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Let's explore understanding a codebase like it's 1999, and compare it with how coding agents work.

Legacy software is the code we lost confidence in. We have build Surveyor, a tool that lets you extract specifications from legacy software. See how Surveyor allows you to reclaim ownership of legacy projects

Let's explore how we demystify redesigns, what strategies work for us and where the challenges are.

Will your atproto project survive the next user surge? Weʼve built the toolkit for you!

Learn how we managed to reduce large PDF files render time from minutes to a few seconds in Rails.

A behind-the-scenes dive into a project at bitcrowd: how we broke down the planning, implementation and release of Charger, the replacement billing service of our client Steady Media.

Back in 2021, we helped our friends at Steady Media to design, plan and build an in-house alternative billing system that they could migrate their users to. The migration of their 600k+ users to the new system had to be seamless and preserve data integrity.

On a recent client project, redesigning a large Rails app, we found ourselves having to get Rails, Hotwire's Turbo and React on Rails to play together nicely. Each of the tools comes with its own amounts of magic™, so integrating them turned out to be a bit of a juggle.

Google took down the flag, what now? How to load a browser extension in Chrome for development in the post "--load-extension"-era.

With logits processing, you can force open source LLM to comply with a schema you provide. Grammar Constrained Decoding saves you the process of resubmitting malformed LLM responses. Here we show the process with Bumblebee, and explain the background. Want a specific JSON format reliably? Read on!