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Future AWS Agent Engineer? I Didn't Write the Code. Does It Count?

A few weeks ago I wrote about hitting ReAct in the coursework and having a record scratch moment, because I had already met it without knowing its name. That post ended on a section called "Building Ahead of Understanding," which was me making peace with shipping things before I fully understand them. This week I shipped my first chatbot. It passed on the first attempt, on deadline day, on a project where the rubric was grading a product AWS had already discontinued. And I spent most of that day

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Inbundly – Google Inbox-style bundles for Gmail

Inbundly brings Google Inbox-style bundles back to Gmail: emails sharing a label are grouped into collapsible bundles so you can skim, prioritize, and archive in batches. An actively maintained, privacy-friendly continuation of the open-source Inboxy, plus custom bundles, priority rules, and label colors. 100% local. Chrome + Firefox. I built Inbundly because I still miss Inbox's way of organizing email by intent, and because I now triage my inbox together with AI agents, which work far better o

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The Anatomy of an AI Agent: Five Parts and the Framework That Wires Them Together

Ask a language model to book you a table for six this Thursday and it will do something quietly maddening. It will explain, fluently and with total confidence, exactly how one might book a table for six this Thursday. Then it will stop. Articulate, helpful, and unable to lift a finger. That gap between knowing and doing is the whole difference between a chatbot and an agent. And the reason for the gap is blunt: a language model can only ever produce text. It cannot click a button, run a program,

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The Application Shell: GtkApplicationWindow vs AdwApplicationWindow

This is the first proper entry in A Field Guide to GTK Widgets — a series about which widget to reach for, when, and what bites you when you do. We start where every app starts: the window. Each post stands on its own, and the complete, runnable code for this one lives in the companion repo. You sit down to write a GNOME app. The very first widget you need is the window, and the toolkit immediately hands you a choice it doesn't explain: GtkApplicationWindow, from GTK itself, or AdwApplicationWin

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How barometer.today draws its isobars

barometer.today shows air pressure for any city: the reading now, the change since yesterday, and the week ahead. It also has a world isobar map, animated hour by hour from a day back to four days ahead. This post explains what isobars are and the algorithms that we use to draw them. The code is Python with numpy, scipy, contourpy and shapely, and anyone drawing contour maps from gridded data will meet the same problems. Air pressure varies from place to place, and a weather map shows this wit

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