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Google's Gemini 3 just broke every benchmark that matters. What that means for the 'AI has hit a wall' narrative, and where it actually helps.
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The latest C# release continues its quiet war on ceremony with field-backed properties, extension members, and smarter spans. Here's what matters and what doesn't.
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I fought to move teams from npm to pnpm. I was all in. Then a friend said 'lol use bun' and I converted every project within days. Here's why I'll never go back.
Read more →DeepSeek-OCR: Compressing Text by 20x Using Vision
Converting text to images for 20x token compression. Interesting research or production-ready breakthrough? A critical look at the trade-offs.
Read more →When Not to Use AI: Two Approaches to Building AI-Powered Products
Real-time AI generation vs curated libraries: lessons from building the same product twice with radically different architectures.
Read more →Building Real-Time Multiplayer with Firebase: What Works and What Doesn't
Real lessons from shipping multiplayer games with Firebase: what works for small groups, where it breaks down, and the scalability limits you need to know upfront.
Read more →Exploding stuff in Unity
Building realistic voxel explosion effects in Unity that break objects into their constituent cubes with physics and particle systems.
Read more →ASP.NET Core Image Resizing Middleware
Building cross-platform image resizing middleware for ASP.NET Core using SkiaSharp before mature libraries existed.
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