My journey in software engineering and technical management
A REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY kept dying mid-flight over a remote connection with 'SSL SYSCALL error: EOF detected'. The database was innocent. The killer was a NAT idle timeout and libpq's 2-hour keepalive default.
A story-driven workflow for Claude Code, built for projects that already exist. One markdown file as the source of truth, Rails-style defaults, a QA layer between unit tests and humans, and isolated worktree testing that took three tries to get right. The honest version — what broke, and how I hardened it.
Natural Language Inference trains the sentence embeddings everyone uses. It also works as a classifier that needs zero labeled examples. Here is the architecture, its history, and three very different results when I put it into production.
A practical tour of the z-score through two very different ML use cases — temporal anomaly detection on entity counts, and Monroe et al.'s log-odds-with-Dirichlet-prior for discovering discriminative vocabulary between two corpora.
AFK indexes journalism — so when Claude Sonnet silently rewrote verbatim quotes returned by tools, trust broke. Here's how I caught it with 6-gram overlap and fixed it with a step_callbacks accumulator on top of smolagents.
How I built a fast, relevant headline search for AFK.live using pg_trgm, materialized views, and strict_word_similarity — on the smallest managed database Scaleway offers.
Un incident banal sur mon infrastructure personnelle me ramène dix ans en arrière, dans les bureaux d'Etsy France, où John Allspaw et son équipe m'ont appris qu'on ne progresse jamais en cherchant des coupables.
La code review en entretien technique était mon outil préféré. Mais quand l'implémentation du code devient un problème marginal, que reste-t-il à évaluer ? Retour d'expérience sur l'évolution de mes pratiques de recrutement, de la merge-request commentée au PRD généré avec Claude Code.
Un retour d'expérience sur la mise en place d'une culture documentaire dans une équipe technique en full remote. De la douleur des comptes-rendus en retard à un écosystème outillé autour d'Obsidian, Claude Cowork et des transcriptions IA, en passant par les leçons de Jeff Bezos et GitLab.
SQL sampling strategies, LLM pre-classification, a custom Streamlit review tool, and publishing to Hugging Face — the practical workflow behind building a training dataset.
How I built an automated QA system for a solo startup using Claude Code slash commands — orchestrating subagents that run SQL checks, API calls, and unit tests against a local copy of the production database. Including a self-correcting test plan that updates itself after every run.
How to mirror a website, serve it locally under its real domain name using Caddy virtual hosts and Docker network aliases, and use it as a deterministic test fixture for a web crawler.
Why your classification taxonomy matters more than your training data size. A practical guide through trial, error, and embedding analysis.
How I discovered SetFit, the framework that lets you build production-grade text classifiers with just a handful of labeled examples per category.
How I architected a data/ML/NLP project using Redis as a central broker to coordinate microservices without the complexity of Kubernetes.
How I built a hyperparameter tuning system for BERTopic that can test hundreds of parameter combinations in minutes
How to use Claude Sonnet for NLP clustering ground truth. Use AI labeling instead of manual annotation.
A comprehensive guide to evaluating supervised clustering algorithms, bridging the gap from binary classification fundamentals to advanced clustering metrics through a practical, exploratory approach.
Automating a social media pipeline with n8n, enhance photos using Cloudinary's AI auto-cropping, generate poetic descriptions with Mistral AI, and handle errors gracefully.
Discover how I began tackling deep learning with a personal selection of must-read books—from Chollet’s deep dive to Glassner’s insights — alongside hands-on PyTorch tutorials, AI Engineering tips, and curated videos.
Step-by-step guide to building automated social media workflows with n8n. Features AI-powered image classification, API integrations, and smart content pipeline creation for effortless posting.
A personal account of managing an employee's mental health crisis in a remote work environment. This article details a technical manager's experience when confronted with a team member exhibiting paranoid behavior, outlining five specific actions taken and important boundaries maintained.
A short article on how introducing “side quests” — small, self-driven projects — helped junior developers gain autonomy, motivation, and real-world experience in a tightly managed startup environment. Includes practical examples and lessons on how to launch them effectively.
Step-by-step guide to configuring your NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin with JetPack 6.2, installing TensorFlow GPU support, optimizing SSD usage, and setting up a Conda-based Python environment.
