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Dockers
It reminds me of how I learned to use Docker in the good old days. When testing codes in different devices, it was a nightmare for...
maxwellapex
Oct 111 min read


System designer
If you ask me about the key factors of a successful system design, I will say having a good plain can be the most important one. A...
maxwellapex
Oct 101 min read


Float points and computer
Recently we are working on increasing the performance of machine learning, and we found that float point is important for us. Lower...
maxwellapex
Oct 91 min read


A story about spec sheets: part 2
This is an article that continues the story. As we wrote the detailed spec sheet to the engineer, we temporary solved the problem, and he...
maxwellapex
Oct 81 min read


A story about spec sheets: part 1
So, there was a story about our group projects, and that taught us a lot. We tried to ask an engineer to help us to build docker images...
maxwellapex
Oct 81 min read


AI: systematic flow
One of my friends was complaining about the system of his company. From the order flow to the inventory management, “it was a mess”....
maxwellapex
Oct 61 min read


Financial report project: equity and control
So recently I kept reading financial reports to strengthen the understanding of that, in order to make some progress about my financial...
maxwellapex
Oct 51 min read


Crawling
One of my friends is doing crawling, and there are much to say. First of all, for each website, the anti-crawl (including robot.txt) are...
maxwellapex
Oct 31 min read


Data storage server
Sometimes we will discuss about using online or cloud storage services. However, a reminder is that the cloud simply means others...
maxwellapex
Oct 31 min read


Kiro and Sonnet 4.5
So recently Kiro update its LLM, and as Anthropic released their Sonnet 4.5, the combo Kiro plus Sonnet 4.5 became by far the best IDE...
maxwellapex
Oct 11 min read


Claude 4.5 Sonnet
Recently the new LLM Claude 4.5 Sonnet is released. Although I didn’t try a lot (since it’s been released for just a few days), I think...
maxwellapex
Oct 11 min read


Project: AI financial report
This post is an update of the project: financial report detecting. To be honest this is more complicated than I thought, because I need...
maxwellapex
Sep 301 min read


Version control
When it comes to software development, an important idea is version control. We can use diff or delta encoding to focus on the difference...
maxwellapex
Sep 291 min read


LLM responds filtering
Usually, we ask LLMs and they respond in tones we may like. For example, you ask an easy question, they give you a short answer; you ask...
maxwellapex
Sep 281 min read


LLM reading
After hundreds or thousands of hours of experiences of using different LLM for text reding, it is safe for me to say that the pattern is...
maxwellapex
Sep 271 min read


API usage
I heard a ridiculous story recently. So, there was a “vibe” coding team, trying to build an MVP. They somehow put their API into the GUI,...
maxwellapex
Sep 261 min read


AI vs rule based
This is an argue that whether AI or rule based is better. From my opinion, the answer is simple, it depends. For example, if you want to...
maxwellapex
Sep 251 min read


Engineering handover
During the team collaboration, we sometimes need to handover the responsibility to another engineer, and it will be important to keep the...
maxwellapex
Sep 241 min read


LLM filter
Sometimes we try to find some information via LLMs, and get blocked because it “violate the policy”. What does it mean? To be honest I...
maxwellapex
Sep 231 min read


System resilience
In theory, if I build a perfect system, it saves my life. I don’t need to debug or improve it anymore. However, the perfect system...
maxwellapex
Sep 221 min read
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