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. A narrated recreation of a real, medium-complex working day — hour by hour — because average days are where practice gets tested. A teaser of the hourly shape, and the single rule behind all of it: agents are leverage on thinking you've done.
2026-05-08

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 21: Working With Teammates (Human and Agentic)

Chapter 21 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Vibe Coding is only solo in the narrowest sense — every piece of code has reviewers and maintainers, some human, some agent. A teaser on the review contract, pair Vibe Coding, handing off to agents without walking off a cliff, and the explicit mentorship that still works in the AI-native era.
2026-05-07

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 20: The Weekly Cadence

Chapter 20 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Daily habits compound; weekly rituals keep the compounding honest. A teaser on the four weekly practices — the Friday Review, the Context Pack Audit, the Skill Refresh, and the Reading Hour — that separate sharp Vibe Coders from those who drift.
2026-05-06

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 10: The Five-Layer Quality Gate Stack

Chapter 10 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. Every AI-generated change must pass five layers of automated gates before a human sees it. A teaser on linting, strict types, SAST, test synthesis, and agentic E2E — plus the anti-patterns that quietly invalidate the stack.
2026-04-26

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 5: Agentic Editors and Flow States

Chapter 5 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. The editor is where the wiring meets your hands. A teaser on the three generations of editor, how semantic search amplifies your codebase's virtues and vices, the flow killers that destroy productivity, and the shortcut rebind that doubled a team lead's output.
2026-04-21

The Engineering of Intent, Chapter 2: Cognitive Load and Material Disengagement

Chapter 2 of The Engineering of Intent blog series. When the agent does most of the typing, the real failure mode is the engineer who has stopped engaging. A teaser on material disengagement, impressionistic scanning, the autocomplete trap, decision fatigue, and the seven habits of engaged engineers.
2026-04-18

Chapter 20: Passwordless Authentication — Passkeys, WebAuthn, and the End of the Password

Chapter 20 of the OpenID: Modern Identity series — passwordless authentication: passkeys as friendly public-key credentials, WebAuthn as the underlying browser API, and the FIDO2 ecosystem including hardware security keys.
2026-03-26

Chapter 17: Federation Between Organizations — Identity Across Corporate Boundaries

Chapter 17 of the OpenID: Modern Identity series — federation between organizations: B2B identity, partner federation with metadata exchange and claim mapping, and the trust chains that emerge when federation goes multi-hop.
2026-03-23

Chapter 5: Tokens in Depth — What's Actually in That JWT

Chapter 5 of the OpenID: Modern Identity series — what's really inside an ID Token, Access Token, and Refresh Token, how JWTs are structured, how to validate signatures correctly, and how DPoP and mTLS bind tokens to their legitimate holders.
2026-03-11

Art of Coding, Part VII: Beyond Today

Introduction to Part VII. As AI writes more code, what becomes the engineer's irreplaceable role? A look at how automation transforms—but doesn't diminish—the craft.
2026-01-14

Art of Coding, Chapter 15: Code as a Team Sport

Code as a team sport: shared ownership, documentation as craft, and respecting the reader. The human practices that make software sustainable and teams thrive.
2026-01-12

Art of Coding, Part VI: The Human Side of Code

The human side of code: collaboration, culture, and the practices that make software sustainable. How teams thrive when they value people as much as process.
2026-01-11

Art of Coding, Chapter 14: Code Reviews and Pair Programming

Code reviews as mentorship and collaboration. How to write for reviewers, offer critique with respect, and build a team culture grounded in feedback.
2026-01-10

Art of Coding, Chapter 13: Testing as a Design Discipline

Testing is a design discipline. How well-written tests reveal awkward APIs, improve code clarity, and become the most reliable documentation of system behavior.
2026-01-09

Art of Coding, Part V: Tools and the Ecosystem

Tools shape the culture of how teams code. The right ecosystem amplifies clarity and craftsmanship; the wrong one creates friction and distraction.
2026-01-07

Art of Coding, Chapter 11: Architectural Thinking

Architectural thinking is the discipline of designing systems that survive real-world growth. It means asking how your code will feel to live in years from now.
2026-01-06

Art of Coding, Chapter 7: Error Handling and Resilience

Designing for failure, not avoiding it. How graceful error handling, clear logging, and balanced defense build systems that endure.
2026-01-01

Art of Coding, Chapter 2: The Philosophy of Clean Code

Clean code is a philosophy, not a rulebook. Explore simplicity vs. cleverness, expressiveness as communication, and code as a form of writing.
2025-12-25

6.3 Applications in ML, Statistics, and Kernel Methods

A deep, intuitive explanation of how Cholesky decomposition powers real machine learning and statistical systems—from Gaussian processes and Bayesian inference to kernel methods, Kalman filters, covariance modeling, and quadratic optimization. Understand why Cholesky is essential for stability, speed, and large-scale computation.
2025-09-30

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