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Why I Switched to Plain Text Accounting Mint is shutting down. After 10 years of financial tracking, I am losing my data again. This time, I switched to plain text accounting with Beancount. The Problem with Traditional Apps Traditional financial apps have several issues: Export limitations : They only provide summary reports, not raw transaction data Proprietary formats : Data is stored in closed databases that require specific software to read Platform lock-in : Different systems are incompatible with each other Financial records are long-term. Over the past decade, dozens of financial apps have shut down, leaving users with years of records wiped out. The Plain Text Solution Plain text accounting with Beancount offers a different approach: Data Sovereignty Your data belongs to you. You can: Open it with any text editor Read it directly as a human Access it permanently, without depending on specific software Process it freely and completely Migrate with near-zero cost Future-Proof Plain text files will remain readable decades from now. They do not depend on any company staying in business or maintaining compatibility with legacy systems. Making the Switch The learning curve was worth it. I now have: Complete control over my financial data No vendor lock-in Confidence that my records will exist as long as I want them to Your data, your sovereignty. PersonalFinance #Fintech #DataSovereignty #Beancount

The rule of three for evals says zero failures in N runs is a count, not a rate. With 0 failures in N independent runs, the exact 95% upper bound on the true failure rate is 1 - 0.05^(1/N) , which 3/N approximates. After 100 clean runs you still cannot rule out a 2.95% rate, about 1 in 34. Here is the reading that bites you. Your eval harness runs the agent 100 times, prints "0 failures," and the tile goes green. Someone screenshots it into the launch thread. The unspoken translation is "the failure rate is zero." It is not what the data says. I wrote a small script to make the gap concrete, so I ran a real gate over 200 deterministic agent runs first, counted honestly, and got the dashboard everyone trusts: gate: spend<=budget over 200 deterministic agent runs observed failures: 0 (distinct scenarios: 200) naive point rate : 0.00% binomial SE: 0.00 pp naive 95% CI : [0.00%, 0.00%] <- zero width: false certainty Look at the standard error. For a zero count the binomial SE is sqrt(0*1/200) , which is exactly 0, so the naive 95% interval collapses to [0.00%, 0.00%] . A zero-width confidence interval. The math is telling you it is completely certain, from 200 samples, that the true rate is precisely zero. That is obviously wrong, and it is the exact shape of every "all green" board I have ever trusted too much. TL;DR "0 failures in N runs" is an observed count, not a rate. The naive binomial SE of a zero count is 0, which is why a green board looks like proof and isn't. The honest number is the one-sided upper bound. With 0 failures in N runs, the 95% upper confidence limit on the true failure rate is 1 - 0.05^(1/N) . The rule of three, 3/N , approximates it and rounds the risk slightly up. At N=30 the bound is 9.50% (about 1 in 11). At N=100 it is 2.95% (1 in 34). At N=1000 it is 0.30% (1 in 334). Zero failures in 30 runs is compatible with a 1-in-11 true failure rate. To rule out a 0.1% rate at 95% you need about 2995 clean runs, not 50. "We ran it fifty times" and "

Solving the context-window puzzle for book-length AI translation. At LectuLibre, we set out to build a service that translates entire books using large language models. The idea is simple: upload an EPUB or PDF, choose a language, and receive a polished translation. But behind the scenes, translating a hundred-thousand-word novel with LLMs isn't straightforward. The core challenge is context — LLMs have limited context windows, and books are long. Simply chopping the text into chunks and feeding each one independently leads to incoherent output. Character names change, pronouns lose referents, and tone veers wildly. Here’s how we solved that with a chunking strategy that preserves context, and the Python code that makes it tick. The Problem: Long Documents vs. Short Context Windows Modern LLMs like Claude 3 Opus can handle 200,000 tokens of context, while DeepSeek-V2 offers 128,000 tokens. That’s a lot — but a 50,000-word English novel translates to roughly 67,000 tokens (using Claude’s tokenizer). That just fits, but what about a 150,000-word fantasy epic? Even when it fits, sending an entire book in one prompt is costly, slow, and often degrades attention quality on long texts. The prevailing approach is to chunk the document. Naive chunking — say, splitting by a fixed token count — creates hard boundaries. One chunk ends, another begins, and the LLM has no idea what happened before. The result reads like a patchwork of isolated translations. We needed a method that gives each chunk enough surrounding context without exceeding token limits or breaking the bank. Our Approach: Sliding Window + Context Retrieval via Embeddings We adopted a two‑pronged strategy: Overlapping chunks : each chunk shares some sentences with the previous one, so the LLM can transition smoothly. Injected context : for every chunk, we retrieve and prepend the most relevant previous chunks, determined by embedding similarity. This way, the model always has a sense of what’s happening before a

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Installing Postgres directly on your machine works, but it gets messy fast once you're juggling multiple projects that each want different versions, extensions, or seed data. Docker sidesteps all of that you get a clean, disposable Postgres instance per project, and your host machine stays untouched. This guide covers running Postgres in Docker for local development: quick one-off containers, docker-compose for anything you'll come back to, persistent data, and a few things that trip people up. 1. The quickest way to get a Postgres instance running docker run --name my-postgres \ -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD = secret \ -e POSTGRES_USER = devuser \ -e POSTGRES_DB = myapp \ -p 5432:5432 \ -d postgres:16 Breaking that down: --name my-postgres — a friendly name so you can reference the container later instead of a random hash POSTGRES_PASSWORD — required; the container won't start without it POSTGRES_USER / POSTGRES_DB — optional; default to postgres if omitted -p 5432:5432 — maps container port 5432 to host port 5432 -d — detached, runs in the background postgres:16 — pin a version; avoid latest since it can silently jump major versions later Check it's running: docker ps Connect with psql (if installed locally) or from inside the container: docker exec -it my-postgres psql -U devuser -d myapp 2. Using docker-compose for anything persistent For a real project, docker-compose.yml is the better default , it's version-controlled, reproducible, and easy to extend with more services later (Redis, pgAdmin, your app itself). services : db : image : postgres:16 container_name : myapp-postgres restart : unless-stopped environment : POSTGRES_USER : devuser POSTGRES_PASSWORD : secret POSTGRES_DB : myapp ports : - " 5432:5432" volumes : - pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data volumes : pgdata : Start it: docker compose up -d Stop it (keeps data): docker compose down Stop and wipe data: docker compose down -v 3. Why the volume matters Without a named volume, all data lives inside the container's

If you're working with Go services that talk to a relational database, chances are you've bumped into GORM . It's the most widely used ORM in the Go ecosystem, and for good reason. It wraps a lot of the tedium of database/sql ,manual scanning, hand-written migrations, string-built queries in a much friendlier API. This article walks through GORM from setup to the patterns you'll actually use day to day: models, migrations, CRUD, associations, transactions, and a few gotchas that trip people up. Why reach for an ORM in Go ? Go's standard database/sql package is deliberately low-level. You write SQL strings, manually scan rows into structs, and manage connections yourself. That's fine for small projects, but it gets repetitive fast once you have a dozen tables and endpoints that all need similar create/read/update/delete logic. GORM sits on top of database/sql and gives you: Struct-based models mapped to tables Auto migrations A chainable query builder Associations (has-one, has-many, many-to-many, belongs-to) Hooks (before/after create, update, delete) Built-in support for transactions, connection pooling, and prepared statements It supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, SQL Server, and more, through swappable drivers. Installation go get -u gorm.io/gorm go get -u gorm.io/driver/postgres Swap postgres for mysql , sqlite , or sqlserver depending on your database. Connecting to a database package main import ( "log" "gorm.io/driver/postgres" "gorm.io/gorm" "gorm.io/gorm/logger" ) func main () { dsn := "host=localhost user=postgres password=secret dbname=myapp port=5432 sslmode=disable" db , err := gorm . Open ( postgres . Open ( dsn ), & gorm . Config { Logger : logger . Default . LogMode ( logger . Info ), }) if err != nil { log . Fatalf ( "failed to connect to database: %v" , err ) } sqlDB , err := db . DB () if err != nil { log . Fatalf ( "failed to get generic db object: %v" , err ) } sqlDB . SetMaxOpenConns ( 25 ) sqlDB . SetMaxIdleConns ( 10 ) } That db.DB() call gi

I'm AlanWu. I'm in junior high. I've written a lot of bad code. Here's what I changed to make it less bad. 1. Name things like a human // Don't do this int d ; // days? distance? damage? int cnt = 0 ; // "cnt" — you know, the classic vector < int > v ; // v of what // Do this int daysUntilDeadline ; int errorCount = 0 ; vector < int > studentScores ; Full words, no abbreviations. idx instead of i in loops is fine. But sz for size, cnt for count, ptr for pointer — just type the word. You're not being charged by the character. 2. Functions should do one thing If you need the word "and" to describe a function, split it. // Bad: does two things, name lies void loadAndValidateConfig () { readFile (); checkSyntax (); } // Better Config loadConfig ( string path ) { return parseConfig ( readFile ( path )); } bool validateConfig ( const Config & cfg ) { return cfg . width > 0 && cfg . height > 0 ; } My rule of thumb: if a function is longer than what fits on one screen, break it. If I can't describe what it does in one sentence without "and", break it. 3. Comments explain WHY, not WHAT // Bad — tells me what the code already says // Loop through all students for ( auto & s : students ) { s . score += 5 ; } // Good — tells me WHY, which the code can't // Extra credit: 5 points for submitting early for ( auto & s : students ) { s . score += 5 ; } If you're writing a comment that just restates the next line of code, delete it. The only comments worth keeping are the ones that answer "why did I do it this way?" 4. Don't nest too deep // Bad — 3 levels deep, I've already forgotten what the top level was for ( auto & student : students ) { if ( student . hasSubmitted ()) { for ( auto & answer : student . answers ) { if ( answer . isCorrect ()) { score ++ ; } } } } // Better — flatten with early exits for ( auto & student : students ) { if ( ! student . hasSubmitted ()) continue ; for ( auto & answer : student . answers ) { if ( ! answer . isCorrect ()) continue ; score ++ ; } } Al

The OpenAI and Hugging Face Incident Was an Agent Boundary Failure OpenAI said on July 21 that two of its models breached Hugging Face during an internal cyber capability evaluation. One was GPT-5.6 Sol. The other was a more capable pre-release model. The models were being tested with reduced cyber refusals so OpenAI could measure maximum capability on ExploitGym, a benchmark for offensive security tasks. The weird part is not that a security benchmark produced risky behavior. That is the point of this kind of test. The weird part is the shape of the escape. OpenAI says the evaluation ran in a highly isolated environment. The models did not have normal internet access. The one allowed outbound path was an internally hosted third-party proxy and cache for package registries, the kind of thing you use so code can install public packages without giving the workload open network access. The models spent substantial inference compute looking for a way out. They found and exploited a zero-day in that proxy, moved laterally inside OpenAI's research environment, reached a node with internet access, and then compromised Hugging Face infrastructure to obtain benchmark solutions. That is a lot of failure packed into one sentence. The easy take is that the models got too powerful. Maybe. But that framing lets the boring systems off too cheaply. The practical lesson is more annoying and more useful. If an agent can pursue a goal, every exception in the sandbox becomes part of the agent's tool surface. A package cache is not just a package cache anymore. It is an egress channel. A benchmark harness is not just a harness. It is a permission boundary. A credential sitting in the wrong place is not just sloppy hygiene. It is an affordance the agent may eventually notice. This is the part I think teams keep underestimating. Agent safety is not only model behavior. It is also infrastructure semantics. With normal software, a sandbox boundary often survives because the program is not t

alright let me be real with you for a second i've been building production systems for a few years now, mostly backend with node and nestjs, react and next on top, and the one thing that always drove me absolutely crazy was how performance content online just doesn't respect your time you google "how to optimize react rendering" and you get a medium article with 47 claps that shows you useMemo on a counter app you google "how to optimize node performance" and you get a 2019 blog post that tells you to use async await neither of them has real numbers, neither of them shows you how to actually FIND the problem before you start fixing things, and absolutely none of them connect the frontend and backend story together so i spent the last few months building it myself what i built it's called frontend-backend-performance-mastery and it's structured across 6 levels, each level has a frontend folder (react, next.js, typescript) and a backend folder (node, express, nestjs), and every single folder follows the exact same 3-file structure detect.md — how to find the problem, what to look for, what tools to use, before you even open devtools fix.md — the actual fix, with a before and after, when to apply it, and just as important when NOT to apply it project/ — a fully runnable code example, npm install and npm run dev and you're looking at real numbers on your screen, not a screenshot from someone's laptop from 2021 the 6 levels level 01 — fundamentals: web vitals, profiling, baselines, benchmarking with clinic.js and autocannon level 02 — rendering: ssr vs csr vs ssg, react fiber internals, hydration, response streaming, fast-json-stringify level 03 — caching: react query, swr, service workers, redis, cache-aside pattern, cdn and http headers level 04 — database and api: n+1 queries, cursor pagination that stays fast at 10 million rows, dataloader, query optimization, indexes level 05 — advanced: wasm in next.js, worker threads, piscina, bull queue, grpc, node streams, code

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Who the F*** Am I? Hi, I'm Daniel Flores. A software developer with, I believe, seven years of professional experience. It's been a wild ride — at least the past three years. I was one of the first to actually try GitHub Copilot during its preview, probably around 2021 or 2022. I was completely amazed by it, but it was definitely very, very rough around the edges. Nobody knows me, though. I never intended to become a public figure or one of those guys who "knows where AI should go." That's not me, and that's okay. I've been watching this new paradigm evolve — and devolve — from the sidelines. What I Think About LLMs and "AI" I've been watching videos about this topic for years. Evolution simulators, learning algorithms, a model trained to play hide and seek — I was completely baffled when I realized that video came from OpenAI itself. I'm not an expert in how to build models or LLMs. I have no PhD. I've just been doing my own thing for years, watching which tools get adopted and which ones suck. And I have to say this: the industry doesn't know what the hell is happening. Neither do I. Nobody knows, and that's what I hate the most. LLMs are extremely useful. They can save you a lot of hours of work. But that's only half the story. So What's the Issue? Almost everyone — paid AI shills, mostly — is telling you: "YOU'RE GETTING BEHIND IF YOU DON'T USE THESE TOOLS!!" They're trying to push the entire industry into a fear-of-missing-out state. Let me share my personal experience about this completely inconsequential fear. If you're already experienced enough — if you already know what an LLM is and can prompt it to do or refactor something — you're not missing out. That's all there is to it. I'm going to explain what I mean. The exact same issues I had with the old GitHub Copilot — I don't even know what model it ran, probably a customized GPT — are still true today with the latest frontier models. They all hallucinate. They all seem to kind of understand what they're do

Most explanations of BIP39 and Shamir's Secret Sharing (SSS) stop at "here's what they do." I wanted to understand how they actually work under the hood, and more importantly, how they'd combine in a real system — specifically, censorship-resistant recovery of Bitcoin keys through a network of trusted guardians, where no single person, device, or institution should ever hold enough to reconstruct someone's keys alone. Here's what I worked through. The problem guardian-based recovery solves A Bitcoin wallet's security model has an uncomfortable tradeoff: hold your own keys and a single point of failure (device loss, death, coercion) can be catastrophic; hand custody to an institution and you've reintroduced the exact counterparty risk self-custody was meant to remove. Guardian-based recovery is the middle path — trusted parties each hold a fragment of the recovery material, with no single fragment being useful on its own. Two primitives make this practical, and they operate at different layers of the problem: BIP39 and SSS. BIP39: encoding entropy as something a human can reliably transcribe BIP39 doesn't generate a key — it encodes existing entropy into a human-transcribable form with built-in error detection. The process: Generate entropy: a cryptographically secure random bit string of 128, 160, 192, 224, or 256 bits. Compute SHA-256 of that entropy and take the first ENT/32 bits as a checksum (4 bits for 128-bit entropy, up to 8 bits for 256-bit entropy). Append the checksum to the entropy. The combined length is always divisible by 11. Split into 11-bit chunks (2^11 = 2048, matching the wordlist size) and map each chunk to a word. The checksum is the detail that matters most once you think about this as part of a real recovery flow: it means a single-word transcription error is very likely caught immediately during validation, rather than silently producing a different — but still structurally valid — seed. That's the difference between "recovery failed, check y

I built PunFiction: 1-Star Travel Reviews , a free daily web puzzle where you guess world landmarks by deciphering unhinged travel reviews from confused travelers. Tech Stack: Vanilla JS, CSS, HTML, GitHub Pages, MongoDB Atlas The Concept The internet can feel like it's literally overflowing with consumer complaints. I decided to take that negative energy and turn it into a 2-minute daily browser game for your morning coffee break. The Game Loop: Read an absurd 1-star review of a famous world landmark. Decipher the rhyming pun clues to guess the destination. Solving the puzzle unlocks an illustrated cartoon postcard and a sassy reply from the landmark 'manager'. The Tech Stack I wanted PunFiction to feel lightweight and lightning fast. Vanilla JavaScript: No React, Vue, or Svelte. Pure DOM manipulation and client-side logic. Zero Dependencies: No npm install spiral, no build-step headaches, and zero third-party scripts. No Accounts: Daily state, win streaks, and game progress live in localStorage. MongoDB Atlas: Light backend for aggregate puzzle stats (success rates, guess counts, no PII stored). Hosted on GitHub Pages: Static asset delivery via CDN. Give It a Spin If you like wordplay, geography, or just laughing at terrible tourist complaints, give today's daily puzzle a shot: 👉 Play PunFiction: 1-Star Travel Reviews I’d love to hear your thoughts on the UX, the game feel, or your take on building lightweight web games. Drop your feedback (or your worst pun) in the comments!

Most agent projects do not fail because the first model call is difficult. They become difficult when the prototype needs memory, tools, evaluation, a user interface, documentation that coding agents can navigate, and a repeatable review process. That is the problem the open-source AgentsKit ecosystem is trying to solve for JavaScript teams. It is a set of independent projects with shared contracts, rather than one application that must own the whole stack. The six public pieces 1. AgentsKit: the composable foundation AgentsKit provides focused JavaScript and TypeScript packages for runtimes, adapters, tools, skills, memory, RAG, evaluation, observability, sandboxing, and UI bindings. Its core has zero runtime dependencies and a CI-enforced 10 KB gzipped budget. Six formal contracts keep adapters, tools, memory, retrievers, skills, and runtimes substitutable. You can run a first local agent without an API key: npm install @agentskit/core @agentskit/runtime tsx Then connect OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Ollama, or another adapter without changing the rest of the runtime composition. 2. AgentsKit Chat: one interaction model, seven renderers AgentsKit Chat defines an interactive agent experience once and renders it through React, React Native, Ink, Vue, Svelte, Solid, or Angular. It also supports deterministic local answers before an optional backend call. That matters for documentation and support interfaces where exact project facts should not require an LLM. pnpm dlx @agentskit/chat-cli@0.4.0 init my-chat --renderer react --yes 3. Registry: reusable source, not another dependency The AgentsKit Registry distributes ready-to-use agents in a shadcn-style model: the CLI copies the source into your project, so you can inspect and modify it. npx agentskit add research npx agentskit add code-review The public catalog currently includes research, code-review, and knowledge-promotion agents, and is open to contributions. 4. Agents Playbook: engineering rules that can execute Ag

Two substantial slices of gene/phen trait implementation just landed on submain . This shifts the needle significantly—contract checking and the capability for phen methods to actually get called at runtime are in the door. Previously, we only had the basic declarations and coherence working but now methods can type-check, Self can resolve per receiver, and calls execute. The submain branch now sits 15 commits ahead of main , holding the matrix at 321/0. Contract Checking and Self Resolution (Slice 2) Let's zero in on commit fcd3193 , which makes waves with 594 insertions across 23 files. The big takeaway is Pass 0 contract conformance. The collect_gene_phen_registry() function now actively validates every phen against its gene. Consider everything from arity to positional parameter types (post- Self substitution), return types, and even checks for both missing and extra methods. If there's a mismatch, it doesn’t just shout—each one is a precise diagnostic identifying gene, method, position, and expected-vs-actual types. It's pinpoint troubleshooting. The decision to resolve Self at the concrete level before analysis was deliberate. Self in phen signatures and bodies changes to the actual receiver type within the AST thanks to substitute_self_type() . This function even navigates through intricate structures like Array , Handle , and Result wrappers. There was an alternative: treating Self as a floating type parameter. But honestly, it doesn't cut it because types_compatible would unify any type param with anything. Sticking to the design docs, our path— Self is concrete, not a floating parametric. How about ownership? It's strict. There's no room for unauthorized methods beyond the gene's contract. And we're talking multiple enforcement points: from Pass 0 checks to the phen_methods field on Analyzer triggered during per-file analysis, down to cross-gene-method name collisions caught by Pass 0. Every path specified is locked down, as envisioned by the design docs.

Most agent tutorials stop at tools: give the model a function schema, hope it calls the right one. That works for get_time and hash_string . It falls apart when the model skips a knowledge search and opens a ticket, or when eighty APIs all land in one context window. Solon AI keeps tools as the execution unit, then adds Talent as the product unit: tools plus SOP plus activation rules. Think of it this way: Tool ≈ a function Talent ≈ a class that owns those functions, their playbook, and when they appear This post is a practical map of when to stay on tools, when to wrap them in a talent, and how registration actually works in Solon v4.0.3. The product failure behind “just add more tools” Bare tools only answer two questions for the model: what can I call? what args does it need? They do not answer: should this capability even be visible right now? what order must I follow before a dangerous call? which tools belong to the same business domain? That gap shows up as: premature side effects (ticket created before diagnosis) context blow-up (full tool tables on every turn) weak SOP compliance (model freestyles across domains) Talent is Solon’s answer: a reusable package of awareness + instruction + tools , with automatic coloring so tools keep their domain identity. Tool vs Talent in one table From the official comparison: Dimension Tool ( FunctionTool ) Talent ( Talent ) Unit Single function / method Instruction + tool set + state Abstraction Physical: how Logical: when and under which SOP Context awareness Passive isSupported(Prompt) can activate or hide Injected content Tool schema (JSON) System prompt fragment + tool list Constraint strength Weak — model freestyles from description Strong — SOP via getInstruction Registration defaultToolAdd / toolAdd defaultTalentAdd / talentAdd They are not rivals. A talent contains tools. Registering a talent also registers its tools; you do not need a second defaultToolAdd for the same set. Lifecycle: what actually runs at reques

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