The Engineering Notebook — page 5 of 38
Notes on building with AI, agents & the modern stack.
Deep dives on AI/ML, RAG systems, agent engineering, and senior-engineer architecture decisions.
Developer Tools Claude Code Projects: Always‑On Conversation, New Team Risks
Claude Code Projects turns agentic coding into a long-running, persistent workspace. That’s productivity. It’s also a new operational risk surface teams need to govern on day 0.
Developer Tools How to Build a Gemini 3.8 Live Voice Agent [2026 Tutorial]
A practical Gemini 3.8 Live real-time voice agent tutorial: full-duplex streaming, barge-in interruptions, async tool calls, ephemeral tokens, and a latency budget you can actually hit.
Developer Tools How to Measure AI Coding Agent Harness Overhead [2026]
Model wars are a distraction. If you can’t measure prompt scaffolding, repo indexing, context packing, tool calls, and test loops, you’re not benchmarking your coding agent. Here’s a reproducible protocol.
Cybersecurity How to Implement OWASP Agentic Top 10 Controls [2026]
A control-by-control guide to OWASP agentic top 10 controls: where to gate tool calls (MCP/client/server), what to log, what to block, and what belongs in CI vs runtime.
AI and Machine Learning How to Run Qwen 35B on 16GB VRAM [2026]: Flags + Quants
A reproducible 16GB recipe for “Qwen 35B”: which Qwen2.5-32B quants fit, how to budget KV cache, and the exact serving flags that stop OOMs.
Cloud and DevOps How to Serve a Local LLM to Multiple Users [2026]
If your local LLM server “works” but falls apart at 30–50 concurrent chats, this guide shows the real limiter (KV cache) and the exact knobs in vLLM, SGLang, and TGI that move P99.
Developer Tools Wayback Machine Rate Limiting [2026]: Build a Mini-Wayback
Archive.org’s 429 blocks are real now. Here’s a pragmatic runbook to capture critical URLs, store WARC/WACZ, index snapshots, and replay them in a UI your team will actually use.
AI and Machine Learning How to Do Non Deterministic AI System Testing [2026]
A release-gating playbook for LLMs and agents: golden sets, metamorphic tests, variance control, tolerance bands, cohort diffs, and eval-regression postmortems.
Developer Tools Single File Web App SQLite [2026]: Migrations + Backups That Work
“One binary + one database file” is a great deployment model until you hit migrations under load and WAL backups. Here’s the safety-first playbook I actually trust.
Developer Tools Wayback Machine Alternatives [2026]: Developer Archiving Playbook
Wayback Machine alternatives aren’t just other sites to “view old pages.” For developers, archiving is a supply-chain and ops problem: reproducible docs, mirrored release assets, checksums, and restore drills.
Technology SQLite Production API Concurrency: WAL Mode Limits [2026]
SQLite in production is real. WAL mode buys you read/write concurrency and great latency. The trap is write contention, checkpoints, and backups. Here’s the decision guide, tuning defaults, and a runnable load test + restore drill.
Developer Tools Topcoat Rust Web Framework Tutorial [2026]: Auth + DB + SSR
A production-minded Topcoat Rust web framework tutorial: project setup, routes + SSR mental model, Postgres + migrations, auth, forms, profiling, and deploy gotchas.