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Follow the trail from foundational concepts to practical engineering decisions.
GitHub is full of useful projects nobody knows about. Some lie buried with only a few stars before suddenly becoming popular. This series opens such repositories one by one to see what they do, how they were built, and whether they are actually useful.
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When people say, “I tried AI, but it wasn’t great,” many stopped at one-line requests like “Write an email” or “Summarize this report.” Yet even a small refinement to the request sent to AI—the prompt—can make the output feel as if someone else wrote it. There is a grand name for this: prompt engineering…
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The previous two articles boil down to this: AI fails when it relies on its own memory. When that memory is outdated (knowledge cutoff) or fuzzy (hallucinations), it starts filling gaps with plausible guesses. The solution is equally simple: make AI answer from the sources you provide instead of its own memory.…
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Adapters convert interfaces, facades hide complexity, proxies control access, and decorators add behavior. This article compares four structurally similar wrapping patterns by intent and selection criteria.
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As your iOS app grows, dependency management can become a real headache.
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