Running AI coding assistants locally sounds appealing — no API costs, your code stays on your machine, and you get a Claude Code-like experience for free. But getting it to actually work well on a 16 GB MacBook Pro M1 takes more trial and error than most guides admit.
This post summarizes months of real-world testing across multiple tools, runtimes, and models. The conclusion surprised me.
As a software engineer, our toolset shapes how we work and what we can accomplish. Over time, I've curated a collection of essential tools that boost my productivity and make development more enjoyable. Here's a breakdown of my Homebrew setup, featuring the tools I use daily.
This post explains the design and implementation of a small browser-first portfolio tracker I built. It focuses on requirements, the challenges I ran into, and how the final solution addresses them, including code snippets that illustrate the state handling, caching, and chart interaction.
Git is an indispensable tool for version control, enabling developers to track changes, collaborate effectively, and manage project history. While its capabilities are vast, a solid understanding of key commands can significantly streamline your workflow. This article delves into a selection of practical Git commands, explaining what they do, how to use them, and when they are most effective.
In his book "Atomic Habits", James Clear outlines the principles of habit formation and behavior change. The author shares his personal journey of recovery from a severe injury, which led him to understand that significant progress stems from a series of small, consistent actions, rather than singular transformative events. Clear introduces the "Four Laws of Behavior Change": making habits obvious, attractive, easy, and satisfying. He emphasizes the importance of systems over goals, highlighting how environmental design, social influence, and the immediate gratification of rewards play crucial roles in establishing and maintaining habits, ultimately arguing that true identity change is the North Star of habit transformation.
Content projection is a feature in angular that supports inserting a component in another component. This changes the way an angular developer designs his application/library by implementing flexable and reusable components.
This post explains the different types of content projection, where to use each of them, with an example project. All the code can be found on github.(LINK)
When I tried out Reactjs tutorial few months ago, I noticed that in the official starter code, they repeated same div elements in the render() method, just in case of change in the source, I will list it here:
I have just came back from PyConDe & PyData-2019, and I would like to share/document my experience there. This is more like a diary than a blog, where I talk about: