Pierre
Pierre

Pierre

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Product @ GitHub. Code analysis. Public speaking. Design. Media.

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Creating Alpine.js Components in Nim

Towards full stack apps with Nim, Alpine and the Nim JS backend

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Never Down: Implementing Auto Fallback in Caddy

A straightforward way to set up an automatic maintenance page

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GitHub code scanning autofix demo

A 5 minute demo of GitHub code scanning and its new AI-powered automatic fix suggestions

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Building a Hybrid/AI Search Engine for Non-fiction Content

How I built the search engine behind Findsight AI

Findsight AI

Introducing: Findsight

Explore and compare the core ideas from thousands of non-fiction works and supercharge your learning!

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SQLite-only Rate Limiting

Enforcing rate limits with a single SQLite statement

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You’re using the wrong Apple (Silicon) Cores

More threads isn't more better on modern CPUs

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Hypothetical Embeddings Explained

Using Large Language Models to explore knowledge without the risk of hallucinations

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Nim 2.0 on Apple Silicon

A good programming language gets a great update!

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Baking Vertex Animations into Alembic Files

Convert OBJ sequences to single Alembic files, transport animation data between apps

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Pre-baking dynamics into FBX animations

Rendering physics in 3D engines that don't support it!

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GitHub Checkout: CodeQL for Ruby

Learn how to take advantage of CodeQL code scanning for Ruby

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turbo.js - 5 years later

When GPGPU with JavaScript in browsers was hot stuff!

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Pure Postgres Cosine Similarity Search

Building a simple recommendation system based on large vector similarity

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YouTube-like Short IDs as Postgres Primary Keys

Fixed length and URL-safe identifiers