Liam Beeton
@liambeeton.com
I'm a tinkerer, a lifelong learner and a collector of hobbies.
Find all my stuff at https://liambeeton.com.
Find all my stuff at https://liambeeton.com.
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Oooh @joshwcomeau.com does it again with this amazing SVG article!
I love all of the interactive bits!
www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/friendly...
I love all of the interactive bits!
www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/friendly...
A Friendly Introduction to SVG • Josh W. Comeau
SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class citizens, fully addressable with CSS and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll cover all of the most imp...
www.joshwcomeau.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Oooh @joshwcomeau.com does it again with this amazing SVG article!
I love all of the interactive bits!
www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/friendly...
I love all of the interactive bits!
www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/friendly...
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NEW POST
Gen AI for software development is the biggest jump up in abstraction since assembler to HLLs, but also a jump sideways.
martinfowler.com/articles/202...
Gen AI for software development is the biggest jump up in abstraction since assembler to HLLs, but also a jump sideways.
martinfowler.com/articles/202...
LLMs bring new nature of abstraction
a short post
martinfowler.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
NEW POST
Gen AI for software development is the biggest jump up in abstraction since assembler to HLLs, but also a jump sideways.
martinfowler.com/articles/202...
Gen AI for software development is the biggest jump up in abstraction since assembler to HLLs, but also a jump sideways.
martinfowler.com/articles/202...
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Mistral Small 3.2 was released today - I used a 15GB quantized model from Hugging Face (via Ollama) running on my Mac and got it to draw me a pretty decent SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle model (considering the model size) simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/...
June 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Mistral Small 3.2 was released today - I used a 15GB quantized model from Hugging Face (via Ollama) running on my Mac and got it to draw me a pretty decent SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle model (considering the model size) simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/...
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I asked a question about vibe coding on here a few days ago and the replies have been living rent-free in my brain ever since. ended up writing a whole post about it. blame y’all. or thank you. not sure which yet. new post:
Ashley Willis
When I first heard the phrase vibe coding, I rolled my eyes a little. It sounded like another fleeting buzzword, one of those things that shows up in a thread, ...
ashley.dev
May 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I asked a question about vibe coding on here a few days ago and the replies have been living rent-free in my brain ever since. ended up writing a whole post about it. blame y’all. or thank you. not sure which yet. new post:
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Great thoughts and reflections from @scott.hanselman.com.
We need to continue reading and writing original content, and teach our kids the importance of critical thinking. AI should be a tool for exploring ideas and creativity, not for replacing our thoughts and effort.
youtu.be/7Ord9TQbAac?...
We need to continue reading and writing original content, and teach our kids the importance of critical thinking. AI should be a tool for exploring ideas and creativity, not for replacing our thoughts and effort.
youtu.be/7Ord9TQbAac?...
Scott Hanselman - Human Hearts, Silicon Minds
YouTube video by Global AI Community
youtu.be
April 5, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Great thoughts and reflections from @scott.hanselman.com.
We need to continue reading and writing original content, and teach our kids the importance of critical thinking. AI should be a tool for exploring ideas and creativity, not for replacing our thoughts and effort.
youtu.be/7Ord9TQbAac?...
We need to continue reading and writing original content, and teach our kids the importance of critical thinking. AI should be a tool for exploring ideas and creativity, not for replacing our thoughts and effort.
youtu.be/7Ord9TQbAac?...
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blogged - AutoMapper and MediatR are going commercial: www.jimmybogard.com/automapper-a... - I don't have details yet because I haven't worked it out yet. But wanted to give folks the heads up
AutoMapper and MediatR Going Commercial
Yes, another one of "those posts". But tl;dr:
In order to ensure the long-term sustainability of my OSS projects, I will be commercializing AutoMapper and MediatR.
I did not post this on April 1st f...
www.jimmybogard.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
blogged - AutoMapper and MediatR are going commercial: www.jimmybogard.com/automapper-a... - I don't have details yet because I haven't worked it out yet. But wanted to give folks the heads up
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@thepudds.bsky.social is my hero
So far, up to 15x faster escape analysis for the Go compiler when compiling the TS checker package.
End to end that's an 8x faster compiler of the checker package for us, bringing it down from 50 seconds to 6 seconds.
github.com/golang/go/is...
So far, up to 15x faster escape analysis for the Go compiler when compiling the TS checker package.
End to end that's an 8x faster compiler of the checker package for us, bringing it down from 50 seconds to 6 seconds.
github.com/golang/go/is...
cmd/compile: slow escape analysis in large package in the typescript compiler · Issue #72815 · golang/go
Go version go version go1.24.1 linux/amd64 Output of go env in your module/workspace: AR='ar' CC='gcc' CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_CPPFLAGS='' CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_ENABLED='1' CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g' ...
github.com
March 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
@thepudds.bsky.social is my hero
So far, up to 15x faster escape analysis for the Go compiler when compiling the TS checker package.
End to end that's an 8x faster compiler of the checker package for us, bringing it down from 50 seconds to 6 seconds.
github.com/golang/go/is...
So far, up to 15x faster escape analysis for the Go compiler when compiling the TS checker package.
End to end that's an 8x faster compiler of the checker package for us, bringing it down from 50 seconds to 6 seconds.
github.com/golang/go/is...
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🚨 TypeScript just got 10× faster!
The TypeScript compiler has been ported to Go and we had Anders Hejlsberg and Daniel Rosenwasser on to announce it and break it all down!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlGz...
The TypeScript compiler has been ported to Go and we had Anders Hejlsberg and Daniel Rosenwasser on to announce it and break it all down!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlGz...
Typescript Just Got 10x Faster
YouTube video by Syntax
www.youtube.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
🚨 TypeScript just got 10× faster!
The TypeScript compiler has been ported to Go and we had Anders Hejlsberg and Daniel Rosenwasser on to announce it and break it all down!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlGz...
The TypeScript compiler has been ported to Go and we had Anders Hejlsberg and Daniel Rosenwasser on to announce it and break it all down!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlGz...
Building a Lightweight RAG System liambeeton.com/programming/...
Building a Lightweight RAG System with LlamaIndex, Ollama, and Qdrant | Liam Beeton
I'm a tinkerer, a lifelong learner, and a collector of hobbies.
liambeeton.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Building a Lightweight RAG System liambeeton.com/programming/...