📰 Dev.to · Stephen McCullough

How injecting domain knowledge into prompts transformed a generic image classifier into something that understands your specific photo archive

Image URLs break. You paste a screenshot into Teams, share the link, and six months later it's gone....

Reflections on building and maintaining Ruby and Python packages, how AI has changed the process, and why I'm not entirely sure it's for the better

Working on whatisonthe.tv, I needed a caching pattern for film and star metadata lookups. The app...

Just learned about git worktree and it's genuinely useful. Problem: Need to work on feature branch...

Working on a personal project, I hit a frustrating limitation with Cypress: component state bleeding...

An experiment using Ollama with LLaVA and nomic-embed-text to analyse family photos locally - proving that privacy-preserving AI photo analysis actually works

Building mailview, Mount looked like the obvious choice for attaching routes at /_mail. It wasn't. ...

How I built a context-aware recommendation system using Claude, Server-Sent Events, and viewing history to suggest TV shows and films

Lessons from extracting authentication and authorisation into a dedicated microservice, including database migration, in-memory testing, and architectural decis

Extending the authentication microservice with OAuth 2.0 support for Keycloak and Google, evaluating FastAPI libraries, and why I chose aioauth