Today Quincy Larson interviews Luke Ciciliano. He’s a front-end developer who runs Modern Website Design, a software consultancy that builds solutions for small to medium sized businesses. He taught himself programming in the 1980s and started landing clients in the 1990s. He’s going to share tips for building your own software consultancy in your city […]
Daily Archives: March 14, 2026
Last year, our ML team shipped a fraud detection model that worked perfectly in a Jupyter notebook. Precision was excellent. Recall numbers looked great. Everyone was excited – until we tried to deploy it. The model depended on a specific version of scikit-learn that conflicted with the production Python environment. The feature engineering pipeline required […]
Before I started building auth into my own projects, I didn’t think too deeply about what was happening to passwords behind the scenes. Like most developers, I installed a library, called a hash function, stored the result, and moved on. I see a random string like (2a11yMMbLgN9uY6J3LhorfU9iu…. in my database and assume my user’s passwords […]
Depending on cloud apps means that you don’t truly own your notes. If your internet goes down or if the company changes its rules, you could lose access. In this article, you’ll learn how to build your own private workspace using AFFiNE. You’ll use Docker Compose to link three separate pieces of software together: The […]
Recursion is when a function solves a problem by calling itself. It sounds odd at first — why would a function call itself? — but once it clicks, you’ll find it’s often the most natural way to express certain kinds of problems in code. In this article, you’ll learn what recursion is, how it works […]