Utensils

words and wisdom
TIL: Persona-based Prompting
LLMPrompt EngineeringTIL

Stop asking AI for generic responses and start giving it persona-lity! Today we explore how persona-based prompting gives your AI interactions personality and character.

Staying Clean with Git Hygiene
GitGitHubDeveloper ExperienceBest Practices

Practical tips for better version control that your teammates will thank you for

Forking Around: Dangerous AI - How I Use LLMs to Make Infrastructure Work Suck Less
AIInfrastructureNixOSDevOpsAgentic

A practical look at how AI can transform infrastructure management, debug complex issues, and save your ADHD brain from the tedium of log analysis.

Forking Around: Copy-Pasta - The ADHD Engineer's Guide to Massive Context Windows
AIDevelopmentGeminiWorkflowAgentic

How I leverage Gemini's massive context window to review entire codebases and save my ADHD brain from project chaos.

10 Things I Hate About NixOS
NixOSLinuxDevOps

A personal journey through the frustrations and unexpected joys of adopting NixOS after decades in the industry.

Trigger GitHub Actions from another repository
GitHub ActionsWorkflowCI/CD

GitHub has no official support for trigger workflows across repos but that won't stop us!

Going Static with NextJS and TailwindCSS
TailwindCSSNextJS

A long overdue facelift is complete! In this post we look at the decisions behind using NextJS and TailwindCSS for our new homepage.