Experiments with LLMs and the ecosystem of tools around them

1. Git Worktrees for Agentic Development *NEW*

   Use git worktrees to give every AI agent its own isolated working directory without duplicating the repository history.
2. Making Your Codebase LLM Friendly

   Treat LLMs like new hires on your team. The same things that help human developers also help AI - clear patterns, good documentation, and consistent conventions.
3. MCP server basics - Building an MCP server for reminders

   Create an MCP server to handle reminders to understand how data flows between the MCP client and the server

Tips and tricks when setting up a new project (and some for older ones too.)

1. What/Why/How of 'nonce'

   Using nonce tokens in your website provides strong protection against CSRF and XSS attacks.
2. CSP - Block Everything You Don't Need

   Using CSP headers can drastically reduce the attack surface for your website by disallowing anything you don't expect.

Setting up different parts of a distributed system from scratch to unbox how things happen in the background.

1. Setting up a VPN Gateway on Azure

   VPNs are an excellent way to connect to proiate network of machines that you don't want to expose to the public internet.
2. Setting up a load balancer from scratch

   NGINX is OSS for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing etc.A load balancer is the “traffic cop” sitting in front of your servers and routing client requests.

Experiments in different types of web technologies.

1. My Cache Has Trust Issues - A Therapist's Guide to Cache Invalidation

   Caches are paranoid creatures with anxiety about staleness. Let's explore cache invalidation, TTL panic attacks, and why your cache needs therapy more than optimization.
2. The Internet is Held Together by Duct Tape

   JSONP, CORS preflight, HTTP polling before WebSockets, base64 images in CSS - explore the ugly hacks that were supposed to be temporary but lasted decades. The internet is a beautiful disaster.
3. Creating web components using Microsoft FAST elements

   FAST is a web component library and framework from Microsoft.

Trying to set up a production Redis cluster using docker. We will start with "What is Redis" and try to end up configuring a multi node cluster. The intent will also be to setup monitoring and automation wherever applicable.

1. Introduction to Redis

   Introduces redis as a distributed key value store using analogies.
2. Running Redis locally using Docker

   Run a standalone redis instance using Docker.
3. Using the Redis CLI

   Connecting to a Redis instance using CLI
4. Tracking Redis Metrics using INFO

   Tracking Redis metrics using Redis INFO command.
5. Connecting Redis to Grafana

   Grafana is an open source visualization tool that can help us visualize redis metrics.

Documenting how Jekyll is extended for custom features on this site.

1. Getting Feedback via GitHub Issues

   Integrate creation of GitHub Issues directly with prefilled values from your Jekyll site.
2. Creating a Series of Articles In Jekyll

   Easily group and link related blog posts in Jekyll using front matter and data files for sequential navigation.